Rockford abortion clinic to be closed another two weeks

The region’s sole abortion clinic, which has been shut down by order of the state since Sept. 30, will remain closed for at least another two weeks as attorneys negotiate its fate. Attorneys for the Northern Illinois Women’s Center and Illinois Department of Public Health were back before Administrative Law Judge Cynthia Ramirez this morning. They were expected to announce the terms of an agreed settlement stemming from a series of state law and administrative code violations that the clinic was cited for earlier this year. Instead, they asked for more time.