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Until June 12, 2019, [19] under the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975, state law banned abortions after 12 weeks. [20] The state prohibited abortions after the fetus was viable, generally some point between week 24 and 28, based on the standard defined by the US Supreme Court in 1973 with the Roe v. Wade ruling, not because of legislative action ...
The state passed the Reproductive Health Equity Act into law in April 2022, which protects abortion rights, and assures "every individual has a fundamental right to make decisions about the individual's reproductive health care, including the fundamental right to use or refuse contraception; a pregnant individual has a fundamental right to ...
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 new fetal ...
The Illinois Baptist State Association filed suit in 2020, claiming the law violated their religious beliefs. Insurance coverage of abortion care protected by Illinois judge. What to know
Mayes that instead of a 15-week ban on abortion passed by the state in 2022, that the state should follow a 1902 law, based on a pre-ratification 1864 law, that disallowed nearly any abortion except in the case of a medical emergency, [134] though the state government repealed the 1902 law in May 2024 to allow the 2022 law to take precedence. [135]
The Illinois House on Tuesday passed a bill that would repeal the state's previous partial-birth-abortion ban and require that insurance providers cover contraception and abortion services.The ...
Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday signed a wide-ranging bill protecting abortion rights in the state.The Reproductive Health Act states that "a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not ...
2017 – The 100th Illinois General Assembly repealed the trigger law component of the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975, but left many of its other provisions intact. In the same act, the General Assembly provided for abortion to be covered under Medicaid and state employee health insurance.