OPPOSE HOUSE BILL 5615!!!

OPPOSE HOUSE BILL 5615!!!

 

House Bill 5615 represents a RADICAL & UNPRECEDENTED departure from current Illinois law regarding abortion, public funding of abortion, health care right of conscience, and comprehensive sex education.

 

ABORTION

 

Section 15 of HB 5615 prohibits the state from any regulation of contraceptives or abortion at any stage of pregnancy, including:

-  Requiring a minor to obtain a prescription for emergency contraceptive

-  Prohibiting Partial Birth Abortion

-  Requiring Parental Notification

-  Any regulation at all!!!

 

Section 20 of HB 5615 ensures public funding of abortion through Medicaid and could require health insurance for state employees to cover abortion!

Section 25 of HB 5615 specifically repudiates any possibility of regulating abortion procedures – including a ban on partial birth abortion.

 

Clearly, the enactment of HB 5615 would permanently unfetter and codify all abortion procedures at any stage of pregnancy!

 

HEALTH CARE RIGHT OF CONSCIENCE

 

Section 15 of HB 5615 prohibits anyone working for a governmental agency from exercising a health care right of conscience in regards to contraceptives (including the morning after pill) and/or abortion.     

       

Section 35 of HB 5615 places three overbearing and unreasonable demands on any health care professional who morally or ethically objects to any type of contraception or abortion procedure:

(1) the health care professional must give all their patients or their employer written notice of their moral religious beliefs;

(2) the health care professional must provide an objective description of health care options he or she is opposed to; and

(3) the health care professional must refer his or her patient somewhere for the very options morally objected to

And in addition to all this, the 4th provision of Section 35 allows an employer to fire any health care employee having moral objections to abortion under a totally undefined standard of undue hardship!

 

Quite simply, the enactment of HB 5615 would drive anyone believing in the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death from the Illinois ' health care community!

 

COMPREHENSIVE SEX EDUCATION

 

Section 30 of HB 5615 would REQUIRE every public school in the state to offer a comprehensive sex education program.  No longer would local school districts be able to determine their curriculums in this area; every kindergartener in the state would have to take sex education.

 

The enactment of HB 5615 would wrest local control from school districts and, due to the absence of any real standards in so-called comprehensive sex education, quickens the demise of sexual morality in our society.

 

House Bill 5615 profoundly breaks with the views of the people of Illinois and with any general sense of fairness.  House Bill 5615 must not become law.

 

CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATORS AND ASK THEM TO PLEASE VOTE NO!!!

 

Contact information for legislators can be found at http://www.elections.il.gov/DistrictLocator/AddressSearch.aspx (type in your 9 digit zip code at this site to access your legislators' information).