By David E. Smith
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02.15.17
This time of year is usually extremely busy as lawmakers in Springfield and Washington D.C. introduce a many new legislative proposals. Over the next several weeks, IFI will be sending out email alerts asking for your responses to a variety...
America is unique in all the world and in all of history. This constitutional republic declared her independence from Britain officially in July, 1776, with the Declaration of Independence defining the purpose of government:
We hold these truths to be...
By Kathy Valente
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02.02.17
Please fill out a witness slip on the following bills which are scheduled to be heard on Wednesday, February 8th, in the Illinois House Human Services Committee. It’s critical that we have more slips from pro-lifers because the other side is working hard on these bills.
In a recent Saturday Night Live sketch, a group of millennial women visit the historic home of suffragette Susan B. Anthony in Rochester, New York. Devout feminists one and all, they decide before leaving to invoke the ghost of Anthony...
The U.S. abortion rate is the lowest in recorded history! The Guttmacher Institute found that there were 14.6 abortions for every 1,000 women aged 15-44 in 2014. That’s lower than the abortion rate in 1973 (when the Roe v. Wade...
By Nancy Valko
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01.23.17
Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser quietly signed an assisted suicide bill into law on December 19, 2016 after a majority of the city council voted for it.
Under the U.S. Constitution, the Congress has exclusive legislative authority over the District...
By Monte Larrick
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01.20.17
An estimated 5,000 pro-lifers descended on Chicago on Sunday. But that's not stopping anti-life forces from pushing for taxpayer funding for abortions.
01.19.17
The St. Louis Planned Parenthood became the last abortion clinic in Missouri in November, 2015 after an abortionist lost her “refer and follow” hospital admitting privileges in Columbia, Mo.
01.18.17
Underneath the guise of women’s health, Planned Parenthood has a unified mission: Abortion on demand, without apology–at the expense of the taxpayer. Here are five things...
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01.13.17
Chicago area pro-life advocates achieved a victory last week when a judge denied the City of Chicago’s motion to dismiss a federal complaint challenging Chicago’s abortion-protective “bubble zone.”
Planned Parenthood – America’s largest abortion provider – is in an outright panic over the prospect of being stripped of federal funds.
Annually, the abortion giant gets more $500,000,000 from taxpayers. This is why they are predicting the end of the world if lawmakers in DC cut them off the federal dole.
By Monte Larrick
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01.11.17
One of Illinois' top legal minds says he expects the Donald Trump administration to a friend to religious freedom in America.
The Illinois Department of Public Health recently released updated statistics on abortions for 2015. The number of pre-born human babies aborted in Illinois increased by 1,384 in 2015 to a total of 39,856. The Illinois Abortion Law of 1975 (720...
By Monte Larrick
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01.03.17
If you drive in the Chicago area chances are you'll be seeing signs on overpasses or on billboards that say, "Abortion Takes Human Life."
