ACTION ALERT!
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Freedom Of Choice
Act introduced in Illinois again!
HOUSE BILL 6205 - The so-called Reproductive Health and Access Act
(disguised Freedom Of Choice Act - FOCA) has been introduced in
Illinois.
This bill will STOP the Parental Notice of Abortion Law and Greatly
Expand Taxpayer Funding in Millions of Dollars for Abortions and much
more!
Remember, this bill is just another version of HB 2354 from last year's
FOCA bill. Pro-Lifers strongly opposed and stopped that bill last
year!
What HB 6205 Will Do...
HB 6205 WILL
“GUT” THE ILLINOIS PARENTAL NOTICE OF ABORTION ACT
HB 6205 will establish a “fundamental right” to abortion more
restrictive than Roe v. Wade. The bill would “gut” the Illinois
Parental Notice of Abortion Act so that no parental notice will be
allowed, because under HB 6205, notice would be considered to
“interfere with a pregnant woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy.”
[Section 15 (a)(3)] This is regardless of age!
Trying to hide this fact, HB 6205 says it is not meant to repeal the
Parental Notice of Abortion Act. However, you don’t have to be a
seasoned legislator to know that often a statute is amended by a bill
that substantially changes and alters the statute without repealing it.
HB 6205 clearly says in Section 15, and in a number of other sections,
“Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any other law to
the contrary” which all legislators should know means that the section
“trumps” any existing part of the Act and any other statute enacted
before the Act.
The language purports to allow for regulation after viability but the
too broad “health” exception undermines even that. In Doe v. Bolton,
the U.S. Supreme Court companion decision with Roe v. Wade, “health’
was to be considered in “light of all factors – physical, emotional,
psychological, familial and the woman’s age”, in other words, abortions
must be allowed for virtually any reason throughout the full nine
months of pregnancy!
TAXPAYER
FUNDING
OF ABORTIONS UNDER MEDICAID AND STATE EMPLOYEE HEALTH POLICIES
MUST PAY FOR ALL ABORTIONS FOR ANY REASON.
Illinois’s ban on taxpayer funded abortions was upheld by the U.S.
Supreme Court in 1980. Before the ban, Illinois paid for 12,738
abortions [1977-1978 fiscal year], as opposed to a few hundred today.
Under Section 20 in HB 6205, this bill will force taxpayers to pay for
abortions for any reason! At a Medicaid rate of around $180 per
abortion, that would cost the State of Illinois about $2.3 million.
Section 20 “Non-discrimination in funding.” states “Notwithstanding any
other provision of this Act or any other law to the contrary, the State
shall ensure that individuals eligible for State Medicaid assistance,
or other State medical assistance, receive financial assistance for
reproductive healthcare at least to the same extent as other comparable
services.”
Additionally, “reproductive health care” is undefined in the bill but
can be presumed to include abortion, Plan B, and the morning after
pill, even sterilizations for all ages.
HB 6205
MANDATES ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO OFFER “COMPREHENSIVE SEX EDUCATION
PROGRAMS”
MOST OF WHICH PROMOTE AND FOSTER
CONDOM TRAINING AND ABORTION FOR STUDENTS AS YOUNG AS NINE YEARS OLD!
Section 30 “Sexual health education.” states “Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Act or any other law, ALL Illinois public schools
shall offer medically accurate, age appropriate, comprehensive sexual
health education as a part of the Comprehensive Health Education
Program…”
No longer would local school districts be able to determine their
curriculums in this area; every public school student in the state
would have to be enrolled in “comprehensive” sex education. What
proponents of “comprehensive sex education’ consider “age appropriate”
is not what most of us would consider so!
Additionally, HB 6205 removes, under the State’s “Comprehensive Health
Education Program” the long-standing public policy of Illinois in
teaching that “sexual abstinence until marriage” should be taught to
our children in schools.
For these reasons please urge your Illinois
House Representative to Vote NO on HB 6205 now!
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