A bill that would force pro-life health care providers in Illinois to promote and participate in abortion, SB 1564, passed the Senate and now moves to the House. Plainly bad policy, the bill would also violate federal law.

How did they vote? This afternoon, the Illinois Senate voted 34 to 19 to pass SB 1564 — the onerous re-write of the Healthcare Right of Conscience Act.  This bill broadly defines “health care,” “health care personnel,” and “health care...

Emily Zender for Illinois Right to Life is speaking out against HB 4013, a bill that would remove all prohibitions on taxpayer funding of abortions.  In other words, this legislation would reverse the current law which bans taxpayer funding of...

Sunday’s Chicago Tribune article, “State bill seeks to mandate disclosure,” is terribly misleading. It implies SB 1564 merely requires a healthcare provider to disclose that she has a conscientious objection, that the bill is simply about not having patients be “blind-sided” that a Catholic hospital/provider doesn’t perform abortions, elective sterilizations, etc. The bill does not require mere transparency about objections, but creates new obligations for healthcare providers, including pregnancy resource centers that offer women alternatives to abortion, to promote and participate in conscience-violating activities.

Chipping away at ObamaCare one case at a time, pro-life advocates scored another victory for religious rights and preborn children on Thursday at the United States Supreme Court, where the controversial federal healthcare policy’s abortion mandate was struck down.

The Ultrasound Opportunity Act is being discussed in the Illinois General Assembly and around the nation. Such an act would simply require an abortion facility to offer an ultrasound to a mother. Statistics show that 78% of abortion minded women...

State Representative Scott Drury (D-Highwood) wrote this to a constituent who opposes HB 4013*, the bill that would remove all restrictions on taxpayer-funded abortions: Thank you for your email.  As a devoted husband and father of two children, I have...

Joe and Ann Schiedler of the Pro Life Action League are concerned about two new bills gaining traction in the Illinois General Assembly. HB 4013 would remove all restrictions on taxpayer funded abortions. SB 1654 would drastically weaken the right...

New studies show an alarming rate of the disease among women who have had abortions.

"An abomination to Almighty God and sadly a further commodification of human beings."

Late last week, State Representative Sara Feigenholtz introduced HB 4013, a bill that would remove all prohibitions on taxpayer funding of abortions. In other words, this legislation would reverse the current law which bans taxpayer funding of abortion under Medicaid. In 1977 there were over 12,700 abortions paid for under Public Aid’s Medicaid program with taxpayer dollars.

IFI is working with other Illinois pro-life groups in advocating for an important pro-life bill sponsored by State Representative Barbara Wheeler (R-Crystal Lake).  If passed, HB 2701 would require abortion providers to simply offer an ultrasound picture to women considering...

Professor Robert George, renowned scholar on religious liberty at Princeton University, spoke with IFI's Monte Larrick at the recent pro-life SpeakOut Illinois conference.

Hundreds of babies are abandoned on the streets of Seoul, South Korea every year, but one brave pastor has made it his mission to save them. This powerful true story comes to life when The Drop Box comes to movie...

U.S. Representative Tim Ryan (D-OH) made national news last week when he changed his position on abortion from protecting the rights of the pre-born to dismissing those rights in favor of abortion. Disturbed by the Congressman’s reasoning for his switch,...