![IFI Banquet Speaker Discusses Secret Recording of Planned Parenthood Abortionist IFI Banquet Speaker Discusses Secret Recording of Planned Parenthood Abortionist](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/IFI_Wilson_Esolen-Fall-Banquet_2.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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07.21.15
Pastor Douglas Wilson, one of IFI’s September Banquet speakers, has written an enormously helpful defense of the secret recording of the Planned Parenthood abortionist’s description of carefully crushing preborn baby bodies so as not to damage the merchandise, also known...
![Five Ways We Fight for Children Five Ways We Fight for Children](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/full_five-ways-we-fight-for-children.jpg)
07.20.15
Less than a week ago, a video was released that provided damning evidence that Planned Parenthood was selling the body parts of infant corpses. Christians immediately took to social media calling Planned Parenthood actions “inhumane” and “barbaric.” Many demanded that the government defund the organization and others insisted that they be shut down.
![Congress Responds to Latest Controversy Involving Planned Parenthood Congress Responds to Latest Controversy Involving Planned Parenthood](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/congress1.jpg)
By David E. Smith
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07.17.15
This week, U.S. Representatives Peter Roskam (R-West Chicago), Randy Hultgren (R-Campton Hills), Daniel Lipinski (D-Chicago), Mike Bost (R-Belleville), Rodney Davis (R-Decatur), and John Shimkus (R-Effingham), joined dozens of their colleagues in the U.S. Congress in calling for an investigation into...
![“A Lot of People Want Intact Hearts These Days” — Planned Parenthood, Abortion, and the Conscience of a Nation “A Lot of People Want Intact Hearts These Days” — Planned Parenthood, Abortion, and the Conscience of a Nation](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Fetus-2-e1436987162200.jpg)
07.16.15
Tuesday’s release of a video showing the senior medical director of Planned Parenthood casually discussing the sale of organs from aborted babies is a moral challenge thrown right in the face of all Americans.
![Planned Parenthood’s Body-Snatching Exposed Planned Parenthood’s Body-Snatching Exposed](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/margaret-sanger-quote.jpg)
By Laurie Higgins
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07.14.15
Humans have an astonishing capacity for embracing deception in the service of selfish and disordered desires. There is no more apt illustration of that truth than Planned Parenthood which has developed a ghastly organization that depends on deception to advance...
![Campaign to Spread “Deliver Us From Abortion” Book Gaining Life Campaign to Spread “Deliver Us From Abortion” Book Gaining Life](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/End-from-Abortion.png)
By Monte Larrick
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07.10.15
Jessica Schuessler, who went through an abortion as young woman, is now on a mission to give a copy of Brian Fisher’s Deliver Us From Abortion book to every pastor in Illinois. See video below. Get involved with the campaign...
![Court Rules Against Planned Parenthood in Abortion Clinic Zoning Case Court Rules Against Planned Parenthood in Abortion Clinic Zoning Case](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Planned-Parenthood.jpg)
06.23.15
The Illinois Appellate Court, Second Judicial District, has overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a zoning and fraud lawsuit brought by the Thomas More Society on behalf of Fox Valley Families Against Planned Parenthood and several neighbors. The Society argued...
![What’s Behind the Decline in Abortions Across the US What’s Behind the Decline in Abortions Across the US](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/zumaglobaltwo737504-1250x650.jpg)
06.16.15
Abortion rates continue to drop nearly everywhere in the United States—and by impressive amounts.
![Rights of Conscience on the Operating Table in Springfield Rights of Conscience on the Operating Table in Springfield](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/8050641467_1f6b2d5c36_b.jpg)
By Monte Larrick
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06.11.15
The regular session of the Illinois General Assembly ended on May 31st, but with lawmakers at an impasse over the state budget, they could be meeting in overtime sessions well into the summer. Along with debate over a spending plan,...
![Federal Court Says Pro-Life Message is “Offensive” Federal Court Says Pro-Life Message is “Offensive”](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/IL_Choose_Life_Image.jpg)
By David E. Smith
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06.09.15
A federal appeals court has ruled that the State of New York may prohibit the issuance of “Choose Life” license plates.
A three-judge panel of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals decided that plates with the message “Choose Life” could...
![Dr. Pam Smith Talks About SB 1564 Dr. Pam Smith Talks About SB 1564](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/SB-1564_Oppose_3.jpg)
By
Monte Larrick
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05.15.15
On Wednesday morning, the Human Services Committee heard testimony about SB 1564, a bill that would change the Health Care Rights of Conscience Act by forcing doctors, nurses, pharmacists to distribute information to help a patients find objectionable medical services...
![U.S. House Will Vote on Legislation to Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks U.S. House Will Vote on Legislation to Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/TheyFeelPain.jpg)
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives will hold a vote on or around the anniversary of the murder conviction of late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell on a marquee bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy because unborn children...
![Pro-Life Action Alert Bulletin Inserts Pro-Life Action Alert Bulletin Inserts](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Speak-Up-Now.jpg)
By
David E. Smith
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05.06.15
As you know, pro-abortion forces are working overtime in Springfield trying to pass troubling legislation to expand abortion services in Illinois. Their goal is to get these anti-life proposals passed in the Illinois House this month. Our goal is to...
![Does Same-Sex “Marriage” Lead to More Abortion? Does Same-Sex “Marriage” Lead to More Abortion?](https://illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Grim-Reaper.jpg)
By
Micah Clark
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05.01.15
Two men, two women, or three men, cannot create a baby without an opposite gender. So, at first glance, the idea of a link between same-sex marriage and higher abortion rates seems unlikely. Yet, as over 100 marriage scholars and...