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Another new law makes it illegal to import into Illinois, with the intent of selling, any body parts or products made from a long list of endangered and exotic species. Under House Bill 395, the list of animals whose parts or products are banned from being imported is expanded to include cheetahs, elephants, giraffes, great apes, hippopotami, jaguars, leopards, lions, monk seals, narwhals, pangolins, rays or sharks, rhinos, sea turtles, tigers, walruses, whales or any other species listed in the Convention on International Trade or listed as threatened or endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
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Extending the virtue to include banning the harvesting of human baby parts via aborted fetuses is simply a bridge too far for his progressive sensibilities.
Couldn’t possibly put humans on the same level as animals.
No whale parts? Lets hope JB doesn’t need any sort of medical transplant operation
Yes, all those white supremacists importing and trading in pangolins…
Forgot to ban the most destructive animal/lifeform on the planet. Politicians! Obviously they are not listed on the import ban. Another loophole! They should be in the EXPORT category preferably to another galaxy.