Vision 2020 - Week 7 - Senator Bill Haine (D) and Senator Daniel McConchie (R)

Vision 2020 is joining with the Illinois Federation for Right to Life to pray for our legislators. We would like to invite you to join us in praying for our state legislators.  We will send out information about a couple different state representatives each week for you to pray over.    Consider sharing this information with your ministry partners, your church family, on your website and/or your Facebook page.   We know that prayer changes things.  And we know that NOTHING is impossible with God. So let's join our hearts and voices together and petition heaven on behalf of the great state of Illinois! Senator Bill Haine (D) 56th District Assistant Majority Leader Pro-Life Senator Daniel McConchie (R) 26th District Pro-Life "After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly."   Acts 4:31

“Strip Marie Stopes of its license,” SPUC and Life launch joint petition

The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children and Life have formed a united front to have Marie Stopes stripped of its abortion license in light of recent scandals and in the wake of a probe which has lifted the lid on the nation’s shameful abortion industry.

The launching of a joint petition comes in the wake of revelations alleging that the country’s second largest abortion provider – Marie Stopes – has been approving thousands of abortions without meeting women, with some discussions of the reason for the abortion lasting as little as 22 seconds.

It was reported in the Daily Mail that the organization has been signing off abortions following short telephone conversations, without the woman seeing the two doctors who authorize the abortion.

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Calumet City lawmaker encourages comment on taxpayer abortion funding bill

Wednesday, State Rep. Thaddeus Jones (D-Calumet City) asked 29th House District constituents to post on his Facebook page their thoughts about a bill that would add abortion to Illinoisans' tax bills.

Up until now, Illinois has respected religious citizens' beliefs and not used their tax dollars to pay for abortions, except for medical, rape and incest causes.

All that would change with the passage of HB 40, as Rep. Jones responded to one of his commenters:

"The new bill would be for any reason," he wrote.

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Canadian gvmt pledges $650 million to increase abortion globally

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced today that Canada will spend $650 million in the next three years to increase access to abortion in developing countries.

The money is earmarked for sex education, increasing access to abortion, and contraception, according to Canadian Press.

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Life Advocacy Day - March 29th, 2017

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A day without a woman in Planned Parenthood

We don’t need a reminder from faux feminists on the incredible value of women. None of us would be here without one. Motherhood made us all possible, including those who celebrate abortion.

Because these pro-abortion activists weren’t aborted, they have the ability to promote any nonsense they want, like the Day Without A Woman strike. Yes. Remove women from the public space and the world will learn how vital they are. Wouldn’t the same apply if we removed all the men from the scene? We’re both needed. Liberal feminists don’t want harmony. They prefer the sound of their own discord, decrying unequal pay, demolishing biological gender, and demanding that all humans (particularly the unborn) are not equal.

Imagine the real impact of A Day Without A Woman inside a Planned Parenthood?

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Planned Parenthood chasing money, say ex-officials

Many who represent and support the abortion giant have repeatedly stated that without its services, poor women would have nowhere to go for quality health care.

Ramona Trevino, a former manager of a Texas Planned Parenthood facility, became disenchanted and left the organization.  She said in a Live Action video that the amount of time spent with patients was drastically reduced. The result was demonstrated especially among girls who were not appropriately instructed on the use of birth control pills.  Sue Thayer directed two Planned Parenthood clinics in Iowa and told Live Action that as the quota for abortions increased, the amount of time per patient was reduced.



Republicans are working to reallocate over a half-billion dollars from Planned Parenthood to local health clinics that are not so busy doing abortions.

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‘Beauty and the Beast’ star Emma Watson donates to Planned Parenthood: ‘They’re the best!’

Vanity Fair recently filmed Emma Watson giving advice remotely through an iPad at New York's Grand Central Station. For just two dollars, the magazine’s “man on the street” Derek Blasberg promised commuters that the 26-year-old actress would answer any question.


Vanity Fair confirmed at the end of the video that “All proceeds from Emma’s advice booth have been donated to Planned Parenthood.”  “Oh my god, the money! It has to go to Planned Parenthood,” she insisted. “Planned Parenthood, they’re the best.”






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Planned Parenthood refuses Trump offer to give up abortions and keep funding

Planned Parenthood has declined an offer from President Trump to keep – and possibly increase – its federal funding in exchange for ceasing to commit abortions.

The proposal was an "impossibility" for Planned Parenthood officials, the New York Times reported. Planned Parenthood receives nearly half a billion dollars from the federal government annually. Its non-abortion services are able to be billed through Medicaid. Ninety-four percent of its pregnancy services are abortion. Planned Parenthood however claims abortion is "only three percent" of its business.

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Teen Vogue’s Disturbing Detour to Slam Pregnancy Centers Accidentally Promotes Them

Lindsay Johnson is charged with suffocating her newborn

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Those words, originally attributed to Winston Churchill, were followed in a surprising way this weekend by Teen Vogue, which went out of its way to exploit a tragic story to disparage the life-saving work of pregnancy centers.

Covering the heartbreaking case of Lindsay Johnson, a 20-year-old former college student charged with suffocating her newborn child last April, Teen Vogue updated its young readers on Johnson’s upcoming day in court, before taking an off-the-wall turn to promote Planned Parenthood’s abortion business and tear into pregnancy centers.

In reality, neither Planned Parenthood nor a pregnancy center seem to be involved in any way with Johnson’s story. That fact makes the following sentences feel a little more than out of place:

From the search history that law officials found in Lindsay’s computer, it’s clear that the former student felt that she had limited options. But it’s important to know that there are a lot of resources out there for dealing with pregnancy. Planned Parenthood is a great place to start, and their website alone offers a vast amount of information about pregnancy and safe abortion procedures. There’s even an entire section of their website dedicated to teens.

It’s also important to avoid Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs), which scare women away from making their own decision by providing false information. CPCs masquerade themselves as health clinics, and sometimes offer free pregnancy testing and counseling in order to attract patients.

Johnson would more than likely have found the resources and compassionate support she needed to not only carry her baby to term, but embrace motherhood for her newborn son had she found a local pregnancy center. …

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OB/GYN group blasts $600M global abortion fund: Women need help having babies, not killing them

MaterCare International, Canada (MCI) opposes the current funding initiatives by nearly 50 countries to provide and promote abortions as the family planning method of choice for poorer countries. The Canadian government is committing nearly $20 million to the $600 million international goal to fund so-called sexual health and family planning initiatives reacting to the US withdrawal of funds for abortions and abortion-related services overseas. MCI opposes this titanic effort of the international community in choosing to fund abortions, which do not significantly reduce maternal deaths, over meeting the basic obstetrical needs of mothers and children in order to greatly reduce maternal mortality.

MCI has spent over 20 years working with mothers and children in some of the world’s poorest regions. In our decades of experience, we have seen that the only coherent way to reduce maternal and perinatal mortalities is to provide essential obstetrical care that women take for granted here in Canada. Causes of maternal mortality are well known and include; postpartum haemorrhage (35%), Hypertension (18%), Indirect causes (HIV, anaemia, malaria & non-communicable diseases) (18%), other direct causes (ectopic pregnancy, pulmonary embolism, obstructed labour) (11%), amounting to 91%. Deaths occur during the last three months of pregnancy, during labour and delivery and two weeks afterwards and are preventable with essential obstetrics, which includes comprehensive prenatal care with identification of mothers as high risk mothers, safe clean facilities, adequately equipped in which to deliver, and properly trained  health professionals, midwives and doctors.

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Vision 2020 - Week 6 - Senator John J. Cullerton (D) and Senator Christine Radogno (R)

Petitioning Heaven Vision 2020  is partnering with Illinois Federation for Right to Life to pray for our state legislators.  We would like to invite you to join us in praying for our state legislators.  We will send out information about a couple different state representatives each week for you to pray over.   Consider sharing this information with your ministry partners, your church family, on your website and/or your Facebook page.   We know that prayer changes things.  And we know that NOTHING is impossible with God. So let's join our hearts and voices together and petition heaven on behalf of the great state of Illinois! Senator John J. Cullerton (D) 6th District President of the Senate Pro-Choice  Senator Christine Radogno (R) 41st District Minority Leader of the Senate Pro-choice "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go."  Joshua 1:9

Pro-life Dr. Ben Carson confirmed as Trump’s Housing Secretary

The U.S. Senate confirmed pro-life neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson as President Trump's Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary with a vote of 58-41 for the former GOP presidential candidate.

Carson, who ran against Trump in the primary, has called abortion "evil" and transgenderism "absurd."

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Congressional fight brewing over defunding Planned Parenthood, Hyde protections in Obamacare replacement

A draft of the Obamacare repeal bill was leaked to Politico last week. It would defund Planned Parenthood, "which could be an obstacle if the bill gets to the Senate," Politico writer Paul Demko predicted.

Pro-life groups have called on Congress to redirect money from scandal-ridden Planned Parenthood to federally qualified community health centers that don't commit abortions. The Susan B. Anthony List is running an ad on FOX & Friends and MSNBC’s Morning Joe exposing Planned Parenthood's abortion-centric focus.

What is Planned Parenthood Really About? by Susan B. Anthony List...

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Study find embryo develops even outside mom’s womb, destroys the case for abortion

According to a recent study, titled “Self-organization of the human embryo in the absence of maternal tissues,” human embryos from the earliest stages of life can direct their own development—in or out of the womb.  Why is this important? Here’s how Dumitru, who is a fifth-year M.D./Ph.D. candidate at Dartmouth, explains it:

“As scientists, my colleagues must concede that embryos are made up of living cells, but they don’t accept the embryo as a living organism. If the early embryo is ‘just a clump of cells,’ then you can justify abortion. By this logic, it’s not an autonomous being, and it’s definitely not a human person yet. It’s just a few cells growing in the mother’s body, and so the mother can choose to get rid of those cells if she wants to.”

The problem for this view, Dumitru writes, is that so-called “clumps,” whether in a uterus or in a lab, don’t behave like clumps of cells. Instead, they appear to act independently, or autonomously, of any signals from the mother’s body, whether in or out of the womb. And “clumps” don’t do that.

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"Big Abortion" Wants the Dangerous Pregnancy-Destroying Drug Mifepristone (RU-486) Sold in Local Pharmacies

Dr. Thomas Price, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, please take note. Your U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will soon be cooperating (conspiring) with abortion activists to relax important health regulations so that America’s only approved abortion regimen can be sold by local drug stores. In fact, the process may well be underway as I write.

Big Abortion’s aggressive push for evermore abortion, despite great health concerns for the mother (not to mention the baby), appears to know few bounds. Mifepristone, also known as RU-486, is incontrovertibly an embryo and fetal-destructive chemical. Mifepristone (also, Mifeprex®) blocks the chemical action of progesterone, the key hormone that drives pregnancy forward. Mifepristone is taken with a second drug, misoprostol (Cytotec), which causes uterine-emptying contractions when taken by a pregnant woman. This two-drug abortion regimen was first approved by the FDA in 2000.

There are many details related to the distribution of this regimen, but the key points to note are that access to the mifepristone itself is still pretty tightly controlled. The current 2016 regulations for the mifepristone regimen do not allow it to be sold in pharmacies. Rather, mifepristone may be distributed only by certified healthcare providers (originally, it had to be a physician). Such providers must have the ability to assess the duration of the pregnancy accurately, be able to diagnose ectopic pregnancies, be able to get the patient to surgical intervention in case of an incomplete abortion or severe bleeding, and, finally, must have read the prescribing information about the regimen. Clearly this sort of patient assessment cannot take place at pharmacies. The regimen may not be prescribed after the 70th day of pregnancy (LMP).

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ACTION ALERT - Obamacare Repeal and Replacement

Congress has just returned to Washington after a recess last week.  National Right to Life expects committees to begin drafting budget reconciliation legislation, which may contain the following:

1. Language to repeal some or all of Obamacare
2. Elements of healthcare replacement and
3. Language to defund Planned Parenthood

Action:

It is urgent that you reach out to your Republican pro-life lawmakers to urge that any healthcare replacement legislation must explicitly exclude abortion coverage.

Our Republican pro-life Congressmen in Illinois are:

CD  6 – Rep. Peter Roskam 202-225-4561
CD 12 – Rep. Michael Bost 202-225-5661
CD 13 – Rep. Rodney Davis 202-225-2371
CD 14 – Rep. Randy Hultgren 202-225-2976
CD 15 – Rep. John Shimkus 202-225-5271
CD 16 – Rep. Adam Kinzinger 202-225-3635
CD 18 – Rep. Darin LaHood 202-225-6201  

Don’t know who your Congressman is?  Click here to find your Congressman.

Tell your lawmakers:

• Taxpayer's money must not be used to purchase insurance plans that cover abortion.

• Insurers must not be mandated to cover abortion and there must be conscience protections for health care providers.

• They should retain employer paid health insurance and keep it fully untaxed so that Americans who have employer-based insurance have continued access to quality healthcare, rather than rationed more each.

How America’s Largest Abortion Provider Is Now a ‘Fashion Statement’

Emma Stone

It happened at the Globes, New and, now, the Oscars: America’s largest abortion provider is becoming a “fashion statement.” And, in addition to entertainment news and women’s magazines, the broadcast networks are beginning to notice the trend.

Following Sunday evening’s 89th Academy Awards ceremony, NBC anchor Natalie Morales reported on the red carpet “glitz and the glamour” that “was also mixed with politics.”

“Along with fashion statements,” Morales stressed Monday during Today, “there were plenty of political statements.” For proof, she pointed to La La Land actress Emma Stone’s support of Planned Parenthood.

“Emma Stone wore a gold Planned Parenthood pin on her golden gown,” she said, before noting additional Hollywood names bolstering other organizations like GLAAD and the ACLU with fashion choices.

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