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• Americans United for Life applauds a coalition of black pastors and leaders in Illinois who are urging the passage of laws to protect women from the same negligent treatment that resulted in the death of Tonya Reaves at a Chicago Planned Parenthood. Reaves died as a result of a botched abortion. Reaves’ family filed a wrongful death suit and PP paid $2M. The coalition is seeking passage of two bills that would require informed consent before an abortion and would also require abortion facilities to have the same standards as ambulatory surgical centers.

I’ve been tracking this case with antipathy for 6 years. On April 1, 2005, then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich stood flanked by NARAL President Nancy Keenan (in above photo, left), then-President of Planned Parenthood Karen Pearl (partially seen behind his shoulder), and then-President of Chicago Planned Parenthood Steve Trombley (far right), among other local and national pro-abort […]