Mon May 22, 2023 – 5:04 pm EDT
SPRINGFIELD (LifeSiteNews) — On May 10, SB 1909 was passed by both chambers of the state legislature, paving the way for further persecution of pregnancy resource centers by classifying their pro-life services as “unfair methods” of assisting expectant mothers. The bill now heads to the notoriously pro-abortion Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker for signing.
Democratic lwmakers claim that because the state allows for abortion on demand until viability, pregnancy centers seeking to serve both mothers and babies are infringing upon the “rights” of women to murder their unborn children. Under Illinois law, abortion is also legal for vague “health” exceptions until birth, funded by taxpayers through Medicaid and available for minors without parental consent.
“The laws and public policy of this State have established the fundamental rights of individuals to make autonomous decisions about their own reproductive health, including the fundamental right to use of refuse reproductive health care [sic],” the bill reads. “Despite these laws, vulnerable State residents and nonresidents seeking health care in this State have repeatedly been misled by organizations and their agents purporting to provide comprehensive reproductive health care services, but which, in reality, aim
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