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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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
06.16.15
Abortion rates continue to drop nearly everywhere in the United States—and by impressive amounts.
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,...
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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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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...
04.25.15
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.
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David E. Smith
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04.22.15
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...
