Posted on 01/06/2023 9:11:03 AM PST by stars & stripes forever
The lame-duck session is currently underway in the Illinois General Assembly prior to the new session beginning on January 11th. One would think there isn’t anything more that could be done to further expand abortion in Illinois. Unfortunately, one would be wrong.
Last night, Senate President Don Harmon (D-Oak Park) filed Senate Amendment 1 to HB 4664 during this lame-duck session. The purpose of the lame-duck session is to clean up cleaning unfinished business from the previous session. It’s not to introduce new legislation. So, why not wait until next week when the new session begins? The likely reason is that this amendment is so bad they want to ram it through rather than face the PR problems of a typical months-long session.
Senate Amendment 1 to HB 4664 includes the following:
(Excerpt) Read more at illinoisfamily.org ...
The bill allows a doctor who had his/her medical license revoked in another state due to performing unlawful abortions to obtain a medical license in Illinois. In fact, the bill allows most medical personnel (e.g., doctors, nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers) who have lost their licenses in other states due to unlawful abortion-related activities to obtain licenses in Illinois.
The bill allows the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to issue a temporary permit to anyone who lawfully committed abortions in other states. This would include midwives, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. The language states: “[T]he General Assembly finds that the adoption of rules to implement a temporary permit for reproductive health is deemed an emergency and necessary for the public interest, safety, and welfare.”
The bill provides abortion-training programs at the Department of Public Health.
The bill requires the Department of Public Health to provide a website which would list all the abortion providers in Illinois and “support services, such as airfare, lodging, ground transportation, public transportation, meals, childcare, doula support, and translation support to help a person access and obtain an abortion. Payment support resources, including coverage options, State programs, and other [financial] assistance…”
The bill requires insurance companies to cover the cost of abortion pills.
The bill would prohibit the governor from surrendering a person to another state that had laws prohibiting abortion if that person was involved in abortion in Illinois.
The bill requires two hours of continuing education “in training on reproductive health care” for all “health care professionals” renewing their licenses on or after January 1, 2024.
The bill allows a pharmacist to dispense hormonal contraception from a standing order from a local health department or the Department of Public Health, after the patient completes a self-screening risk assessment and without having a relationship with the patient.
The bill eliminates all Department of Public Health liability for “injury caused by the pharmacist’s or patient’s use of the self-screening assessment or the dispensation of hormonal contraceptives pursuant to the standing order.
The bill prohibits pregnancy-related services (i.e., pregnancy care centers) to advertise services that “misled, deceived, or damaged” any person seeking reproductive health care services. This would be left to the interpretation of the Courts. They are going after pregnancy care centers.
The bill also appears to go after those who practice “sidewalk counseling” and most likely those who pray outside abortion clinics: “[P]rohibited conduct” is that which would “interfere with a person seeking to gain entry or access to a licensed provider or reproductive health care services.”
The attorney general (AG) will “adopt such rules as will be necessary” to investigate and issue subpoenas and court orders for testimony and documents. During that time, the AG may grant injunctive relief that restrains the conduct constituting the violation–in other words, SHUT THEM DOWN. Civil penalties not to exceed $50,000 can be imposed on persons who violate this Act.
TAKE ACTION.
Illinoisians, contact your legislators NOW! Tell them to vote NO on Senate Amendment 1 to HB 4664.
https://www.votervoice.net/ILFI/Campaigns/99598/Respond
The sons of bitches are on a roll...they just passed a semi-auto/magazine ban overnight.
They have in effect legalized and promoted back alley butchery.
The DEMS are covering all their bases in this lame duck session.
HB 5188 Senate amendment - schools can’t opt out of Comprehensive Sex Education
I feel sorry for Rural Illinois they have the radical left has put them in social hell.
Wow did l mangle that sentence l wish we could edit
Many years ago in my small conservative town, a local businessman leased a building to an abortionist. Abortion, at the time was the “law of the land” and so nothing could be done about it. Or so they thought.
The businessman started to notice that his other businesses were starting to fail. No one wanted to rent space in his buildings, nor eat at his restaurant. It took a few years, but the businessman realized he had no future here. Sold his buildings and the abortionist’s lease was not renewed.
Conservative areas in Illinois, which might well be most of the state geographically, might consider something along this line.
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