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(The Center Square) – Illinois pro-life groups are concerned about Illinois Planned Parenthood abortion clinics closing because they believe medical abortions are riskier and will increase with ...
Abortion in Illinois is legal up to the point of fetal viability. Laws about abortion dated to the early 1800s in Illinois; the first criminal penalties related to abortion were imposed in 1827, and abortion itself became illegal in 1867. As hospitals set up barriers in the 1950s, the number of therapeutic abortions declined.
A Sangamon County judge upheld a provision of the Illinois Reproductive Health Act in a ruling last week, maintaining that state-regulated health insurance plans that cover pregnancy care must ...
A little more than one week after a neighboring state saw abortion restrictions go into effect, Gov. JB Pritzker signed a slate of bills expanding reproductive rights in Illinois.
Legislation approved by both houses of the General Assembly include requiring Illinois insurers to cover abortion-inducing drugs, penalizing crisis pregnancy centers if they distribute inaccurate ...
Abortion is legal in Illinois up to the point of fetal viability, or after that if necessary to preserve the life or health (including mental health) of the pregnant woman. [64] Illinois does not require a minor to notify a parent or guardian in order to obtain an abortion. [65] In 2013, the Illinois Supreme Court recognized a right to abortion ...
Dr. Colleen McNicholas is fresh off performing two abortions when a ringing phone quickly stops her. Just the day before, 58 women had abortions at the Fairview Heights’ Planned Parenthood ...
A few weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a 19-year-old woman traveled from Memphis to Chicago seeking an abortion. But medical providers at a local clinic told her the ...