BREAKING: IL Supreme Court upholds 18-yr-old parental notification law
Today, in a unanimous ruling, the Illinois Supreme Court issued a decision to uphold a parental notification law enacted way back in 1995.
This is FABULOUS news, since Illinois has become known as the abortion dumping ground of the Midwest – the only state without any parental involvement law in force, while all surrounding states have such measures.
Thomas More Society, the pro-life legal team based in Illinois that has been pushing enforcement of this law, has posted a synopsis of this incredibly drawn out court battle.
The ACLU was the first to sue to block the law, later joined by the giant Hope Clinic abortion mill in Granite City - conveniently located close to the Missouri border.
The Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act of 1995 is scheduled to go into effect in 35 days. It isn’t perfect. It allows for notification of not only one parent but also “a person over 21 years of age who is the parent, grandparent, step-parent living in the household, or legal guardian.” In the law a minor is considered anyone under 18.
This looser verbiage caused a huge rift in the pro-life movement at the time, which still comes up in conversations. But it is still way better than nothing.
Of course, Planned Parenthood, which has 17 locations in Illinois, is unhappy. From The Chicago Sun-Times:
“We are disappointed by the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act of 1995,” said Carol Brite, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois. “While we believe the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act puts the health and safety of teens at unnecessary risk, Planned Parenthood of Illinois is committed to doing everything we can to make this new process as easy as possible for teens if the law goes into effect.”
In 2011, 2,359 of the state’s 41,324 abortions were of minors 17 and under. There were 3,139 out-of-state abortions (age unknown). Both those numbers should now go down.
Only one potential glitch, as quoting ABC News:
The decision means the state’s parental notification law now has to be enforced – unless there’s an appeal to the US Supreme Court.
In its opinion, the court noted that the nation’s high court has found parental notification laws to be constitutional.
Read Thomas More Society’s press release here.

This might be good news EXCEPT for the fact that Planned Parenthood deliberately coaches its staff to forge information on the Medicaid forms for reimbursement and then just cry OOPS! if they are caught. Having a pimp force his child prostitute to have an abortion is also illegal but the gov isn’t interested in keeping girls/women safe, they are interested in paying off their cronies at Planned Parenthood for the fine job they did in re-electing the President. The President is the one conducting the war on women!
Good job Thomas More Society. Thank you for your tireless dedication to seeing these cases all the way through til the end and prevailing. Tom Brejcha and team, You Rock!
The abortion industry will be tempted to skirt around this law…. performing abortions on minor children and perhaps accepting kickbacks from pimps.
But now, the abortion workers will be exposed to civil and criminal consequences, if that young girl ever blows the whistle or seeks damages. That’s a fierce incentive for them to obey the law.
This is great news and I pray this law will finally be enforced and those who disobey will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, especially men who prey on young girls. I have friends who are sidewalk counselors who have seen men (who were not old enough to be their fathers) almost dragging teen girls into abortuaries, forcing them to get out of cars and arguing with them to get them to go in. This could be great if it is properly enforced.
Yee Haaaahh!!
Thank you Thomas Moore Society :)