Prominent anti-abortion groups sued Illinois officials Wednesday to stop the state from enforcing laws that require health insurance policies to cover elective abortions on the same terms as they cover pregnancy-related benefits.
“Illinois’s compulsory abortion-coverage laws abridge the free exercise of religion and other constitutional rights secured by the First and Fourteenth Amendments,” a complaint filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said. Premiums charged to all policy holders—including those who object to abortion—are used to pay for these services, including abortion-inducing drugs, according to groups led by Students for Life of America, private ...
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