Oral arguments are set for Monday in a case dealing with the enforcement of a long-debated Illinois law requiring a teenage girl’s parents be notified before she has an abortion.
Arguments are scheduled for Monday before Cook County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Riley. In November the state’s Medical Disciplinary Board voted to allow enforcement of the law, but hours later a judge issued a temporary restraining order putting the measure back on hold.
The Illinois law was passed in 1995, but never enforced because of various court actions. The Thomas More Society is fighting to have the law enforced.
“Illinois parents have a right to know before their kids are taken for abortions,” Thomas Brejcha, President & Chief Counsel of the More Society, said in a news release Friday. “If the Attorney General won’t defend the parental notice law vigorously, we will do so, until the day when there are no more secret abortions performed on Illinois children.”
But last year, Lorie A. Chaiten of the American Civil Liberties Union, which has been fighting against enacting the law, said it created “creates unnecessary, dangerous hurdles to accessing essential health care for young women facing an unintended pregnancy” in Illinois.
The law requires doctors to notify the parents or guardians of girls 17 or younger 48 hours before the teens get abortions. It requires no notice in a medical emergency or in cases of sexual abuse, and a provision allows girls to bypass parental notification by going to a judge.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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It is a lot easier to be Pro-Choice when it is not you that is being killed.