{"id":217149,"date":"2020-01-18T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=217149"},"modified":"2020-01-18T20:15:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T02:15:16","slug":"report-illinois-abortion-dumping-ground-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/report-illinois-abortion-dumping-ground-midwest\/","title":{"rendered":"New report shows Illinois has become ‘the abortion dumping ground of the Midwest’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heartbreaking new statistics have just come out of Illinois. On January 17, the state released abortion numbers for 2017-2018, the latest years available. As Pro-Life Action League’s Eric Scheidler observed, despite fewer abortions nationally and despite a lower total population in Illinois, the number of abortions rose significantly. What’s more, these totals come from well before<\/strong>\u00a0the passage of the state’s extreme Reproductive Health Act, which, as previously reported<\/a> by Live Action News, “does away with things the state\u2019s 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’\u00a0which may include ‘physical, emotional, psychological, familial’<\/a> or any other type of ‘health’ the abortionist will accept.”<\/p>\n

Perhaps most important of all, the statistics note that “[l]ate term abortions (20 weeks gestation or later) rose from 255 in 2017 to 664 in 2018, an increase of 80%.” That’s more than 19 full kindergarten classrooms of children whose lives were ended in 2018 by Illinois’ abortion policies — seven more full classrooms than in 2017. Abortion is greatly damaging America’s next generation.<\/p>\n