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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.