The gender-affirming care and abortion bill protects access from out-of-state meddling. Planned Parenthood said many are coming to Illinois for care.
Gov. JB Pritzker signed a measure Friday shielding reproductive and gender-affirming health care patients and providers from legal action originating across state lines.
The bill will shield reproductive and gender-affirming health care patients and providers from legal action originating across state lines in a post-Roe world where some states are moving swiftly to restrict such procedures. Abortion is legal in Illinois until the fetus can survive outside of the womb, which usually occurs around six months of pregnancy.
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 was 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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