Lawsuit by Planned Parenthood over ballot wording
Planned Parenthood sued the state Wednesday to object to the language in two proposed anti-abortion, anti-stem-cell funding ballot initiatives. The lawsuits, filed in Cole County Circuit Court, seek to stop the approval of language for a ballot initiative that would allow the Legislature to limit funding to any organization that supported abortion or certain types of controversial stem cell research and another proposal that would create a new definition of when life begins, in effect outlawing abortion and likely even certain forms of birth control.