Illinois pro-lifers to meet at 90 different locations Sunday for annual Life Chain

In celebration of "Respect Life" month, prolifers will line the streets at 90 different locations statewide Sunday October 5th as the 27th year the national Life Chain will be celebrated in Illinois. 

The locations are listed below: 

* ALBION - IL 130 at Bone Gap Rd, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.; Shad McKinzie  618-445-2553  

* ALTON AREA - Broadway from Piasa to Henry St / Clark Bridge; 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Mary Ann Morris 618-465-3108  

* ARLINGTON HEIGHTS - Euclid Ave at W Northwest Hwy, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m., meet at Christian Liberty Academy, 502 W Euclid; David Bergquist  847-385-2010  

* AURORA - E New York St at Oakhurst Dr, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Chuck Jones   630-896-3826  

* BELVIDERE - State Street Bridge, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.; Dennis Sullivan  815-986-8630  

* BERWYN - Ogden Ave at Harlem Ave, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.;  Mary Ann Pater  708-484-1204

* BLOOMINGTON / NORMAL - College Ave at David Anderson Park at east lot, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.; Jay Talsma  309-828-9250  

* BLOOMINGTON / NORMAL - College Ave at Grandview Dr, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Thomas Shilgalis  309-830-3935  

* BRAIDWOOD - IL Rt 53 at IL Rt 113, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Dave Wollgast  815-287-2036   

* BROOKFIELD - Ogden Ave at Prairie Ave, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.  

* BUNKER HILL - Washington St (Hwy 159) at Warren St (Rt 14), 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Jane Baker  618-973-2666   

* CARBONDALE - Main St (IL Rt 13) at Illinois Ave (US 51), 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Jeffrey Chmiola  618-687-2374  

* CHAMPAIGN - Kirby Ave at Hessel Park, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; John & Myrna Buyno   217-352-1007  

* CHICAGO - Ashland Ave at 19th St, 1:15 to 2:45 p.m.; Liz Gonzalez  773-680-7214  

* CHICAGO / BRIGHTON PARK - Archer Ave at California Ave, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Casey Niedos   773-927-0322  

* CLINTON COUNTY - communities along new Rte 50, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Esther Koch  618-526-8589  

* COLLINSVILLE - Vandalia St (Hwy 159) from Clay St to N Beltline, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Herman Wenos  618-344-4108  or  618-344-8778

* CRYSTAL LAKE - Rte 14 at Teckler Blvd, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Nancy Cole  815-455-7265  

* DARIEN / WOODRIDGE / DOWNERS GROVE - 75th St west of Lemont Rd, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Betty Girdwain 630-963-0654  

* DECATUR - Downtown, 2:30 to 3:30p.m.; signs at 407 Eldorado St; Diana Shipley  217-864-5422  or  217-423-8452

* DIXON - S Galena Ave at River St, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.; Margaret Brechon  815-288-1156  

* EDWARDSVILLE - Buchanan at Vandalia, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.;  Peggy Pace  618-659-9336  

* EFFINGHAM AREA - Keller Dr at Fayette Ave (Rt 40), 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Loretta Koester   217-857-3060

* ELBURN - Rt 47 at Pierce St, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Carrie Walter  630-365-6030  

* ELIZABETH - Main St (Rt 20) in front of Elizabeth Garage, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.; Marilyn Gollmer  815-541-0354  

* FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS / METRO EAST - Hwy 159 at Hwy 50, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Stephanie Favela  618-550-9778

* FARMER CITY - Main St at Hwy 54, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Jerry & Judy Hahn  309-928-2109  

* GALESBURG / KNOX COUNTY - Main St at Broad St, 1:45 to 2:45 p.m. rally at public square at 3:00 p.m.; Mary Norton  309-343-0621 OR  Lisa Lindstrom 309-342-7214

* GLEN ELLYN - Roosevelt Rd at Finley Rd, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Carol Wright   630-469-2165

* GRANITE CITY - 3248 Nameoki Rd in front of store, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.; Kathy Mangi  618-931-7800  

* GRAYSLAKE / DOWNTOWN - Rt 120 between Lake St and Rt 83, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.; Ann-Marie Miller  847-212-9297

* GURNEE - Gages Lake Rd at Hunt Club Rd, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Meegan McNulty  847-855-0117

* HANOVER PARK - Barrington Rd at East Ave, 2:30 to 4:00 p.m.; Maureen Deitche  630-935-8158  

* HARVARD - US Rt 14 at US Rt 173, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.; Richard Kirchner  815-403-8005  

* HERRICK - Broadway (RR 1) at Herrick Baptist Church, 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.; Pastor Jay Huddleston  618-604-3086   

* HIGHLAND - Route 40  at Route 143, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; park at shopping center; Angela Michael 618-654-5800

* HINSDALE - York Rd south of Ogden Ave, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Maureen Sager  708-352-5834  

* INGLESIDE - Grand Ave (Rt 59) at Wilson Rd, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Janet McEwen  847-546-8461

* JERSEYVILLE - State Street, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.;signs at St. Francis Church parking lot at 2:00 p.m.; Marilyn Parsell  618-535-6478   

* JOLIET - Six Corners at Plainfield Rd and Rt 30, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Karen Hatfield  815-744-6339

* LA GRANGE - Ogden Ave at LaGrange Rd, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.;  Wayne & Marianne Hamilton  708-579-0118

* LAKE VILLA - Milwaukee Ave (Hwy 83) south of Grand Ave (Hwy 132), 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Rosie Smyth     

 LAKEWOOD - Tower Hill-Herrick Rd, Lighthouse Tabernacle Pentecostal Church, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.; Pastor Brown  217-567-3337  

* LANSING - Ridge Rd at Calumet Ave, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.; Cathy Dziubla  219-838-1138 or Dorothy Springer  219-838-1138  

* LIBERTYVILLE - Rt 176 (Park Ave) at Rt 21 (Milwaukee Ave), 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.; meet at Formation Center at 1:30 p.m.;  Renee Tam  847-680-6652 andCarol Walsh  847-542-3768

* LISLE - Ogden Ave at Main St, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Carole Gassett  630-960-2916  

* MACOMB - Hwy 136 / 67 between Lafayette and Randolph at Chandler Park, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Connie Kreps  309-333-9483   

* MANSFIELD - Hwy 150 at McKinley St, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Donnette Coley  217-649-9314  

* MARENGO - RT 20 at Rt 23, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.;  Kelly Sergent  630-664-7435  

* MASCOUTAH - Rt 177 at Rt 4, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Sally Mueller  618-277-0449  

* McHENRY - Rt 31 / Richmond Rd at Pearl, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; signs at St Mary Church at 2:00 p.m.;  Karen Verr  815-355-5481    

* MENDOTA - Rt 34 at Hwy 251, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.; Andy Wujek  815-528-5678 or Tom Schuhler  815-538-1940   

* MILLSTADT - Washington St (Rt 158) between Lafayette St and Kossuth St, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.;  Mary Thornton  618-476-3365  

* MORRIS - Rt 47 (Division St) at Jefferson St, signs at 118 E Jefferson St, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Marilou Warrick  815-942-5575 or Renee Zettek  815-941-9121

* Mt. CARMEL - Cherry St at Ninth St, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.; Pat Stouse  618-262-7643  

* Mt. VERNON - Broadway at 24th St, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.; Larry Pearson  618-755-4716  

* MUNDELEIN - US Rt 45 (Lake St) at Courtland St, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Margaret (Peggy) Feinendegen  847-566-7658  

* NAPERVILLE - Ogden Ave at Washington, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Debra Scanlon  630-305-8724   

* NASHVILLE - Rt 127 at Rt 15, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Jennifer Detering  618-920-9829

 NEW LENOX - Cedar Rd at Rt 30, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Melinda Grundhofer  815-424-0371

* NOKOMIS - State St at Spruce St, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Missy Huber  217-827-0723   

* NORMAL - 1006 E College Ave at Epiphany Catholic Church, TBA; Epiphany Catholic Church  309-452-3268     

* OLD MILL CREEK - US 45 at Rt 173, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.; Sandra Cervenka  847-975-8490   

* ORLAND PARK / TINLEY PSRK - 159h St from Harlem Ave to 80th Ave, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.;  William Beckman  708-429-2762

* PANA - Rt 51 two miles south of Pana at Celebration Community Church, 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.; Terry Walters 217-827-4347  

* PARKERSBURG - Olney to Albion - IL 130 from Olney past Calhoun, Parkersburg, West Salem and Bone Gap to Albion (29 miles), 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.;Kevin Schilt  618-456-8423  

* PEORIA - University at Northmoor, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Daniel Smith  309-691-3611;  See Central Illinois Right to Life.

* QUAD CITIES - Middle Rd at Happy Joe Dr, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Vicki Tyler  563-332-0475  

* QUINCY - 24th St at Maine St, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Jane Haas  217-224-5483 or 217-257-0533

* RICHMOND - US Rt 12 at Hwy 173, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.;  Laura Brumm  262-279-3061  

* RIVERSIDE - Ogden Ave at Harlem Ave, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Katie Kruse  708-442-7515  

* ROCKFORD - Alpine Rd at Highcrest Rd, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; signs at Holy Family Church; Joe & Joni Mata  815-505-6006  

* St. CHARLES - Rt 64 (Main St) from Kirk Rd, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Rebecca Hendershott  847-309-5656 

* St. CHARLES - Rt 64 (North Ave) at 5th St, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Larry & Karen Johnson  630-513-0911  

* SALEM - Main St, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Tony Wagner  618-322-9655   

* SHELBYVILLE - Rt 16 (E Main St) at the Courthouse. 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.; Diana Litteral 217-774-4874 

* SPRINGFIELD - Sangamon Ave from 19th to Dirksen, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.; Kathy Cinotto 217-691-4230

    

* STERLING - Locust St at 6th St, 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.; Deacon John Kellen  815-626-3965

* SULLIVAN - Rt 121 (Jackson St) at Rt 32 (Hamilton St), 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Ruth Ann Lusk 217-232-8881   

* SUMNER - Alternate Rt 250 at Walnut St, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Brad Schilt  618-838-9993  

* TOWER HILL - Hwy 16 at Hwy 51 interesction, 12:00 to 1:15 p.m.; Pastor Randy Miller  217-821-1250 

  

* VANDALIA - Gallatin St at Kennedy Blvd, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.;  Pastor Peter Kolb  618-704-8148   

* VOLO - NW corner of Rt 120 at Rt 12, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.;  Pietrina Probst  847-550-1325

* WAUCONDA - Rt 176 at Church St, 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.; Mary Ann Fijalkiewicz  847-526-7101  

* WAUKEGAN - Washington St at Orchard Ave, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.; Pastor George Jones  847-336-0664 

* WEST DUNDEE / NORTHERN KANE COUNTY - Rte 72 at Rte 31, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.; Debbie Schmalen 847-426-7326  

* WESTCHESTER - Mannheim Rd at Wright St, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Patricia Meyers  708-865-0374  

* WESTERN SPRINGS - Ogden Ave at Wolf Rd AND Ogden Ave at Grand, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Blanche Heaney 708-246-7437  

* WILLOW SPRINGS - Archer Ave at Willow Springs Rd, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.; Mary Bartik  708-839-8834  

* WOOD DALE - 203 E Irving Park Rd, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.;  Mary Stuhr  630-250-7521  

(For additional information about Life Chains in Illinois, please contact State Director Gail Bordley  847-623-4980 or 847-361-1582).

( * means verified for 2014)

Illinois Review

Abortion in Elections: It’s not about us – it’s about the 3,000 babies who will die by abortion today

I’m going to say something some may find shocking.

It’s not about you.

Nope. And it’s definitely not about me. It’s about the nearly 3,000 unborn children who will die a brutal death by abortion today. And another 3,000 tomorrow. It’s about protecting their lives – and their futures.

Occasionally, I hear from people who are opposed to our endorsements who complain that a Congressman or Senator has “been in too long,” or they’re too old, or that they’re “not conservative enough.”

These concerns entirely miss the point. We are in the business of saving lives. If someone has reached a level of power after serving long enough that they can impact lifesaving legislation, God bless them!

And what on earth does age have to do with whether a member of the House or Senate can vote for life?

How they vote, and whether they will vote to protect life, is what really matters.

Life matters.

Protecting life transcends all political parties, all religions, all races, and people of all economic status.

This year, the United States Senate is only a net gain of six seats shy of achieving pro-life leadership.

Thirty-six U.S. Senate seats are up this year – 21 are held by pro-abortion Democrats or “Independents” who caucus with them, and 15 are held by Republicans.

We, who understand how precious life is, must defend the pro-life seats.

And, we must also work to take those seats held by pro-abortion senators and representatives and replace them with legislators who will vote for life.

Since 1973, more than 56 million defenseless babies have been aborted – more than 3,000 each day, 

365 days a year. When we stay home on election day babies die, allowing atrocities seen in the murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell to continue across the nation.

Some people wrongly believe what they personally do won’t really make a difference. Yet, this past spring in West Virginia (my home state), four House of Delegates candidates lost or won their primary elections by fewer than twenty votes combined. Had a handful of their friends shown up to vote, the outcome may have been altered.

What is the clear message? You CAN make a difference in your community, and even in our nation. You can make sure your pro-life family and friends go to the polls and vote for pro-life candidates.

Together, if we remain focused and we persevere, if we continue to work and organize, in 2014, we can bring needed change to Washington, D.C. We can begin to reverse the perverse culture of death which is shaming our nation. It is essential that we prioritize protecting our nation’s most precious resource – our children, and those who are most vulnerable.

You are pro-life because you recognize that it’s not about us, or our individual states, or our preferred candidate: It is about coming closer each day to a pro-life Court that will protect the lives of vulnerable human beings – unborn children, and medically dependent and people with disabilities.

The 3,000 babies who die by abortion today are too important to lose sight of that ultimate goal.

By Karen Cross, National Right to Life Political Director, NRLC

Justice Ginsburg circles back to her concern that poor people having too many babies

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Kudos to the ever-readable, always thoughtful Mollie Hemingway for her excellent piece yesterday, “Ruth Bader Ginsburg Really Wants Poor People To Stop Having Babies”

We had also written about the excerpt from the interview Justice Ginsburg gave Elle magazine.  But we focused on how she had trashed fellow Justice Anthony Kennedy, Congress, the “Hobby Lobby” Supreme Court decision, and had more subtly tweaked affluent younger women (for insufficient pro-abortion advocacy) and President Obama who had used the prospect of her possible resignation prior to the November elections as red meat to gear up Democratic activists. (Ginsburg made it clear she likes it just fine where she is.)

Hemingway zeroed in on Ginsburg’s…insensitive comments about poor people having babies (I am trying to give her the benefit of the doubt, although that is hard).

Hemingway reminds us of the incredible comments Ginsburg made to pro-abortion scribe Emily Bazelon in a piece that ran five years ago in the Sunday New York Times Magazine.

NRL News Today wrote about that exchange, a 4,327-word-long Q&A about the direction justices like Ginsburg would like abortion jurisprudence to go. (Hint: back to the future.)

Ginsburg momentarily got herself in hot water in response to Bazelon’s inquiry about what Bazelon described as the “lack of Medicaid for abortions for poor women.”

JUSTICE GINSBURG: Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [Harris v. McRae — in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong.”

As I wrote at that time it was hard not to reach a very ugly conclusion. Ginsburg read Roe to be setting the stage for the government to pay for the abortions of poor women. Why? Because part of the backdrop for Roe—and the reason she expected the High Court in to overturn the Hyde Amendment’s limitation on Medicaid-financed abortion in McRae–was fear that the “wrong” kinds of people were experiencing population growth (the kind “that we don’t want to have too many of”).

It is no accident, as they say, that three years later, Bazelon would caught up with Ginsburg after a speech at Yale College to read her the quote and ask her what she really meant. Bazelon then dutifully transcribed Ginsburg’s revisionism in the form of an article for Slate.com.

Hemingway explained to her reader that Ginsburg was back saying the same old ugly things, only more briefly.

Hemingway writes, “Anyway, in an interview with Elle, [Ginsburg] says her kid and grandkid don’t get how awful it would be to not have legal approval for snuffing out one’s growing baby in the womb. And then when she’s trying to say that protections for unborn children hurt poor women more than wealthy women since wealthy women can just pay the baby away, she lets that old eugenics thing slip again.” Ginsburg said

“It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people.”

I could paraphrase Hemingway’s brilliant conclusion but I could not possibly do her justice. So here it is:

“I get that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is one of the most important champions of abortion and that those people who think people should be able to end some lives after they’ve begun just love her to pieces. And I get that the birth control and abortion rights movements have always had deep ties to eugenics, population control, and master race-type stuff. I get all that.

“But it’s all kind of unseemly, no? It would be one thing if she were talking about the importance of promoting birth among all groups of people as a way of affirming the sacredness of life or what not, but her long-standing focus on how some ‘populations’ shouldn’t be encouraged to have babies and should have subsidized abortion is beyond creepy. We get it, RBG, your social circles think life would be so much better if you didn’t have to deal with those awful poor people and their unapproved backgrounds and living conditions. But you’re supposed to be a tad bit better in covering up those motivations, mmmkay.”

NRL News, Dave Andrusko

Abortion clinics in Illinois and Kansas ready to “accommodate some extra volume“

Abortionist Dr. Erin King (right)

Is anyone—anyone—surprised that abortion clinics outside of Missouri are already trolling for pregnant women?

As NRL News Today readers recall, on September 10, the Missouri legislature overrode Governor Jay Nixon’s veto of two very important pro-life bills and one line item veto of a budget increase for Missouri’s Alternatives to Abortion Program.

The best known measure–HB 1307–increases the time of reflection after counseling before an abortion can be performed from 24 hours to 72 hours.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran an article today, headlined “Out-of-state abortion providers ready to treat more Missouri women.” The abortion clinics—in Illinois and Kansas—tell reporter Samantha Liss they are not sure if women will come looking but if they do, well, they can count on the Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City, Illinois, and the Wichita, Kansas-based South Wind Women’s Center.

Dr. Erin King is the associate medical director at Hope Clinic for Women which is only 15 minutes from downtown St. Louis. In Liss’s story we read

“’We are prepared to handle women from Missouri that come over the river from Missouri because of the restrictions,’ King said. ‘We are able to accommodate some extra volume … if it becomes a lot higher than, yes, absolutely we would hire (more) people.’ That would include both clinical staff and counselors, King said.

“King said her group tries to provide as much information about women’s options and the state-imposed wait times on its website.

“’I think a lot of people don’t realize that the restrictions are state-based and not put in place by the facility,’ King said. ‘We do spend a fair amount of time on the website trying to explain (wait times) so they can tell what their options are, and, hopefully, will be able to access care when they want instead of having to wait.’”

Julie Burkhart runs the South Wind Women’s Center abortion clinic

So, just check out their handy-dandy website. Hope Clinic for Women will hire as many abortionists and/or support staff as necessary to accommodate any “extra volume.”

Then, of course, there is Julie Burkhart, the former Political Action Committee director for the late George Tiller, who performed abortions in Kansas up through the ninth month of pregnancy.

Burkhart runs the South Wind Women’s Center (SWWC) abortion clinic and uses an Illinois fly-in abortionist, Cheryl Chastine as well as Allen Palmer, one of Planned Parenthood’s abortionists. In the past few months, she has added two new abortionists, one from Minnesota and one from Missouri.

SWWC is located in the same Wichita, Kansas, building Tiller occupied for decades. Reporters were informed SWWC hopes to expand to Oklahoma City and possibly beyond. It is “almost a three-hour drive from Missouri’s west edge,” Liss reported.

“If Burkhart’s center sees an influx of patients,” Liss wrote, “ she said her organization ‘would definitely consider’ adding staff.” (According to Kansan pro-lifers, Burkhart already had recently hired two more abortionists.)

The temptation to invoke the obvious imagery—of these abortion clinics as sharks circling about their prey—is almost overwhelming.

We know three things. First, that pro-abortionists would not scream to high heaven when such laws are passed if all they did was move women from aborting in one state to aborting in another. Some will, of course, but many won’t, particularly when the state is helping (however modestly) crisis pregnancy centers.

Second, we need to pass more protective laws in more states.

Third, until Roe is reversed and protective legislation passed in all 50 states, the lives of many babies will be lost. But that does not mean we don’t do what can do now.

Every baby saved is a precious life preserved and one less chance for the abortion industry to fill its coffers.

NRL News, Dave Andrusko

Clinton Foundation Supports Abortion Businesses, One Brags of Killing 4,000 Babies in Abortions

Hillary Clinton is the leading potential Democratic presidential candidate for 2016, but she is one candidate pro-life voters can unite in opposing. Clinton, apart from her extensive pro-abortion record her husband, former President Bill Clinton, put together, is an abortion activist in her own right.

Now, the Clinton foundation is supporting two pro-abortion groups, including one abortion business that brags of killing 4,000 babies in abortions.

The Washington Examiner has more:

Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s international foundation, in the spotlight this month for hosting the annual Clinton Global Initiative in New York, back two groups that operate a massive international abortion business, including one that heralded its 4,000 abortions in a 2013 annual report.

Clinton Foundation documents show that it supports two groups that provide abortion services and supplies in Africa, India and Asia — Pathfinder International and Population Services International.

The foundation, which publicly focuses on help for AIDS in Africa, climate change and support for girls, is being scrutinized as Hillary Clinton readies a likely 2016 presidential bid. Its support of abortion providers is one of the areas the former secretary of State’s critics is looking into.

The Foundation’s website heralds Pathfinder for its effort to train “peer counselors to help decrease unplanned pregnancies, and reduce prevalence of sexually transmitted infections and HIV among university students in Kampala, Uganda.”

The group’s most recent annual report said it provided 4,000 abortions and medical services to another 4,300 women for complications for unsafe abortion.

Earlier this month, Clinton said it was shameful that the U.S. had not adopted a treaty that supports abortion.Clinton is also an admirer of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger.

LifeNews.com, Steven Ertelt

Abortion advocate Gloria Steinem in town to launch "Women for Quinn" coalition

1960s abortion right activist Gloria Steinem in town for Pat Quinn Friday

Friday, the Illinois Republican Party pointed to Quinn's slim lead among women as the reason Governor Quinn is finally announcing his "Women for Quinn" coalition with the help of 60s radical leftist Gloria Steinem.

"The  most recent poll on the governor's race shows Governor Quinn trailing Bruce Rauner 41%-44% overall and holding a slim 2% point lead among women," the IL GOP press release said Friday. "Seeing these numbers is clearly taking its toll on the Governor, who today, just 39 days from Election Day, is forced to finally launch his Women for Quinn coalition."

Quinn's people say the governor "has been a strong champion for women, from leading initiatives to strengthen(ing) pay equity to signing laws to prevent domestic violence."

Bruce Rauner has "no social agenda," and his Women for Rauner coalition includes pro-abortion Republican women such as former Lt Governor Corrine Woods and former State Rep. Elizabeth Coulson, as well as pro-life women Republican National Committeewoman Demetra DeMonte, State Rep. Jil Tracy, Kane County Board Chairman Chris Lauzen's wife Sarah and Rauner's running mate Evelyn Sanguinetti.

Ultimately, Quinn's failures will be his downfall, and women will make it happen November 4th, the IL GOP says.

"Governor Quinn is desperate to get women back in his column, but it’s simply not going to work," said Jayme Odom, Executive Director of the Illinois Republican Party. "Women and all Illinoisans can see that he's broken every promise he's made, from jobs, to education, to public safety and child welfare. That's why, on Election Day, we're finally going to hold him accountable for his failures."

Illinois Review

Pro-Abortion Attorney General Eric Holder to Step Down

Attorney General Eric Holder, who is pro-abortion and who used his post in the Obama administration to target pro-life people, will step down from his position when a replacement has been confirmed.

Holder appears to have decided to resign now because pro-abortion President Barack Obama needs Democrats in control of the Senate to approve a replacement during their lame duck session after the mid-term elections, which many political observers say will result in pro-life Republicans taking over the Senate.

During his tenure, Holder was busy conspiring with pro-abortion extremists to bring the full weight of the federal government down upon innocent pro-life advocates. He frequently prosecuted peaceful pro-life people who provided abortion alternatives and counseling to women outside abortion clinics.

Pro-life attorney Matt Barber talked about how Holder spent so much time going after pro-life people.

“Eric Holder is much more than just incompetent. He’s an extremist pro-abortion activist who shares his boss’s goal of “fundamentally transforming America” to reflect both men’s secular-socialist self-image,” Barber said. He said the “Obama administration has been abusing our judicial system through a concerted political intimidation campaign via the federal courts. Obama has instructed the Justice Department to sue a number of pro-life counselors and volunteers for allegedly violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrance (FACE) Act.”

“You won’t hear it from the mainstream media, but the Justice Department has just faced an embarrassing smack down on the highest profile of these cases. It has dropped an appeal in Holder v. Pine against pro-life sidewalk counselor Mary “Susan” Pine, who is represented by the civil rights firm Liberty Counsel. The DOJ has agreed to pay $120,000 for this frivolous lawsuit which, as the evidence indicated, was intended to intimidate Ms. Pine and send a shot over the bow of pro-lifers around the country,” Barber continued. “Holder unsuccessfully sought thousands of dollars in fines against Ms. Pine, as well as a permanent injunction banning her from counseling women on the public sidewalk outside the Presidential Women’s Center (PWC) abortion mill (or any other “reproductive services” clinic).”

After 18 months of litigation, the DOJ’s case was thrown out of federal court, and the department was chastised in a scathing ruling by U.S. District Judge Kenneth Ryskamp for filing a case with no evidence.

Judge Ryskamp wrote that Holder’s complete failure to present any evidence of wrongdoing, coupled with the DOJ’s cozy relationship with PWC and their apparent joint decision to destroy video surveillance footage of the alleged “obstruction,” caused the court to suspect a conspiracy at the highest levels of the Obama administration. “The Court is at a loss as to why the Government chose to prosecute this particular case in the first place,” wrote Judge Ryskamp. “The Court can only wonder whether this action was the product of a concerted effort between the Government and PWC, which began well before the date of the incident at issue, to quell Ms. Pine’s activities rather than to vindicate the rights of those allegedly aggrieved by Ms. Pine’s conduct.”

After the ruling the DOJ appealed on the last day possible and gave indication that President Obama had personally ordered the appeal. A little over a week later, the president apparently decided to cut his losses and reversed course.

Mathew Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, pulled no punches in his assessment of Holder’s actions in targeting the pro-life advocate.

“It is irresponsible for the U.S. Department of Justice to place politics above principle when deciding to prosecute, and thus attempt to silence, a pro-life sidewalk counselor without any evidence of wrongdoing,” he said. “When the nation’s highest law enforcement officer files suit against any citizen, the suit must be based on the law coupled with compelling evidence. Anything less is an abuse of the high office. Susan Pine will not be silenced or detoured from her mission to save the lives of innocent children.”

Meanwhile, Holder came under criticism from pro-life advocates for failing to disclose ties to a building in Georgia his wife owns that houses an abortion clinic.

Human Events broke the news that Holder’s wife and sister-in-law co-own, through a family trust, the building where a controversial abortion practitioner operates. The Holder family transferred ownership to a family trust in 2009, eight months after President Barack Obama’s inauguration and a deed names Holder’s wife and sister-in-law as trustees.

Fulton County tax records show Holder’s wife and sister-in-law own the building, located at 6210 Old National Highway, College Park, Ga. A statement from the Georgia Department of Law shows the building was home to Old National Gynecology, the practice of abortion practitioner Tyrone Cecil Malloy.

Holder failed to disclose his wife’s ownership of the building. The attorney general’s financial disclosure reports for 2008 through 2011 show Holder neglected to report his wife’s co-ownership.

LifeNews.com, Steven Ertelt

NASCAR Legend Darrell Waltrip Heads Huge Pro-Life Campaign in Tennessee

He was one of the top drivers ever on the NASCAR racing circuit and now he’s leading another race — the race to approve pro-life Amendment 1 in Tennessee.

Darrell Waltrip has agreed to take on the role as honorary chairman of the Yes on 1 campaign, which supports the pro-life amendment necessary to amend the Tennessee Constitution in order to pass any of a number of key pro-life laws that could save babies from abortions.

“As Christian parents and Tennesseans, we are grieved to know that our beloved state has become an abortion destination. There are so many reasons we all love Tennessee and respect for God’s gift of life should be at the top of the list,” Waltrip said in a statement LifeNews obtained. “That’s why we’re giving our strongest support to the campaign to win pro-life Amendment 1. By voting YES on 1 we can restore common sense protections for the unborn and for abortion-vulnerable women and girls. We can prevent tax dollars from being used for abortion and we can insist that abortion facilities be licensed and inspected like any other surgical center.”

Waltrip concluded: “We urge you to take a stand and to join with us to support God’s gift of life. On November 4th, please vote YES on 1.”

In November, Tennesseans will be asked to vote on an amendment to the Tennessee Constitution which, rather than promoting an abortion ban or any other specific legislative agenda, overturns a radical 2000 pro-abortion decision by the Tennessee Supreme Court and restores to the people of Tennessee the right to determine state laws and policies on matters affecting human life.

Amendment 1 says: “Nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion.  The people retain the right through their elected state representatives and state senators to enact, amend, or repeal statutes regarding abortion, including but not limited to, circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest or when necessary to save the life of the mother.”

Tennessee Right to Life president Brian Harris has told LifeNews:

• The Tennessee Supreme Court was wrong when it ruled that Tennessee’s Constitution includes a fundamental right to abortion and required that common sense protections be struck from Tennessee’s law;

• Tennesseans cannot be required to fund elective abortions;

• It is the people of Tennessee and our elected state legislators who should decide Tennessee’s abortion laws, including the difficult circumstances when a mother’s life is at risk or when abuse or crimes have occurred.

It’s unfortunate that pro-life Tennesseans and our elected officials have to devote the time, energy and resources to reclaim from activist judges the right and ability to enact legal safeguards and protections for our state’s most innocent and vulnerable.

LifeNews.com, Steven Ertelt

Parents Reject Abortion, Prepare for Arrival of Conjoined Twins Who Share One Heart

For any couple preparing for the birth of a new baby, there’s great anticipation and much nervousness. Even if the baby is healthy, the birthing process and having a new little one to care for brings on a certain amount of stress.

But imagine the stress of preparing for twins. Then, multiply that by imaging the stress of preparing for conjoined twins. Multiply that again by preparing for the birth of conjoined twins who share just one heart. That;s the world in which Robin and Michael Hamby find themselves.

But they say their twin babies may have just one heart but they say it’s a perfect one. And that’s why the Hambys rejected an abortion and are looking ahead to the birth of the twins, who are headed their way around Thanksgiving.

At LifeNews.com over the years, we’ve profiled a number of conjoined twins. In some cases, parents of the twins were given suggestions by doctors to have an abortion. In other cases, the babies were given a chance at life and they were unable to be separated because their unique medical situation made it medically dangerous to perform the surgery, which could have placed their lives at risk.

In those later cases like Tatiana and Christa, who are joined at the head, while some people in society would view them as “freaks” who have a low “quality of life,” they can see through each others’ eyes and they totally support each other physically and emotionally.

Like those courageous sisters, twin boys Asa and Eli will not be able to be separated.

Here’s more on their story:

One heart. One perfect heart.

That’s how Robin and Michael Hamby describe the condition of their conjoined twin sons, sharing one heart, one perfect heart, a ray of hope in a pregnancy where many may see only darkness and imperfections.

Medically, one heart, one perfect heart, means the twins won’t be separated, but it also means they have a better chance of surviving than other conjoined twins with one heart because that organ usually is deficient in some way.

Emotionally, one heart, one perfect heart, means Robin and Michael intend to have sons as united in brotherhood as they are in marriage.

And spiritually, one heart, one perfect heart, means this Ladonia, Ala., couple was motivated by their faith instead of their fear when they decided to ignore the naysayers and bring these budding boys into this world.

So when families around the Chattahoochee Valley gather around their tables to give thanks on Thanksgiving, the 34-year-old Hambys expect to be on the verge of a delivery that some contend will be a burden but they insist will be a blessing.

Against the odds

Robin, a registered nurse at Regional Rehabilitation Hospital in Phenix City, and Michael, a hydrant valve technician for the Columbus Water Works, know the odds are overwhelmingly against a healthy ending to this journey. According to the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, conjoined twins occur once in every 50,000 to 60,000 births — and most are stillborn.

Statistics from the University of Maryland Medical Center are additionally daunting: 35 percent of conjoined twins survive only one day, the overall survival rate is between 5 percent and 25 percent, and female conjoined twins are three times more likely than males to be born alive.

The Hamby boys are connected, side by side, a category among the least common types of conjoined twins. They have one trunk but two separate heads. The technical term is dicephalic parapagus, although they won’t be classified until they are born.

Doctors haven’t determined all the organs and systems the Hamby twins share or have separately. With a total of two arms and two legs, each boy probably will control one arm and one leg, Robin said, so they will have to cooperate and coordinate. But they have two spines, she said, which will boost their stability.

During the 4-D imaging session July 19, the Hambys got a sneak peek of their sons’ personalities. The video camera showed Asa rest his head on Eli, who was sucking his fist. Eli promptly took his fist out of his mouth and popped Asa in the face.

As the proud parents shared a good laugh, they witnessed a symbol of that one heart, that one perfect heart: Eli extended his hand toward Asa again, but this time he appeared to give his brother a loving caress.

Robin said, “It was almost like, ‘Sorry, dude, I kind of got upset, but I didn’t mean it.’”

Source: LifeNews.com 

1992 video depicts NFL players opposing abortion

The NFL is in a heated controversy over whether the league is too permissive of players involved in domestic abuse. Over twenty years ago, NFL members felt strong enough about one social agenda to make a public service announcement opposing abortion. 

A video from 1992 with various members of the Washington Redskins and the Buffalo Bills discussing the evils of abortion was unearthed Monday and published on the sports site SBNation.

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H/T LifeNews.com

Hultgren takes to House Floor to Criticize Obamacare's Abortion Coverage

Wednesday, on the floor of the U.S. House, Representative Randy Hultgren (IL-14) criticized the White House and health insurance companies following a report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) confirming that under the President’s health care law—Obamacare—taxpayer dollars are subsidizing more than 1,000 plans nationwide that cover elective abortion, contrary to promises made by the President and Democratic leaders when the law was passed in 2009.

Rep. Hultgren was not serving in the House when Obamacare became law, but at the time, many Members of Congress and their constituents raised concerns that there were not adequate safeguards preventing taxpayer-funded abortion, a suspicion confirmed by the GAO report.

Rep. Hultgren urged full transparency from the President and for the Senate to pass the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act which ensures the Hyde Amendment, which prevents federal tax dollars from paying for abortions, is implemented across the federal government.

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