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HR0695 - 104th General Assembly
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION | ||||||
| 2 | WHEREAS, Illinois Senate Bill 3572 (SB3572) seeks to | ||||||
| 3 | legally define any fertilized human egg as a person in the eyes | ||||||
| 4 | of the law; and | ||||||
| 5 | WHEREAS, SB3572 seeks to subject women seeking | ||||||
| 6 | reproductive healthcare and their doctors to first degree | ||||||
| 7 | murder charges; and | ||||||
| 8 | WHEREAS, SB3572 contains no exceptions for rape or incest, | ||||||
| 9 | and would subject a survivor to harsher criminal penalties | ||||||
| 10 | than the rapist; and | ||||||
| 11 | WHEREAS, SB3572 contains no exception for in vitro | ||||||
| 12 | fertilization (IVF), subjecting doctors providing assisted | ||||||
| 13 | reproductive technology to criminal charges; and | ||||||
| 14 | WHEREAS, In 2016, Donald Trump said that there must be | ||||||
| 15 | "some form of punishment" for women seeking an abortion; and | ||||||
| 16 | WHEREAS, Anti-choice politicians across the country rushed | ||||||
| 17 | to assure people that they would never support laws that | ||||||
| 18 | punish women; and | ||||||
| 19 | WHEREAS, After the United States Supreme Court's Dobbs v. | ||||||
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| 1 | Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, women in many | ||||||
| 2 | states found that their access to healthcare was suddenly | ||||||
| 3 | governed by laws that predate women's suffrage and contained | ||||||
| 4 | no exceptions for rape and incest; and | ||||||
| 5 | WHEREAS, Anti-choice politicians across the country rushed | ||||||
| 6 | to assure people that they would never deny care to survivors | ||||||
| 7 | of rape and incest; and | ||||||
| 8 | WHEREAS, In 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court used language | ||||||
| 9 | mirroring SB3572 to bar access to IVF in that state; and | ||||||
| 10 | WHEREAS, Anti-choice politicians across the country rushed | ||||||
| 11 | to assure people that they would never support laws that deny | ||||||
| 12 | access to IVF; and | ||||||
| 13 | WHEREAS, Anti-choice politicians in Illinois continue to | ||||||
| 14 | push legislation like SB3572 that would punish women for | ||||||
| 15 | accessing reproductive healthcare, would force survivors of | ||||||
| 16 | rape and incest to carry their abuser's child to term, and | ||||||
| 17 | would bar access to IVF; therefore, be it | ||||||
| 18 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 19 | HUNDRED FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 20 | we oppose Illinois Senate Bill 3572 (SB3572); and be it | ||||||
| 21 | further | ||||||
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| 1 | RESOLVED, That we oppose any effort to punish women for | ||||||
| 2 | accessing reproductive healthcare; and be it further | ||||||
| 3 | RESOLVED, That we oppose efforts to subject survivors of | ||||||
| 4 | rape and incest to more severe punishments than a rapist; and | ||||||
| 5 | be it further | ||||||
| 6 | RESOLVED, That we oppose efforts to restrict access to in | ||||||
| 7 | vitro fertilization (IVF) and other forms of assisted | ||||||
| 8 | reproductive technology. | ||||||