Bill Text: IL HR0094 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Supports the funding of Planned Parenthood.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-04-01 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Angelica Guerrero-Cuellar [HR0094 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-HR0094-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, Planned Parenthood has been an expert source of | ||||||
| 3 | information and education on reproductive and sexual health | ||||||
| 4 | care issues for 100 years; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Roughly 75 percent of Planned Parenthood's | ||||||
| 6 | patients have income at or below 150 percent of the federal | ||||||
| 7 | poverty level; approximately 60% of Planned Parenthood's | ||||||
| 8 | patients access health care at its health centers through | ||||||
| 9 | publicly funded programs like Medicaid or Title X; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, More than one-third, or 39 percent, of Planned | ||||||
| 11 | Parenthood patients are people of color, with more than | ||||||
| 12 | 560,000 patients who identify as Latino and nearly 390,000 | ||||||
| 13 | patients who identify as Black; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, Per year, Planned Parenthood health centers | ||||||
| 15 | provide birth control for 2 million people, as well as over 4 | ||||||
| 16 | million STD tests and treatments, over 360,000 breast exams, | ||||||
| 17 | and over 270,000 Pap tests; and
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| 18 | WHEREAS, Planned Parenthood also provides services for | ||||||
| 19 | men; in 2014, Planned Parenthood provided almost 4,000 | ||||||
| 20 | vasectomies; and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, In Texas, one study found that pregnancy-related | ||||||
| 2 | deaths doubled after the state stopped reimbursing Planned | ||||||
| 3 | Parenthood and imposed stringent funding cuts for women's | ||||||
| 4 | health, which led to 54 percent fewer patients in the state | ||||||
| 5 | receiving care; therefore, be it
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| 6 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 7 | HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 8 | we support the funding of Planned Parenthood.
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