* Background is here and here if you need it. Gov. JB Pritzker was asked by a reporter today if he agreed with Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s decision to come to an agreement with the Thomas More Society to not enforce the new state law which added crisis pregnancy centers to the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Practices Act…
I haven’t spoken with the attorney general about his decision.
Looks like the guy who came up with the idea for the bill (Raoul) didn’t give a personal heads up that he was settling to the guy who signed that bill into law (Pritzker) and repeatedly defended that signature, including on CNN in August…
I’m confident this is constitutional. It’s legal.
* Anyway, the governor continued…
What I can say is it’s my understanding that the existing Consumer Fraud Protection Act will do what’s necessary to keep organizations like the crisis pregnancy centers from providing misinformation, disinformation and allow people to sue under that act. So it’s my understanding that the reason that the Attorney General made the decision to do this was it was not necessary to have this separate piece of legislation.
* But why have the new law then?…
Again, I think that there was an idea that came from the legislature. It’s a good idea to protect people when they’re seeking health care from having their healthcare provider lie to them. And so that was the impetus behind it.
Um, the idea came from AG Raoul.
* Was there an overreach by the legislature, because this is the second time the state has agreed not to enforce a law (judicial campaign limits)?…
What I can tell you is that the people who are on the losing end of a vote in the legislature often decide that their recourse is to take this thing to court, because they didn’t win in the battleground of the legislature. And so that’s been their choice to do that. They’ve done that on quite a lot of things, the vast majority of which we have won on, those of us who have advocated for a law. And occasionally, a decision is made. This was not a decision, by the way, against the state. This was a decision made by the Attorney General simply to fall back on the existing law, because it does what’s necessary.
Please pardon all transcription errors.
- Dotnonymous x - Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 2:33 pm:
Pregnancy… should never be a crisis.
- Lurker - Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 2:43 pm:
Do Raoul has not told him the reason but he defended Raoul’s reasoning? That seems a tad unwise
- Lurker - Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 2:44 pm:
*So, not Do
- H-W - Tuesday, Dec 12, 23 @ 3:18 pm:
A lot of us are focusing our anger on the Thomas More Society, and rightly so. This legal firm is a party to the cause of oppression. These men and their patron saint, Ann Schiedler, have been taking cases in the effort to outlaw abortion and deny equal protections for non-heterosexuals for 35 years or so.
But let us not forget the primary culprit before us today - The National Institute of Family Life Advocates. It is NIFLA that has been seeking to protect the rights of those opposed to abortion to interfere with women’s rights to choose. NIFLA is the advocacy group that has in recent years been serving as the plaintiff advocating for the right of “Crisis” Pregnancy Centers to create crises in the minds of impressionable teenagers and young women. The National Institute for Family Life Advocates are more culpable than the Thomas More Society, whose legal expertise they seek.
In any case, let us now hope that existing laws against fraud will be used to challenge the NILFA membership as they continue to interfere with personal liberties and freedoms, and as the present lies and false information intentionally so as to harm, hamper and in some cases destroy the future pursuits of property (happiness) of teenage girls and young women in Illinois.