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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 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
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| 5 | | WHEREAS, SB3572 seeks to subject women seeking |
| 6 | | reproductive healthcare and their doctors to first degree |
| 7 | | murder charges; and
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| 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
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| 11 | | WHEREAS, SB3572 contains no exception for in vitro |
| 12 | | fertilization (IVF), subjecting doctors providing assisted |
| 13 | | reproductive technology to criminal charges; and
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| 14 | | WHEREAS, In 2016, Donald Trump said that there must be |
| 15 | | "some form of punishment" for women seeking an abortion; and
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| 16 | | WHEREAS, Anti-choice politicians across the country rushed |
| 17 | | to assure people that they would never support laws that |
| 18 | | punish women; and
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| 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
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| 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
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| 8 | | WHEREAS, In 2024, the Alabama Supreme Court used language |
| 9 | | mirroring SB3572 to bar access to IVF in that state; and
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 6 | | RESOLVED, That we oppose efforts to restrict access to in |
| 7 | | vitro fertilization (IVF) and other forms of assisted |
| 8 | | reproductive technology. |