“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 measures.” There is no clarification within the 2019 law for what constitutes an “extraordinary” medical measure.

In addition, the 2019 law created the broadest exceptions possible for the “health” of the mother, which is defined in the law 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.”

Basically, a woman can get an abortion through all nine months for just about any reason, and the abortionist is the only one required to make that determination.

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