Action Needed in Illinois

There are three pro-life bills moving in the Illinois House of the Illinois General Assembly and votes are expected to come early next week.

Please contact your state representatives and urge them to vote YES on HB 786 (Ultrasound Opportunity Act - requires that a woman be offered the right to see an ultrasound before she can get an abortion -- it is her choice whether to see the ultrasound or not) and HB 2321 (amends the Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Act -- requires abortion clinics to meet all the same health and safety standards as all other ambulatory surgical treatment centers).

Note: Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Centers (ASTCs) are outpatient surgical centers that do surgeries like eye surgeries or foot surgeries. Abortion clinics are ASTCs but a court settlement in the late 1980s allows them to have lower health and safety standards than all other ASTCs. Why should women going to abortion clinics have less health and safety requirements protecting them than other ASTCs?

A third pro-life bill -- HB 2093 -- amends the Illinois Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act to re-state that medical personnel and counselors at facilities that provide abortions, abortion referrals or contraceptives must report any reasonable suspicion that a child known to them may be an abused child or a neglected child has little or no opposition and should be passed in the Illinois House next week.