Statehouse measure targets anti-abortion pregnancy centers – Crain’s*

A bill targeting the practices of crisis pregnancy centers that do not perform or support abortion passed the Illinois Senate this morning. The measure now goes to the Illinois House. The sponsor of Senate Bill 1909, state Sen. Celina Villanueva, D-Chicago, said in a statement that the bill prohibits the use of deceptive practices that interfere with an individual seeking to gain entry or access to the provider of an abortion or emergency contraceptives, or induce a person to enter a limited-services pregnancy center, in advertising or soliciting.