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July 12, 2013

Illinois Court OKs Parental Notification Law; House Republicans Tie Anti-Choice Rider to Budget Bill 
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In another defeat for abortion rights, the Illinois Supreme Court has
ruled the state can enforce a law requiring abortion providers to notify
the parents of girls under 18 at least 48 hours before an abortion.
Thirty-eight other states require some form of parental notification for
minors. And in Washington, D.C., a House subcommittee has slipped a
rider into a general appropriations bill that would ban D.C. from usings
its own tax revenues to fund abortions for low-income women through
Medicaid.

 

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