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Since the US Supreme Court handed down its dobs ruling, effectively overturning Roe v. Wade,

some state governors have been on the war path, and Illinois is no exception.

The war path for Governor JB Pritzker has been for crisis pregnancy centers.

You recently signed a bill into law that would target and penalize crisis pregnancy centers.

What's it all about and why is he doing it?

Welcome back to issues, etc. I'm Todd Wilken.

Brian Westbrook joins us to talk about a new Illinois law penalizing crisis pregnancy centers.

He's executive director of Coalition Life. Brian, welcome back.

It's a pleasure. Thanks, Todd.

I would like your reaction to a headline from CBS News.

Governor Pritzker signs bill outlawing deception by, quote unquote, crisis pregnancy centers.

Yeah, so it was SB 1909 that was signed into law recently.

And it specifically calls out pregnancy centers or other pro-life groups and calls them deceptive.

Basically, through all the testimony and all the media and everything that they've said on the other side,

they claim somehow that pregnancy centers are deceiving women and forcing them to have children.

And that's absolutely not the truth at all.

In fact, the pregnancy centers across Illinois and across America, in fact, their job is to inform them of all of their decisions and all their options.

And what do these pregnancy centers do? But they offer everything for free and then they support them in their choice for life.

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