The special session had initially been planned for July, but will instead take place in the “coming months,” officials said.
Abortion remains legal in Illinois, thanks to a law signed by former Gov. Bruce Rauner in 2017 that rolled back a measure that would have automatically banned abortion in Illinois if Roe v. Wade, decided in 1973, was overturned.
But in a joint statement on Tuesday, Pritzker, House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch and Senate President Don Harmon said they need additional time to get “an acute sense of our needs and how Illinois can play an even more vital role in standing up for reproductive freedom.” Likely on the agenda when the special session is eventually held will be bills designed to strengthen protections for abortion care, and to provide resources for people traveling to Illinois from states that have banned abortion.
After vowing during the 2018 campaign to make Illinois a safe haven for women seeking reproductive health care, Pritzker signed a bill in 2019 declaring women have a “fundamental” right to abortion in Illinois and required health insurers to cover the medical procedure. In 2021, Pritzker signed a bill repealing a measure that required minors seeking an abortion to notify their parents or get permission from a judge.
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