A new abortion business in Chicago is now committing “all-trimester” abortions, and said it will carry them out for “any reason” up to 34 weeks — despite state law allegedly restricting abortion after “viability.”
Key Takeaways:
- Illinois allegedly restricts abortions after the undefined point of “viability.”
- However, Illinois’ Reproductive Health Act was written to be intentionally vague and broad, and abortion facilities are beginning to exploit these language loopholes.
- The law fails to define terms such as “viability” and “extraordinary medical measures,” allowing the paid abortionist to subjectively define these terms.
- The law allows abortion up to birth for the “health of the mother” which is defined extremely broadly, with language identical to that of Doe v. Bolton — for “physical… emotional… psychological… familial health,” age, and anything else determined to be relevant to the woman’s “health” and “wellbeing.”
- The Hope Clinic in Chicago claims “we are absolutely following the law” while at the same time advertising abortions on Instagram for any reason up to 34 weeks — including when women “just don’t want to be pregnant” or “on anyone else’s timeline.”
The Details:
Hope Clinic, a notorious abortion business located in Granite City, Illinois, opened a second location in Chicago on June 2, where it said it will commit “all-trimester” abortions.
“Hope Clinic is now open in Chicago, IL, expanding our care through all trimesters! (And OMG we couldn’t be more excited),” the clinic said on Instagram two weeks ago. “Everyone deserves access to abortion care, whenever they need it. Because deciding and acting on what’s best for you shouldn’t be on anyone else’s timeline.”
Although the abortion business claims that it will comply with the 2019 Illinois Reproductive Health Act, which protects preborn babies after fetal viability — typically considered 24 weeks, though babies born as young as 21 weeks have survived — it is advertising abortions through 34 weeks.
“I want people to know that we are absolutely following the law, but that we make a really careful determination. And we want to provide access to as many people as we can within the law,” said Hope Clinic chief medical officer Dr. Erin King.
The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute claims that in Illinois, “Abortion is banned at fetal viability, generally 24–26 weeks of pregnancy.” However, this isn’t quite true.
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Why It Matters:
The 2019 Illinois Reproductive Care Act has intentionally broad loopholes. It states that “every individual has a fundamental right to make autonomous decisions about one’s own reproductive health.” It also states that “a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent rights under the law, of this State.”
The law defines “fetal viability” as “in the professional judgment of the attending health care professional, based on the particular facts of the case, there is a significant likelihood of a fetus’ sustained survival outside the uterus without the application of extraordinary medical measures.”
So, what’s the problem with the law?
- It is up to the abortionist (who is paid to kill the child) to determine whether or not to kill even in the third trimester — based on his or her professional opinion as to whether or not a baby would need “extraordinary medical measures” to survive.
- The law conveniently fails to define “extraordinary medical measures,” leaving the abortionist to, again, define this in whatever way he or she chooses. (Is possibly requiring oxygen or any other medical measure at birth an “extraordinary medical measure”? That is solely left to the paid abortionist’s discretion.)
- The law allows abortion to birth for reasons related to the health of the mother, which it classifies as “all factors that are relevant to the patient’s health and well-being, including, but not limited to, physical, emotional, psychological, and familial health and age,” which is identical to the wording of Roe v. Wade‘s partner decision, Doe v. Bolton, which created an “abortion to birth” loophole with this language (emphases added).
Hope Clinic may be exploiting this broad language, advertising for killing third-trimester babies.
The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute claims “viability” is “generally 24-26 weeks of pregnancy,” even though babies have survived as young as 21 weeks. A baby born at 24 weeks has a 68% chance of survival, while a baby born at 26 weeks has an 86-89% chance of survival. Knowing this and aborting a child of this age range anyway should surely be considered illegal.
Even a woman’s emotional state of mind at that moment could be considered a reason to carry out an abortion in the third trimester. And if a doctor or clinic only gets paid when an abortion is carried out, is it likely that anyone would be turned away?
King explained, “It would be impossible to list for folks every single … criteria to meet a health exception. It would be an untenable list of things on a website or Instagram. We absolutely do a very careful review of medical history, just like we would for any medical patient. History, both physical and social history, all the very things that go into seeing a patient.”
She also claimed that if a baby is beyond viability and the mother doesn’t meet the health exception “we do not see them.” However, on Instagram, Hope Clinic said it would abort for any reason.
“They just don’t want to be pregnant,” the business stated on Instagram. “You get to change your mind and make decisions that are right for you. And they don’t have to be on anyone else’s timeline.”
And apparently, Illinois’ supermajority of pro-abortion lawmakers intended it to be this way.
Written to be intentionally vague
Mary Kate Zander, president of Illinois Right to Life, explained, “The overarching issue is that Illinois law is intentionally vague. Illinois state legislators don’t want to say that third trimester abortion is legal in Illinois. … But the reality is, (pro-abortion legislators) want women to be able to come to Illinois in the third trimester and get an abortion.”
According to the Tribune, Hope Clinic Chicago plans to carry out 10 second and third trimester abortions each week (that’s 520 later abortions every year at one facility), as well as prescribe the abortion pill to women who are early in their pregnancies.
Hope Clinic in Granite City, which commits abortions up to 27 weeks, has a history of injuring women, with the most recent known injury taking place on April 5, 2025. A 30-year-old woman was transported by ambulance due to heavy bleeding.
As gestational age increases, the risks of abortion for women also increase.
The Bottom Line:
Despite the joy that Hope Clinic feels at opening the “all-trimester” facility to kill viable human beings, most Americans want restrictions on abortion.
A 2025 Knights of Columbus/Marist College poll found that 60% of Americans do not agree with “all-trimester” abortions. Only 27% said “abortion should be available to a woman any time she wants one during her entire pregnancy.”
