National Right to Life supports Better Care Reconciliation Act

The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of state right-to-life organizations, supports H.R. 1628, the Better Care Reconciliation Act, and urges the Senate to vote to begin debate on this bill next week. The Better Care Reconciliation Act reduces the devastating impact on life brought by the abortion-subsidizing and abortion-expanding provisions of the Obama Health Care Law.

The Better Care Reconciliation Act contains several essential elements that mark a substantial improvement from the Obama Health Care Law.

The bill creates a “State Stability and Innovation Program” which will bring many changes to both the private market and to plans eligible for tax credits. The “State Stability and Innovation Program” contains protections wherein plans that utilize these important dollars cannot cover elective abortion.

“National Right to Life believes that this bill makes substantial progress towards reducing the amount of federal dollars flowing to plans that cover elective abortion,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “Abortion is not healthcare, and the Senate has the chance to protect life by advancing this legislation.”

National Right to Life also strongly supports the language in the bill that would block, for one year, most federal payments to affiliates of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). It would close the largest pipeline for federal funding of Planned Parenthood – Medicaid – and apply as well to the CHIP and the Title V and Title XX block grant programs, thus covering roughly 89% of all federal funds to Planned Parenthood.

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Vision 2020 - Week 24 - Rep. Gregory Harris (D) and Rep. Thaddeus Jones (D)

"Meanwhile, the Lord said to me, "Put a watchman on the city wall. Let him shout out what he sees.""
Isaiah 21:6

Will you step up to be a guardian of our cities and our state?

Will you be the watchman on the wall?

Will you be the prayer warrior that Illinois is so greatly in need of today?

Rep. Gregory Harris (D) 13th District Majority Conference Chairperson Pro-Choice Rep. Thaddeus Jones (D) 29th District Email: repjones.jones@gmail.com Pro-Choice

Vision 2020 and the Illinois Federation for 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!

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.

‘The case has changed’: U.S. doctor may fly in to examine baby Charlie Gard

Connie Yates with son Charlie Gard

During the court proceedings that will determine whether Charlie Gard lives or dies, there was "an amazing answer to prayer" and it seems his chances of being given another chance are increasing, according to a pro-life pastor who was there.

A New York doctor ("Dr. I"), whose name Mahoney says he isn't allowed to release, testified via video that if he is able to treat Charlie, the 11-month-old has at least a ten percent chance of improvement.  And the doctor said Charlie's chances of improvement are as high as 56 percent.

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Pro-Life Movie Saves Baby's Life

A Michigan woman says a little known faith-film, Alison's Choice, prompted her son's girlfriend to forego an abortion. Messaging producer/director Bruce Marchiano through Facebook, she writes, "I was there for her but it was your movie that saved her baby's life." As a result, a baby girl (pictured) was born. (Both the grandmother and the baby's mother have agreed to communicate with the media on condition of anonymity).

Alison's Choice is the story of a pregnant girl who sees no other way than abortion. There in the clinic she has an extraordinary encounter with God who has come to plead for her baby's life. "The whole movie spoke to her," says the grandmother, "I only wish it was around 33 years ago when I made the biggest mistake (of abortion) of my life."

Alison's Choice is available on Amazon Prime and on DVD at alisonschoice.com. Alison's Choice is also available for special event screenings.

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Canada to provide a whopping $241.5 million for overseas abortions, contraception

Canada will pour $241.5 million into providing and promoting contraception and abortion in developing nations — particularly in Africa — as part of their commitment to securing global access to “sexual and reproductive health and rights.”

The money is part of the $650 million the Liberals pledged in March to promote global access to “sexual and reproductive health and rights,” as well the $840 million they’ve earmarked “for humanitarian assistance in response to the crises in Iraq and Syria,” according to a Liberal backgrounder.  About 65 percent of the $241.5 million targets Africa.

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Judge finds Daleiden attorneys in contempt of court

U.S. District Judge William Orrick found Steve Cooley and Brent Ferreira (David Daleiden’s two criminal defense attorneys) in violation of his federal court order Tuesday that banned the release of the CMP videos from the National Abortion Federation (NAF) conferences in 2014 and 2015.

Orrick is expected to order Daleiden’s attorneys to pay financial damages to the NAF shortly, according to Alexandra Snyder, executive director for Life Legal Defense Foundation (LLDF), which is coordinating the various attorneys representing Daleiden.

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Lena Dunham Donates Proceeds From Wardrobe Sale to Planned Parenthood: ‘The Cause Is Urgent Now’

On July 10, Lena Dunham announced her intent to sell a significant part of her wardrobe. As an advocate for so-called “women’s rights and equality,” all proceeds will, of course, go to abortion giant Planned Parenthood.

According to a piece in The New York Times, “169 pieces from her wardrobe will arrive on the RealReal, a website for fashion consignment. She will donate the entirety of her 70 percent commission from the sales to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, one of her favorite organizations.”

“The time felt right to disencumber herself,” the NYT article continued. “The cause is particularly urgent now … as Congress considers legislation that will have a direct impact on women’s health.” Dunham told the NYT that “Planned Parenthood’s never been more essential.”

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Women’s basketball team embraces ‘Stand with Planned Parenthood’ night

Dawn Trudeau, an owner of the WNBA's  Seattle Storm,
is a fervent Planned Parenthood supporter.

A U.S. women's professional basketball team, WNBA's Seattle Storm, is supporting Planned Parenthood by giving a portion of ticket revenue from the July 18 home game against the Chicago Sky is "Stand with Planned Parenthood" night.

Five dollars from every ticket sold will go to the nation's largest and most lucrative abortion conglomerate. There will also be an auction to benefit Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and the Hawaiian Islands.

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Abortionist's missed needle leads to life-changing question

A woman who, at 22 weeks pregnant, went to the Planned Parenthood in St. Paul for an abortion. She took the initial steps and returned the next day for the abortion with unidentified male and female abortionists.  The male doctor used a needle through the woman's stomach to give the baby a shot to stop its heart. “They told me he found the baby and he put the shot into him,” she says. “From what I found out later on, the baby didn't get the shot. They put the shot in the amniotic sack.” Knowing her son was still alive, she began asking questions. One was what would happen if the baby were born alive during the abortion?

“[The female abortionist] looked at him and she looked back at me,” the mother said, “and I was looking at her very puzzled, and she told me, We don't tell women this, and a lot of women don't even ask this question, but if we were to proceed with the abortion and the baby was to come out still alive and active, we most likely will break the baby's neck.”

The patient changed her mind and kept the baby.

Pro-Life Action Ministries in St. Paul suggests that the woman’s testimony in this case is ample evidence for an investigation.

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Britain pledges over $200 billion on “family planning,” including access to “safe abortion”

International Development Minister Priti Patel

Thanks go out to our friends at SPUC–the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children–for alerting us today that the British government through its Department for International Development (DFID) has announced that over the next five years the UK will spend over a billion pounds (more than a billion and a half in US dollars) on “family planning” —including access to “safe abortions.”

International Development Secretary Priti Patel officially announced the plan at a major Family Planning Summit “co-hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the UN,” the Independent reported.

Already the second biggest funder of family planning programs in the world, Britain has given abortion provider Marie Stopes International alone well over $200 million in the past five years. “This is despite a recent ComRes poll showing that 65% of the public oppose UK taxpayer money being spent on abortions overseas.” SPUC noted.

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California AG Follows Through on Threat, Re-Files Charges vs. Undercover Investigators

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra

As previously threatened, California’s Attorney General is continuing his crusade to defend the abortion industry against incriminating information, filing new charges Thursday night against undercover reporters David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress.

First reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed the new charges after a June 21 decision where a judge suspended 14 of 15 charges Becerra had filed against Daleiden and Merritt.

This time, Becerra is coming after Daleiden and Merritt on more specific invasion of privacy charges, accusing the pair of illegally recording conversations where high-ranking officials—including Planned Parenthood’s Director of Medical Services—were caught on camera a bartering over the price of body parts harvested from aborted babies.

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Judge demands ‘drastic’ evidence or he’ll force Charlie Gard off life support this week

At a preliminary hearing today, a UK judge agreed to hear new evidence in Charlie Gard's case on Thursday. His parents have 48 hours – until 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday – to provide this evidence to the court.

After worldwide outcry, including from Pope Francis and President Trump, Great Ormond Street Hospital asked the High Court to reconsider "fresh evidence" in the case. However, it maintains its stance that Charlie should be removed from life support against his parents' wishes.

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Campaign promotes dangerous, illegal plan to increase ‘at-home abortions’

Pro-abortion advocates are promoting dangerous at-home abortions without the supervision of a doctor despite evidence that women have died from taking the drugs.

Francine Coeytaux did an online search for “abortion pills” and obtained body-altering chemicals that only doctors are allowed to administer to women wanting to abort their baby.  She taught others how to do the same to demonstrate how abortions can be done at-home without going to a physician.

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U.S. congressmen propose bill to save baby Charlie Gard by making him U.S. resident

Two Congressmen announced that when Congress returns from recess, they will introduce a private bill to make Charlie Gard a permanent resident of the United States.

Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-OH, and Rep. Trent Franks, R-AZ, both strongly pro-life, said in a joint statement that they are introducing this bill to support the rights of Charlie's parents to continue to care for him.

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Planned Parenthood's 'outright grab for money' uncovered

American Life League (ALL) President Jim Sedlak tells OneNewsNow his organization has concluded an investigation of the abortion giant and found that it has created a separate company -- Afaxys -- that has been quietly operating for four years.

"The purpose of Afaxys is to manufacture contraceptive products -- the birth control pills, emergency contraception, etc. -- and to sell it to Planned Parenthood and other family planning clinics," Sedlak details.

Sedlak, Jim (American Life League)The company has claimed it will only sell the products to family planning programs that get Title 10 funding from the U.S. government, using tax dollars to set up a for-profit company and generate sales to tax-supported organizations.

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Vision 2020 - Week 23 - Rep. Anthony DeLuca (D) and Rep. La Shawn K. Ford (D)

"Meanwhile, the Lord said to me, "Put a watchman on the city wall. Let him shout out what he sees.""
Isaiah 21:6

Will you step up to be a guardian of our cities and our state?

Will you be the watchman on the wall?

Will you be the prayer warrior that Illinois is so greatly in need of today?

Rep. Anthony DeLuca (D) 80th District Email: repdeluca@sbcglobal.net Pro-Choice Rep. La Shawn K. Ford (D) 8th District Email: repford@lashawnford.com Pro-Choice

Vision 2020 and the Illinois Federation for 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!

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.

Emily’s baby almost died in the womb… but this app made all the difference

The “Count the Kicks” App enables moms to monitor the kicks and other movements of their babies in the third trimester. Emily Eekhoff found the app useful when she was pregnant with her son, Liam, and so the she downloaded it again when she was seven months along with her next baby.  During Week 33, the app noted that the baby wasn’t moving as often as usual. That made Emily nervous.

Emily went to Mercy Hospital in Des Moines and discovered that her baby was in trouble. An umbilical cord had wrapped itself three times around the infant’s neck. Little Ruby was promptly delivered by an emergency C-section. Emily credits the app for saving her baby’s life.



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City of Liverpool, England, shows its solidarity with Charlie Gard

The longer the titanic battle to save little Charlie Gard goes on, the more support there is to “allow” his parents, Connie Yates and Chris Gard, to take him out of a London Hospital , which believes he is better off dead , and take the 11-month-old boy to Columbia Hospital in the United States for experimental therapy.

President Donald Trump and Pope Francis are tweeting their support of the parents’ right to make medical decisions for Charlie, who suffers from a rare and debilitating chromosomal condition in which his cells cannot replenish essential energy. There has been some success in the United States using a natural compound, orally administered.

Now the city of Liverpool is showing its solidarity.

“A number of Liverpool city centre landmarks will be lit up blue tomorrow night to support Charlie Gard and his family,” according to Jenny Kirkham of The Liverpool Echo. “Tomorrow, a group of supporters will gather at midday for a peaceful demonstration at the waterfront in the hope of raising awareness of Charlie’s fight before a number of significant Liverpool buildings are lit up blue.”

Kirkham reports that the driving force is Christiana Byrne. She contacted the Liverpool City Council about getting behind Charlie.

“It’s amazing to see people supporting Charlie’s cause,” Byrne told the Echo. “We want more people to become aware of the struggles Charlie’s family are facing and hopefully with more awareness, Charlie will be allowed to go to America.” Byrne added

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Google censoring pro-life facts to help abortionists

Operation Rescue operates a website called “Abortions in America,” which reveals a considerable amount of information on abortion in the United States. The resource is used by the general public and researchers to obtain accurate facts.

Operation Rescue President Troy Newman maintains that Abortions in America was a very popular website.

“But Google has censored this page,” Newman asserted. “Just after January, we noticed a huge reduction in the number of Web hits, and all those Web hits come from Google searches, so apparently people across the world were literally googling abortions in the United States – or abortions in America – and landing directly on our page as being very high up in the search parameters.”

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Group to promote life to 1M at 100 rock concerts

Headquartered in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Rock for Life champions the sanctity of human life for both the born and the preborn – from conception until death – by “engaging the culture through music, education and action.

The organization will erect tents to spread the message of life at nearly 100 rock concerts scheduled across America – 58 Christian and secular concerts scheduled in 41 states and these pro-life activists will travel more than 27,000 miles to accomplish this gigantic feat.

Rock for Life Director Erik Whittington shared that his ministry has been invited on the secular Vans Warped Tour for the second year in a row, but noted that there has been some major opposition.

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