“Worst of the Worst” Abortion Clinic Opens a Second Location Focused on Brutal Abortions Up to 34 Weeks
By Sarah Neely - Posted at Operation Rescue : Published June 24, 2025 Will Illinois Officials Hold This Clinic Accountable to Limits After Viability? Chicago, IL — “Hopeless” Clinic , an Illinois abortion business that earned Operation Rescue’s title for “Worst of the Worst” in 2023 – and has continued to injure countless women since – is opening a second location in Chicago. The main focus of this new abortion mill? Gruesome second and third trimester abortions in a state with limits after viability. Illinois state law limits abortion after viability with exceptions. However, in 2019 the state legislature passed the Reproductive Health Act , moving the definition of “viability” from “a reasonable likelihood of sustained survival of the fetus outside the womb, with or without artificial support ” ( Abortion Law of 1975 ) to a much more ambiguous definition: “a significant likelihood of a fetus’ sustained survival outside the uterus without the application of extraordinary medical...
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