"On Friday, the Democratic governor signed two new no-brainer bills to protect reproductive rights in the state. The first, HB 3637, permits healthcare workers to provide abortions-which are legal in Illinois-without fear of discipline by creepy, overreaching freaks like Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who, since December, has been waging a lawsuit against a New York doctor for allegedly mailing abortion pills to a Texan woman."
"Specifically, HB 3637 is an expanded shield law, and both further protects providers-from midwives to wholesale drug distributors-while also allowing certain medications to be prescribed for the next decade even if the federal government revokes their approval ( cough, cough). The second bill, HB 3709, access to contraception and medication abortion for college and university students, a service that many schools after Roe v. Wade was overturned."
"Before Friday, only California, Massachusetts, and New York required colleges and universities to provide students access to medication abortion (a contrast to Texas, where professors have tried to fail students who get the procedure), and Illinois is the first in the Midwest to pass such a policy. "We will not allow extreme, restrictive policies from other states to threaten the livelihoods of our healthcare providers and dictate the care that people receive in our state," Democratic Senator Karina Villa said during the bill-signing ceremony."
Governor JB Pritzker signed two bills to protect reproductive rights in Illinois. HB 3637 expands a shield law allowing healthcare workers to provide abortions without fear of discipline from out-of-state officials and protects a broad range of providers, including midwives and drug distributors. HB 3637 also permits certain medications to be prescribed for the next decade even if federal approval is revoked. HB 3709 requires public colleges and universities with student-health services to provide contraception and medication abortion beginning in the 2025–26 school year. Illinois becomes the first Midwestern state to mandate college medication-abortion access.
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