Tag Archives: Robyn Gabel

URGENT: Witness Slips in Opposition to Assisted Suicide Needed

Posted on May 27, 2025 by Kathy Valente

State Representative Robyn Gabel (D-Chicago) and some of her colleagues are advocating for legislation that would permit physicians to prescribe lethal drugs for suicide. This proposal directly challenges the core medical tenet of "First, do no harm," and its passage would mark a deeply concerning ethical departure for Illinois, shifting the focus from health care to death care.

Posted in Illinois Politics, Sanctity of Life | Tagged A Better Exit, Barbara Coombs Lee, Beatrix UMCG Children's Hospital, Compassion and Choices, Damian Denys, Eduard Verhagen, euthanasia, J.M. Sorrell, Massachusetts Death with Dignity, Netherlands, Not Dead Yet, physician-assisted suicide, Robyn Gabel, Thaddeus Pope, University of Amsterdam | Comments Off

Legislative Update for the Last Week of May 2025

Posted on May 27, 2025 by Kathy Valente

The General Assembly's regular session is quickly approaching its May 31st deadline, with lawmakers grappling over the FY26 budget through debates on spending cuts, tax hikes, and gambling expansion. Our top concern, however, lies with the renewed push for suicide legislation, which assaults the sanctity of life and promotes death in our state.

Posted in Illinois Politics, Sanctity of Life | Tagged Curtis Tarver, HB 1328, Karina Villa, Linda Holmes, Lindsey LaPointe, physician-assisted suicide, Rachel Ventura, Robyn Gabel, SB 1950, SB 9, Terra Costa Howard | Comments Off

Assisted Suicide Bill Pops Up In Last Week of Session

Posted on May 24, 2025 by David E Smith

In a strategic maneuver, the assisted suicide legislation has been attached to a different bill, a move designed to enable the Illinois General Assembly to push this alarming measure through in the final hours of the regular session. Illinois has no demonstrated need or widespread public cry for assisted suicide. Why, then, is there such an urgent drive to legalize ending life?

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Our Laws Should Protect Life, Not Promote Suicide

Posted on May 20, 2025 by David E Smith

The last day of the regular session for the Illinois General Assembly is May 31st! Therefore, we have less than two weeks to petition our state lawmakers and tell them to VOTE NO on pro-suicide legislation. Devaluing life for some means devaluing life for all. The state should never normalize suicide.

Posted in Sanctity of Life | Tagged Linda Holmes, Medical Aid in Dying, physician-assisted suicide, Robyn Gabel | Comments Off

MAID: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

Posted on January 29, 2025 by Alyssa Sonnenburg

Within the first two weeks of the new year, proponents of physician-assisted suicide was again introduced (HB1328 and SB 9) for the 2025 legislative session. We urge you to ask your state lawmakers to vigorously this anti-life, pro-death agenda.

Posted in Illinois Politics, Marriage/Family/Culture, Sanctity of Life | Tagged Assisted Suicide, dignity, End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act, Harry Benton, Janet Yang Rohr, John Stonestreet, Kelly Cassidy, Laura Fine, Linda Holmes, MAID, Mary Edly-Allen, Medical Aid in Dying, physician-assisted suicide, Robyn Gabel, Sanctity of Life | Comments Off

The Health Care Right of Conscience Act & COVID-19

Posted on October 26, 2021 by David E Smith

State Representatives Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston), Bob Morgan (D-Highwood) and State Senator Melinda Bush (D-Grayslake) are sponsoring legislation (SB 1169) to diminish the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act specifically for COVID-19 remediation. In other words, these state lawmakers are heading up the effort to strike down existing legislation protecting citizens' rights to excuse themselves from the COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

Posted in Faith | Tagged Bob Morgan, COVID–19, Health Care Right of Conscience Act, JB Pritzker, Melinda Bush, Robyn Gabel, SB 1169 | Comments Off

State Lawmakers to Remove Basic Protection for Patients

Posted on May 3, 2021 by David E Smith

Illinois State Senators Sara Feigenholtz (D-Chicago) and Robert Martwick (D-Chicago) are sponsoring a bill (SB 109) that will change the "Practitioner's Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment" (POLST) form by removing the requirement that a witness sign the form. Since the POLST form states the patient's wishes regarding life-sustaining treatment, having a witness to the signature of this form reduces the chances that a patient is manipulated into literally signing their life away.

Posted in Sanctity of Life | Tagged Carol Ammons, Donald DeWitte, John Curran, POLST, Robert Martwick, Robyn Gabel, Sara Feigenholtz | Comments Off

So-Called ‘Death With Dignity’ Resolution Advances in Evanston

Posted on February 13, 2020 by David E Smith

Evanston, Illinois, a North Shore suburb of Chicago, has a reputation in the rest of the state as being affluent and liberal. Last year, its city council voted to levy a 3 percent tax, with a cap of $10 million, on recreational marijuana to go towards racial reparations. Now, the City’s Health and Human Service Committee has submitted a death with symbolic dignity resolution to the city council, which many believe clashes with the rights of the disabled.

On February 3, the committee voted to send the resolution supporting the “death with dignity” legislation, which is essentially a euphemism for …

Posted in Sanctity of Life | Tagged Cicely Fleming, Compassion and Choice, Death With Dignity Resolution, Evanston, John Lionberger, Larry Biondi, Progress Center for Independent Living, Robyn Gabel, Stephen Hagerty, Three Crowns Park | Comments Off

Outrageous Acts of IL House Progressives to Pass Kill-Babies-Bill

Posted on May 29, 2019 by David E Smith

This afternoon, the Illinois House of Representatives voted 64-50 (with 4 voting present) to pass abortion expansion (SB 25) in our state. "Pro-choice" lawmakers proudly and boldly championing baby slaughter in the name of women's so-called "health."

Posted in Sanctity of Life | Tagged ACLU, anembryonic, Avery Bourne, Bob Morgan, Catholic Conference of Illinois, Darren Bailey, Ectopic pregnancies, Illinois Right to Life Action, Kelly Cassidy, Memorial Day weekend, Mike Madigan, Ralph Rivera, Reproductive Health Act, Robyn Gabel, Tom Demmer, Tony McCombie, Zachary Wichmann | Comments Off

Pray, Pray, Pray & Call, Call, Call

Posted on May 27, 2019 by David E Smith

As you may know, our state lawmakers returned to the Capitol late Sunday afternoon to begin their last week of regular session, which is scheduled to end on Friday, May 31st. At 6:08 PM, SB 25 (House Amendment 1) was posted and then scheduled for a hearing at 7:08 PM. This proposal, sponsored by State Representative Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) is very similar to the extreme abortion expansion legislation filed by her earlier this year.

It should be noted that this bill was posted and scheduled in the absolute minimum amount of time required to be considered in the …

Posted in Sanctity of Life | Tagged Avery Bourne, Kelly Cassidy, Michael Madigan, Robyn Gabel, SB 25, Tom Demmer | Comments Off

Illinois Lawmakers Pass Legislation to Coerce Speech

Posted on May 25, 2016 by David E Smith

This afternoon, the Illinois House took up this SB 1564, debated and passed this ominous new mandate by a vote of 61-54. We are asking for a flood of calls to the Governor's office, asking him to VETO this terrible legislation: (217) 782-0244 or (312) 814-2121

Posted in Sanctity of Life | Tagged Barbara Wheeler, Bruce Rauner, C.D. Davidsmeyer, Christian Medical and Dental Associations, Daniel Biss, Illinois Healthcare Right of Conscience Act, Jeanne Ives, Margo McDermed, Peter Breen, Robyn Gabel, SB 1564, Sheri Jesiel | Comments Off