HB3489 allows pharmacists to prescribe Medicaid-covered “emergency contraception” to patients.
The House passed HB3489 on April 8, 2025, by a vote of 77 to 36. We have assigned pluses to the nays because “emergency contraception,” such as the “morning-after” pill (e.g., Plan B), functions as an abortifacient, thereby resulting in “silent” at-home abortions. Abortion is murder, and no person has a right to kill a preborn child, let alone tax their neighbor to pay for it. In addition, Medicaid is a jointly financed federal-state program that has no authorization under Article 1, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution. Given that the care of human life—not its destruction—is the greatest responsibility of government, Illinois ought to abolish abortion completely. The right to life is the most fundamental, God-given, and “unalienable” right mentioned in the Declaration of Independence and secured by the Fifth and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
