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Poll finds only one in three Illinois voters support radical ultrasound bill that harms women’s health
Chicago – A new statewide public opinion poll finds that only one in three Illinois voters supports House Bill 4085, a measure forcing women in the state to undergo and... Continue reading
Women (still) are not livestock
Chicago – In an effort to deny women in Illinois access to safe and effective medical care, leaders of the movement to bar access to reproductive health care, including contraceptives,... Continue reading
Illinois Supreme Court to Hear Appeal in in Challenge to Illinois’ Parental Notice of Abortion Act
November 30, 2011 – This morning, the Illinois Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from the State of Illinois in a lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Illinois challenging... Continue reading
Statement on Court Ruling in Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Challenge
In a decision issued this morning, the Illinois Appellate Court issued a ruling reversing a Cook County Circuit Court decision granting a motion by the State of Illinois to dismiss... Continue reading
Defending Vulnerable Teens
On Thursday, April 14th, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois Reproductive Rights Project will appear in the Illinois Appellate Court (First Judicial District) in Chicago to argue... Continue reading
Illinois Residents Gather to Express Outrage At Anti-Abortion Bills in House Agricultural Committee
Updated to Add Tuesday, March 15th, 3:15 p.m. – HB 3156 was passed out of the Agriculture Committee on a 13-0 vote, over opposition from the ACLU of Illinois. Urge... Continue reading
Illinois House takes up radical anti-abortion agenda items this week
“We understand the House Agriculture Committee does a great job dealing with livestock,” said Connell. “Women are not livestock. This measure is a thinly-veiled effort to reduce abortion services by imposing excessive and costly regulations on abortion clinics. These medically-inappropriate regulations also will impose new costs on the IDPH. This is about politics and ideology, not health care.”
ACLU asks state court to strike down restriction on teens’ access to abortion
CHICAGO – Citing “serious and irreversible harm to teens,” the American Civil Liberties Union asked an Illinois court to strike down a newly effective law that prevents teens from having... Continue reading
Statement of Lorie A. Chaiten on Zbaraz v. Madigan
Earlier today a three judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling in Zbaraz v. Madigan, a case considering the constitutionality of the 1995 Illinois Parental... Continue reading
ACLU, Madigan, State Attorneys General, Planned Parenthood File Suit Against Bush Administration’s Health Care Denial Rule
Pending Rule Undercuts State Contraception Laws and Jeopardizes Billions of Dollars in Federal Public Health Money Chicago – Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan today joined with six other Attorneys General,... Continue reading
