August 12, 2016

Lawsuit Filed Against Gov. Rauner

The law firms of Alliance Defending Freedom and Chicago's Mauck & Baker attorney Noel Sterett have filed a lawsuit (The Pregnancy Care Center of Rockford v. Rauner) against Governor Rauner in Winnebago County, Illinois on behalf of Pregnancy Care Center in Rockford, Dr. Anthony Caruso who runs A Bella Baby OB/GYN, and Aid for Women pregnancy resource center.

This is in response to Governor Rauner signing Senate Bill 1564 which forces medical professionals and pregnancy resource centers to discuss the "benefits" of and refer for abortions.

ADF sent a letter to Rauner in May on behalf of numerous pro-life physicians, pregnancy care centers, and pregnancy care center network organizations advising him that the bill, SB 1564, would violate federal law and therefore place federal funding, including Medicaid reimbursements, in jeopardy. ADF also warned legislators about the problems with the bill last year. The lawsuit claims the new law, which is actually an amendment to the existing Illinois Healthcare Right of Conscience Act, violates state law and the state constitution.

“Pro-life health care professionals shouldn’t be forced to hand out lists describing how to contact abortionists, yet that’s what this law mandates that they do,” explained ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot. “If this profane amendment to Illinois’ conscience protection law remains on the books, doctors and medical staff committed to saving all lives will be forced to promote the killing of some children, women will lose access to doctors who unconditionally value human life, and pregnancy resource centers that offer free help and hope to pregnant women will be forced to refer to abortionists. This is the kind of government coercion that the state constitution, the state Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the very law that was amended were all designed to prevent.”

The new law forces medical facilities and physicians who conscientiously object to involvement in abortions to adopt policies that provide women who ask for abortions with a list of providers “they reasonably believe may offer” them. Illinois law prohibits government from placing burdens on religious conscience without a compelling interest for doing so. Additionally, the Illinois Constitution protects “liberty of conscience,” saying that “no person shall be denied any civil or political right, privilege or capacity, on account of his religious opinions.” It also protects free speech, which includes the right not to be compelled by government to speak a message contrary to one’s own conscience.

More information is available at ADF's web site by clicking here.



August 11, 2016

What is the Unborn? A Case for Biological Humanity from Fertilization

Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason
Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason
Before you can even answer the question of whether or not abortion is moral, you must first decide what the unborn is. For as Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason observes, if the unborn is not human, then no justification for elective abortion is necessary. It would be no different from having a mole removed or a tooth pulled. But if the unborn is human, then no justification for elective abortion is adequate.

If it’s true that no one can tell when human life begins, then the benefit of the doubt should go to life. We should not be aborting the unborn because there’s a chance we could be aborting living human entities. If a hunter hears a rustling in the woods, does he shoot right away or does he make sure the rustling wasn’t caused by another human? Or if you’re driving down a road in the dark and you see the outline of something that may be a child or may simply be the shadow of a tree, do you drive into it or do you slow down? Or if you’re about to blow up a condemned building and you’re not sure if someone’s inside, do you blow it up anyway or send someone in to make sure?

However, it’s not true that no one can tell when human life begins.

The unborn from fertilization are alive because they exhibit the properties of living things. They grow through cellular reproduction and division, they metabolize food for energy, and they respond to stimuli. In fact, the only things the unborn need to survive are adequate nutrition, a proper environment, and an absence of fatal threats. That’s all any of us need. There is no point in human development at which the developing entity goes from non-life to living.

Click here for more from National Right to Life.

Singer Sia ‘Proud’ To Perform at Abortion Concert

Singer Sia
Singer Sia
Singer Sia will openly champion abortion at a Chicago concert as part of a 30-plus city tour.

The singer tweeted the news to her millions of fans:

The event is sponsored by an “All Access” coalition committed to “defending our access to abortion and celebrate women’s empowerment.”

The coalition plans to unite celebrities to “share their stories about why access to abortion strengthens women, families and ultimately the country.”

Besides Cleveland, the coalition will host 30-plus similar concerts in locations including Atlanta, Chicago, Miami and Philadelphia.

Click here for a list of the coalition.

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August 10, 2016

UNC Study Shows Enormity of Abortion’s Impact on Public Health, Minorities

Public health statistics do not, as a rule, take account of the unborn lives lost to abortion when calculating mortality. A team of researchers from the University of North Carolina has challenged this omission and published a paper examining just how much the correction of this omission would change our perceptions of America’s most preventable health crises.

The consequences are enormous, across the board, but the impact is absolutely devastating on black and Hispanic communities. When one considers not only the lives, but the years lost, the loss is staggering.

The paper, “Induced Abortion, Mortality, and the Conduct of Science” was written by James Studnicki, Sharon J. Mackinnon, and John W. Fisher and was published in the June 2016 online edition of the Open Journal of Preventive Medicine.

It starts with a statement both bold and obvious: “There is no credible scientific opposition to the fact that a new genetically distinct human organism begins with fertilization and that, simply stated, human life begins at conception.” The authors then affirm that, barring natural fetal losses (e.g., miscarriage), “conception usually results in a live birth.”

Given that, the authors draw the logical conclusion that abortion results in a human death.

Despite this undeniable truth, these deaths are not counted in the nation’s mortality statistics. When added back in, some astounding conclusions are revealed.

Click here for more from National Right to Life.



Why “Safe, Legal and rare” is passé to Hillary Clinton

Pro-abortion Hillary Clinton
Pro-abortion Hillary Clinton
Granted, the pace may be glacial, but ever, ever so slowly the Mainstream Media is acknowledging that “this ain’t your grandmother’s Democratic Party.”

I don’t mean a nod to the super-obvious: the party has raced Left. That is embraced by most journalists, so long as Hillary Clinton does not scare off the electorate which, as always, is center-right.

What I do mean is a vague acknowledgment that the mind of Clinton is soaked in abortion extremism. Put another way, it’s as if all the zaniest pro-abortion initiatives were dishes on a Lazy Susan. They are all so good (in a twisted pro-abortion sense) that Clinton cannot pass up even one.

Abortion for any reason or no reason, as late in pregnancy as desired, paid for by the public. And that’s just the start.

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Networks Hype Buffett’s Clinton Endorsement, Forget His $1.8 Billion to Abortion

Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett
When Warren Buffett promised to make his tax returns public if Donald Trump did the same, the media loved it. But they refused to cover one key thing Buffett’s tax returns would reveal about the Midwest billionaire — his support for abortion.

While ABC, CBS, and NBC all covered Buffett’s endorsement speech for Clinton on August 1, they skipped the more than $1.8 billion Buffett has given to fund abortion.

Instead of reporting that Buffett has given enough money to abort more than 3.6 million children (or almost the entire population of Los Angeles), the networks promoted Buffett’s “challenge to Trump.”

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August 9, 2016

Top Hillary donors could cover PP budget for 120 yrs.

Worth more than $64.5 billion dollars together, Clinton’s most prominent financial backers could easily cover the amount needed to fund the taxpayer-provided portion of the budget for the world’s largest abortion provider, which receives more than $550 million in American taxpayer funds each year from the federal government. The remaining half of Planned Parenthood’s budget is paid through grants, private donations and service fees.

The compiled campaign donation data collected by the Daily Caller utilized the latest figures provided by the Federal Election Commission and the Center for Responsive Politics to calculate the net worth of Clinton’s 20 most wealthy donors, with the media hub using a number of public sources to compile its final results.

Many familiar names topped Clinton’s list, with records showing that a number of them are generous contributors to Planned Parenthood, which reported conducting 323,999 abortions during its most recent fiscal year.

Click here for more from OneNewsNow.

Obama opening door for human-animal hybrids

Obama opening door for human-animal hybrids
In an aggressive move before the end of its second term, the Obama administration announced Thursday that is wants to allow scientists to engineer human-animal hybrids.

This latest attempt by President Barack Obama of reportedly seeking to manipulate and destroy human life through unethical experiments comes after his earlier move to overturn limits set by the Bush administration, when the former president set regulations so that taxpayers would not be forced to fund embryonic stem cell research.

Even though health officials insist that the process will take place in a highly controlled environment, pro-life advocates have expressed grave concern over the federal government’s announcement this week to lift a moratorium on taxpayers funding of various controversial experiments that use human stem cells to create animal embryos that are partly human.

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Prolife Ob-Gyn files lawsuit against Gov Rauner, claims new law stifles freedom of conscience

Dr. Anthony Caruso is one of the plaintiffs in lawsuit filed against Governor Rauner
Dr. Anthony Caruso is one of the plaintiffs in lawsuit
 filed against Governor Rauner
An Illinois doctor and two pregnancy care centers filed suit in state court against Gov. Bruce Rauner Friday after he signed a bill into law that forces doctors and medical facilities to promote controversial health care procedures, regardless of their ethical or moral views on the practice.

The Alliance Defending Freedom is representing the plaintiffs, including Dr. Anthony Caruso, who practices medicine in Downers Grove at the Bella Baby OBGYN center, as well as the Pregnancy Care Center of Rockford and Aid for Women, a Chicago non-profit that runs six pregnancy help centers and two residential programs, as reported by the Chicago Sun-Times.

ADF sent a letter to Rauner in May on behalf of numerous pro-life physicians, pregnancy care centers, and pregnancy care center network organizations advising him that the bill, SB 1564, would violate federal law and therefore place federal funding, including Medicaid reimbursements, in jeopardy. ADF also warned legislators about the problems with the bill last year. The lawsuit claims the new law, which is actually an amendment to the existing Illinois Healthcare Right of Conscience Act, violates state law and the state constitution.

Click here for more from Illinois Review.

Abortion Cartel Files Fourth Lawsuit Against David Daleiden

David Daleiden
David Daleiden
David Daleiden has been hit with yet another lawsuit stemming from his videos exposing Planned Parenthood's illegal sale of baby body parts. The most recent lawsuit was filed by employees of Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities, who sold fetal tissue, and by employees of the University of Washington (UW) and other laboratories, who purchased the parts of aborted babies. The University of Washington is named, along with Daleiden, as a defendant in the suit.

After learning that the University of Washington had purchased fetal body parts from Planned Parenthood, David submitted a public records request seeking information about the transactions, including invoices and purchase orders, from the University. The request was made in February of this year.

Inexplicably, UW waited a full five months to notify Planned Parenthood and the other parties that the records would be released this week. Planned Parenthood immediately filed the class action lawsuit to prevent Daleiden from receiving the information, citing, among other things, Planned Parenthood's constitutionally protected "right to associate" with buyers of fetal body parts.

This lawsuit comes just as Daleiden was cleared of bogus criminal charges, also intended to silence him, in Texas.

Click here for more from Christian Newswire.

August 4, 2016

Springfield Planned Parenthood to provide surgical abortions

Beginning Thursday, August 4th, 2016 Planned Parenthood in Springfield is offering surgical abortions.  This new service is igniting local pro-lifers and Springfield Right to Life.

“I think it’s a sad day for Springfield,” Tim Moore president of Springfield Right to Life said.

At this location, Planned Parenthood has only offered “medication abortions” since 2010 in which patients take one pill (RU486) at Planned Parenthood and a second pill at home to kill and miscarry the unborn child.

Pregnant adolescents and women up to 18 weeks gestation will have to make an appointment to receive this "service".  Surgical abortions can take up to a few hours where two lives go in and only one comes out alive if there are no complications.

Study finds skyrocketing rate of abstinence among Millennials

The number of young adults born in the 1990s who report they are not having sex is more than twice as high as it was for the Baby Boomer generation, a sign they have learned from the fallout of the sexual revolution, experts tell LifeSiteNews.

The study found that 15 percent of Millenials aged 20-24 said they had not had sex since age 18, more than those born in the late 1960s (six percent), 1970s (11 percent) or 1980s (12 percent). That is lower than their fellow Millenials born in the previous decade.

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Kaine tells CNN he is “fully committed” to repealing of the Hyde Amendment but also supports it

Tim Kaines says he supports all of Hillary Clinton’s political agenda.

Let’s see how Tim Kaine can explain his position on the Hyde Amendment, a provision of an annual bill which eliminates public funding for abortion except in the cases of rape, incest or to save the life of the mother, is credited with saving over a million lives.

Yes, no, no, yes, I’ll check it out….what’s the latest? Glad you asked. Here’s how the Hill’s Jonathan Swan explains it:

Kaine, who says he personally opposes abortion but will support all elements of the Democratic presidential nominee’s agenda, created confusion over his stance Sunday when he said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that his position on the Hyde Amendment had not changed.

“On Hyde, my position is the same. I support the Hyde Amendment. I haven’t changed that,” he said.

“As the vice president, I have to get comfortable with the notion that I can have my personal views but I’m going to support the president of the United States, and I will.”

One of the “elements of the Democratic presidential nominee’s agenda” which pro-abortion Hillary Clinton passionately embraces, is gutting the Hyde Amendment.

Click here for more from National Right to Life.

August 3, 2016

Planned Parenthood VP calls Pro-Life politicians the “4 horsemen of the anti-abortion apocalypse”

Planned Parenthood was out in full force at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. In their typical tactless fashion, the abortion activists were busy distributing “protect yourself from Trump” condoms to passers-by. The message: Donald Trump wants to “take away your rights.”

That message was echoed by Planned Parenthood’s vice president, Dawn Laguens, when she told liberal media pundit Tammy Haddad that Trump was no friend of the “reproductive rights” crowd.

Per the abortion group’s typical name-calling, Laguens referred to Pro-Life politicians Marco Rubio, Mike Pence, Ted Cruz, and Scott Walker as the “4 horsemen of the anti-abortion apocalypse.” She also called the group the “anti-abortion squad.”

Laguens is afraid that as president, Trump will nominate Pro-Life justices to the Supreme Court of the United States, which would be a boon to Pro-Life legislation. On the other hand, if Planned Parenthood’s heavily-funded candidate (Clinton) is elected, abortion zealots are virtually guaranteed to own the Supreme Court for the foreseeable future.

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Illinois Law forces referrals, encouragement for abortion

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner has signed into law a bill (SB1564) forcing pro-life people to violate their faith and conscience.

It requires all healthcare professionals to refer for abortions and discuss the benefits of abortion - regardless of what their personal feelings about abortion may be or the dictates of their conscience that they would never in a million years recommend or suggest an abortion to anyone

The U.S. Constitution guarantees freedom of speech, and the law, scheduled to go into effect in January, forces a particular speech. The Constitution also provides for freedom of religion.

Alliance Defending Freedom will be filing a lawsuit.

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August 2, 2016

Reflections of the most pro-abortion presidential candidate ever

The Democratic convention has been a slick production — and that’s a compliment.

There were plenty of ghastly goofs and questionable emphases, but on the whole Marks is correct. The Democrats, whose embrace of the darkest side of the lethal pro-abortion worldview also speaks volumes, were on their game in producing a show that camouflaged the party’s lurch to the left.

But the Democrats’ unlimited, unrestrained, and unconditional promotion of abortion on demand paid for by you and I was not hidden. It was broadcast, loudly and often, to delegates who cheered when NARAL Pro-Choice America’s Ilyse Hogue talked about her abortion (“it was the wrong time” to have a baby).

Clinton’s pitch was compare and contrast between herself and GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

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Oh, what tangled webs we weave…. Tim Kaine and the Hyde Amendment

Since the beginning of the month pro-abort Sen. Tim Kaine has gone from saying, “I have traditionally been a supporter of the Hyde amendment, but I’ll check it out,” to opposing it, according to Clinton’s campaign manager, to being “committed to carrying out Secretary Clinton’s agenda,” although “not personally for repeal of the Hyde Amendment, according to a Clinton spokesperson, to telling CNN today, “I have been for the Hyde Amendment and I haven’t changed my position on that.”

Two quick points. The CNN host didn’t ask Kaine the obvious question: whether he did or didn’t personally support the Hyde Amendment, was he still “committed to carrying out Secretary Clinton’s agenda” which includes overturning the Hyde Amendment? The answer doubtless would have been yes.

Second, forcing taxpayers to pass for abortions is a losing position, no matter how many times Clinton and her supporters tell you otherwise.

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August 1, 2016

Gov. Rauner Signs SB1564 The Amendment to the Health Care Right of Conscience Act

On July 29, 2016 Gov. Rauner signed SB1564 (The Amendment to the Health Care Right of Conscience Act).  He did not betray the pro-life movement.  He was never with us.   He has stated without hesitation that he is pro-choice.  Any statements he made during his campaign indicating that he would stay away from “social issues” should have been viewed for what they were – meaningless campaign verbiage to garner votes.  Any deals or discussions behind closed doors with pro-lifers should have been recognized as a tactic to pacify and mislead.

Signing SB1564 was simply Rauner being Rauner.

The legislative fight against SB1564 was a shining example of how various pro-life groups can mobilize and work together.  The grassroots was energized and once again demonstrated what a great resource we have available when pro-lifers are informed and engaged.

We fought nobly to defend life, women and religious liberty.  So signing SB1564 reveals that not only is the Governor anti-life, he is not a friend of women and does not respect individuals with deeply held religious convictions.  Attacking Pregnancy Resource Centers is particularly ugly.  We need to be clear that we are dealing with a Governor willing to pursue such a course of action.

We need to recognize that we must change the make-up of the Illinois General Assembly.  We need to garner all our resources and work together in the upcoming elections.  We need to set aside any differences we may have and harness the strength of unity in purpose and commitment.

If we fail to do so then we have betrayed the pro-life movement.

Click here for more on SB1564.

Dawn Behnke
President, IFRL

July 28, 2016

Where do the Presidential Candidates Stand on Abortion?

Not surprisingly, the candidates have very different views on abortion. Here is an overview of their positions on abortion-related issues.



Abortion on Demand

Donald Trump said, “Let me be clear – I am pro-life,” adding, “I did not always hold this position, but I had a significant personal experience that brought the precious gift of life into perspective for me.”

In contrast, in the U.S. Senate Hillary Clinton voted to endorse Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision which allows abortion for any reason. She says, “The unborn person doesn’t have constitutional rights,” later adding she believed this to be true even on the unborn child’s due date.

Partial-Birth Abortion

The partial-birth abortion procedure – used from the fifth month on – involves pulling a living baby feet-first out of the womb, except for the head, puncturing the skull and suction out the brain. The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2007, in a 5-4 decision.

In 2000, in his book The America We Deserve, Donald Trump wrote that after consulting with doctors about the partial-birth abortion procedure he concluded that he would support a ban on that method.

In 2003, Hillary Clinton voted against the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (voted to allow partial-birth abortions to continue) every chance she got.

Nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court

The next president may have the opportunity to appoint three or four justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In May 2016, Donald Trump released a list of eleven conservative judges whom he would consider for a Supreme Court vacancy, saying, “By the way, these judges are all pro-life.”

Hillary Clinton has said that she would only nominate Supreme Court justices who would uphold the decision that legalized abortion on demand, saying, “I would not appoint someone who didn’t think Roe v. Wade is settled law.”

Vice Presidential Candidates

The contrasting positions of the vice presidential candidates are listed.

Donald Trump chose Indiana Governor Mike Pence to be his running mate. Mike Pence had a solid pro-life voting record on abortion during 12 years in the U.S. House, including votes for passage of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. As governor of Indiana, Mike Pence champions pro-life measures.

Hillary Clinton chose U.S. Senator Tim Kaine as her running mate. Tim Kaine voted against the pro-life position in the U.S. Senate every chance he got, even voting against the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. Tim Kaine co-sponsored a bill (S.217) that would nullify virtually all state limits on abortion, including late abortions.

Party Platforms

The party platforms reveal a great contrast on abortion.

The Republican Party Platform affirms “that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life,” opposes using government funds to perform or promote abortion or to fund abortion providers, and supports legislation to assist babies who survive abortion.

The Democratic Party Platform supports abortion on demand, and calls for repeal of the Hyde Amendment (which restricts the use of federal funds for abortion). The platform also supports government funding of abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider.

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Even a former Obama staffer thinks the Democratic platform is extreme

The Democratic Party platform has drawn the ire of critics – including a member of Barack Obama’s former campaign – who say its extreme positions on abortion shut out millions of pro-life voters.

The abortion plank in the platform shows a sharp departure from previous years. Gone is the call for abortion to be “rare.” Instead, “reproductive health” is considered “core to women’s, men’s, and young people’s health and wellbeing.”

The platform calls for a broad expansion of abortion access, including overturning the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal dollars from directly funding abortions, and the Helms Amendment, which bans federal dollars from funding abortions abroad. The proposal would overturn decades of U.S. policy.

Click here for more from CNA Daily News.