We have a huge opportunity to advance Parental Notice in Illinois. This pro-life law was passed in 1995 but contrary to the overwhelming public support, it never went into effect. Minors have been taken across state-lines to evade telling their parents that they were going to abort. This is a dangerous practice and you can help put an end to it.
Parents have a right to know when their daughters are going to undergo a potentially life threatening medical procedure. For the past 15 years, parents have been kept in the dark about underage abortions in Illinois.
We have a great opportunity right now because The Thomas More Society has filed a motion to transfer the parental notice case to the Illinois Supreme Court so that it can finally be decided and this limbo can be put to rest. (Download the Motion here). Illinois Federation for Right to Life is working with the "Let Parents Know Coalition" to urge Attorney General Lisa Madigan to support this motion and get the case moved to the Illinois Supreme Court! If we can get this law to go into effect, we WILL save lives, protect young girls from coerced abortion, and end secret underage abortions in Illinois.
Join us in calling Attorney General Madigan to ask her to support the Thomas More Society's motion to transfer the parental notice case to the Illinois Supreme Court. Here are the numbers:
Chicago Main Office: (312) 814-3000
Springfield Main Office: (217) 782-1090
Carbondale Main Office: (618) 529-6400
"More than fifteen years ago, with overwhelming bipartisan support, parental notice was supposedly made the law in Illinois, but as we sit here today, secret abortions on pregnant minors continue unabated," said Peter Breen, Thomas More Society executive director and legal counsel. "With this motion to transfer, the Supreme Court has the opportunity to immediately and definitively decide the constitutionality of parental notice in Illinois."
Please help us move this life saving law forward! After you call, sign the petition here.
Date Published: August 20, 2010
