Springfield, IL (LifeNews.com) -- The battle to revive an Illinois law that requires abortion practitioners to notify parents that their teenage daughter is considering an abortion continues. In October, the state Supreme Court issued the rules necessary for enforcement of the statute the state legislature approved in 1995 but there's more work to be done.

In order for the law to go into effect, Attorney General Lisa Madigan has to file legal papers asking for a court to overturn a legal order against it.

But DuPage County State's Attorney Joseph Birkett told the Chicago Tribune he's concerned that Madigan is dragging her feet.

"She's got to take a stand," Birkett said. "The law is now complete, so we need to move to lift the injunction. ... It's not a complicated issue. It's relatively simple and straightforward."

Putting the law in place is important because abortion businesses have used the lack of parental involvement for years to lure teens from other states to their facilities for secret abortions.

Cara Smith, a Madigan spokeswoman would only provide sketchy details to the Tribune about what Madigan will do to put the law into use, saying "We'll be filing something in court in the near future."

Smith would not tell the newspaper whether Madigan will file legal papers asking U.S. District Judge Paul Plunkett to allow the law to take effect.

Smith said Madigan has met with officials from Planned Parenthood and the pro-abortion ACLU of Illinois, with Birkett and Cook County State's Atty. Richard Devine.

Birkett said he would move forward and file legal papers of his own if Madigan doesn't act within the next few weeks.

If the parental notification law does finally go into effect, some pro-life advocates say that it may not work as well as the laws in other states.

The National Right to Life Committee says the Illinois parental notification law is inadequate because it allows a teenager to tell people other than her parents about the abortion and get it okayed.

"Illinois does not have a parental notification law, but rather a 'tell anyone in your family' law," NRLC state legislative director Mary Spaulding Balch told LifeNews.com.

"It allows an abortionist to tell the 18 year-old brother or sister that their 13 year-old baby sister is pregnant," she explained. "It would also allow notification to be given to a
step-parent, or a grandparent."

"While these people may be family members, they are no substitute for the parent," Balch explained. "A true parental notification law would require that the parent be notified, not just anyone who happens to be home."

Meanwhile, abortion advocates plan to file legislation in the next session of the state legislature to weaken the law further.

The current notification law allows teenagers seeking an abortion who come from abusive home situations to obtain a judicial bypass allowing them to have the abortion.

But state Rep. John Fritchey, a Chicago Democrat, says navigating the judicial system is a difficult process for a young girl.

The bill would make more exceptions to the notification law, including medical emergencies, and would allow teenagers to avoid giving notification to a parent or guardian and give it to a clergy member instead. It would also allow teens to get counseling from a licensed medical professional who would certify the abortion without telling her parents.

Pro-life lawmakers told the Chicago Tribune newspaper they opposed the new bill.

"With all due respect to clergy, there will always be available one extremely liberal clergy member who all of the pro-choice groups will know will always approve the abortion," said state Sen. Kirk Dillard, a Hinsdale Republican.

State Rep. Terry Parke, a Hoffman Estates Republican who sponsored the 1995 law, agreed and said they it would only add to the ways parents would be left in the dark about their daughter's abortion.