{"id":203282,"date":"2019-06-12T10:09:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=203282"},"modified":"2019-07-05T11:02:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T16:02:48","slug":"illinois-house-passes-abortion-worse-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/illinois-house-passes-abortion-worse-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Dark day’: Illinois governor signs abortion bill far worse than New York’s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UPDATE, 6\/12\/19<\/strong>:\u00a0Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed into law this morning a bill that has been called worse than New York’s Reproductive Health Act, signed into law on January 22 of this year.\u00a0Pritzker said of the new law, “If you believe in standing up for women\u2019s fundamental rights, Illinois is a beacon of hope in the heart of this nation,” and “We proudly proclaim that we trust women.”<\/p>\n

Jill Stanek, national campaign chair for the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List (misidentified by the Sun-Times as an “abortion-rights nonprofit), had it right when she told the Chicago Sun-Times<\/a>, \u201c… Illinois is trying to outdo New York\u2019s abortion extremism \u2013 and unborn children and their mothers will pay the price,” adding, “Americans of every political persuasion are appalled by these attempts to expand abortion on demand through the moment of birth and even infanticide, and that in turn is driving pro-life momentum around the country. There is no pride or glory in being the most extreme pro-abortion state in the nation.”<\/p>\n

The state already had among the most liberal abortion laws in the nation. The new Illinois RHA does away with things the state’s ban on partial-birth abortion, ends the need for licensing abortion facilities by the state, allows non-physicians to commit abortions, and allows for\u00a0abortion at any time, for any reason, including for reasons of “health” which may include “physical, emotional, psychological, familial”<\/a> or any other type of “health” the abortionist will accept. And abortionists have made clear<\/a> that they believe the very state of being pregnant<\/a> and not wanting to be is reason enough to commit an abortion.<\/p>\n

A separate bill yet to be passed (HB2467) would do away with the\u00a0parental notification of minors. [Correction, 7\/5\/19<\/em>: update originally stated that the RHA (HB2495) did away with this. It is the second bill listed below which would undo this law.]<\/p>\n

UPDATE, 5\/31\/19<\/strong>: The Illinois Senate has passed SB 25, and Governor J.B. Pritzker has announced his intention to sign the bill.<\/p>\n

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The Illinois Senate just passed SB 25, the Reproductive Health Act, by a vote of 34-20. The bill expands abortions through 9 months and requires insurance companies to provide coverage. The bill has already passed the House and Gov. Pritzker has said he will sign it.<\/p>\n

\u2014 IBSA (@IllinoisBaptist) June 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n