{"id":205890,"date":"2019-07-06T12:28:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T17:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=205890"},"modified":"2019-07-06T11:42:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T16:42:20","slug":"illinois-extreme-abortion-parental-notification-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/illinois-extreme-abortion-parental-notification-minors\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois poised to pass follow-up to extreme abortion bill, nixing parental notification for minors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following the passage of the extreme Illinois Reproductive Health Act, which went into effect on June 12, it appears Illinois is now set to undo The Parental Notification Act of 1995, a law that was tied up by litigation for decades<\/em><\/a>\u00a0before it was finally upheld\u00a0in 2013 by the Illinois Supreme Court. The law “required a parent or guardian to be notified 48 hours before a child under 18 has an abortion,” according to the Thomas More Society. The law requires notification only, not consent. Until 2013, Illinois was the only state in the Midwest that had no form of parental notification or consent prior to a minor’s abortion.<\/p>\n

According to Capitol News Illinois<\/a>, pro-abortion lawmakers claim that by eliminating parental notification of abortion for minors, they are treating abortion as any other form of “healthcare.” (Here are examples<\/a> of medical services minors can obtain in Illinois without parental consent. The document notes that largely, parents are still in charge of approving or consenting to medical care for their minor children.) Of course, these pro-abortion politicians leave out the important scientific fact that abortion takes the life of another human being<\/a> — the one growing in his or her mother’s womb. No true healthcare deliberately takes a human life.<\/p>\n

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Abortion carries with it the risk of hemorrhaging and of perforation of the uterus, even in the first trimester. And yes, women have even died due to complications from first trimester abortions. For a minor to go through such a procedure without any parental knowledge can potentially put their health at great risk should something go wrong. The abortion pill has been known to cause women to bleed for weeks<\/a>, sometimes profusely, and to cause cramps akin to labor pains<\/a>, vomiting, passing of large clots, and more<\/a>.<\/p>\n