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This week/the last 24 hours has been sheer chaos, but Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth is not mincing words about what the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court would mean for the full spectrum of reproductive decisions people make, including IVF. In sum, Vote! Vote! Vote!!

A Senator Wrote An Impassioned Letter To Her Colleagues About Her IVF Treatment And Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee The letter is in response to reports that Judge Amy Coney Barrett publicly supported an organization that believes in vitro fertilization should be criminalized.

It. Has. Been. A. Minute. This week has been filled with heavy news that has left many of us feeling overwhelmed in the face of injustice and grieving. In these moments, it is important to reframe and remember the importance of voting to support candidates who want to support choice and to apply funds where they are most useful.

It is also important to remember that people are doing some powerful work in the area. Some examples: the Chicago Abortion Fund has gained national recognition for a billboard campaign, reminding people that abortion is covered by Medicaid. Carafem, an independent clinic with a location in the Chicago area, is offering abortion pills by mail after a video consult.

Your vote keeps these projects possible. We can do this.

‘Abortion is healthcare’ billboards across Chicagoland remind people that Medicaid covers the medical procedure Chicago Abortion Fund hopes billboards will help inform patients that the procedure is covered by their Medicaid plan so they can access care.

This is a particularly important aspect of abortion access in Illinois. Sign the petition! Kthnx!

Sign Our Petition To End Parental Notice Laws >> Young people are leading the fight for abortion access. Trust youth to be the experts in their own lives.

I am sure many of you have heard the news that in order to still be able to provide abortion care, Planned Parenthood will be withdrawing from the Title X program. That federal funding is now possible going to be grabbed by a crisis pregnancy org. THIS IS AN URGENT CALL TO ACTION! Sign this petition to let congress know that you do not support family planning funds going to organizations that do not believe people should be able to plan their families.

Sign the petition: Congress must stop HHS from awarding Title X funds to Obria and other anti-birth control, anti-abortion fake clinics Sign the petition to demand Congress stop HHS from awarding family planning funds to Obria and other anti-abortion, anti-birth control centers.

"With hospitals under pressure to gain market share, control health care costs and increase profitability, many financially strong Catholic chains have bulked up—acquiring both faith-based and secular facilities along the way. Catholic hospitals follow a set of rules that prohibit or sharply restrict contraception, fertility treatments, sterilization procedures and abortions.

As they impose those strictures on acquired hospitals, some women have to travel farther to find facilities that provide such services. That’s especially true for women covered by most Medicaid managed care insurance plans in Cook County, which rely heavily on Catholic hospitals. […]

Some 38 percent of Cook County hospitals with labor and delivery departments are Catholic, according to the report. Meanwhile, Catholic hospitals represented more than 38 percent of in-network hospitals for five of the seven available Medicaid managed care plans in 2018, limiting patients’ options for family planning services, Stulberg says.

Women of color in the county have even fewer options: 85 percent of black and Hispanic women were enrolled in one of the five plans with a heavily Catholic network, compared with 75 percent of white women, the study finds."

Why Illinois' newly recognized ‘fundamental right' is getting harder to exercise A consolidation trend means some women have to travel farther for treatment that acquired hospitals once provided. Medicaid managed care beneficiaries in Cook County are disproportionately affected.

Great job on getting this through the State House! Now, onto the State Senate! We've got this, but only with your help!!

ACTION NEEDED: The RHA will be heard in the Senate Public Health Committee tomorrow (5/30) at 9:00 AM.
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Hey y'all! Hope you had a great, long weekend. Now, let's get the RHA passed!! This takes only a few minutes. ❣️

Vote YES on the Reproductive Health Act Send your state representative a message: vote yes on the Reproductive Health Act.

Hi everyone! It's been a while since we've posted, but I promise we are still here, loving bodily autonomy just as much as we always have. Here's some homework (sorry; I know phone calls are awkward, but they need to hear from you!!):

HB 2495: Illinois Reproductive Health Act Click here to see the most up to date status of the bill.

This spring marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of Jane, a Chicago underground network run by women for women, providing abortion services, regardless of ability to pay, from 1969-1973.

“We settled on calling ourselves Jane because we wanted a name that no one in the group had, and we wanted an Everywoman name because we were for every woman having exactly as many children as she wants, when she wants, if she wants.”

Chicago’s Forgotten Pro-Choice Warriors Fifty years ago, women who wanted abortions didn’t have many choices — until an underground network of women gave them another one.

A huge thank you to everyone who braved the snow to cheer for the 3rd Annual Vi****or Race for Choice - thanks to you, we raised over $875 to support reproductive choice in Illinois.

These dollars will be soon be put to work ensuring that Illinois remains a safe haven for reproductive choice for all, no matter what, by supporting pro-choice candidates and holding our elected officials accountable to protecting women's health.

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