On November 20, 2013, Melissa Ohden gave her life testimony at the University of Minnesota in an event sponsored by Students for Human Life on campus. Sadly, her mother had been coerced into going through with a saline abortion – but Melissa survived. She cites that approximately 64 percent (nearly two-thirds) of all women are also led to abort in the same manner.

America has been at war over abortion for the last four decades and more. When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Roe v. Wade, the court’s majority attempted to put an end to the abortion question. To...

There is a new study out from Americans United for Life (AUL) that looks at the abortion policies in all 50 states.  It concludes that Illinois is the 27th on how well we protect life in law.  The good news...

On Sunday, January 19, 2013, several hundred pro-life advocates from the greater Chicagoland area gathered at Federal Plaza and the James R. Thompson Center in downtown Chicago in protest of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision on January...

An 18-year-old woman in Chile has been arrested for trying to sell her unborn baby on Facebook. In Chile where abortion is legal—as it is in the United States—a young woman may kill but not sell her unborn child.  This ...

In one of the under-reported news stories of late 2013, a “meta-analysis of the association between induced abortion and breast cancer risk among Chinese females” was published in the journal Cancer Causes Control. Joel Brind, a professor of biochemistry, physiology, and immunology at Baruch College at the City University of New York, has done extensive research studying the connection between abortion and breast cancer...

“Never, never will we desist till we . . . extinguish every trace of this bloody traffic, of which our posterity, looking back to the history of these enlightened times, will scarce believe that it has been suffered to exist so long a disgrace and dishonor to this country.”

The 5th Annual Celebrating Life Unity Breakfast on February 8th will focus on the tragic reality of human trafficking, a form of modern day slavery.  This event is the first time this issue will have been discussed at a public...

Join the IFI Team and many other great pro-life advocates at the annual SpeakOut Illinois Conference. This year’s event will be held on Saturday, February 1 at Crowne Plaza O’Hare Hotel in Rosemont. The topic will be “Empowered for Life:...

Sixty-two days. Today, my dear son or daughter, you are 62 days old. I say son or daughter, because, you are 62 days old in the womb today, so we don’t know a whole lot yet about you. But what we do know is this. You are ours and you are loved.

Illinois Family Institute is excited to announce the appointment of Monte Larrick as its Media Affairs Director. Larrick, an award-winning broadcast journalist, recently retired from Moody Broadcasting in Chicago after more than 30 years of service. He will be using...

Ray Comfort’s short movie 180 continues to influence people to turn away from abortion. 180 is the story of eight people who were all for abortion, but in a matter of minutes or seconds change their views to become pro-life....

For those of us so very blessed to have raised our personal white flag in mankind’s inherently fruitless struggle against the Creator, there can be no joy in watching God-deniers continue to labor under the grandest of all deceptions. Regardless...