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Abortion Notification Debate Continues
Produced by City Room on Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Eric Scheidler (Photo courtesy of the Pro-Life Action League)

A new Illinois abortion law could go into effect today. It requires doctors to notify parents when teens want an abortion.

The Illinois Medical Disciplinary Board will consider the law this morning. The board has delayed implementing the law twice in the last 3 months.

Eric Scheidler of the Pro-Life Action League is watching the case closely.

SCHEIDLER: Illinois has become the abortion dumping ground of the Midwest. We see license plates bringing underage girls into abortion clinics all around the state on a regular basis.

He says girls travel to Illinois from other states with stricter abortion laws.

But the American Civil Liberties Union says women come to Illinois because the state provides better medical care. The ACLU has been fighting parental notification in court since the mid-1980s.

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