BUFFALO GROVE – A new Illinois House member is so adamantly opposed to abortion restrictions, he wants to restrict state employees from travels in conservative states that have enacted abortion restrictions.
Democrat State Representative Daniel Didech of Buffalo Grove introduced a bill last week that would not require state employees to travel to any state that has enacted:
- a law that prohibits, or has the effect of prohibiting, abortion rights within 8 weeks after pregnancy begins;
- a law that prohibits, or has the effect of prohibiting, abortion rights for a pregnancy resulting from rape or incest;
- a law that restricts otherwise lawful abortion rights as soon as an unborn fetus or child has been determined to have a detectable human heartbeat; or
- a law that requires, or has the effect of requiring, a criminal investigation in the event of a miscarriage.
HB 3901 would take Illinois even further into the abortion-promoting side of an intensifying national debate.
“What these other states are doing is, to me, very dangerous. To a large extent, yes, abortion is a big part of it, but it’s not entirely about abortion,” Didech told Capitol News Illinois. “As a member of the Legislature, I have the responsibility to protect our state employees.”
Those states that fit the list Didech is targeting includes:
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Georgia
- Indiana
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Utah
