Three more strong pro-lifers join incoming Trump Administration

In the past two days, Pro-Life President-elect Donald Trump has added three more strong pro-life figures to his administration.

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The latest is Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wa.) as Interior Secretary, according to multiple media outlets. She joins Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, who will be the ambassador to China, and Andy Puzder, who will head the Department of Labor.

McMorris Rodgers is a five-term representative with a 100% record on votes recorded by National Right to Life. She is chair of the House GOP Conference.

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad

As a six-term governor Branstad “is the longest-serving in American history, and his state voted for Trump by the largest margin for a Republican since Ronald Reagan in 1980,” the Washington Post reported.

Andy Puzder

Puzder, chief executive of the company that runs fast-food giants Carl’s Jr. and Hardees, is well-known to veteran pro-lifers in Missouri. In a 1984 article he co-authored for the Stetson Law Journal, Puzder proposed the Legislature pass a law defining life as beginning at conception in non-abortion contexts.

That article became the basis for one of the provisions passed in HB 1596 in the Missouri General Assembly (section 1.205) in 1986. That provision was then upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1989 in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services.

It has been cited numerous times in Missouri court cases in upholding up convictions for manslaughter/murder of an unborn child, as well as wrongful death actions for the killing of an unborn child.

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VIDEO: Jimmy Kimmel Sends This Pro-Life Message in Baby Announcement

Jimmy Kimmel and his wife Molly McNearney

In his baby announcement earlier this week, a late night host slipped in a pro-life message.

During his show Monday evening, Jimmy Kimmel revealed that he and wife Molly McNearney are expecting baby number two together.

Kimmel began Jimmy Kimmel Live! by announcing that he will host the 89th Academy Awards ceremony in February. He added, “Also, another thing I wanted to mention, my wife is hosting a baby inside her body. So that’s exciting.”

That’s right, a “baby.” Not a “bunch of cells” nor a “cavity,” as some in the liberal media would have Americans believe.



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Early Christmas present: Macy’s stops funding Planned Parenthood after pro-lifers complain

Macy's will no longer donate to or match employee donations to abortion giant Planned Parenthood, the corporate watchdog group 2ndVote announced Wednesday.

The victory belongs to the pro-life customers who expressed their concerns to Macy's, calling it "Another 'Miracle on 34th Street' at Macy's." Because of the Planned Parenthood baby parts trafficking scandal, AT&T, Coca-Cola, Ford, and Xerox publicly distanced themselves from the abortion company as well.

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Pro-Lifers Challenge Compelled Illinois Abortion Endorsement Law at Hearing

Circuit Court of Northern Illinois

The free speech and religious liberty rights of Illinoisans are in the hands of Judge Eugene Doherty of the 17th Judicial Circuit Court of Northern Illinois, after Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) senior counsel Matt Bowman pled his case Wednesday afternoon.

Telling the courtroom the case “deserves more attention than the time available to me,” Doherty said he expected to announce his decision on Bowman’s motion for a preliminary injunction by no later than a status hearing Dec. 28.

Bowman’s motion, filed on behalf of three pregnancy help organizations and a pro-life physician, is one of two simultaneous challenges the state’s gutting of its Healthcare Right of Conscience Act.
If left standing, the act would force pro-life medical professionals—including as many as 130 nonprofit pregnancy help locations—to refer patients directly to abortion businesses and counsel patients as to what the legislation calls the “benefits” of abortions. …

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‘Knocked Up’ Star Rejects Abortion in Powerful Note: ‘I Prayed to God’

Audra and Zane

Here’s a story that will defy the liberal media’s abortion agenda: A reality TV star is crediting God for the strength to keep her baby – in a both heartbreaking and heartwarming story.

Lifetime’s Knocked Up docu-series debuted Tuesday, December 6. The show follows three “carefree” and happily single women whose “careers are just about to take off” when they become pregnant after “one night of fun.” But the one of three stars has already revealed her story on social media: her decision to save her baby’s life against all odds.

In the show description, Lifetime introduced its audience to Audra:

After 10 years of wild partying, 32 year-old Audra had cleaned up her act, finding sobriety and the church. But after a night spent with an old friend results in an unexpected pregnancy, her world is about to change again. Despite her mom’s disapproval and the father’s refusal to be involved, Audra decides to raise the baby on her own.

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Emmy Award in Hand, Aid for Women Hoping to Celebrate One More Win

Chicago-based Aid for Women, which has served thousands of women each year since 1978, is celebrating an unusual victory after hauling in its first-ever Emmy at Saturday night’s Chicago-Midwest Emmy Awards.

Produced in partnership with Spirit Juice Videos, the award-winning video featured a former client, Janessa, who chose life for her son, Christian, when she was pregnant at age 19.

“I was 19 years old when I found out I was pregnant, and I was just in a state of shock,” Janessa says in the video. “I cried for, like, four months. It was going to be a very, very difficult time for me and I didn’t know how to handle it. I didn’t know who to reach out to, I didn’t know if I was going to be able to do it by myself, and it was just an overwhelming experience for me. I needed help.”

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‘No more’: African-Americans protest Planned Parenthood’s ‘discriminatory agenda’

Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A mostly African-American crowd gathered outside Planned Parenthood's new "flagship" facility on Saturday to protest its racism and the eugenic legacy of its founder, Margaret Sanger.

"So many people are being healed by the truth being told," said Dr. Alveda King, the neice of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the director of Civil Rights for the Unborn. Along with three other post-abortive women, King shared how abortion hurt her.

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Ohio 'heartbeat' abortion bill heads to governor's desk

Ohio Pro-Life Gov. John Kasich

An Ohio bill that would ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected is headed to the Ohio Gov. John Kasich's desk.

The House of Representatives voted to approve the "heartbeat bill" Tuesday night after it passed in the Senate earlier in the day.

This bill would be one of the nation's most stringent abortion restrictions. The legislation prohibits most abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy after the first detectable heartbeat.

Gov. John Kasich, a pro-lifer, has concerns about whether the law would be constitutional and has not said whether he plans to sign the measure.

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Liam Neeson quits boxing club after pressure over his abortion advocacy

Actor Liam Neeson

Actor Liam Neeson has resigned as president of his childhood boxing club after facing outrage over narrating a pro-abortion ad that attacked the Catholic Church.

Amnesty International released the video as part of an ongoing campaign attacking Ireland for its pro-life laws protecting pre-born children. It portrayed the Catholic Church as the backwards, dark force behind Ireland's pro-life laws.

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New York mayor promises city will pay for abortions if Planned Parenthood loses federal funding

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio

In a speech that criticized President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed to make sure the city would pay for women to abortions in the event that Planned Parenthood is defunded.

In one of several defiant responses to Trump’s developing domestic policy, de Blasio said, "If there are threats to federal funding for Planned Parenthood in New York City, we will ensure women receive health care they need."

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Satanic Temple says humane treatment of aborted babies “contradicts our fundamental beliefs”

Satanic Temple spokesperson Lucien Greaves

Beginning, Monday, December 19, abortion clinics in Texas will no longer be free to depose of the remains of aborted babies as if they were medical waste. The baby’s remains would have to be either buried or cremated by hospitals or abortionists. (The rules won’t apply to miscarriages or abortions that take place at home.)

“I believe it is imperative to establish higher standards that reflect our respect for the sanctity of life,” said Texas pro-life Gov. Greg Abbott back in July. “This is why Texas will require clinics and hospitals to bury or cremate human and fetal remains. I don’t believe human and fetal remains should be treated like medical waste and disposed of in landfills.”

The impeding deadline prompted The Satanic Temple to threaten legal action in a post put up on the group’s Facebook account over the weekend.

The Satanic Temple believes burial rites are a well-established component of religious practice. This is undisputed in the entirety of US legal history. In addition, members of The Satanic Temple believe in the inviolability of the body and, as such, these rules contradict our fundamental beliefs. The First Amendment protects our right to practice our beliefs, and under the Religious Freedom Reform Act (RFRA), the State must present a compelling reason for why they want to enforce rules that inhibit adherence to our religious practices.

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PPFA files suit against pro-life laws in three states

U.S. District Judge Nanette K. Laughrey

As part of the continuing fallout from last June’s Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt decision and as an example of pro-abortionists’ extremism, three different Planned Parenthood affiliates Wednesday joined the ACLU and the Center for Reproductive Rights in challenging laws in North Carolina, Alaska, and Missouri.

North Carolina’s law protects unborn babies 20 weeks gestational age and older with an exception for medical emergencies and if the woman’s life is at risk. There is an abundance of medical evidence that by this point the preborn is capable of experiencing unspeakable agony as she is torn apart.

Alaska’s law bars outpatient abortions after the first trimester of pregnancy.

Missouri’s law requires abortionists to have admitting privileges in a nearby hospital (in case of emergencies) and that abortion clinics meet the health and safety of standards of ambulatory surgical centers.

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Congress doubles budget for investigation of Planned Parenthood baby parts scandal

Congress voted to double the budget of the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives, meaning the panel will continue investigating Planned Parenthood and the sale of aborted baby body parts through 2016.

Republicans and Democrats took to the House floor yesterday to support and bash H. Res 933, which authorized continued funding for the Select Panel. It ultimately passed 234 to 181.

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CDC: 35% of aborted babies are black

According to the CDC report, the rate of abortion among African-American women is far higher than among white American women. While black women make up only six percent of the U.S. population, they account for 35 percent of abortions reported.

That doesn't include unreported and underreported abortions. The CDC report includes only abortion disclosures from 29 states. Meanwhile, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming either "did not report, did not report by race/ethnicity, or did not meet reporting standards."

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Trump selects pro-life Ben Carson as HUD secretary

Dr. Ben Carson

Dr. Ben Carson has been named as President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Trump said in a statement on the nomination that Carson, the retired director of pediatric neurosurgery for Johns Hopkins Hospital, was a distinguished national leader who overcame his troubled youth in the inner city of Detroit to become a renowned neurosurgeon.

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Congress urges criminal prosecution of Planned Parenthood for baby parts scandal

The Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives announced Thursday that they have made nine criminal and regulatory referrals against Planned Parenthood, other abortion businesses, universities, and fetal tissue companies.

Along with Planned Parenthood of Gulf Coast, the Select Panel referred StemExpress and DV Biologics, two medical research companies implicated in CMP's investigation, for illegally profiting from fetal body parts. Also referred to law enforcement were The University of New Mexico, an Arkansas abortion facility, an Ohio university, Advanced Bioscience Resources, and Presidential Women’s Center in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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Abortion is contrary to Declaration and Constitution, lawyer argues

Author and attorney Thomas Glessner

The newly published book, Created Equal: Reflections on the Inalienable Right to Life?, delves into American history to demonstrate that the sanctity of innocent human life is part of the founding of the United States.

Author and attorney Thomas Glessner painstakingly details how the Founding Fathers of America based both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution on principles and understandings that explicitly upheld the right to life of preborn babies.

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Don't expect a warm welcome from the HHS for Dr. Tom Price

Donald Trump's nominee for HHS secretary Dr. Tom Price

Dr. Tom Price (left), who currently represents Georgia in the House of Representatives, is a pro-life physician who has worked hard to defund the abortion syndicate Planned Parenthood. That alone is enough to earn the president-elect's nominee for HHS secretary high praise from Marilyn Musgrave of the pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List.

"He is 100-percent pro-life," she emphasizes. "He'll never waiver on his core principles. He actually led the fight to defund Planned Parenthood."

The pro-life spokeswoman says her group is already lobbying Republicans in both the House and Senate to take a stand against using taxpayer dollars to continue funding the abortion giant.

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Listening to Planned Parenthood head lecture about "reproductive rights"

University of Chicago Law School lecture by Cecile Richards

This past Tuesday, the University of Chicago Law School hosted a lecture by Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood. It was co-sponsored by the school's Study of Gender and Sexuality. The event was part of the Ulysses and Marguerite Schwartz Memorial lecture series. It was free and open to the public, with about 350 attending. It appeared to be mostly students with a small group of journalists.

This from news release from the University of Chicago: "In 2016, the Supreme Court affirmed the right to safe and legal abortion. Planned Parenthood celebrated 100 years and the presidential election placed women's rights and autonomy front and center. In this lecture, Cecile Richards will discuss what 2016 meant for reproductive rights, and what 2017 has in store."

The Pro Life Action League had a protest just outside the venue with about 15 people including signs which read, "Cecile Richards: What about his future?" Those signs were next to large poster photos of an aborted baby boy.

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‘What If I hadn’t been born?’ question infuriates pro-abortionists

Rachael Larimore

A while back Slate senior editor Rachael Larimore, no dyed-in-the-wool pro-lifer, wrote a column titled, “Pro-Choicers Hate the “What if I Hadn’t Been Born” Question. Here’s Why” which touched off a flurry of comments.

And because she is not one of us, it made her trenchant observations all the more telling. Here is her beginning:

The pro-choice movement relies on a carefully crafted image to make its position seem responsible and caring: that women should be allowed to abort their unplanned pregnancies because unwanted children grow up poor, neglected, abused or some combination thereof. It can’t allow for the possibility that some “unwanted” children actually grow up in loving homes and become responsible, even successful, adults; or that couples who take responsibility for unplanned children can be as good of parents as couples who wait until they’re ready to have a family.

And when they are presented with evidence to the contrary, out comes the name-calling.

Pro-abortionists were furious.

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Pro-abortion Nancy Pelosi remains House Minority Leader

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi

Under the category of “What is the definition of insanity–doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different results”–House Democrats this morning gave militant pro-abortionist Nancy Pelosi (Ca.) another term as House Minority Leader.

Pelosi needed a two-thirds vote to beat back the challenge of pro-abortion Tim Ryan (Ohio). The finally tally, taken by secret ballot, was 134-63.

During a media briefing prior to the leadership vote, Ryan said, “If we don’t wake up and smell the coffee, we’re going to be the minority party, the opposition party, for a long time to come,” adding, “That’s just the reality.”

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VIDEO: Trump’s new HHS secretary: ‘There is nothing more fundamental to our humanity than to defend life’

Rep. Tom Price, R-GA

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen pro-life, pro-marriage, anti-Obamacare Rep. Tom Price, R-GA, to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services, Trump announced early Tuesday.

Price is an orthopedic surgeon and the Chairman of the House Budget Committee. He has said “there’s nothing more precious or more worth defending than the sanctity of life” in a video made to commemorate the 43rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade.



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Another big drop in U.S. abortions!

Abortion numbers have been falling sharply almost every year since 1990. Each of those decreases represents thousands of unborn babies whose lives have been saved.

But that life-saving shift didn’t just happen by itself. Each of those decreases also represents the support so many of you have given to the Right to Life movement so we can save innocent lives.

Last week, we received more good news. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported another 5% drop in abortions between 2012 and 2013. Abortion statistics are always reported years after the fact, and the CDC numbers don’t include data from every state.

But comparing previous CDC data to the new report suggests there were tens of thousands fewer abortions in 2013 overall than the year before, which continues the life-affirming trend of the past 20+ years!

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3D interactive ‘embryo atlas’ gives never-before-seen detail of unborn baby

A team of Dutch embryologists has produced an unprecedented three-dimensional atlas demonstrating how the unborn child develops in the first eight weeks of life.

It took the University of Amsterdam team over 45,000 hours to meticulously map the development of the unborn child, during which time embryologists supervised more than 75 students who analyzed over 15,000 tissue screens from the US-based Carnegie Collection of Embryos.

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Hamill calling Trump picks despicable? Skywalker actor pressured his son’s girlfriend into abortion

Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker of Star Wars)

Star Wars actor Mark Hamill is being spoken of all over social media tonight for his slam on President Donald Trump’s picks for his Administration. “I’m glad I have [the show] to take my mind off what’s going on,” said Hamill best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker. “Because if you look at what’s being assembled for our government it’s like, yikes. It’s a who’s-who of really despicable people.”

However Hamill’s own recent behavior is much more worthy of the label ‘dispicable’ even from a Democrat perspective. This Fall the girlfriend of Hamill’s son Nathan contacted LifeSiteNews to tell her story of the Hamill family coercing her into an abortion even after she clearly expressed her choice to let her baby live. The pressure was enough to get her to attempt an abortion but it wasn’t successful, so she kept her baby.

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Nick Cannon: Abortion is a ‘real genocide’ against the black community

Nick Cannon

Last week, rapper Nick Cannon appeared on New York City’s “The Breakfast Club” radio show. When host Charlamagne Tha God brought up the election, conversation quickly turned to comparing President-elect Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Cannon, who chose not to support either candidate, refused to agree that Clinton was a better choice, stating:

Hillary was — think about all of the things they did with Planned Parenthood and all of that type of stuff. That type of stuff is to take our community — and forget gentrification — it’s real genocide, and it’s been like that for years. This system is not built for us.



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Trump selects Pro-Life Betsy Devos as Education Secretary

Donald Trump with pro-life activist Betsy DeVos

The National Right to Life Committee, the federation of 50 state right-to-life affiliates and more than 3,000 local chapters, today praised President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Michigan pro-life activist and philanthropist Betsy DeVos to serve as education secretary in his cabinet.

“President-Elect Trump’s selection of Betsy DeVos to serve as education secretary continues to show that he is committed to building a pro-life administration,” said Darla St. Martin, Co-Executive Director of National Right to Life. “Betsy DeVos, and her husband Dick, have long been dedicated supporters of the right-to-life cause.

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Illinois pro-life student group’s abortion memorial vandalized twice in three weeks

Chris Iverson explains the damage done to a
pro-life display at Christian Liberty Academy in Illinois.

Vandals defaced a pro-life banner at a student group’s abortion-victim memorial over the weekend — the second time it has been vandalized since being erected November 3.

In what looks like a repeat case of pro-abortion criminality, a person or people defaced a banner reading, “Abortion Takes Human Life,” which accompanies rows of white crosses representing victims of abortion on the lawn of the Christian Liberty Academy.

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Defunding Planned Parenthood will have to wait until Obama's gone

An attempt was made to defund Planned Parenthood last year, but the United States Senate blocked it. National Right to Life Committee president Carol Tobias asserts that any future attempt to defund the abortion giant will have to wait until the Obama administration leave the White House in January.

“We have a pro-abortion, pro-Planned Parenthood ideologue in the White House, and until he leaves office, there's not going to be a whole lot we can do to keep that money from Planned Parenthood,” Tobias insists.

More than half a billion federal tax dollars currently goes to Planned Parenthood. This is in spite of its recent scandals involving the harvesting and sale of aborted baby body parts for a profit – not to mention over-billing the federal government. It is argued that stripping the world’s largest abortion provider of tax money will be difficult.

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Illinois Pro-Life Update

Dear Pro-life Friend,

Congratulations for surviving the 2016 Election!

At this time, it appears that the unborn and vulnerable are safer in our country.  Now we can be hopeful that the U.S. Supreme Court will move in a direction to protect life.  Now we can be hopeful that Congress will pass life protecting legislation.  We can hope that our president will sign that legislation and begin the process of reversing the deadly effects of Roe v. Wade. 

You helped make it happen with your vote.

Pro-life Battle One:  You and we won because of your help.

In Illinois of the 45 contested races where our Political Action Committee (PAC) endorsed a candidate, 32 of our candidates won.  Overall, 66 of our 79 PAC endorsed candidates were elected.  Candidates like Dan McConchie who won his race for the state senate.  Dan worked at Americans United for Life and now he is in Springfield fighting for innocent life in the Senate. 

Thank you for supporting our pro-life candidates!

Pro-life Battle Two: We need your help right now.

BUT NOW we must turn our attention to the Illinois General Assembly and begin our lobbying efforts once again.  HB4013, the Taxpayer Funding of Abortion bill, is in the Illinois House ready for a vote during the Fall Veto Session.   The Fall Veto Session is November 15th through November 17th and November 29th through December 1st.  House Speaker Mike Madigan lost 4 seats this election and so the pro-aborts are pushing to pass their bad legislation before the new assembly is seated in January 2017. The Illinois Federation will be there pushing back. 

Starting in September of this year all of our fundraising efforts were focused on funding our PAC.   It was our belief that the election was so important we were willing to risk underfunding our operating/lobbying fund to be sure the PAC was funded.  We needed to survey candidates, make endorsements, inform our supporters of our endorsements and assist pro-life candidates.

I believe that it was the right decision; however, we must immediately begin to build up our operating funds to keep our office open and to support our lobbying activities this veto session and the upcoming spring 2017 legislative session.  

We suspect that the opposition will introduce an assisted suicide bill in the spring.  We must always be ready to defend our Parental Notification law from hostile amendments that would render the law ineffective or from efforts to repeal the law.  We must be prepared to fight any and all of the pro-abortion attacks in Springfield.

We fought relentlessly against SB1564 the bill that amended the Illinois Right of Conscious Act in Illinois.  The goal of the bill was to close our pregnancy resource centers.  As you know it passed and was signed by Governor Rauner.  Two lawsuits have been filed – one in federal court and one in state court.  The court battle will rage on as valiant pro-life attorneys seek to stop this monstrous law.  But a better way altogether would be to prevent costly litigation by stopping destructive legislation before it becomes law.

We celebrate the outcome of the election with you.  However, we must honestly and soberly assess our situation in Illinois.  We must continue to fight the enemy on all fronts – elections, education and legislation.  The Illinois Federation for Right to Life as founded embraces grassroots activists as our partners in this fight for life.  To this day we know that you, the wonderful pro-life people throughout this state will be the force that turns this state around.   

We celebrate you! 

All of our work depends on you - your prayers, your calls, your letters, your visits to Springfield and your financial support.  We are here for you and you are there for us.  Together we must defeat the forces that continue to create a culture of death in Illinois.

Please consider sending a generous donation now so that we –as partners-can continue the crucial work of saving lives. Click here to make a secure online donation now.

Yours for life,

Dawn Behnke
Pres. IFRL

“The language of abortion is confusing. What are we trying to hide?”

Video screen capture of "The Language of Abortion"

As they say, “if I had a dollar for”– in this case every time I’ve written to make fun of the verbal gymnastics that pro-abortionists routinely employ — I’d be rich.

But words on a page or on a computer screen, while effective, have a tough time competing with videos which are able to combine words, images, music, and people interacting in real-time.

When done imaginatively, they are highly persuasive.

We’ve written, more than once, about “Interview with an Unborn Child.” The 4 minute 16 second-long video is an eerily powerful chronicle, narrated by the doomed unborn child himself, which sends chills up and down your spine.

At the other end of the educational spectrum is “The Language of Abortion,” produced by Signal Hill, a Canadian pro-life group. This 31-second long video uses humor (mixed with the mildest of ridicule) to convey a powerful truth by means of a question—“The language of abortion is confusing. What are we trying to hide?”



There are three settings. The first is a baby shower. Looking down we see the lettering on a cake which reads, “Congratulations on your products of conception.” As the pregnant mom comes in the room, the assembled women cheerfully laugh as we catch a glimpse of the banner on the wall:“Uterine Contents Shower.”

A quick cut to the doctor’s office where she is drumming her fingers as she waits to see her obstetrician. The receptionist politely asks, “Is this your first clump of cells?”
The final scene is of a very pregnant woman sitting in her bedroom. In a very lovely and affectionate way she sings to her baby, “Hush blob of tissue don’t say a word, mommy’s gonna…”

So, “What are we trying to hide?” The truth that a baby is a baby is a baby.

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New national poll shows overwhelming support for Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

A nationwide telephone poll take Election Day by the polling company, inc./WomanTrend for the Susan B. Anthony List found almost two-thirds support for the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act—well more than double those who opposed.

Sixty-four percent were in favor to only 28% who were opposed.

Among his commitments to pro-lifers, President-elect Donald Trump has promised to sign the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.

The House of Representatives passed the measure on May 13, 2015, by a vote of 242-184.

This legislation is based on a model bill originated by NRLC in 2010, which has since been enacted in 14 states.

The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act extends general protection to unborn children who are at least 20 weeks beyond fertilization (which is equivalent to 22 weeks of pregnancy — about the start of the sixth month).

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Solidly pro-life Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo selected as CIA director

Republican Rep. Mike Pompeo

The Trump transition team announced the appointment of Republican Rep. Mike Pompeo on Friday morning along with other national defense selections.

The third-term congressman from Kansas’ Fourth District has been part of Trump’s Pro-Life Coalition, which was named in September, in addition to being a pro-life and marriage legislator.

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Selection of Sen. Jeff Sessions for Attorney General

U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and
President-elect Donald Trump

The National Right to Life Committee today praised President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) to be nominated as attorney general in January.

“Jeff Sessions will bring to the Justice Department a strong record in defense of innocent human life, and consistent opposition to the imposition of social legislation by the judiciary,” said Douglas Johnson, Legislative Director of National Right to Life.

Throughout his tenure in the United States Senate, which began in 1997, Jeff Sessions has a 100% pro-life voting record.  He has co-sponsored pro-life legislation including the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would protect from abortion unborn children at 20 weeks fetal age or later, who are capable of feeling pain, and the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which would ensure a baby born alive during an abortion is given the same care that would apply to any other child born alive at the same gestational age.

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'Rural' push for abortion under study

The "TelAbortion Study" is being conducted in Hawaii, New York, Washington, and Oregon to analyze telemedicine and the delivery of abortion-causing chemicals by mail, especially in rural areas. The study website doesn't specify who or what organization is conducting the study, saying only that it is "being conducted by institutions that provide abortions in participating states."

While the "who" behind the study isn't clear, Dr. Randall K. O'Bannon of the National Right to Life Committee believes he knows "why" it's being done. He argues that the study is a way of increasing the scope of profit for abortion businesses.

“As you know, the abortion industry has been struggling with clinics that have been closing, [with] doctors who have been trying or are getting out of the business because they've gotten involved in scandals or who had some major problems,” he says. “They're having a real shortage of abortionists in the United States.”

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Pro-life legislation hangs in the balance

During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump vowed that he would sign the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act to protect the sanctity of human life.

Mallory Quigley, who serves with the Susan B. Anthony List, stated that voters are evidently in agreement with Trump's pro-life view. A large majority of Millennials, African Americans and Hispanics also support the pro-life proposal. Last year, the bill passed the House, but needed 60 votes in the Senate to move forward.

“Susan B. Anthony List put out the list of a new survey finding that a majority of voters – women in higher numbers than men – support the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,” Quigley informed. “This is legislation that limits abortion after five months, which of course, is beyond halfway through pregnancy – and it's at a point at which the unborn child demonstrably feels pain.”

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Neutrality for the AMA on assisted suicide is not an option

Dr. Frederick White

The American Medical Association (AMA) is in the process of considering whether to forego its opposition to assisted suicide and go neutral.  The Orlando Sentinel recently published a guest column by Dr. Frederick White [www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-ed-physician-assisted-suicide-ama–111216-20161113-story.html], who is chair of the International ethics committee with the Willis Knighton Health System in Shreveport, Louisiana, where he made the case against the AMA retreating “into the mirage of moral neutrality.”  White writes:

The central premise of physician-assisted suicide is this: A doctor should be allowed to kill certain patients. That is a stark reality, but it is the essence of the physician-assisted suicide movement. Let us not quibble over causation. A doctor who purposefully writes lethal prescriptions and gives them to patients intends to cause their deaths. 

And when the patients die from those intentionally toxic doses, the doctor is a proximate cause of death just as certainly as if the doctor had injected lethal drugs directly. 

Despite what advocates of physician-assisted suicide claim, this debate is not about autonomy. Patients with terminal conditions already have the autonomy to direct limitation or withdrawal of life-sustaining care, to request palliative and hospice care, and to even take their own lives. Physician-assisted suicide is about a method of death, about whether that method of death should allow a conspirator, and about whether that conspirator should be a doctor.

White explains that the position of a physician is never neutral:

When doctors tell society that they do not have an opinion about physician-assisted suicide, they are abdicating a critical responsibility. 

Society has vested doctors with special rights and privileges concerning matters of life and death. Doctors decide whether to recommend a risky surgery. Doctors decide when to counsel a patient’s family that life-sustaining treatment should be withdrawn. Society allows doctors that special standing by virtue of their training and experience, but also by virtue of their moral agency. Society expects that doctors will form moral judgments guided by their ethical codes. And on the most pressing life-and-death issue of our day, doctors cannot take a pass. They must choose — either a doctor will or will not be allowed to kill certain patients. 

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Abortionist: Providers would be willing to break the law if abortion becomes illegal

Dr. Lisa Harris was seen in one of the undercover
videos captured by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP).

Amid continued post-election violence across the U.S. in response to Hillary Clinton’s failed bid for the presidency, one of the abortion providers caught on tape last year discussing baby body parts procurement in the Planned Parenthood fetal tissue trafficking scandal has said abortionists will break the law if necessary to keep performing abortions.

The abortion lobby has been sounding the alarm for a possible judicial and legislative attack on the lucrative procedure since Donald Trump’s upset victory over Clinton last week. Planned Parenthood called for donations and second trimester abortion doctor Lisa Hope Harris told a science and technology periodical that while abortionists are worried about the potential for overturning Roe v. Wade in a Trump administration, because of “conscience” they would be willing to keep performing the procedure even if it became against the law.

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Republicans unanimously support Ryan for Speaker, Democrats postpone decision on Nancy Pelosi

Pro-life President-elect Donald Trump and
pro-life Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan (R-Wi.). Getty image.

Pro-life Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wi.) won a unanimous vote of support today from House Republicans colleagues for a second term as speaker of the House.

The full House will select the Speaker when the 115th Congress convenes in January. Since Republicans will retain a majority of about two dozen seats in the new Congress, today’s vote virtually assures Ryan’s election as speaker in January.

Ahead of today’s vote, Ryan told reporters, “Welcome to the dawn of a new unified Republican government,” according to the Washington Post.

Meanwhile, House Democrats, still reeling from the election results, put off leadership elections until after Thanksgiving “following an outcry from several dozen members who said they needed more time to assess last week’s devastating election,” POLITICO reported.

While no Democrat has formally announced he/she would challenge House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Ca.), “the next two weeks will now be a debate about Pelosi’s future,” Heather Caygle and John Bresnahan reported.

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VP-elect Pence could play major role in defunding PP

Pro-Life VP elect Mike Pence and his wife

During his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump stood firm on defunding Planned Parenthood, but said he would only support stripping the funds if the nation's largest abortion-provider refuses to stop doing abortions. A fight over the funding is expected in Congress – but American Life League is hopeful that with Mike Pence as his vice president, Trump might be convinced to defund regardless.

"[Pence] was the guy who single-handedly in 2007 wrote the first amendment to a bill in Congress that specifically named Planned Parenthood and tried to take all the money away from them," explains ALL spokesman Jim Sedlak. "So Mike Pence is an absolute opponent of Planned Parenthood – and we're hoping that he will have an influence on Mr. Trump."

Pence told a reporter in 2007:

"If Planned Parenthood wants to be involved in providing counseling services and HIV testing, they ought not be in the business of providing abortions. As long as they aspire to do that, I’ll be after them."

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President-Elect Trump chooses pro-life Reince Preibus to be his chief of staff

President-elect Donald Trump and
Reince Preibus, Trump’s choice to be his Chief of Staff

As you would expect, when President-elect Donald Trump announced yesterday he had chosen Reince Priebus to fill the all-important role of chief of staff, I asked the pro-lifers who would know Priebus best: Wisconsin Right to Life. Here’s what Heather Weininger, Executive Director of Wisconsin Right to Life, told NRL News Today:

Reince Priebus is a true friend to all of us in the pro-life movement. Even from his earliest days in Wisconsin politics, Reince has always been, and always will be, on the side of those who are the most vulnerable.

While his behind-the-scenes pro-life efforts too often go unnoticed, his influence in Republican politics has markedly increased the strength of his party’s pro-life position. Reince, as chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, stayed firm and true to his state party’s pro-life platform. Then, as the head of the Republican National Committee, Reince worked hard to ensure his party’s national platform became the most pro-life it has ever been in the history of the Republican party.

Reince has never shied away from his firm belief in the right to life. We are thrilled that we will have a Wisconsinite working in the White House to fight for the most basic and fundamental human right, life.”

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Pro-lifers win legal fight over controversial campaign

A controversial waste disposal company has dropped its legal fight against a pro-life group that waged a grassroots campaign against it.

Stericycle, which disposes of the bodies of aborted babies as "medical waste," was caught in Ohio and in Texas dumping the remains in a land fill.

Tom Brejcha of the Thomas More Society says Stericyle drew the attention of pro-life group Created Equal, which launched a public campaign against Stericyle and its CEO demanding that they stop working with abortion giant Planned Parenthood.

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A powerful pro-life, pro-adoption video: “This Time”

Oh, my goodness, another incredibly powerful pro-life video this time from John Elefante, the former lead singer of the group “Kansas.” I learned about “This Time” from Charisma News which explains that the video shares the story of the birth of Sami, Elefante’s adopted daughter, whose 13-year-old mother came perilously close to aborting Sami.

“I can’t imagine life without my daughter, Sami, and it just breaks my heart that pregnant young women much like her birth mother, instead of choosing life for their babies, are denying them the chance to be born,” Elefante tells Abby Carr “If our song can in any way bring attention to this issue and encourage those who are considering abortion to choose life through options such as adoption, then we couldn’t be happier.”



So, why is “This Time” so effective?

For starters, Elefante does a marvelous job setting a real-life stage: a very frightened (barely) teenage girl who discovers she is pregnant. Scared out of her wits, she slams the bathroom door on her mother and races to the “solution”: the abortion clinic.

When a girl or woman is at the abortion clinic—let alone in the operating room itself—the pressure to “get this over with” is unfathomable. In this case, the young girl is half-asleep in the waiting room and dreams of being with the little girl she is carrying and about to abort.

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Unborn Baby Proven to Be More Than a Clump of Cells on ‘Big Bang Theory’

Scene from "The Big Bang Theory" entitled
“The Brain Bowl Incubation”

CBS’s Big Bang Theory has kept the pro-life message going with the storyline of Bernadette’s pregnancy this season. This time, they focus on the baby’s development including how it already “hears voices.”

On Thursday’s episode “The Brain Bowl Incubation,” Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Amy (Mayim Bialik) decide to combine their skin cells to form brain cells in a petri dish at the lab. Proud of their creation, Sheldon feels like a dad, going so far as to comparing their science experiment to Bernadette’s (Melissa Rauch) baby, much to her disapproval.



Big Bang has brought up Bernadette’s baby time and time again in a positive, pro-life way. Glad to see they value the “life”– not the “choice” – growing inside her. Keep up the good work, CBS!

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UPDATE: HB 4013 - State Insurance Public Aid Abortions

HB4013 - State Insurance Public Aid Abortions

House Sponsors:
Rep. Sara Feigenholtz, Carol Sente, Ann M. Williams, Elizabeth Hernandez, Barbara Flynn Currie, Gregory Harris and Emanuel Chris Welch

Status: 
This bill is Re-referred to Rules Committee

Additional information:
The language for this bill has also been added to SB1465 as an amendment (House Amendment 1).  This bill is in the Appropriations-Human Services Committee.  It was not called for a vote during this last session, however it is unknown if this bill will be heard in the committee during the next session.

Summary:
This bill removes the portion of the State Employees Group Insurance Act that prohibits including the expenses of obtaining an abortion, induced miscarriage or induced premature birth.  This means that the State's medical assistance program will no longer exclude coverage for abortions.  It also now includes abortions, or induced miscarriages or premature births on the list of services provided.  In addition, this bill will no longer prohibit the Department of Human Services from making grants to nonprofit agencies and organizations that use such grants to refer or counsel for, or perform, abortions.  So tax payer money could be used to cover abortions and fund grants to organizations who perform abortions.  This bill removes all restrictions on tax payer funding of abortions.

Action:
Contact your Illinois State Representative and urge them to vote NO on HB4013.

You can find your Representative's contact information by clicking here.

Click here for more information on this bill.