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Chief Financial Officer Tonya Tucker will serve as interim CEO while the organization searches for a permanent replacement.

The partnership provides Hey Jane patients access to Planned Parenthood’s procedural abortion care, and Planned Parenthood patients can now connect with Hey Jane for medication abortions.

Attorneys with the Thomas More Society filed the federal lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of several organizations including Students for Life of America, Pro-Life Action League and Illinois Right to Life. It names Gov. JB Pritzker, Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Department of Insurance Director Ann Gillespie as defendants.

The wait time for phone calls to Planned Parenthood of Illinois also doubled in the days immediately after the election.

Coalition Life, a St. Louis-based anti-abortion group, has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to declare the “buffer zone” ordinance, which has since been repealed, an unconstitutional infringement on First Amendment rights to free speech.

Democrats are knocking on doors to encourage votes for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, and many say restrictions on reproductive rights are driving their effort.

Planned Parenthood of Illinois is bringing procedural abortions to its recently reopened Peoria clinic, marking the first time in five years they have been performed in the area.

The Chicago Abortion Fund is one of many around the U.S. that cover travel and medical costs. But these funds are running out of money.

Gov. JB Pritzker used part of his eight-minute primetime speech at the Democratic National Convention this week to push his own party to shift its messaging on abortion rights and reframe the issue as an economic one.

Gov. JB Pritzker signed multiple bills expanding reproductive rights in Illinois on Wednesday, including codifying a federal law that allows medical professionals to perform an abortion in response to a clinical emergency.