Vision 2020 - Week 13 - Rep. Steven A. Andersson (R) and Rep. Daniel V. Beiser (D)

Vision 2020, together with Illinois Federation Right to Life, 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. Steven A. Andersson (R) 65th District Votes Pro-Life   Rep. Daniel V. Beiser (D) 111th District Votes Pro-Life "Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done."  - C.S. Lewis

Vision 2020 - Week 12 - Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch (D) and Rep. Nick Sauer (R)

Vision 2020 is joining with the Illinois Federation for Right to Life to pray for our state legislators. We would like to invite you to join us!  Each week we will send out information about two new state representatives 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. Emanuel Chris Welch (D) 7th District Voted For HB 40--Taxpayer Funding of Abortion Rep. Nick Sauer (R) 51st District Voted Against HB 40--Taxpayer Funding of Abortion

"Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly."   --R.C. Sproul, The Prayer of the Lord

Opposing Abortion is Not Enough

Having good intentions is no guarantee that noble ends will be reached.  This is as true for raising children as it is for crafting laws. Similarly, reaching the right conclusion is not a sufficient condition for justice. To wit: Abortion is the intentional killing of innocent human beings, and as such, opposition to it commands that we acknowledge this verity as the principal basis of our position.

No one knows this better than Amherst scholar Hadley Arkes. He articulates the right legal objections to abortion better than anyone, and that is because he does not skirt the basic biological, and moral, issues involved. His latest piece on this subject is published in the May edition of First Things, ably run by Rusty Reno. To read it, click here.

Why is abortion wrong? It is wrong because it violates the natural law, the common sense ideas of right and wrong that are inscribed in the hearts of every human being.

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Rauners give $50,000 to celebrate Planned Parenthood's 100th anniversary

Just after Illinois social conservatives' applause for Governor Bruce Rauner promising to veto a measure that would use taxpayer funds to pay for state employee abortions and declare that unborn babies are not "persons," came the news that the governor and his abortion-advocating wife Diana are co-sponsoring a Planned Parenthood fundraiser next week.|

Planned Parenthood has been under attack nationwide since undercover videos of the group's medical directors and abortionists were released, in which the personnel seemed to admit they were in lucrative arrangements with biotech labs for redeemable body parts from the aborted babies.

Not mentioning the title "governor," the Planned Parenthood event says "Diana & Bruce Rauner" gave $50,000 to co-sponsor the organization's 100-year anniversary on April 28th...

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Why pro-abortionists must justify any and all abortions

If you were to read abortionists zig and zag and then zag and zig when trying to figure out how to “stop playing defense,” you’d likely notice the journey always ends at the same point. They believe even to suggest that it not always a good decision to have an abortion allows pro-lifers to assume the moral high ground.

That’s why they’ve always been profoundly uncomfortable with the too-slick by half mantra that abortion ought to be “safe, legal and rare.” Why?

In the words of Jessica Griffin, writing a while back on the pro-abortion site Rewirenews.com, because that the use of the word “rare” reinforces “the idea that abortion, though permissible, should be shameful and undesirable. Nobody wants to have an abortion, after all.” (Emphasis hers.)

Says who? Not Griffin, who once appeared on the MTV show 16 and Pregnant with two other women to tell their abortion stories. This “rare” business is “an incorrect and dangerous sentiment to hold.” Stack explains

“A more correct statement would be that nobody wants to have an unplanned pregnancy. Sometimes those of us who find ourselves facing one really do want an abortion. Winning the moral, cultural, and political debate surrounding abortion rights means that we must not give the other side the upper hand on any aspect. Suggesting that nobody wants an abortion or that nobody should be willing and happy to talk about her experience reinforces the idea that it is shameful – and it gives the other side the moral advantage.”

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