Illinois House to take up bill loosening abortion restrictions

[Judi Lynn]

Source: The Hill

Illinois House to take up bill loosening abortion restrictions
BY CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO - 05/27/19 04:37 PM EDT

A bill loosening restrictions on abortion cleared a Illinois House committee Sunday and will now be debated in front of the full body, ABC's Chicago affiliate reported.

The Reproductive Health Act (RHA) was approved along party lines in the state's Human Services Committee, where it had been stalled for months.

The legislation would repeal both the state's Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act and the Illinois Abortion Act of 1975.

Repealing those two laws would lessen restrictions on abortions later in pregnancy and remove criminal penalties for physicians that perform them.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/445675-illinois-house-to-take-up-bill-loosening-abortion-restrictions

[Judi Lynn]

1. Illinois' Reproductive Health Act Could Roll Back State Abortion Restrictions

Illinois' Reproductive Health Act Could Roll Back State Abortion Restrictions
By MONICA BUSCH
an hour ago

While several states have worked toward limiting abortion access within their borders, Illinois is moving in the opposite direction. According to reports, the Illinois Reproductive Health Act could roll back state abortion restrictions, making it one of the most progressive bills in the country. The bill moved out of committee on Sunday night, according to ABC News, and faced debate on Monday.

"I applaud the legislators who voted yes tonight on the passage of the Reproductive Health Act," Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said in a statement, per ABC News. "With the onslaught of attacks against reproductive rights happening all across the country, we must act to double down on protections here in Illinois. The time is now to ensure that we preserve access to safe, legal abortion in our state. We won't go backwards."

The bill, if passed, would remove state restrictions on abortions that take place later in pregnancy, and would also remove penalties for doctors who perform them, per ABC News. Specifically, the bill would repeal Illinois' Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act, as well as the Illinois Abortion Act of 1975, per The Hill.

"RHA codifies our existing practices and, and this is critical, treats abortion care just like any other health care, because it is," state Rep. Kelly Cassidy said, per ABC News.

More:
https://www.bustle.com/p/illinois-reproductive-health-act-could-roll-back-state-abortion-restrictions-17923744

[roamer65]

2. Slave vs Free.

The parallels to pre-Civil War era grow.

[SunSeeker]

4. Yep. And similar geographical boundaries. nt

[SunSeeker]

3. K & R

[Grins]

5. Good! Now accept no one from AL, LA, GA, MO....

If they can’t get those services in their own states because “Jesus!”, then they are ineligible in those states that do.

They voted for their reps that pushed restrictions, so they must have “know(n) what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard” (Mencken)!
Only when affects them personally will there be change.

[davsand]

6. I doubt highly that the women needing services voted for those lawmakers.

Bless your heart, but the actual fertile women were not the ones driving these bullshit laws that target women's' health. It was old white men and old (post menopausal) women who mostly pushed these hateful laws. Denying care to anyone who came here seeking help is cruel and (IMO) heinous.

Understand something else about this whole thing, please. Poor women don't have the ability to travel for medical care. For a lot of women, an annual pap smear is a luxury they can't afford. As an added horror to all this, for a lot of women, a trip to Planned Parenthood may well be the ONLY medical care they get, and the clinics the fundies are targeting are the ones educating about and treating things like diabetes, high blood pressure, and any other chronic diseases.

There is absolutely NO reason to "punish" those women in any way.

SMH.



Laura

[riversedge]

7. k for visibility