IDPH adopts CDC booster shot recommendation
Friday, Sep 24, 2021 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Press release…
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is adopting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) recommendation for a booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in certain populations and a booster dose for those in high risk occupational and institutional settings.
CDC recommends the following groups should receive boosters:
• people 65 years and older and residents in long-term care settings should receive a boostershot of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine at least 6 months after their Pfizer-BioNTech primary series,
• people aged 50–64 years with underlying medical conditions should receive a booster shot of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine at least 6 months after their Pfizer-BioNTech primary series.
Additionally, CDC recommends the following groups may be considered for boosters.
• people aged 18–49 years with underlying medical conditions may receive a booster shot of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine at least 6 months after their Pfizer-BioNTech primary series, based on their individual benefits and risks, and
• people aged 18-64 years who are at increased risk for COVID-19 exposure and transmission because of occupational or institutional setting may receive a booster shot of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine at least 6 months after their Pfizer-BioNTech primary series, based on their individual benefits and risks.
“While the vaccines continue to be highly effective at preventing severe illnesses, hospitalization, death, as we learn more about COVID-19 and the science evolves, so too must our recommendations,” said IDPH Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike. “Scientists and medical experts continue to monitor vaccines for waning immunity and how well the vaccines protect against new variants, and across which age groups and risk factors. The information reviewed by the FDA shows that there is clear evidence of the benefit of booster doses at this time.”
IDPH recommends vaccine providers prioritize those at highest risk of severe illness among the eligible booster population.
Many of the people who are now eligible to receive a booster shot received their initial vaccine early in the rollout and will benefit from additional protection. The Delta variant continues to be the predominate virus circulating and with cases of COVID-19 increasing significantly across the United States, a booster shot will help strengthen protection against severe disease in those populations who are at high-risk for exposure to COVID-19 or the complications from severe disease.
Individuals may contact their health care provider or visit www.vaccines.gov to find a nearby location to receive a booster dose.
Right now, only the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is authorized for booster doses in recommended populations. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given full approval for Pfizer-BioNTech, marketed as Comirnaty, for those ages 16 years and older. The Pfizer-BioNTech and Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccines are the same vaccine.
Data is expected to be submitted soon to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on the safety and efficacy of booster doses for Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines for further recommendations on booster doses.
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* Press release…
After reviewing the General Assembly’s revised legislative maps drawn with 2020 U.S. Census data, Governor JB Pritzker signed the new House and Senate district maps that reflect Illinois’ diversity and preserve minority representation in Illinois’ government in accordance with the federal Voting Rights Act.
“These legislative maps align with the landmark Voting Rights Act and will help ensure Illinois’ diversity is reflected in the halls of government,” said Governor JB Pritzker.
A landmark achievement of the civil rights movement, the Voting Rights Act prohibits practices and procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, color or membership in a protected language minority group. Building on and strengthening that consequential law, the Illinois Voting Rights Act of 2011 ensures redistricting plans are crafted in a way that preserves clusters of minority voters if they are of size or cohesion to exert collective electoral power. The maps signed into law today meet those requirements to adequately preserve minority representation and reflect the diversity of our state.
The district boundaries also account for population changes in the state, particularly in the regions that saw the most population loss as recorded by 2020 U.S. Census. In addition, the General Assembly held more than 50 public hearings statewide.
Detailed summaries of each individual House and Senate district, including communities of interest, geographic descriptions, and demographic data were adopted by both the Illinois House of Representatives and the Illinois Senate and are contained in House Resolution 433 and Senate Resolution 3 respectively.
The General Assembly Redistricting Act of 2021 (SB 927) takes effect immediately.
* The Question: Your thoughts on this bill action?
* Related…
* Pritzker’s silence on revised maps ‘deafening,’ state Senator says: “What’s the delay,” said state Sen. Jason Barickman, R-Bloomington. “I don’t think many people even realize that he hasn’t signed these maps. They thought it was a foregone conclusion and yet we haven’t seen anything.”
*** UPDATE *** To the react…
Illinois House Republican Leader Jim Durkin (R-Western Springs) released the following statement on Governor Pritzker’s second signing of partisan maps:
“Governor Pritzker’s signing of the legislative maps sends a clear picture of the severity of his ‘retrograde amnesia’ and efforts to deceive Illinois citizens. The Governor now joins the multitude of Democratic legislators who lied to voters by campaigning for and promising “fair maps”. Once again, Governor Pritzker has proven that he governs only for the Democratic political insiders and not for the people of Illinois.”
* McConchie…
“Rarely do politicians get the chance to break a campaign promise twice,” said Illinois Senate Republican Leader Dan McConchie (R-Hawthorn Woods). “I am deeply disappointed that Gov. Pritzker has turned his back on the many minority organizations that have asked him to protect their voting rights outlined in the constitution and Voting Rights Act by vetoing this gerrymandered map. The governor has now twice chosen to actively betray the people he said he was elected to protect. This choice again proves he is more concerned with protecting the political elite than the people of Illinois.”
* Change IL…
Gov. J.B. Pritzker Friday fueled his litany of broken vows to the people of Illinois by signing into law maps that do not reflect the rich diversity of Illinois, but instead steal representation from Latino, Black and other Illinoisans who have repeatedly pleaded for equitable representation.
For the second time this year, Pritzker joined supermajority lawmakers in ignoring and disrespecting the input of constituents.
Many major groups agree the new maps reduce the numbers of majority Black voting age population districts and majority Latino voting age population districts. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund’s lawyers have said they believe the state representative and senate maps dilute Latino voting power. The Latino Policy Forum asked Pritzker to veto the maps for the same reason. Illinois African Americans for Equitable Redistricting also said the maps do not create enough Black majority voting age districts. Valerie Leonard, who leads the group, said, “In fact, every redistricting plan the legislature has come up with after 2011 has done progressively more harm to Black voters.” The Decalogue Society of Lawyers noted Jewish communities on Chicago’s north side and suburbs were split up.
Despite all of this, and despite repeated claims that he wanted maps that accurately reflect the state’s rich diversity, Pritzker chose party fealty over the people of Illinois. He again broke his pledge to honor our diversity. This, after previously violating his repeated promises to push for and support independent redistricting and to veto partisan maps.
The actions of supermajority lawmakers are utterly undemocratic. CHANGE Illinois and its partners remain deeply concerned about the maps’ negative effects on the voting power of communities of color guaranteed by the federal Voting Rights Act. We are compelled to redouble our battle for transparent, independent redistricting that honors the will of the people of Illinois.
* Paul Schimpf…
By signing the Democrats’ new gerrymandered legislative map this afternoon, JB Pritzker once again demonstrates that all his promises have expiration dates. In 2018, then-candidate Pritzker supported legislative maps drawn by an independent commission. By his actions today, JB Pritzker shows once again that he is undeserving of the voters’ trust to lead our state.
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* The Hill…
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study found that schools in two Arizona counties that didn’t require universal masking were 3.5 times more likely to endure COVID-19 outbreaks than schools with mask mandates.
Out of the 191 schools in Maricopa and Pima counties that experienced outbreaks by the end of August, 59.2 percent did not have a mask requirement, compared to 8.4 percent that required masks from the start of the school year.
Almost a third of outbreaks occurred in schools that implemented mask mandates after the school year began.
The results support the argument to require masks in schools to reduce transmission, at a time when the controversial debate has turned political and bled into ongoing court battles. […]
The CDC also released an additional study on masking in schools, finding that counties with school mask mandates experienced lower increases in pediatric COVID-19 case rates than counties without school mask requirements.
The CDC report is here.
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COVID-19 roundup
Friday, Sep 24, 2021 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Not long after commanding his followers to “Bring this state to its knees,” covid-rights attorney and Republican appellate court candidate Tom DeVore apparently shut down his Facebook page…
* Ryan Steele offered up more in a video yesterday…
Facebook did not take down his page. Tom took down his page. People were constantly harassing him and haranguing him. After a while it gets to a person. He just needs to take some time. So he has put it on the do not disturb status for a while. So all those people that are blowing me up, there’s your answer, so please don’t blow me up either. He is still out there fighting the cause he just needs a break from Facebook because he was getting thousands upon thousands of messages a day, and he needed a breather. So he wasn’t Zuckerberged there’s no conspiracy theory here. Tom decided to take down his own page for sanity’s sake, so please give him a break. He has been fighting this fight non-stop for 18 months now, and it’s only gotten worse, that people were harassing, I wouldn’t say harassing, just constantly reaching out to him non stop. The messages every day, the text messages, the Facebook messages, the calling the office the staff in the office are just overwhelmed with phone calls. He’s going to keep up the good fight, and we’ll still, you know, have updates from him.
He did a video the other night, it was last night he did a live video, and he had so many questions from that video that were publicly posted, let alone how many private messages he got. So I know he’s out there fighting the good fight and still wanting to educate people as to the law.
* Meanwhile, from WGEM…
The preliminary injunction hearing scheduled for Friday between the parents of three Quincy Public School students and the school district over school’s quarantine policy has been canceled, according to court records.
Attorney Thomas DeVore of Greenville, Illinois, who represents the parents, said after Adams County Circuit Judge Debra Wellborn granted a Temporary Restraining Order to allow the students back in class on September 2, he felt the school was abiding by the law.
DeVore said he met with the school’s attorney, David Penn, and they made the decision jointly to cancel the hearing. DeVore said the court agreed. […]
Adams County State’s Attorney Gary Farha told WGEM News that his office would only seek a court order for quarantine if a person was living in a household where someone had tested positive for COVID-19.
* Kadence Koen is a math and science teacher at Southeast High School in Springfield…
It is with a heavy heart that I go to school today. I have been a high school teacher for most of my adult life. I LOVE my students and really like teaching. Today will be my last day with my students for the foreseeable future. I have been placed on unpaid leave for refusing to produce a vaccination card and refusing to be tested. (I am following Illinois law 745 ILCS 70 Health Care Right of Conscience Act). I did not arrive at this decision lightly! I will miss my students. (My kids will miss my pay check) Hopefully this gets through the court system sooner than later!! Liberty and privacy are key components to a free country.
These test refusals have the potential to eventually crash the whole system.
* Sun-Times…
Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday announced a new citywide COVID-19 vaccine initiative.
The Protect Chicago 77 community engagement campaign aims to get at least 77% of Chicago residents 12 and older at least partially vaccinated by year’s end. […]
But vaccination rates across the 77 community areas vary. While places like Lincoln Square and Lake View are nearing 80%, others like Austin or Chatham are below 60%.
* Axios Chicago…
COVID hot spots have moved all over Chicago in the past 18 months, but in recent weeks, the highest rates have emerged in two ZIP codes on the far Southwest and Northwest Sides, according to city data.
• 60655 covers parts of Beverly, Morgan Park and Mount Greenwood.
• 60656 covers parts of Jefferson Park and Norwood Park.
The intrigue: These two ZIP codes carry two more distinctions:
• They house the city’s highest concentrations of municipal workers.
• And they were the only two Chicago ZIP codes to post strong showings for former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, per a Tribune analysis.
Why it matters: Chicago taxpayers help pay health care bills for most city workers. And it costs about $20,000 to treat the average unvaccinated COVID patient in the hospital, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
• Vaccination rates in the two ZIP codes are relatively low at 53% (60655) and 54% (60656) — compared to more than 90% in four downtown ZIP codes.
Lots of current and former first responders live in those neighborhoods…
* I hate people sometimes…
Some expressed sympathy to her family after her death. Some sent profanity-laced messages on social media that she deserved to die. Some said her relatives were terrible people.
In the two weeks since Candace Ayers’ family used her obituary to vent frustration about their fully vaccinated mother’s death from COVID-19, millions of people around the world have learned of the Springfield woman’s plight.
Hundreds of them have sent messages on the internet — most of them negative and insulting — to her loved ones, though about a dozen told her family they were so moved by the 66-year-old grandmother’s Sept. 3 death at HSHS St. John’s Hospital that they got COVID-19 shots.
* IDPH…
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today reported 21,787 new confirmed and probable cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Illinois, including 239 additional deaths since reporting last Friday, September 17, 2021. More than 80% of Illinois adults have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose and more than 63%% of Illinois adults are fully vaccinated, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Of Illinois’ total population, almost 68% has received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose and 53% of Illinois’ total population is fully vaccinated.
Currently, IDPH is reporting a total of 1,612,129 cases, including 24,783 deaths, in 102 counties in Illinois. The age of cases ranges from younger than one to older than 100 years. Since reporting on Friday, September 17, 2021, laboratories have reported 797,018 specimens for a total of 31,192,769. Yesterday, 150,245 COVID-19 tests were reported; the highest one-day total of COVID-19 tests since the beginning of the pandemic. As of last night, 1,926 individuals in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 474 patients were in the ICU and 252 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.
The preliminary seven-day statewide positivity for cases as a percent of total test from September 17-23, 2021 is 2.7%. The preliminary seven-day statewide test positivity from September 17-23, 2021 is 3.7%.
A total of 14,419,886 vaccines have been administered in Illinois as of last midnight. The seven-day rolling average of vaccines administered daily is 19,371 doses. Since reporting on Friday, September 17, 2021, 135,598 doses were reported administered in Illinois.
*All data are provisional and will change. Additional information and COVID-19 data can be found at http://www.dph.illinois.gov/covid19.
Vaccination is the key to ending this pandemic. To find a COVID-19 vaccination location near you, go to www.vaccines.gov.
Hospitalizations have so far plateaued and are even slightly declining. This is far more of a regional problem right now. Too many people in southern and western Illinois are deliberately injuring themselves and others.
* More…
* CDC approval will get boosters going for 65+, high-risk, including those with risky jobs
* Chicago Blackhawks say the team is fully vaccinated as training camp opens. ‘It’s just a sign of the players’ commitment to try to be safe,’ Stan Bowman says.
* Add pharmacists to the list of burned-out health care workers
* Illinois wedding turns to funeral as unvaccinated bride-to-be dies of COVID-19
* Where Rockford employers stand on mandatory COVID vaccines, religious waivers and more
* Liberty Counsel calls on Southern Illinois Healthcare to accept employees’ religious exemption
* The Conservatives Who’d Rather Die Than Not Own the Libs
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*** UPDATE *** I’d heard about this, but I totally missed Ray Long’s story…
A former top financial officer with the Illinois State Police Merit Board has been indicted by a grand jury in Springfield for allegedly padding her salary significantly by filing for overtime she didn’t work.
Jenny Thornley, 41, a political activist whose campaign work has included Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s 2018 run for governor, is accused in an indictment issued Wednesday of stealing between $10,000 and $100,000 by allegedly forging documents purportedly signed by Jack Garcia, the merit board’s executive director.
As Garcia started investigating the overtime claims in early 2020, Thornley reached out to multiple ranking officials in the Pritzker administration and first lady M.K. Pritzker, according to separate filings in federal civil court.
Thornley was terminated from her post as the board’s chief fiscal officer and director of personnel in July 2020. In a federal lawsuit filed last April that names both the board and Garcia as defendants, Thornley claims she was fired by the merit board in retaliation after she filed complaints alleging sexual harassment and abuse by Garcia. He denied those charges. […]
An outside review for the merit board led by former federal prosecutor Christina Egan found evidence sufficient to support a finding that Thornley forged documents to make “payments for herself for overtime she did not work.”
The outside review also didn’t find sufficient evidence to support allegations that Garcia sexually assaulted Thornley.
[ *** End Of Update *** ]
* We talked about the 90,000 documents back in July. The interesting part to me is the line about how “The parties have not engaged in plea negotiations to date”…
* Tribune…
The former head of a state agency that was reviewing whether then-President Donald Trump was due a $1 million property tax refund for his Chicago skyscraper violated the law by deleting computer files from his official account while facing an inspector general investigation, according to a report released Thursday.
Mauro Glorioso, then executive director of Illinois’ Property Tax Appeal Board, was informed in late September 2020 that Gov. J.B. Pritzker planned to replace him as head of the agency, records show. At the time, Glorioso was under investigation by the Office of Executive Inspector General regarding a case before the board. […]
The inspector general’s office determined the initial complaint was “unfounded” and redacted details from that inquiry in its report. But the office found that Glorioso violated agency policy and state law by deleting emails and other documents related to the matter while preparing to leave the $116,748-per-year job. Board employees had been instructed to retain copies of all files related to the matter, according to the inspector general’s report.
The inspector general’s office recommended barring Glorioso from future state employment.
* Sun-Times…
For decades, under five governors, Chicago attorney and banker James J. Banks served on the board of the Illinois Tollway system, helping oversee the state agency until he and other members were dumped amid a reform push as Gov. J.B. Pritzker took office in 2019.
But now the Illinois Gaming Board has rejected Banks’ application for a video gambling license, citing requirements including having “good character, honesty and integrity” and saying he “did not meet the requirements” for the lucrative state license.
“The board conducted an investigation which included a review of your business and social associations,” gaming board administrator Marcus D. Fruchter wrote earlier this year in a letter obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times. “Based on the results of that investigation, the board finds that your business and social associations would adversely affect public confidence and trust in video gaming and would discredit or tend to discredit the Illinois gaming industry.” […]
Asked about Banks’ gaming license application being denied, DeLeo says: “I don’t know anybody that’s squarer than Jimmy Banks. If I was him, I’d sue the gaming board. How could they say that about him? He’s never even had a parking ticket.”
* SJ-R…
Community organizer and one-time state representative candidate John H. Keating II on Wednesday was arrested and charged with arson and criminal damage to property in connection with a fire at an Illinois State Fair stand on Aug. 21.
Keating, 33, was arrested by Illinois State Police without incident. Keating bonded out after about a three-hour stay at the Sangamon County Jail.
A co-defendant, Zakary Bunt, 19, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, was also in custody in Missouri. Bunt, a carnival worker at the fair, also has been charged with one count of arson and one count of criminal damage to property. […]
In a Facebook post, Keating maintained his innocence and said it was “a targeted prosecution” and “a modern day Red scare witch hunt.”
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* WGN TV…
The Illinois Department of Children & Family Services has so few appropriate placements for kids that hundreds have been stranded in treatment programs and hospitals longer than is medically necessary.
“They didn’t have anywhere else to place me so I had to stay there longer and longer and longer,” explained a young woman named Morgan who said she spent several months hospitalized, on several occasions, when she was a teenager in the care of DCFS. Morgan, who is now 19, said she was treated for bipolar disorder and anger issues. We aren’t using her last name in the interest of privacy. Her situation is not unique.
The Cook County Public Guardian’s office analyzed state statistics that show in the last year 356 kids statewide were hospitalized beyond the time it was medically necessary. The average stay: 55 days longer than a doctor deemed appropriate. And 18% of the kids were 10 years old or younger. “As they keep getting put-off and put-off you’ll see a return to the negative behavior and often times they go right back to into requiring hospitalization precisely because of the disappointment,” said Heidi Dalenberg of the ACLU of Illinois.
Beginning in 2015, under former Gov. Bruce Rauner, DCFS closed 460 residential beds in Illinois with the intent of replacing them with therapeutic foster homes. However, Cook County juvenile court judge Patrick Murphy found DCFS opened less than 30 statewide, including just 10 in Cook County. In a court order, Judge Murphy quoted DCFS officials saying ‘in hindsight, this was a mistake.’
Ya think?
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* Tribune…
People seeking Illinois unemployment benefits online will soon face additional steps to ensure they’re not using stolen identities, officials told state lawmakers Thursday.
The “ILogin” system is part of a beefed-up effort to battle fraud that has ripped through the state’s unemployment agency during the pandemic. The system includes safeguards already used by some states and in much of the private sector, such as multifactor authentication.
“In some ways, this is standing in for going to a location and presenting your secretary of state driver’s license in front of someone, where they would view it,” said Adam Ford, the Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology’s chief information security officer. […]
A Tribune investigation published in June found IDES was late to adopt fraud-fighting tools pushed by federal officials or other anti-fraud techniques long used by banks and retailers as well as some government agencies. A separate Tribune report in July found IDES was struggling to stop another type of fraud in which thieves hijack the claims of legitimate filers.
* Center Square…
In the spring, the Illinois Department of Employment Security said they’ve stopped 1.7 million fraudulent claims. But, at an Illinois House hearing Thursday, IDES Director Kristin Richards still couldn’t quantify how much has been paid out.
“Some states have put out their rough estimates,” Richards said. “We’ve not yet been in a position to do so. But those rough estimates have largely been focused on the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program.”
PUA was the temporary unemployment program the federal government set up for independent contractors and the self-employed. When pressed for an estimate of how much fraud there’s been, Richards still couldn’t say.
One thing that is clear, Jon Coss with Thomson Reuters said, is a trend seen across the country.
“What we’ve literally seen claims come in from as many 150 countries to another state unemployment system,” Coss said.
Coss said the hackers knew what they were doing.
“This includes the use of technologies like bots, IP spoofing software and email wildcards,” Coss said. “Criminals are also taking advantage of a large number of data breaches to use stolen IDs and create synthetic, sometimes referred to as Frankenstein, IDs to steal funds.”
* Meanwhile, a few Illinoisans I know tell me they’ve received letters like this from Ohio…
* CBS 2…
Being laid off during the pandemic was the story of nearly 4 million people in Illinois. CBS 2 found it also drove some to try and get help from IDES in person, and in some cases, in ways that put staff at risk.
A review of incident reports, 911 calls, photos and internal emails offer a glimpse into the lengths some went to after they couldn’t get through to the agency. During that time, many who said they were desperate and struggling to make ends meet turned up to the offices and, when they couldn’t get help in person, some resorted to aggression and violence, including making multiple bomb threats. […]
More than 50 security incidents would take place across the state, according to CBS 2’s analysis. Claimants threatened to bomb offices via phone and in person if they didn’t get the help they needed; some vandalized the properties by urinating on the building or pouring oil in the claimant drop box; and one person approached an employee at their home asking for help. […]
More than 40 offices across the state offer some level of IDES services, from unemployment insurance help to workforce development. As of Sept. 20, the 18 IDES offices in American Job Centers that offer unemployment insurance assistance have reopened for scheduled in-person appointments, as part of a gradual reopening that began on Aug. 26. None are fully open to the public.
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* Senate President Don Harmon on last night’s “At The Virtual Table” with Lynn Sweet and Laura Washington…
Q: You’re going to have a veto session coming up at the end of October. Given everything that’s been happening around abortion rights, given what Texas has done to restrict them, you have a chance in the veto session to repeal the parental notification [law] in Illinois, where if a girl needs an abortion, she has to [notify] her parents … What’s your view on that and should it and will it come up in the veto session?
A: I think many of us are horrified by what happened in Texas, and even more horrified by what didn’t happen in Washington DC, with the Supreme Court declining to intervene. I think that’s given many people pause and wondering if the next action the Supreme Court takes would be overturning Roe against Wade. In Illinois, over the last 15 years we have taken affirmative steps to make sure that no matter what happens in the Supreme Court a woman’s right to a comprehensive suite of reproductive health care services is available here in Illinois. I expect that we will turn to dealing with the last vestiges of that anti-choice of laws in Illinois as well as figuring out how best to respond to Texas. I was visiting with constituents this week who were telling me that local doctors are in fact getting patients coming from Texas now because of what happened there.
Q: So you do expect to take up specifically that parental notification and you have the votes don’t you to void it if need be?
A: We have a strongly pro choice chamber. I think we’re looking at that, as well as what we might do in direct response to the law in Texas.
Discuss.
…Adding… Rep. Kelly Cassidy was on the same program…
I left home when I was almost 17 and I’m incredibly thankful that I didn’t face this challenge, that I didn’t get pregnant. Because having to go back to the father that I ran from in the middle of the night, even to tell him, because frankly there’s very little difference between permission and notice. If I told my father, I would need proof that I told my father, which is him signing something that I told him. And if he doesn’t want to sign it, he’s not going to sign it. And so, we talk about notice as if it’s no big thing, but the truth is you can’t legislate good parental relationships, you can’t legislate how a family operates.
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