After its passage earlier this year, opponents of the state’s Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards (CRTLS) pledged to find a way to overturn the standards or stop them from taking effect. That effort began when Ralph Rivera, a lobbyist for Illinois Right to Life Action and the Pro-Family Alliance, told a House legislative committee […]
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High Court to hear ‘landmark’ case on abortion
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could have a significant impact on states’ abortion laws, and pose a challenge to the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized the practice nationwide. In their term that begins in October, the High Court will consider whether Mississippi can ban abortions before an […]
Push continues to repeal Parental Notice of Abortion
Proponents of an act to repeal the parental notice of abortion hope to get the bill out of committee and to the floor for a vote before the end of the Illinois General Assembly’s spring session May 31. The Act would repeal current state law requiring women under age 18 to notify one parent, legal […]
Sex ed bill ready for Illinois House vote
A controversial sex education bill has moved from an Illinois House committee on Tuesday, May 25, and its next and final stop is a vote by the full House. The bill, containing a large portion of the REACH education requirements, will require special LGBT-favored curriculum, if a school system chooses to teach sex ed. A […]
Illinois sex ed bill poses new threat
Illinois lawmakers re-referred both the REACH (HB 1736) and Healthy Youth (HB 3071) Acts back to the House Rules Committee, but it didn’t mean those bills were dead. Instead, they were given new life and combined into one amendment that was added to Senate Bill 818 as Amendment 2. The new bill still mandates the […]
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