Written by David E. Smith
This week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in NIFLA v. Becerra should drive a stake into the heart of an Illinois law that requires pro-life medical professionals to refer patients for medical procedures/services they find morally objectionable such as abortion, sterilization and certain end-of-life care protocols.
This tyrannical legislation (SB 1564) was signed by Republican impostor Bruce Rauner and sponsored by Chicago Democrats. In writing the majority opinion of the Court, Justice Anthony Kennedy offers some constructive criticism to totalitarian policy-makers:
[B]egin by reading the First Amendment as ratified in 1791; to understand the history of authoritarian government as the Founders then knew it; to confirm that history since then shows how relentless authoritarian regimes are in their attempts to stifle free speech; and to carry those lessons onward as we seek to preserve and teach the necessity of freedom of speech for the generations to come.
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Written by Tom Trinko
Leftists have a long history of exploiting children to advance the left’s political agenda. The most recent case is the left’s screeching about the fact that when illegals are arrested for trying to sneak into the country, their children are separated from them.
We know that leftists don’t really care about this because it happened under Barack Obama, and they said nothing. It even happened under George W. Bush, and they didn’t complain about it then, either, even though they hated Bush.… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Border Patrol, George W. Bush, human-trafficking, illegal aliens, immigration, open borders, Roman Polanski, Tom Trinko, Woody Allen
Federal Issues, Media Watch, Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith | 
June 25, 2018 5:31 AM | 
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Written by John Biver
Monte Larrick interviewed John Stonestreet at Illinois Family Institute’s Fourth Annual Worldview Conference. Stonestreet is the president of the Chuck Colson Center and BreakPoint Radio co-host. They discuss why Christians should be concerned about the Culture when we have seemingly lost; the next major cultural shift after the Sexual Revolution; the continued attacks on religious freedom; and when it is right for Christians to engage in civil disobedience.
Monte and John also discuss the cost of following Jesus, and legalization of recreational marijuana.… Continue Reading
Tags: Breakpoint, Chuck Colson Center, civil disobedience, John Stonestreet, religious freedom, Worldview Conference
Faith & Religion, Marriage, Family & Culture, Religious Liberty, Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith | May 15, 2018 11:00 AM | Comments Off on SPOTLIGHT: John Stonestreet on our Cultural Revolution
Written by John Biver
Monte Larrick recently caught up with Elise Bouc, the State Chairwoman of Stop ERA Illinois. They discuss the push to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the United State’s Constitution, only requiring two more states to approve it before it becomes a federal amendment.
Background
When the ERA was stopped back in the 1970s, people understood that the wording of the Amendment was flawed, Bouc explains, and we need to remove the discussion of “equal opportunities” for women from this poorly worded proposal.… Continue Reading
Written by John Biver
The leaders of six pro-life organizations issued a public statement on Friday criticizing the 8 Republican state senators who joined the Democrats this past week to pass the “Equal Rights” Amendment (ERA).
In the letter, the pro-life leaders mention that left-wing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has admitted that the “intended scope of the ERA is to greatly increase the scrutiny of pro-life legislation.”
A vote for the ERA is a vote for overturning abortion restrictions and enshrining abortion rights in the U.S.… Continue Reading
Tags: Bonnie Quirke, Chris Nybo, Curran, David E. Smith, Dawn Behnke, Elise Bouc, Equal Rights Amendment, Jason A. Barickman, John F, Karen McConnaughay, Michael Connelly, Pamela Althoff, Phyllis Schlafly, Ralph Rivera, Reverend Robert Vanden Bosch, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sue Rezin, Tom Rooney
Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith | April 14, 2018 5:00 AM | Comments Off on Pro-Life Groups Withdraw Support from Republican Senators that Supported the ERA
Written by John Biver
Keeping a candidate’s policy positions straight isn’t easy when the candidate appears to come out on both sides of an issue. Sometimes it is due to a simple mistake, as people can misspeak without even realizing it.
When the issue is taxpayer funding of abortion, however, a person is either for it or against it. The same comes to religious liberty and conscience rights. There is no middle ground, even though some candidates would love for there to be some.… Continue Reading
Written by John Biver
Ann Scheidler, the Executive Vice President of the Pro-Life Action League, joins Monte Larrick to discuss the Sanctity of Life in Illinois.
Background
Since HB 40 (taxpayer funding for abortion) has been enacted, a new Planned Parenthood has popped up in Flossmoor, with an abortion clinic in the works for Rockford, with rumors of three or four additional abortion mills surfacing throughout the state.
With Republican governor Bruce Rauner signing HB 40 and permitting taxpayer funded abortions, it is expected that the number of abortions will greatly expand in Illinois.… Continue Reading
Written by 2nd Vote
The 2018 March for Life, the world’s largest pro-life event, will be held [today] — Friday, January 19, in Washington, DC.
Every year since 1973 when the U.S. Supreme Court made its infamous decision in Roe v. Wade, pro-life activists have gathered in our nation’s capitol to mark the anniversary in a somber, peaceful demonstration. Over 20,000 attended the first March for Life in 1974 and now the number of participants reaches over 400,000.… Continue Reading
Tags: Bath & Body Works, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Evangelicals for Life, Focus on the Family, March for Life, Patagonia, Planned Parenthood, Roe v. Wade, Southern Baptist Convention, United Airlines
Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith | January 19, 2018 5:59 AM | Comments Off on Fight Planned Parenthood’s Agenda by Avoiding These Retailers
Written by Samuel Smith
As conservative Christians continue to push for religious freedom protections in the wake of the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage, there might be lessons religious freedom advocates can take away from the successes of the pro-life movement.
Two pro-life leaders and a religious liberty scholar participated in a panel discussion on Saturday titled “What the Religious Liberty Movement Can Learn From the Victories of the Pro-Life Movement” at the Family Research Council’s Values Voters Summit.… Continue Reading
Tags: Charlotte Lozier Institute, Chuck Donovan, Donald Trump, Family Research Council, Frank Church, Hunter Baker, Jeanne Mancini, Nellie Gray, Obergefell v. Hodges, Patrina Mosely, Roe v. Wade, Susan B. Anthony List, Values Voters Summit
Religious Liberty, Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith | October 20, 2017 5:42 AM | Comments Off on What Can Religious Liberty Movement Learn From Success of Pro-Lifers?
Written by John Biver
“Governor Rauner is done…he will not be governor in January 2019,” State Rep. Peter Breen (R-Lombard) told Monte Larrick in this week’s bonus Illinois Family Spotlight podcast.
With Gov. Bruce Rauner’s signing of HB 40’s taxpayer funding of abortion, Breen said that Rauner can no longer make an effective case for his leadership. Breen explains that HB 40 is one of the worst bills ever to be signed into law in Illinois, and it happened even though Rauner looked Breen in the eye, shook his hand, and pledged to veto it.… Continue Reading
