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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.
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 ...
An extreme, six-week abortion ban is dangerous, cruel, and un-American,” Amestoy said in a statement. “Restoring abortion access in Florida is critical not just for women in the state but for ...
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. [32] [33] By 2023, Illinois saw more out-of-state abortions than any other state, a 71% increase from 2020 to 2023. [34]
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.
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 ...
Illinois formerly had a trigger law (enacted in 1975) but repealed it in 2017.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.
Access to abortion is essentially locked down in Illinois. Legislation approved by both houses of the General Assembly include requiring Illinois insurers to cover abortion-inducing drugs ...