SPRINGFIELD, IL: "Governor JB Pritzker signed a measure Friday shielding reproductive and gender-affirming health care patients and providers from legal action originating across state lines. Illinois lawmakers on Tuesday approved a measure protecting Illinois' access to abortion from out-of-state meddling, making the state the latest to pursue such protections since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June. The bill will shield reproductive and gender-affirming health care patients and providers from legal action originating across state lines in a post-Roe world where some states are moving swiftly to restrict such procedures. In the words of Rep. Kelly Cassidy, the Chicago Democrat who sponsored the plan in the House, Democrats have faced down "grave threats to the rights to privacy, reproductive care, and bodily autonomy."

Planned Parenthood of Illinois said that since Roe was overturned, it has seen more out-of-state patients than ever. Before the high court's decision that replaced Roe and left abortion up to states, Planned Parenthood saw patients from 10 to 15 other states besides Illinois. Since then, its clinics have treated patients from 33 states.

Republican state Sen. Darren Bailey, who lost the governor's race to Democratic incumbent Pritzker in November but took great pains to assure voters he wouldn't try to reverse Illinois' legal abortions, called the measure "pure evil." "This is wrong. God help us," he said.

Pritzker, who was sworn in Monday for a second term as governor, used his inaugural address to propose a constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion access."

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