Expose the Anti-Choice Extremists Trying to Take Away Your Rights
These candidates want to ban abortion and restrict your freedom. Here’s the proof—and how you can fight back.
They want to take away your rights.
The anti-choice extremists featured here have a clear agenda: to roll back Illinois’ strong protections for reproductive rights and limit your access to safe and legal abortion. Below is the hard evidence of their dangerous positions:
District 49 – Hannah Billingsley
MAGA Republican Hannah Billingsley is backed by anti-choice extremists WHO WANT TO BAN ABORTION even in cases of rape and incest.
The right-wing extremists behind her campaign want to strip away our access to birth control, and even applauded when the Alabama Supreme Court blocked access to IVF.
Source: Hannah Billingsley campaign website, 5/31/2024.
District 52 – Marty McLaughlin
Marty McLaughlin WANTS TO BAN ABORTION with no exceptions for rape and incest. He voted NO on a resolution protecting women seeking abortion from prosecution.
McLaughlin voted against funding for Planned Parenthood services like birth control and STI testing, and would even restrict fertility treatments like IVF.
Sources: Illinois Right to Life Voter Guide; Marty McLaughlin iVoterGuide candidate questionnaire; House Resolution 789, 102nd General Assembly; House Bill 5239, 103rd General Assembly; Senate Bill 251 and Senate Bill 250, the 103rd General Assembly.
District 97 – Gabby Shanahan
Gabby Shanahan OPPOSES PROTECTIONS FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS and ran the campaign of an anti-choice extremist who celebrated when Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Gabby Shanahan is backed by MAGA extremists who want to go even further by banning abortion even in cases of rape and incest, and stripping away protections for birth control and fertility treatments like IVF.
Sources: Kendall County YRs Website; Gabriella Shanahan LinkedIn; Illinois State Board of Elections, Team Shanahan campaign financial disclosures.
District 76 – Liz Bishop
Liz Bishop would put women’s rights at risk.
She helped fund the campaign of an extreme MAGA politician who wants to criminalize women for seeking abortion care. And Bishop led a group that supports a constitutional amendment to ban abortion.
Sources: Federal Elections Commission donation records; Ottawa Times, 8/24/2021; Illinois Republican Party platform, 11/9/2022.
District 104 – Brandun Schweizer
Brandun Schweizer OPPOSES PROTECTIONS FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. He voted AGAINST a bill protecting women seeking abortion from prosecution.
Schweizer stands with anti-choice extremists who want to go even further by banning abortion even in cases of rape and incest, stripping away protections for birth control and fertility treatments like IVF. Schweizer’s top donor even passed a law punishing women for accessing mifepristone, a medication used for abortion as well miscarriage management.
Sources: House Bill 5239 and House Bill 4867, 103rd General Assembly; Illinois State Board of Elections, Citizens for Schweizer campaign financial disclosures; WCIA, 5/3/2023.
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