Legal Opinion
Richard M. Ragsdale v. Bernard J. Turnock, Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 12, 1988No. 85-3242PublishedCited by 133 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs consist of a class of all duly licensed physicians and surgeons performing or who desire to perform pregnancy terminations in Illinois and a class of all women in the State of Illinois of child-bearing age who desire or may desire an abortion at sometime in the future. Defendants are a class of the State’s Attorneys of all of the counties of the State of Illinois,1 the Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, the Illinois Attorney General, and the Director of the Illinois Department of Registration and Education. Plaintiffs sued under 42…
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