House Bill 5615 - Vote No

The following is from the Illinois Family Institute:BackgroundHB 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.Take Action: CLICK HERE to ask your State Representative to vote "NO" on House Bill 5615.

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

Prohibiting Partial Birth Abortion

Requiring Parental Notification

Requiring that a minor can obtain emergency contraceptives without parental knowledge

Any regulation at all!!!Section 20 of HB 5615 MANDATES 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 codify all abortion procedures at any stage of pregnancy.HEALTH CARE RIGHT OF CONSCIENCESection 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 having a religious or moral belief against abortion or contraceptives from the Illinois' health care community!COMPREHENSIVE SEX EDUCATIONSection 30 of HB 5615 would MANDATE 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. One comprehensive sex education curriculum in use includes condom training for 9 year olds!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.CONCLUSIONHouse Bill 5615 is draconian in prohibiting Illinois government from enforcing our Parental Notification Law; refusing to allow for any right of conscience for moral reasons related to abortion or contraceptives; mandating all school teach comprehensive sex education to all school ages!Take Action: CLICK HERE to ask your State Representative to vote "NO" on House Bill 5615.