Pastor Calvin Lindstrom of Christian Liberty in Arlington Heights said he supports the recent abortion restrictions passed in Texas, and would like to see Illinois move in that direction. Many of the pastors support further restrictions on abortions. “The number of minors getting an abortion has gone down since the notification law went into effect,” he said. He joined with other pastors from the Chicago region who traveled to Springfield on a bus to rally against the push to repeal the law.
Paprocki predicted Illinois would see “drastically” more abortions if the law is repealed. “Young children should not have to make these major medical decisions and emotional decisions alone without the support of people who are meant to care for them,” Senator Sue Rezin (R-Morris) said during debate on the Senate floor. Many conservatives see the parental notification laws as the last remaining regulation or requirement in the state that might prompt a parent to intervene and persuade a teen girl not to go through with an abortion. “These laws exist to protect the rights of parents to fulfill the duty that God has entrusted to them, and that no government can take away,” Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of the Springfield Diocese said at a Tuesday afternoon press conference. Clergy pressures lawmakers not to repeal abortion law
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