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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.
The former vice president is an adamant anti-abortion advocate, going as far as to say he would support a federal ban even for unviable pregnancies.. In an interview with the Associated Press in ...
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s policy ... an announcement that comes one day before the state’s six-week abortion ban is to ... and communications support to the Florida abortion rights ...
The fallout from Dobbs v.Jackson Women's Health Organization and the resulting restrictive abortion policies are causing increasing barriers to abortion access in the United States, which is statistically negatively affecting, among other things, the health and well-being of birthing people and young children, with ripple effects to other populations.
Wade, Illinois became an abortion access state for people in the South and Midwest impacted by abortion bans in their states, with 30% of abortions going to out of state residents. Abortions in Illinois increased by over 45% in the year following the overturn of Roe v. Wade, primarily due to patients traveling from states with abortion bans.
CHICAGO — With a week until the Nov. 5 election, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a key Democratic surrogate and potential future presidential candidate, is making a last big push to help states ...
Illinois formerly had a trigger law (enacted in 1975) but repealed it in 2017. [10] [11] [12] Eight states, among them Alabama, Arizona, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, as well as the already mentioned Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas, still have their pre-Roe v. Wade abortion bans on the law books.
The Supreme Court officially overturned Roe v.Wade last week, the 1973 landmark case that made the right to choose to have an abortion protected and legal.Now, Roe is no longer the law of the land ...