The Danville City Council's vote defies repeated warnings by the state's Democratic attorney general and the American Civil Liberties Union that it violates Illinois law's protection of abortion as a fundamental right.
Rulings on medical abortion by judges in Texas and Washington plunged abortion pill mifepristone into legal limbo Friday night, prompting outrage.An Illinois city on Tuesday banned the mailing or shipping of abortion pills, defying the state's Democratic attorney general and the American Civil Liberties Union, who have repeatedly warned that the move violates Illinois law's protection of abortion as a fundamental right.
The ordinance proposed in Danville followed public reports that an Indiana clinic planned to open a facility in the city, which is about 6 miles from the border. Indiana Republicans voted in August to ban abortion, but a legal challenge pending before the Indiana Supreme Court has kept the ban on hold since September.
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul separately warned Danville officials that state law clearly prevented the ordinance's passage and said its approval risked "considerable legal liability and expenses."
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