(LifeSiteNews) — No complaints have been registered over services received at pregnancy resource centers in Illinois despite attacks from the state’s top Democratic officials, according to records obtained by LifeSiteNews.
In July 2023, Governor JB Pritzker signed a law targeting life-saving pregnancy resource centers that provide free diapers, formula, counseling, and other support for moms, dads, and babies.
The law targeted supposed “misinformation, deceptive practices, or misrepresentation [by pregnancy centers] in order to interfere with access to abortion services or emergency contraception,” according to a news release from the governor’s office.
“The law allows the Illinois Attorney General to investigate complaints against centers using such tactics and strengthens the AG’s Offices power to prosecute incidences of consumer fraud in such cases,” Pritzker, who supports abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, said.
Democrat Attorney General Kwame Raoul seconded these concerns.
“I witnessed deceptive crisis pregnancy center tactics firsthand on a visit to tour a Planned Parenthood health center in Illinois,” Raoul said. “People who appeared as though they might work there were outside attempting to divert patients away from the health center.”
While that law is effectively void following a federal injunction, nothing prevents individuals from still filing complaints with the state. Yet, no one has in at least the past three and a half years.
LifeSiteNews filed a public records request for all complaints from May 2024 through May 2026 against pregnancy centers.
The attorney general’s office provided LifeSiteNews with one that referenced volunteers, similar to the story Raoul told, directing patients to a pregnancy center.
A woman who went to a Planned Parenthood in January 2024 complained that volunteers were allegedly presenting themselves a security guards and told her to go to a pregnancy center instead. However, this does not prove that the pregnancy center itself was misleading people.
Yikes! While Democrats in Illinois complain that pregnancy centers are misleading women, there is only one actual complaint in the past 2.5 years against them.
And it’s actually against a pro-life group, not a center itself. pic.twitter.com/1A0R7b1US6
— Matt Lamb (@MattLamb22) June 8, 2026
The other complaint, which actually occurred in December 2022, involved a hospital that said it could not provide a woman with abortion pills due to “legal issues.”
In an accompanying statement to LifeSiteNews, the attorney general’s office said it does not have a way to search for complaints by type, which suggests that they are not being overwhelmed with supposedly fooled women.
“As an initial matter, please note that this office’s Consumer Protection Bureau does not docket its files in a way that is searchable for the category of records you are seeking,” the June 2 letter stated. “If you are interested in a particular center or entity, you may submit a new FOIA request with the specific names of companies, and this office will make every effort to assist you.”
The office did not respond to a separate request for comment on Friday, June 5.
LifeSiteNews contacted spokeswoman Patricia Thompson and the general media email and asked if Attorney General Raoul had changed his mind about the “deceptive” nature of pregnancy centers due to the lack of complaints. LifeSiteNews also asked for the attorney general’s problem with centers that provide free diapers and counseling to moms and dads in need.
The office did not respond.
Meanwhile, Illinois Right to Life told LifeSiteNews that there were no complaints against pregnancy centers in the lead up to the 2023 bill.
Illinois latest state to lack concrete complaints
The findings by LifeSiteNews reflect similar results obtained from Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey also urged the state’s residents to file complaints against pregnancy centers. Despite spending at least $1 million on the campaign, no one actually complained, as LifeSiteNews previously reported.
LifeSiteNews requested any civil rights complaints filed against pro-life pregnancy centers from June 10, 2024, when Healey announced the effort, through January 6, 2025. Healey’s “education campaign” aimed at “highlighting the dangers and potential harm of anti-abortion centers.”
And while Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul may have targeted the centers, he at least provided the alleged complaints against them.
In contrast, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison hid all potential complaints against pregnancy centers when LifeSiteNews recently requested them.
The decision is part of a general rule against transparency, a public records expert told LifeSiteNews last month.