{"id":324654,"date":"2025-01-16T08:43:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=324654"},"modified":"2025-01-15T17:47:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T23:47:37","slug":"abortion-industry-illinois-lawmakers-decriminalize-sex-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-industry-illinois-lawmakers-decriminalize-sex-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the abortion industry supporting lllinois lawmakers’ move to decriminalize ‘sex work’?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A proposed law could make Illinois the first state to decriminalize sex work under the guise of “safety,” though the details of the legislation are still unclear.<\/p>\n

The Chicago Sun-Times reported<\/a> that legislation will be filed sometime this week. A press conference held Monday was attended by representatives from various groups, including Equality Illinois (an LGBTQ+ advocacy group), Brave Space Alliance (another LGBTQ+ nonprofit), the Sex Worker Advisory Group (which advocates for more safety for sex workers), and the Chicago Abortion Fund. Equality Illinois and the Sex Worker Advisory Group have lobbied for the decriminalization of sex work for years.<\/p>\n

It is unclear at this time how the Chicago Abortion Fund is involved with the promotion of the legislation. That group’s mission<\/a> is “to advance reproductive autonomy and justice for everyone by providing financial, logistical, and emotional support to people seeking abortion services and by building collective power and fostering partnerships for political and cultural change.” Perhaps contradictorily, the group also claims to “envision a world where everyone has the freedom and autonomy to create lives, families, and communities that are healthy, safe, and thriving and where the full range of reproductive choices, including abortion, are accessible and affirmed.”<\/p>\n

Abortion is linked to sex trafficking<\/a>, with traffickers often forcing their victims to have abortions as a method of control and subjugation. As Live Action’s Aiding Abusers investigation<\/a> found, abortion industry leader Planned Parenthood has covered up child sexual abuse for decades; trafficking victims<\/a> name Planned Parenthood as the most frequent place they’re taken for abortion and other services by their abusers. Numerous real-life predators<\/a> have been aided by the abortion industry, with Planned Parenthood specifically even caught on camera encouraging traffickers<\/a> to pose as guardians of their underage victims.<\/p>\n