The Illinois House passed an abortion expansion bill Wednesday that calls abortion a “fundamental right,” states the fetus “does not have independent rights” and makes abortion a part of health care.
Live Action, the national pro-life group founded by Lila Rose, said the bill was “inherently worse” than the New York abortion expansion bill that was signed into law.
Titled the “Reproductive Health Act” (SB 25), the Illinois bill passed by a vote of 64-50, with six Democrats opposing it.
Republican state Rep. Avery Bourne, who is pregnant, pleaded with her colleagues to oppose it.
“We are talking about the most expansive bill we have seen in this state,” Bourne said, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. She was surrounded by her female GOP colleagues. “We already know that we’ve got women coming to Illinois to have abortions because we are so expansive on this issue. That will continue. This bill is not about keeping abortion legal in Illinois. This is about a massive expansion that will impact viable babies. And that is wrong.”
But supporters said it was needed.
“To our neighbors in Illinois who hear the news around the country and worry that this war on women is coming to Illinois, I say, not on my watch,” Democratic Rep. Kelly Cassidy said. “To the people in Missouri and Alabama and Georgia and Kentucky…
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