HB5142 requires health plans not to impose any deductible, coinsurance, waiting period, or other cost-sharing limitation for abortion services, with certain exceptions.
The Senate passed HB5142 on May 23, 2024, by a vote of 40 to 19. We have assigned pluses to the nays because the care of human life—not its destruction—is the greatest responsibility of government. No person has the right to kill a preborn child using the pretext of “health care,” or force someone else to pay for it. Illinois ought to forbid abortion and other grotesque methods of population control entirely, upholding the sanctity of life for every person. The right to life is the most fundamental, God-given, and “unalienable” right asserted in the Declaration of Independence and guaranteed by the Fifth and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
