A federal judge in Rockford has temporarily blocked the enforcement of a new law that allows the Illinois attorney general’s office to penalize anti-abortion pregnancy centers if they use deception to interfere with patients seeking the procedure.
A sign pointing toward the entrance to the Waterleaf Women’s Center on East New York Street, May 13, 2023, in Aurora. This clinic is directly across the street from Planned Parenthood.
A spokesman for the Thomas More Society said the ruling would apply to a “large majority” of the pregnancy centers in Illinois as one of the plaintiffs in the case, the National Institute of Family & Life Advocates, represents 81 of about 100 of the centers throughout the state.
Jennifer Welch, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois, said in a statement that she was “frustrated that a federal judge temporarily halted a new law targeting organizations actively working to deceive people trying to access health care.” Illinois lawmakers passed the measure this spring as part of their efforts to shore up abortion rights throughout the state following the U.S. Supreme Court decision last year overturning Roe v. Wade, which for 50 years granted abortion access nationwide with limited exceptions. Since that ruling, many Midwestern states have restricted abortion access while Illinois has maintained strong reproductive rights protections.
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