Abortion advocates are rumored to be waiting until today to pass in the Illinois House the most far-reaching abortion promotion to date. If HB 2354 becomes law, Illinois' already restriction-free abortion policy would become solidified in state statutes. HB 2354's roll call itself, whether it passes or fails, will spotlight once and for all our state's most blood-thirsty House members. The list of HB 2354's co-sponsors already provides a peek as to those lawmakers with a public aversion to preborn human life.
Over the years, Illinois prolifers have attempted to incrementally restrict abortion policy through several different unsuccessful legislative attempts. One would require minor girls to notify her parents before undergoing an abortion. That law was passed, but is not enforced in Illinois, and is presently held up in court. Minors are not required to notify parents in Illinois at this time. Because surrounding states have been able to enact the protection, Illinois has become a place teens from other states come to for secret abortions. HB 2354 would overrule the pending parental notification law and open the floodgates to more life-ending abortions on young girls.
Illinois prolifers have not had the political muscle to restrict state taxpayer funding of abortions. There are no state clinical regulations as to the facilities in which abortions are done. Pharmacists are now restricted from exercising freedom of conscience in distributing abortion-inducing drugs via Governor Blagojevich's executive order. Human embryos are experimented upon with state tax dollars, compliments of Governor Blagojevich's still-in-effect stem cell research executive order. Human cloning is not banned in this state. The only effective abortion restrictions in Illinois are those imposed upon the state by federal regulations, specifically the Partial Birth Abortion Ban and the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. Those are endangered with HB 2354, as well.
If HB 2354 becomes law, it would supercede any pending state laws affecting abortion policy and would need to be repealed before any abortion restrictions whatsoever could become law in Illinois, including parental notification, state taxpayer funding or any other reasonable measures.
Abortion lobbyists are funded by Planned Parenthood, which gets millions of dollars from the state coffers to advocate a counter-cultural lifestyle promoting promiscuity and, in effect, more business for itself. Personal PAC, Illinois abortionists' powerful political action committee, donates millions each year to buy abortion loyalists.
If HB 2354 is called for a vote and passed in the Illinois House, Illinois voters will have in their hands a list of blood-thirsty, conscience-less politicians that should fear the wrath of their constituents. The Illinois Senate consists of a majority committed to abortion rights. The current governor is most likely to sign such a bill into law.
If this all occurs over the next couple of months, it remains to be seen if the prolife movement in Illinois will survive such a devastating blow. We won't know until then whether there's enough people left in Illinois that care so much about protecting innocent human life that they force a new crop of life-loving leaders to emerge with new energy, smarter political savvy and a bold determination to regain protection for unborn babies. For the sake of the next generation, let's hope that happens quickly and smoothly.
We're aware the rhetoric in this editorial is strong, but the seriousness of HB 2354 demands we pull out the stops. If, by some act of God, HB 2354 is stopped, the prolife movement of Illinois must re-examine itself with great remorse and sincere repentence. Never should we ever have allowed the great state of Lincoln to become the Midwest center where any human -- born, unborn, black, white, old or young -- would ever be denied the right to life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness.
If HB 2354 becomes law, it's a disgrace and a terrible travesty. We have a third of our next generation to whom we will owe an apology.
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Source: Illinois Review
Publish Date: April 3, 2009
