Illinois taxpayer-funded abortions increase by 1,758 percent in one year including abortions for 12 year-olds

News Channel 20 has reported that taxpayer-funded abortion numbers are on the rise in Illinois, according to data obtained they from the state of Illinois and that the increase coincides with the 2018 law allowing insurance to cover elective abortions for people on Medicaid and the state employee health insurance plan.

News Channel 20 further reported that a DHS spokesman said from January-June 2017 the state provided reimbursements for 84 procedures which is an increase of 1,477 cases, or 1,758 percent. The data from DHS further showed the youngest patients receiving taxpayer-funded abortions were 12-years-old and the oldest were 45.

OK lawmakers push 'logical' conclusion in pro-life bill

Pro-life lawmakers in Oklahoma are pushing legislation that would define an unborn life as a human being and define abortion as murder.   The measure also warns that anyone involved in an abortion within the state borders of Oklahoma would be held liable for murder, the legislator advises.

That is the logical conclusion after defining life beginning from the moment of conception, state Sen. Joseph Silk tells OneNewsNow while pro-lifers naturally predict legal challenges and are aware that Oklahoma courts have not been friendly to the pro-life issue, but Silk says the same measure deals with that judicial opposition.

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Mississippi Legislature passes bills banning abortion after detectable heartbeat

Both the Mississippi House and Senate passed ‘heartbeat bills’ on Wednesday, bills which would ban abortion after a heartbeat is detected in a preborn child, at approximately six weeks. The bill reportedly contains no exceptions for cases of rape, incest, etc. Other states considering similar legislation are, according to the Associated Press, Florida, Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina and Tennessee.

Mississippi previously passed a 15-week abortion ban, which a judge struck down late last year. The state plans to appeal that decision to the Fifth Circuit.

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Democrats block bill to stop infanticide for sixth time in Congress

Democrats in the House of Representatives on Monday evening blocked another vote on the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act to guarantee medical care for newborns who survive attempted abortions, marking the fifth instance  in the House and the sixth overall.  Last week Democrat Sen. Patty Murray of Washington blocked an attempt in the Senate, as well. Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski of Indiana made the fifth attempt to get a vote on the bill Wednesday afternoon.

Republicans have called for the bill to be passed by unanimous consent, under which a bill automatically passes if no senator objects, as well as for roll-call votes to be held. In the Democrat-controlled House, Rep. Ann Wagner and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise plan to file a discharge petition to force a vote, under which it will receive a vote regardless of leaders’ opposition if it gets the signatures of least 218 House members, a simple majority.

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LIVE 4-D Ultrasounds on Times Square Jumbo Screen: 'No Way a Person's Going to Be Able to Say That's Not a Child'

In a bold response to the decision of New York and other states to legalize abortion up until the moment of birth, Focus on the Family is gearing up to blast live ultrasounds on monitors and screens across Times Square.

"We'll have great speakers. We're going to have music, but we're also going to do a live ultrasound of a third-trimester baby," Focus on the Family President Jim Daly explained.

"And with the 4-D technology that we have, it looks like a picture of a 1-year-old," he noted. "There is no way a person is going to be able to say, 'That is not a child.' It is a child and we want everybody to see it."

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Ban on aborting babies with heartbeats reintroduced in Ohio as new governor stands ready to sign

Pro-lifers in the Ohio legislature moved Tuesday to reintroduce a bill protecting preborn babies with beating hearts from abortions, confident it will finally become law now that Mike DeWine has replaced John Kasich as governor.

Senate Bill 23 is virtually identical to legislation unsuccessfully pushed last year, which would ban aborting any baby with a detectable heartbeat, except in cases of a physical threat to the mother. Preborn babies’ heartbeats can be detected around six weeks into pregnancy; violating physicians would face up to a year in prison.

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House Republicans push for legislation to force abortion doctors to save babies they fail to kill

Conservative lawmakers in the House are trying to force a vote on a bill protecting babies born alive after abortion, after a Democrat in the Senate last week blocked Republicans in the upper chamber from passing similar legislation by unanimous consent.

Using a procedural tactic know as a discharge petition, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., and Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Mo., want to force a floor vote on the legislation that protects babies born alive during an abortion. Wagner, who has introduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, said in a statement, "To my colleagues, this is the simplest vote you will ever take: either you support babies being killed after they are born or you don't."

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Democratic Lawmakers plan to introduce Legislation to repeal Pro-Life Provisions in Illinois

The Chicago Sun times reported today that four Democratic lawmakers plan to introduce legislation (The Reproductive Health Act) this week that would repeal several decades-old abortion-related provisions in Illinois state law and is backed by the American Civil Liberties of Illinois and Planned Parenthood of Illinois.

One bill would introduce language that treats abortion as health care, another repeals the Partial Birth Abortion ban, yet another bill (that has already been blocked by the courts) would repeal a provision that provides for criminal penalties for doctors providing abortion care to patients.

State Rep. Kelly Cassidy, D-Chicago, plans to sponsor the Reproductive Health Act, State Sen. Melinda Bush, D-Grayslake, plans to carry the health act provision in the Illinois Senate. State Rep. Emanuel “Chris” Welch, D-Hillside, and State Sen. Elgie Sims, D-Chicago, plan to carry the parental notice measure.

Massachusetts set to follow New York in expanding third trimester abortion

After New York State passed one of the most expansive and and sweeping abortion laws in the country, Massachusetts is poised to follow in its footsteps. The Remove Obstacles and Expand Abortion Access Act, or the ROE Act, would extend the ability to procure an abortion in Massachusetts after 24 weeks, as well as remove key protections for viable babies that survive abortions. The law also broadens the meaning of a mother’s health to include mental health and removes the section of Massachusetts law requiring a minor to get parental consent before having an abortion.

Current law in Massachusetts permits abortions after 24 weeks only in cases of a “grave impairment of her physical or mental health.” The proposed law would remove any limitations or qualifier. Section 12P of the existing law specifically includes protection for babies who survive an abortion procedure with a requirement for life-saving equipment to be on hand in cases for abortions of viable babies. The proposed law specifically deletes this requirement, thus opening the door to de facto infanticide of viable babies surviving abortion.

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Mexico’s pro-life movement wins initial victory against abortion

Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, the head of Mexico's Chamber of Deputies, 

introduced a bill to legalize abortion

Pro-lifers made a stand against the government’s effort to amend Mexico’s constitution and allow abortion and same-sex “marriage.”

Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, who leads Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies, introduced a bill last week to reform the constitution that would not only legalize abortion throughout the largely Catholic nation but also permit same-sex “marriage” and euthanasia and also legalize narcotics.

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Arkansas Senate passes bill to ban most abortions once Roe v. Wade falls

Republican State Sen. Jason Rapert, 

sponsor of the Arkansas Human Life Protection Act

SB 149, the Arkansas Human Life Protection Act, declares it is “time for the United States Supreme Court to redress and correct the grave injustice and the crime against humanity which is being perpetuated by their decisions in Roe v. Wade, Doe v. Bolton, and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.” The Act cites post-1973 advancements in embryology, additional knowledge of abortion’s harm to women, safe haven laws that mean women don’t have to raise babies they give birth to, and increased support for adoption.

The Act provides that after Roe’s central holding is either overruled “in whole or in part” by the Supreme Court, or nullified by an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, legal abortion will be “abolished” in the state except to save a pregnant woman’s life from a “physical disorder, physical illness, or physical injury.”

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New Mexico House passes ‘most extreme’ pro-abortion bill in America

On Wednesday the New Mexico House of Representatives joined a wave of states passing measures meant to insulate abortion-on-demand from future Supreme Court rulings, with a bill critics are calling the most radical of its kind to date.

HB-51 is the most extreme bill in the nation because it keeps elective abortion-up-to-birth, and also seeks to force medical professionals to participate in this practice by stripping away explicit conscience protections from the current statute.

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9 senators seek to halt US funding to pro-abortion orgs in Latin America

Nine U.S. senators sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in December demanding an end to public funding to two organizations that promote abortion in Latin America.

The letter notes that it’s against U.S. law for tax dollars to be going to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the Inter-American Commission on Women (Comisión Interamericana sobre la Mujer - CIM) because these bodies promote abortion and said that the Siljander amendment to the Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act of 1981 specifies that “no U.S. funds appropriated under the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act may be used to lobby for or against abortion.”

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World Health Organization sneaks pro-abortion language into resolutions

The United States pushed back on attempts to insert abortion into the World Health Organization's resolution on universal health coverage at the agency's just concluded executive board meeting.

The executive board adopted the resolution on February 1st. The issue has become a priority for UN agencies.

The resolution mentioned existing international commitments to provide "universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services" and "integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programs." This sparked intense closed-door debate. After its adoption, the United States dissociated itself from "reproductive health terminology" which "has evolved to include abortion." The U.S. delegate's statement explained that such language has been used to pressure countries to change their abortion laws and normalize teenage sexual activity.

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Supreme Court puts Louisiana admitting privileges law on hold

On a 5-4 vote Court grants procedural stay

Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch Would Have Allowed the Law to Go Into Effect

Louisiana State Rep. Katrina Jackson (D-Monroe), 

who authored the admitting privileges law.

On Thursday the U.S. Supreme Court granted a Shreveport, Louisiana abortion facility’s emergency stay request, further delaying Louisiana’s attempt to enforce Act 620. The 2014 law requires abortion physicians to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. Thursday’s order from the high court means the law will be stayed pending full briefing on the question of whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari for a full review of the case.

Attorneys for the Shreveport abortion facility asked the Supreme Court to issue the emergency stay in January, just days before the law was set to take effect. The stay comes after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the law last fall, then refused the abortion industry’s attempt to have the full court rehear the case. The abortion attorneys have indicated their intention to file a petition for certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking the Supreme Court’s full review of the law.

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News Links for this Week

Pro-life law firm asks Supreme Court: Are embryonic humans people or property?

On Abortion, Extremism Has Become Mainstream in the Democratic Party

Vermont’s obsession with abortion on display in committee vote today

Former abortion mill manager reveals horrific truths of abortion industry: The Van Maren Show

Pro-abortion Duchess Meghan shows surprise at her baby’s kick

Mississippi introduces bill banning abortions on babies with beating hearts

Indiana Right to Life applauds decision to ask the Supreme Court to reverse injunction blocking ultrasound law

CAL THOMAS: Slaughter of the Innocents Reaches New Depths

After baby-killing victory, NY invites all to come and die

North Dakota House passes two pro-life bills, advance to Senate

Abortion pill reversal and abortion waiting periods save lives

Another lawmaker pulls support from pro-abortion bill, this time in Rhode Island

Colorado bill would ban abstinence-only sex ed in schools

Pro-life NFL star Benjamin Watson speaks out against radical abortion push in Virginia, New York

Abortion survivor: Had I been born in Gov. Northam’s world, I could be dead now

‘Severely disabled’ child healed after mother refused to abort him

Virginia bill erases words ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ from law, defines embryonic humans as property

An “unfathomable” Senate debate: whether to treat babies born alive after a “failed” abortion

Pro-abortion R.I. Gov. lobbies for abortion on demand bill

Pro-abortion politicians should not receive Communion, says Spokane bishop (KXLY)

MA pro-lifers spot big bucks in pro-abortion bill

Dr. Don Smith, creator of pro-life film ‘The Silent Scream,’ has died

Abortionists admit that third trimester abortions are done on healthy babies

VP Pence slams Democrats for ‘morally reprehensible and evil’ abortion-infanticide legislation

Black Pro-Life Pioneers: Erma Clardy Craven

Babies Born in U.S. Should Have Their Right to Life Respected, Receive Necessary Care

It’s Time for the Truth About Late-Term Abortions

Bill to ban common abortion procedure advances in North Dakota

Defense of the unborn is 'cornerstone of the common good,' Pope Francis tells politicians

Planning a pro-life agenda without the U.S. House

How abortionists feel about using abortion as birth control may shock you

Actor Ashton Kutcher shares pro-life video… then quickly backtracks

Indiana and Kentucky Targeted For Abortion Expansion Through Planned Parenthood Merger With Western States Group

Sen. Sasse:“Let’s be clear about what we are talking about. We are talking about killing a baby who has been born”

Roberts joins SCOTUS liberals to block Louisiana pro-life law from taking effect

The U.S. Supreme Court has voted five to four to block the implementation of a Louisiana law requiring basic health and safety standards for abortion facilities, potentially hinting at the justices’ disposition to affirm a key pro-abortion ruling from 2016.

Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh indicated they would have denied the application and therefore allowed the pro-life law to go into effect. The Supreme Court still may take the case, in which case it would be heard sometime after October, but in the meantime, the law mandating abortion facilities uphold basic safety standards remains blocked.

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At National Prayer Breakfast, President Trump affirms “Every life is sacred, and every soul is a precious gift from Heaven”

The ultimate one-two punch. A memorable State of the Union speech built around respect for life and opposition to infanticide Tuesday night followed Thursday morning by an equally powerful address at the National Prayer Breakfast.

You can watch President Donald Trump as he delivered his remarks here and/or read the speech here.
The President was accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, members of Congress, and numerous members of the President’s cabinet. Although he receives great (and unthinking criticism), President has and is a great defender of religious freedom at home and abroad.

“As part of our commitment to building a just and loving society, we must build a culture that cherishes the dignity and sanctity of innocent human life,” President Trump said. “All children, born and unborn, are made in the holy image of God.” He continued

“Every life is sacred, and every soul is a precious gift from Heaven [great applause]. As the Lord says in Jeremiah, ‘Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you… Before you were born, I set you apart.’

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Indiana appeals ultrasound abortion law to Supreme Court

Indiana is asking the United States Supreme Court to hear its case for the constitutionality of an embattled 2016 law requiring Indiana abortionists to give women ultrasounds of their unborn babies at least 18 hours before having an abortion.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt originally blocked the law’s enforcement last year, and the 7th Circuit upheld that decision in July. In her majority opinion, Judge Ilana Rovner claimed the law constituted a “large barrier” to obtaining an abortion rather than merely persuasion. Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill Jr. now wants the Supreme Court to weigh in on that judgment.

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