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29 wrz 2023 · The legal questions raised by the two cases are distinct and the landscape of abortion access in the U.S. changed dramatically in the seven years between the two laws’ passage. But arguments made during last week’s trial have resonance in the fight over the 2023 law and beyond.
14 cze 2023 · The Thomas More Society, a conservative legal advocacy group based in Chicago, filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Carbondale over its “bubble zone” ordinance that prohibits protestors from coming within 100-feet of an abortion clinic.
1 cze 2022 · Abortion access in Illinois expanded today with the end of the Parental Notice of Abortion (PNA) law. This measure required a minor seeking abortion care to notify a designated family member, often putting young people in unsafe and harmful family situations in further danger when they sought to access this health care.
6 paź 2023 · Seven years after passage, Illinois’ first in string of abortion protections gets day in court. A federal judge heard a three-day bench trial over the law, which gave a peek behind the curtain ...
13 gru 2023 · In a rare win for the anti-abortion rights movement in Illinois, the state attorney general’s office has entered into an agreement to permanently prohibit enforcement of a controversial new law designed to crack down on so-called crisis pregnancy centers.
24 cze 2022 · A fetus or embryo does not have independent rights in Illinois. There is no “trigger law” that will make abortion unlawful if Roe v. Wade is overturned. After June 1, 2022, a person under 18 does not have to give notice to or get consent from a parent in order to have an abortion.
24 cze 2022 · CHICAGO — Illinois lawmakers took steps to make abortion rights untouchable before Roe v. Wade was overturned, but an upcoming judicial election could undermine those safeguards.
