Why is abortion bill in ag committee?

Rep. Darlene Senger’s Cattle Call sounds a loud cry for women to be seen, and heard, as livestock. As a junior legislator, this is a cheap means to get legislation introduced. Over the past month, a number of bills designed to obstruct access to essential reproductive health care have been filed in the Illinois General Assembly. Strangely, three of these bills were sent to be heard in the House Agriculture and Conservation Committee — a committee that normally deals with grazing and water rights, livestock and hunting.

House Bill 3156, the bill that would regulate abortion out of existence in Illinois, has passed out of the House Agriculture Committee and will soon be called for a vote on the House floor. The ACLU Women Are Not Livestock — Rally for Choice took the message to Springfield recently and is now bringing the fight home, to the district offices of Senger, a Naperville Republican, sponsor of HB 3156.

Women are not a commodity to be earned nor traded. Rep. Senger, sponsor bills for women that mean something to women and their families. If you are uncertain if families are getting enough protein and want to bring this to the attention of the Agriculture Committee, please sponsor a bill on soybeans. Traveling Route 55 via car should have hinted enough at this.

Stephanie A. Victor

Lake Forest