Reproductive Health Act

A Baptist church association and two business owners filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the state of Illinois, charging it with religious liberty violations related to a radical law that forces health insurance policies to provide coverage for abortions.

The bishop of Springfield, IL, has forbidden Catholic legislators who voted for the Reproductive Health Act from receiving Holy Communion in his diocese, citing penalties in Church Law for those who “persist in manifest grave sin.”

Illinois lawmakers voted to approve a sweeping abortion rights bill that would, among other actions, repeal the state’s ban on partial-birth abortion.

The Illinois House of Representatives debated a bill on Memorial Day that would remove all restrictions to abortion, including the state’s ban on Partial Birth Abortion.

The president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England said Vermont is now “the shining example for all other states” of the radical, pro-abortion legislation that has become a mark of the Democrat Party.

The number of babies aborted in New York City at or after 21 weeks of pregnancy outnumbered homicide victims in 2015.

The Catholic bishops of Illinois joined together Thursday at the state capitol in Springfield to warn citizens the state is poised to pass the most extreme expansion of abortion rights in the nation.

Comedy Central’s “Broad City” creator Ilana Glazer praised Planned Parenthood supporters, New York Democrat lawmakers, and journalists Tuesday for working to achieve an abortion law that pro-life activists say allows “infanticide.”

The Illinois chapters of Planned Parenthood and the ACLU are pressing the state legislature to pass several bills that would make partial birth abortion legal and equate choosing to end the life of an unborn baby with health care.

Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York defended himself against criticism that he rejected his self-proclaimed Catholic faith by signing into law a bill that allows abortion up until birth, asserting, “I was educated in religious schools, and I am a former altar boy.”

Virginia Democrat Delegate Kathy Tran proposed a measure last week that would not only allow abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy in the state, but would also permit a woman to decide whether she wants to “abort” her baby as she is dilating and about to give birth.

The New York State legislature put in place one of the most radical abortion laws in the U.S., ending all protections for the unborn.

National pro-life leader Lila Rose described New York State’s new law that allows abortions up until the day of birth as “barbaric and inhumane,” and “no different than infanticide.”

The Catholic bishop of Albany said that New York’s Reproductive Health Act (RHA) “is nothing less than a license to kill a pre-born child at will” in an open letter this week to Governor Andrew Cuomo.

New York Right to Life warns the Reproductive Health Act signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo would remove criminal penalties for “acts of violence against a pregnant mother and her child.”

One World Trade Center was illuminated with pink lighting to celebrate New York’s new law designating abortion a “fundamental right.”

The Catholic bishops of New York State issued a statement Friday decrying new legislation proposing “abortion expansion” to a state whose abortion rate is already double the national average.

New York’s Reproductive Health Act (RHA) will make access to abortion a “fundamental right,” while expanding coverage to include late-term abortions.

Additionally, the bill eliminates any concept that an unborn baby is a “person.” The legislation ends criminal penalties for self-abortion and – in the case of an unborn baby who is the victim of a homicide – defines “person” as “a human being who has been born and is alive.”