Gov. JB Pritzker has said he supports the possibly soon-to-be Illinois abortion law, which protects access from out-of-state meddling.
Illinois lawmakers on Tuesday approved a measure protecting Illinois' access to abortion from out-of-state meddling, making the state the latest to pursue such protections since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June.
"We are ensuring that Illinois will continue to serve the thousands of people traveling to our state every month to receive abortions and other reproductive and gender-affirming health care, which they can no longer access in their home states," Cassidy said in a statement. Planned Parenthood of Illinois said that since Roe was overturned, it has seen more out-of-state patients than ever. Before the high court's decision that replaced Roe and left abortion up to states, Planned Parenthood saw patients from 10 to 15 other states besides Illinois. Since then, its clinics have treated patients from 33 states.
Senate Democrats, led by sponsoring Sen. Celina Villanueva of Chicago, approved the proposal 41-16, but made changes to the initial proposal the House sent over. After ironing out differences, the House endorsed it 70-39. Proponents scrambled to win endorsement on the last day of its lame-duck session. A new General Assembly is sworn in Wednesday and the legislative process begins anew.
Republican state Sen. Darren Bailey, who lost the governor's race to Democratic incumbent Pritzker in November but took great pains to assure voters he wouldn't try to reverse Illinois' legal abortions, called the measure "pure evil.
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