Illinois well on way to being 'abortion oasis'

Business is booming for Planned Parenthood in Illinois, where a pro-life leader predicts the state is going to see a major spike in abortions in the wake of the governor signing legislation putting all abortions on the taxpayers' tab.

In September, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner (R) – in a move that angered his pro-life base of his party – signed House Bill 40, which forces taxpayers to pay for abortion through all nine months of pregnancy through Medicaid. According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, more than 4,500 women had crossed into the state in 2016 for an abortion – up from approximately 3,200 such abortions the previous year – even before the new law was enacted.

The Associated Press reports that activists on both sides of the abortion debate speculate that more restrictive statutes in surrounding states could be sending more women to Illinois.

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Trump nominates new pro-life secretary of state former Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo

President Trump announced on March 13th that Rex Tillerson is out as U.S. Secretary of State and will be replaced by former Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo who serves currently as Director of Central Intelligence.

This will be considered good news by pro-life and pro-family advocates since Pompeo has a lengthy record in support of a right to life...

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Assisted-Suicide Pushers Want Forced MD Participation

Assisted-suicide advocates pretend they want assisted suicide limited to the terminally ill.

They pretend that they favor strict guidelines.

And they pretend they would never want doctors forced to participate in intentionally ending the life of a patient. Indeed, the laws they have passed all contain conscience protections.

Except, sometimes they show their true hands. For example, when the Canadian Supreme Court imposed a broad right to lethal-injection euthanasia — certainly not limited to the dying — Compassion and Choices (formerly the Hemlock Society) issued a laudatory press release — later scrubbed because it told the truth about the movement’s true goals.

And now, Compassion and Choices — again, which has included conscience protections in laws it sponsored as a necessary predicate to passage — has come out strongly against a proposed Trump-administration office in HHS to protect medical professionals from forced participation in procedures against their consciences and/or religious beliefs.

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This Democrat Has Earned Pro-Life Americans' Trust - Now He Needs Our Help

Thoughtful pro-life Americans know that our greatest victories for the cause of the unborn have been made possible, in part, with help from a brave group of pro-life Democrats who have stood tall against members of their own party to do right by their most vulnerable constituents.

In 2016, the Democratic Party’s official platform endorsed taxpayer funding of elective abortion. Last year, only two Democrats in the House of Representative voted for a measure authored by Rep. Diane Black (R-TN) to overturn an Obama-era edict that banned states from withholding family planning grants from Planned Parenthood – the nation’s largest abortion provider and purveyor of family destruction.

One of those courageous Democrats was Congressman Dan Lipinski (D-IL).

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You can’t make Black history if you’re killed by abortion

What would you do if you found out an American business was killing defenseless black lives for profit? What would you do if you found out this business located 79% of its killing centers, disproportionately, in black neighborhoods? What would you do if you found out that the majority of its advertising appeared in poorer African-American neighborhoods, just as the alcohol and tobacco industries have done for decades? What would you do if that same business declared that black mothers are safer if they have their children killed rather than birth them?

That business is Planned Parenthood. For over 100 years, it has worked hard to make black people history. It failed to do so with its original Negro Project, promoting the lie that birth control would eliminate poverty. Many leaders in the black community knew racism when they saw it. Fannie Lou Hamer (pictured) knew it. The voting rights and anti-poverty activist, who was “sick and tired of being sick and tired”, fought against Planned Parenthood. Hamer was a prolife adoptive mother who had been forcibly sterilized in 1961 in Mississippi. She understood freedom was not in a birth control pill or in the forceps of an abortionist.

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Vice President Mike Pence: ‘Abortion will end in our time’

The goal of the pro-life movement is to protect all human life, from conception to natural death. This means that being pro-life is about multiple issues — but the largest threat to life is, currently, abortion. The goal of the pro-life movement is to end abortion; to not only make it illegal, but to make it to where no woman ever even considers an abortion.

The Trump administration has been notably pro-life, putting into place pro-life policies and scoring multiple pro-life victories over the last year. Last week, Vice President Mike Pence attended a luncheon in Nashville hosted by the Susan B. Anthony List and Life Institute, where he said something shocking: that he hopes abortion will end soon. “If all of us do all we can, we can once again, in our time, restore the sanctity of life to the center of American law,” he said.

Actually, that’s not really that shocking, right? It’s pretty much the exact goal of all pro-lifers, everywhere. Yet somehow, it still sent shockwaves through the abortion industry and its defenders, who were outraged. The statement was roundly criticized, by Glamour, Refinery 29, Jezebel, Elite Daily, The Mary Sue, Bustle, and countless more.

The question is… why?

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Nurse stunned as baby survived abortion: His ‘heart was beating strongly’

Rita was a young, student nurse working in a London hospital in the 1970s. She describes herself as an “Irish country girl” who did not know what she would be expected to do in her training. When she was required to care for a woman undergoing an abortion, she was confused and unprepared. Rita describes vividly the first time she witnessed an abortion:

One case which is indelible in my mind was that of a married woman, who was admitted for a termination of pregnancy. She had two healthy children and was now pregnant with baby number three. She did not want any more children. I was asked to do the medicine round that morning and I gave her the prostaglandin tabs prescribed.

Hours later she requested a bed pan and then passed a live fetus approximately the size of the palm of my hand. It certainly was a human being. It had limbs, a head, eyes and a heart that was beating strongly and visibly. The mother saw the contents of the bed pan as did I. The image of that little baby has never left my mind.

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GAO audit reveals that $1.5 billion went to three giant abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood and International Planned Parenthood

A Government Accountability Office (GAO study, requested by more than 120 Members of the House and Senate and released today, found that over a three-year period more than $1.5 billion in tax dollars went to three of the largest abortion “providers” in the world: Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), Marie Stopes International (MSI), and International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).

The study was led by Reps. Diane Black and Pete Olson and Senator Joni Ernst. Rep. Black’s office sent out a very helpful press release and a link to the full report.

There are many fascinating, revealing data points in the report. Here are just two.

#1. GAO “found that four of the five Planned Parenthood affiliates spending the largest amount of funds from federal programs during this period were later subject to referrals to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for possible criminal misconduct regarding fetal tissue transfer. The DOJ confirmed that an investigation is ongoing.”

#2. The $1.5 billion figure consisted of $410 million in federal funding spent “between 2013 and 2015” and another $1.2 billion that PPFA, Planned MSI, and IPPF received in “combined federal and state funds under federal health programs that require shared funding.”

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Email proves Diana Rauner was in charge of bill on taxpayer funded abortions in Illinois

Governor Rauner: “I’m not in charge!”

According to Michael Madigan’s spokesman Steve Brown, quoting from the Chicago Tribune, Brown said he didn’t know “what to make” of the governor’s comments. “If he’s not in charge, we’d better figure out who is,” Brown said.

We believe we have figured out who is in charge!

The recent book hitting mailboxes this election cycle, “The Governor you Don’t Know,” has a chapter entitled, “Conservatives are out, the wife is in”.  It appears that chapter has more truth to it than they may have realized.

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The rights of women can’t be advanced if they’re killed in the womb

March 8, 2018, is International Women’s Day, a “global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.” Across the globe, people will be wearing purple, going to rallies, listening to seminars, and advocating for equality. But the largest obstacle facing women’s rights will almost assuredly not be mentioned: abortion.

The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is “Press For Progress” — and abortion makes that impossible for, literally, hundreds of millions of females. In China alone, it’s estimated that as many as 23 million preborn girls are aborted every single year. And while China is obviously the most notable example, it’s a much further reaching issue, plaguing countries around the world, and not just in Asia. Even in the United States, gendercide is a problem. One of Live Action’s undercover investigations helped to expose this, as abortion facility staffers were caught encouraging pregnant women to engage in gendercide.

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A plan to set the UN straight on abortion

The pro-life movement cannot limit itself to focusing on the United States. Just as the abolitionists had their sights on dismantling a global slave trade, so too the pro-life movement must target the global abortion conglomerate of governments, philanthropists, international bureaucrats, academics, and faux "civil society" organizations they use as proxies. The goal must be to deprive it of domestic and international political and financial support, and eventually dismantle it.

So far, President Trump has followed the lead of the pro-life advocates behind the 1973 Helms Amendment and the 1984 Mexico City Policy. He reinstituted and expanded the Mexico City Policy. He has defunded the United Nations Population Fund. He has reproached a UN treaty body for seeking to manufacture an international right to abortion. He has insisted on important caveats in international agreements that include "sexual and reproductive health" to rule out international abortion rights and made reservations to UN agreements to that effect. But this should be just the beginning.

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Rauner campaign funds non-partisan, pro-abortion women's group website

The Rauner campaign is funding a website appealing to those golden suburban women votes called "Women Working for Change" - and here's how the group describes itself:

WE ARE DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS, INDEPENDENTS, DOCTORS, TEACHERS, MOMS AND CEOS. 

We joined together on the core principle that if we listen to each other and elevate the conversation above the constant political fighting we can reach real solutions to the problems we face in our state.

The current political environment has many of us reconnecting to our personal values and principles, rather than to political parties. This has offered us an incredible opportunity to drop our defenses and come together to focus on our state’s biggest obstacles.

This year Governor Bruce Rauner signed legislation that ensures all women in Illinois, no matter of income, have access to reproductive health services—boldly taking the issue off the table. For many of us this issue has defined our vote.

We can move forward confident that women’s reproductive rights are protected, and on to other important issues stifling our state. 

Oh yeah - those doctors, teachers and moms that demand absolutely no restrictions on abortion, for any reason, at any time, and paid for by other doctors, teachers and moms that don't want their little babies either - as well as everyone else in Illinois that pays income taxes.

Who's paying for the website? We kid you not:

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Britain’s second highest court says Alfie Evans’s ventilator can be shut off

After a three judge Court of Appeal today upheld a judge’s ruling that critically ill Alfie Evans’s ventilator can be turned off, Lord Justices McFarlane and McCombe and Lady Justice King told his parents that they have until March 8 at 4pm to appeal their decision.

If that same Court of Appeal denies their appeal, Tom Evans’ and Kate James’ last resort would be to directly apply to the Supreme Court.

Evans and James had appealed the decision by Mr. Justice Hayden who concurred with Alder Hey Hospital in Birmingham, England, that turning off Alfie’s life support was in his “best interests.”

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Take Action: Conscience Protection for Doctors and Nurses

No medical professional should ever be coerced or bullied to participate in an abortion, or have his or her job threatened for not participating in an abortion. And when it does happen, these health care providers need legal protections and remedies like those found in the Conscience Protection Act (S. 301/ H.R. 644).

Congress must pass a new government-wide appropriations bill by March 23, when current spending authority expires. National Right to Life is urging that the Conscience Protection Act be enacted as part of this upcoming “must-pass” appropriations bill.

The Conscience Protection Act would significantly strengthen federal conscience protections for health care providers, and prohibits any level of government from discriminating against health care providers, including doctors, nurses, hospitals, and insurers who decline to participate in abortions.

The Conscience Protection Act would also empower victims to seek relief in court for violations of the federal conscience laws.

ACT TODAY: Please click on this link, which will guide you through simple steps to communicate with your federal legislators to urge them to enact this vital legislation this month. This will take only a few minutes.

Help us to protect our much-valued and much-needed pro-life doctors and nurses.

Court botches decision over Illinois pro-abortion bill

The controversial bill, HB 40, essentially expands Medicaid, which means that the state of Illinois will be financing elective abortions and abortions for state employees – yet this piece of legislation is by no means your typical a pro-life versus pro-abortion argument.

At stake in the matter is what the United States Constitution actually requires of the General Assembly. In part, this entails estimating revenues and making specific revenue appropriations for the spending, which is estimated at $10 million to $33 million.

Thomas More Society Special Counsel Peter Breen filed suit to resolve the issue, and an appeals court rejected the case on two grounds.

“They ruled that the court system couldn't at all evaluate, review or in any way comment on appropriations, so that's money being spent by the General Assembly – and on its legality,” More explained. “We think that's outrageous. That's what the courts exist to do.”

Secondly, it should be noted that if a bill is pending after May 31, it cannot be implemented for one year, but the state is now slated to start financing abortions starting January 1. Breen maintains that this violates both the Constitution and state law.

Thomas More Society has appealed the problematic decision in the case to the 4th District Appellate Court.

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Planned Parenthood’s insidious 2018 battle plan hinges on state laws promoting abortion

Last week, Planned Parenthood held a news conference to announce its plans for 2018. Fittingly, this was a news conference held over the phone rather than one where reporters gather in person. This fits the ever-growing web-cam abortion business Planned Parenthood is also working toward.

In combination with the news conference, Planned Parenthood issued a press release that said, in part: “Today, Planned Parenthood, in conjunction with state lawmakers, advocates, and fellow advocacy groups, unveiled a sweeping plan to push initiatives that expand access to reproductive health care [sic] in all 50 states. The push kicks off today, with the announcement that more than a dozen states this week are moving legislation that would expand access to abortion, birth control, and other reproductive health care.” The release further clarified that Planned Parenthood seeks “protections for birth control coverage, bills that expand access to abortion, and changes to make sex education more inclusive.”

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Pro-life Democrat Lipiniski faces NARAL backed challenger

Pro-life Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski of Illinois faces a primary challenger backed by pro-abortion rights groups, putting a focus on the priorities of the Democratic Party and its sympathizers.

“I think my pro-life beliefs fit in perfectly with standing up for the little guy, the little girl, those who are most vulnerable among us. I think that fits in with the Democratic Party,” Lipinski told CNA March 1.

“It used to be, if you go back 40 years ago, there was not at all a partisan split between the parties on being pro-life. There were pro-life Democrats and pro-life Republicans and there were Democrats and Republicans on the other side,” he said. “Just as 40 years ago it made sense for Democrats to be pro-life, it still makes sense today.”

The pro-abortion rights groups EMILY’s List, NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood have backed Lipinski’s primary challenger, Emily Newman, who has been endorsed by several other Democratic members of Congress ahead of the March 20 primary election in a heavily Democratic Chicago-area district.

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Nancy Pelosi breaks with her pro-abortion party, endorses last pro-life Democrat

Radically pro-abortion U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, said she supports the last pro-life Democrat in Congress as he runs for re-election.  “Yes, I do” support pro-life Rep. Dan Lipinski, D-IL, Pelosi said.

Even though Lipinski skipped his scheduled 2018 March for Life appearance and voted in favor of taxpayer-funded military “sex change” operations, he continues to vote against abortion and therefore elicit his party’s wrath.

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Pro-life groups ready for Supreme Court fight against laws forcing them to promote abortion

Eighteen influential pro-life leaders joined nearly 3,000 pro-life activists Thursday evening for a nationwide “Stop Forced Abortion Promotion” webcast.

The virtual town hall meeting aimed to build support for the NIFLA v. Becerra case (NIFLA is the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, a powerhouse pro-life legal organization representing nearly 1,500 member pregnancy centers in the U.S.) which will be heard by the United States Supreme Court later this month - at the heart of this case is “the unconstitutional California law which is compelling the staff and volunteers of pro-life pregnancy centers to violate their consciences and promote tax-funded abortions.

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Thomas More Society and David Daleiden Sought “Writ of Mandamus” for Removal of Allegedly Biased Judge

Last December 2017, the legal team for undercover citizen journalist David Daleiden, who exposed the abortion industry’s role in the trafficking of aborted baby body parts, filed a petition for an “extraordinary writ of mandamus” in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

The petition asked that the appellate court order that William Orrick, a San Francisco federal judge, step down from presiding over two lawsuits, owing to an apparent conflict of interest and other facts creating the appearance of bias.

On Wednesday, February 28th, a three-judge “motions panel” ruled that Daleiden’s “petition for writ of mandamus raises issues that warrant an answer.” The panel ordered that the abortion groups suing Daleiden in Judge Orrick’s courtroom, namely, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (“PPFA”), its many California-based affiliates as well as others, and the National Abortion Federation (“NAF”), file answers to the mandamus petition within 14 days.

The panel further directed that in their answers, the abortion groups “shall address the basis for the district court’s denial of [Daleiden’s] motion for disqualification of Judge William H. Orrick under 28 U.S.C. Secs. 144, 455(a) and 455(b)(1).” And the panel specified that, “in particular,” the answers [shall] address Judge Orrick’s relationship with Good Samaritan Family Resource Center.”

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