Lawsuit Contests Taxpayer-Funded Illinois Abortion Law
By MAGGIE MASLAK SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CNA/EWTN News) — A new Illinois law requiring public funding of elective abortions is opposed by pro-life groups and taxpayers who have sued the state, calling the measure illegal. “The people of Illinois totally reject taxpayer-funded abortions,” said Peter Breen, special counsel for the Thomas More Society, a nonprofit legal group in Chicago, in a statement released November 30. “Even apart from the sincere moral objections that many folks have to paying for abortions, there is no money in this year’s Illinois state budget to pay for them,” Breen continued. House Bill 40 was signed into law by Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner in late September. Blase Cardinal Cupich of Chicago criticized the governor, saying that…Continue Reading