Measure to repeal parental notification law for minors seeking abortion takes another step toward Pritzker’s desk - Yahoo News
The Illinois House was working late into the evening Wednesday with one scheduled day remaining in the fall legislative session and controversial measures including an expansion of abortion rights for minors still pending.
A Democratic-led Illinois House committee voted along party lines earlier Wednesday to send to the full chamber a measure that would repeal a state law requiring parents to be notified when a minor seeks an abortion. The committee vote came a day after the Senate approved the proposal on 32-22 vote that saw a handful of the majority Democrats joining Republicans in opposition.
Both chambers on Wednesday approved a measure that makes minor changes to a law Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed this summer that creates a fully elected Chicago school board by 2027.
But heading into the final scheduled day of the legislature’s fall session, neither the House nor the Senate by Wednesday evening had voted on two other major items on their agenda: A new map of the state’s congressional districts and a proposal seeking to prevent people from using a state law to skirt coronavirus vaccination requirements by citing moral or religious objections.
“It’s a crazy day,” said Rep. Robert Rita, a Democrat from Blue Island, who oversaw the House committee debate on the proposed parental notification law. “In the short amount of time you’re trying to look at a lot of different requests ... or things that we need to do. And it’s all compacted, which make long days, busy days, long committee hearings to allowing the complexity of some of these bills.”
Pritzker’s main priority of the fall session, a package of tax credits and incentives to attract electric vehicle manufacturers and suppliers to the state, likewise had yet to see any movement.
The proposed repeal of the 1995 Parental Notice of Abortion Act passed out of the House Executive Committee on a 9-6 vote, with the Republican minority united in opposition.
Those pushing for repeal, which Pritzker supports, believe the law does nothing to protect the most vulnerable young people — those from unsafe and unstable households. Those against repeal believe parents shouldn’t be kept in the dark about their children’s well-being, particularly when they decide to have an abortion.
source: https://news.yahoo.com/measure-repeal-parental-notification-law-001900126.html
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