Expanding how minors can access abortion is part of a bigger plan to make Illinois an abortion haven.
Since August 2013, young people in Illinois were required to either get permission from an adult in charge of them or try to convince a judge that they are mature enough to have an abortion. The law was passed in 1995, but the ACLU was able to keep it out of effect until 2013.Roe v. Wade
decision was announced. For decades the ACLU of Illinois was able to go to court and get injunctions,” ACLU of Illinois staff attorney Emily Werth told Jezebel. That’s when “our legal strategies ran its course in 2013 despite our best efforts to prevent it,” Werth said.When the law went into effect, the legal organization started the Judicial Bypass Coordination Project.
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