Illinois is the latest place to advance legislation addressing access to the medical procedure. But the aim in Springfield, Ill., is vastly different.
"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," Kelly Cassidy, a Democrat in the Illinois House of Representatives, said in chamber debate on Tuesday. "To the people in Missouri and Alabama and Georgia and Kentucky and Mississippi and Ohio, I say, not on my watch."
In a rebuke to states curtailing abortion rights, the Illinois House on Tuesday approved Cassidy's Reproductive Health Act by a 64-50 vote, with six Democrats in opposition.