Illinois: Group Sues to Enforce Abortion Notice

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The Thomas More Society Pro-Life Law Center filed a lawsuit asking the state’s Supreme Court to order the immediate enforcement of a law passed in 1995 that requires doctors to give at least 48 hours’ notice to an adult family member when a girl under 18 seeks an abortion. Enforcement was delayed by state and federal lawsuits challenging the law. A federal appeals court in July ruled the law constitutional and set a date of Aug. 5 for it to take effect. But the state’s Department of Financial and Professional Regulation granted a request for a 90-day moratorium. The Illinois Medical Disciplinary Board, which is responsible for the law’s enforcement, asked for the moratorium to allow medical staffs to become familiar with the law. But the law center’s president, Tom Brejcha, said in a news release that “physicians who perform abortions in Illinois have had 14 years to ‘get ready’ and ‘gear up’ to implement the law.” A spokeswoman for the state attorney general said she could not comment on the case.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/us...ESTOE_BRF.html

The next step, hopefully will be for fathers to gain rights in this area as well. Fathers who desperately want their children whose wives/girlfriends go ahead and abort anyway, should be addressed. If she doesn't want the child, she can sign over her parental rights to the father so the father can raise his child, that he wanted but she didn't.