(Chicago) -- Illinois' long litigated law that would require young women under 18 to tell their parents before getting an abortion will have at least another day of delay.

The state's Department of Financial and Professional Regulation says it will not enforce the law until after a Wednesday meeting for the department's medical disciplinary board.

Sue Hofer with the department says regulators may then order that parental notification begin, or they may extend what she calls the "grace period." Illinois lawmakers passed the parental notice law back in 1995, but it had been tied up in the courts for more than a decade.

In July a federal appeals court lifted an injunction on the law, and cleared the way for Illinois to finally enforce the provisions.

Critics worry about notice for young women who are not in homes where they would feel safe telling their parents about their pregnancy.

There are provisions that would allow a young woman to go to court and get around the law.

Illinois is one of only a few states, and the only in the Midwest, not to have a parental notification law.

　

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