Vision 2020 Week 9 - Rep. Litesa E. Wallace (D) and Rep. Laura Fine (D)

Petitioning Heaven Vision 2020 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! Some of our legislators need prayer that God will open their eyes  and change their hearts (or move them out of their positions) and  some need prayers that they will have the strength, courage and  boldness to be able to stand firmly against the opposition as they  fight for life and family values.   Representative Litesa E. Wallace (D) 67th District Pro-Choice Representative Laura Fine (D) 17th District Pro-Choice "Yet, Lord my God, give attention to your servant's prayer  and his plea for mercy. Hear the cry and the prayer that your  servant is praying in your presence."  2 Chronicles 6:19

Democrats will filibuster Gorsuch, says senate minority leader

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch

Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, plans to lead a Democrat filibuster of Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch.

Republicans will need to convince eight Democrats to vote in favor of confirming Gorsuch. If they are able to do that, Gorsuch will have 60 votes, a requirement for overcoming a filibuster.  Republicans may change procedural rules so that Gorsuch only needs 51 votes to be confirmed.

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Pro-aborts are the violent ones

Pro-lifers are frequently accused by pro-aborts as being violent. The truth is, abortion activists not only defend the bloodiest practice on earth but are the ones who perpetrate violence.

Police report after police report shows abortion supporters threaten pro-lifers frequently, and actually commit violent attacks against pro-lifers, such as the shooting ambush of the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Family Research Council.

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ACTION ALERT - H.R. 1628 The American Health Care Act of 2017

Federal Pro-Life Bill

H.R. 1628 The American Health Care Act of 2017

Status: Possible Vote on Thursday March 23rd

The U.S. House of Representatives is likely to vote Thursday, March 23rd on H.R. 1628.

This bill will eliminate approximately 85% of the federal funding of Planned Parenthood for the next year and eliminate the funding of abortions other than those to save the life of the mother from the healthcare plan and the use of tax credits for the purchase of insurance plans covering abortion.

Action:

It is urgent that you reach out to your U.S. Representatives to urge them to vote in favor of HB 1628

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

Ellen Page, Jennifer Garner Use Pro-Life Film to Benefit Abortion Giant

Hollywood is using a film with pro-life themes to fund abortion giant Planned Parenthood.

On April 8, the makers of Juno are hosting a live read of the movie’s script as a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood. The Los Angeles reading will feature an all-female cast, including original Juno stars Ellen Page and Jennifer Garner. The hit 2007 movie followed the story of a teenager who gives up her baby for adoption following an unplanned pregnancy.

However, Juno director Jason Reitman denies that the movie promoted a culture of life. According to Entertainment Weekly, Reitman wanted the reading to “resolve one point of debate” about the film: that it was about choice, not life.

“If there was any confusion about whether Juno was pro-choice or pro-life, this should settle that,” Reitman insisted. “Juno had a choice, and that was the most important part.”

But the reason pro-lifers marvel at the film goes way, way beyond the good news that she doesn’t take her child’s life. Let me cite just a few qualities about “Juno” that are pro-life in a way that goes well beyond the happy outcome.

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Click here for an earlier article from National Right to Life on the movie Juno "The Real Lesson of Juno"

Vision 2020 - Week 8 - Rep. Jaime M. Andrade Jr. (D) and Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy (D)

The Illinois Federation for Right to Life is proud to partner with Vision 2020 in prayer for our Illinois legislators.  Please remember to pray each week in  support of those who fight for life and for a change of heart for those who oppose life.

CALLING ALL PRAYER WARRIORS

- Join us in praying 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!

Rep. Jaime M. Andrade Jr. (D) 40th District Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy (D) 14th District Both of these Representatives voted to pass HB40 (taxpayer funding of abortion) out of the Human Services Committee  O God, hear my prayer; give ear  to the words of my mouth. Psalm 54:2

Life Advocacy Day - March 29th in Springfield

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Help confirm Judge Gorsuch to the Supreme Court!

Judge Neil Gorsuch

The critically important confirmation hearings for Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court have begun.

Judge Gorsuch will do what a Supreme Court justice is supposed to do: interpret the law, not make it.

He knows that laws are to be made by legislative bodies, not courts.

With his judicial philosophy, Judge Gorsuch has ruled in favor of litigants like Hobby Lobby and the Little Sisters of the Poor. He has written a book in which he defended the idea “that human life is fundamentally and inherently valuable, and that the intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong.”

Please do this now:

1) Use this link to contact your two U.S. senators and ask them to vote to confirm Judge Gorsuch to the Supreme Court and to do whatever is necessary to overcome any attempt to obstruct a final vote on his confirmation.

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Abortion is not HealthCare: the new Republican Health Care Plan

Paul Ryan Introduces American Health Care Act

The Republican-led House of Representatives has unveiled the American Health Care Act (AHCA). The AHCA would undo the numerous abortion-expanding provisions that became law in March, 2010, as part of the so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148), known as Obamacare.

The House leadership, along with those who have contributed to the draft under consideration in the House of Representatives, has included multiple provisions to prevent government dollars from paying for elective abortions.

This is crucial. By conservative estimates, more than two million Americans were born and are with us today, who would have been aborted, if the Hyde Amendment had not been in place. The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute has termed this a “tragic result,” but NRLC regards it a major pro-life success story. The Hyde Amendment is the most successful domestic “abortion reduction” policy ever enacted by Congress.

In short, restrictions on the government funding of abortion save lives! Unfortunately, the Hyde amendment (which applies to Medicaid) does not apply to the AHCA, as it did not apply to Obamacare. However, the newly unveiled AHCA places numerous crucial Hyde-like restrictions on new government health care spending.

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HB 3735 Clinic Crimes Bill

Illinois Pro-abort Bill:

HB 3735 Clinic Crimes Bill

House Sponsors:
Rep. Conroy

Status:
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading in the House

Summary:

HB 3735 Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that it is an aggravating factor in sentencing that the defendant committed a crime of violence or criminal damage to property in a woman's health clinic or on the real property comprising the clinic or who intimidates persons attending the clinic or physicians or nurses at the clinic performing services at the clinic. Defines "woman's health clinic" and "crime of violence".

The Illinois Federation for Right to Life does not support violence at or property damage to abortion clinics.  The serious problem with HB 3735, is that it will enhance penalties for imprisonment on speech that is not approved by others by the addition of “intimidation” in this bill.   Protecting free speech, even those we don’t agree with, should generally be all of our concerns.

In the heated debate of abortion, is a person holding a sign that shows aborted baby pictures showing “contempt or ridicule?”   Does heated speech where a person cries out “Don’t kill your baby” rise to “contempt or ridicule” so that it is a crime that carries” 2 years and not more than 10 years in prison?” 

HB 3735 will be “an aggravating factor in sentencing” if done at an abortion clinic rather than any other place.  This is clearly targeted at actually intimidating speech of sidewalk counselors and/or protesters! 

Action:

Now is the time to contact your Representatives.  Click here for contact information for your Representative.  Urge the to vote NO on HB 3735

Illinois Doctor, pregnancy centers sue Rauner over law forcing abortion information disclosure

The Thomas More Society filed suit this week in federal court on behalf of a pro-life physician and two pro-life pregnancy resource centers challenging Public Act 99-690, the controversial law that forces physicians and other health care providers to provide information about the so-called benefits of abortion and to give referrals to abortion providers upon request.

The suit advances claims under the federal constitution as well as a number of federal laws, including the Hyde-Weldon Amendment.

The plaintiffs are Dr. Ronald L. Schroeder, 1st Way Life Center, and Pregnancy Aid South Suburbs (PASS). Dr. Schroeder provides pro bono medical care to women in crisis pregnancy situations. PASS and 1st Way are pregnancy resource centers that help women choose life for their babies by providing emotional and material assistance to women and families.

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