An appellate judge in Illinois is in a position to right a very old wrong, to elevate the status of nursing home caregivers and do so with legal authority.
The law expands the number of health practitioners who can provide certain types of abortions; requires Illinois public entities to cover abortion, gender-affirming and HIV-prevention drugs as part of health insurance; and establishes legal criteria for ensuring parental autonomy in reproductive technology.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker just signed an amendment to the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act, limiting the law used to challenge his COVID-19 vaccination and other mandates.
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Democrats in the Illinois Senate on Tuesday night voted to repeal the last remaining abortion restriction on the state’s books, while Democrats on a House panel approved a measure tightening a decades-old law in hopes of curbing a recent wave of lawsuits challenging employer vaccine mandates in Illinois.