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Illinois has decided to suspend the enforcement of a contentious law that imposed speech and advertising restrictions on pro-life crisis pregnancy centers. The move comes after a lawsuit ...

(The Center Square) – The Thomas More Society is declaring victory after a U.S. District Court shut down Illinois pregnancy center law.

The Thomas More Society is declaring victory after a U.S. District Court shut down Illinois' pregnancy center ...

One of the bill's sponsor called Kwame Raoul’s decision ‘heartbreaking’ and a ‘gut punch’ to women.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A little over six months after pushing Democrats in the General Assembly to pass a law targeted at limited services pregnancy centers, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul

The law aimed to stop the use of deceptive practices to steer patients away from abortion care. A lawsuit argued the law violated free speech.

The state would drop enforcement of a new law Gov. J.B. Pritzker and legislative backers said was aimed at deterring deceptive practices by anti-abortion pregnancy centers under a proposed agreement between the Illinois attorney general’s office and several organizations that challenged the measure. A federal judge in August temporarily blocked the law from being enforced in a scathing opinion ...

A federal judge previously issued a temporary block on enforcing the law in a scathing opinion that called it “both stupid and very likely unconstitutional.”

Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced that he would not enforce a law targeting pregnancy centers for leading women away from abortion.

Illinois' attorney general will not enforce a law that limits pro-life pregnancy centers in how they counsel clients, lawyers for the clinics and related groups said Monday.