The suit targets an Illinois law that requires state-regulated health insurers to cover abortions and medications to terminate pregnancies.
Anti-abortion groups, employers sue Pritzker over Illinois abortion law
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Judge strikes down Wyoming abortion laws, including an explicit ban on pills to end pregnancy
A state judge on Monday struck down Wyoming’s overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the-nation explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy in line with voters in yet more states voicing support for abortion rights.
Endeavor Health is spending up to $453 million to settle patients’ claims that a former doctor sexually abused them
Endeavor and Swedish Hospital are currently facing 61 lawsuits brought by former patients of gynecologist-obstetrician Dr. Fabio Ortega accusing him of sexually abusing them.
University of Illinois nurses reach tentative agreement with hospital, ending strike after four days
Nurses at University of Illinois Hospital & Clinics have ended a four-day strike, after reaching a tentative contract agreement with UI Health late Saturday night.
Dozens are sickened and 1 person died after eating carrots contaminated with E. coli
An outbreak of E. coli has infected dozens of people who ate bagged organic carrots, and one person died from the infection.
After Trump win, Illinois providers report a spike in demand for abortion pills, birth control and sterilizations
After Trump victory, requests for abortion pills, birth control and sterilizations surge in Illinois and nationally
Trump pledged to roll back protections for transgender students. They’re flooding crisis hotlines
Transgender youth in the United States have been flooding crisis hotlines since the election of Donald Trump, who made anti-transgender themes central to his campaign. Many teens worry about how their lives could change once he takes office.
Nurses at University of Illinois Hospital walk off the job, in second strike since August
The nurses are seeking better security to prevent patients from attacking them at the hospital, and they’re asking for higher pay.
STD epidemic slows as new syphilis and gonorrhea cases fall in US
The U.S. syphilis epidemic slowed dramatically last year, gonorrhea cases fell and chlamydia cases remained below prepandemic levels, according to federal data released Tuesday.
Wisconsin’s high court to hear oral arguments on whether an 1849 abortion ban remains valid
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday on whether a law that legislators adopted more than a decade before the Civil War bans abortion and can still be enforced.