Pro-Lifers are rallying against pieces of legislation that will lift the ban on tax-payer funding of abortion and another bill that will force pro-life healthcare professionals to refer patients to abortionists. Leaders are expressing the need for greater efforts to...

The Center for Medical Progress has video documentation of the illegal activities of Planned Parenthood who are selling the body parts of aborted children to research companies for profit.  The videos can be viewed at www.centerformedicalprogress.org The callous and barbaric...

Allowing physician-assisted suicide (PAS) would be a grave mistake for four reasons, as explained in a Heritage Foundation Backgrounder, “Always Care, Never Kill.”[1] First, it would endanger the weak and vulnerable. Second, it would corrupt the practice of medicine and the doctor–patient relationship. Third, it would compromise the family and intergenerational commitments. And fourth, it would betray human dignity and equality before the law. Instead of helping people to kill themselves, we should offer them appropriate medical care and human presence.

With mounting evidence of Planned Parenthood selling human baby parts for profit, new Pro-Life legislation is being introduced in the Illinois General Assembly. Grass roots efforts are also underway to put pressure on the abortion industry through protests and prayer....

On Saturday, October 24th there will be a Pro-Life Rally and Jericho March at the Illinois Governor’s mansion in Springfield. Illinois Family Institute in cooperation with the Christian Emergency League is calling for Pro-Life Illinoisans to rally at 410 E. Jackson St. from 11 AM until Noon to pray and recite scripture, to sing hope into the darkness, and to call on the Lord’s blessing as we answer His call to “rescue the weak and the needy, and deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”

Last week the Chicago Tribune published an opinion piece by Rebecca Cohen, whose third child was diagnosed with a condition at a 20-week ultrasound that would result in death within hours of birth. In an eloquent essay, Cohen argued that aborting the baby was the best option, which is why she opposes a ban on abortion after 20 weeks of gestation. I disagree.

“They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them.” ~Romans 2:15 In the liberal quest for unencumbered sexual license, there remains...

The Rev. Franklin Graham has warned that the "blood of children" will be on President Barack Obama's hands if he does indeed decide to veto the defund Planned Parenthood bill that was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday.

From September 23rd to November 1st, Pro-Lifers around the world will be hold the annual 40 Days for Life campaign. This community-based campaign takes a determined, peaceful approach to showing local communities the consequences of abortion in their own neighborhoods,...

In late August a group of about two dozen African-American pastors staged a protest outside of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The National Portrait Gallery isn’t the kind of D.C. landmark you normally associate with protests, but then...

Tie her tubes, or we’ll sue you for sex discrimination, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) told a Catholic-affiliated hospital in California. So after first declining to do so, Mercy Medical Center in Redding has now slated a tubal ligation...

The Center for Medical Progress unveiled a new video showcasing conversations with three high-level officials with Planned Parenthood Federation of America: Dr. Carolyn Westhoff, Senior Medical Advisor for PPFA; Dr. Vanessa Cullins, Vice President for External Medical Affairs for PPFA; and Deborah VanDerhei, National Director for the Consortium of Abortion Providers (CAPS) at PPFA.

Life activists are putting pressure on U.S. Senator Mark Kirk and other members of Congress to end the 500 million dollar plus taxpayer subsidy to Planned Parenthood. During a news conference in downtown Chicago, lawmakers were also encouraged to pass...

A pro-life leader believes a letter from Planned Parenthood attacking The Center for Medical Progress proves the abortion giant is guilty of violating federal law. The 11-page letter from Cecile Richards to members of Congress tries to explain away The Center's secret videos of dealings between Planned Parenthood and organ procurement organizations to harvest aborted baby body parts.

In the wake of revelations that Planned Parenthood sells human baby parts for profit, over 1600 gathered outside the abortion clinic in Aurora as part of the nationwide protest against abortion.

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