Written by David E. Smith
Could the Fourteenth Amendment, specifically the Equal Protection Clause, be the means by which Roe v. Wade is overturned? Dr. Steve Jacobs, program director of Illinois Right to Life, joins IFI’s Monte Larrick and Jenna Smith to explain why he is confident the U. S. Supreme Court will overturn this landmark decision. Beginning with the question of what “pro-life” really means, Dr. Jacobs discusses his reservations about basing law on states’ rights and shares why he feels the issue of equality ought to be the essence of the pro-life movement.… Continue Reading
Written by Laurie Higgins
Calculated Carnage—known euphemistically as Planned Parenthood (PP)—won’t let a little thing like a pandemic keep it from its bloody and profitable business. Planned Parenthood of Illinois (PPIL) has opened a new facility in Waukegan, Illinois, a Lake County city where one quarter of the families and one quarter of the population are under the poverty line.
Calculated Carnage calculates that targeting the babies of the poor is a more profitable business model than targeting the babies of the affluent (You’ll never find PP trying to sneak an abattoir into Glencoe, Lake Forest, or Winnetka).… Continue Reading
Tags: abortion, Bruce Rauner, HB 40, Illinois Department of Health, Illinois Right to Life, JB Pritzker, Medicaid, MK Pritzker, Planned Parenthood, Waukegan
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May 20, 2020 4:00 AM | 
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Written by Benjamin Smith
Following on the heels of National Sanctity of Human Life Day, this week’s episode of Spotlight features Mary Kate Knorr, the executive director of Illinois Right to Life.
Ms. Knorr joins Monte Larrick for a thorough look at the anticipated attack on Illinois’ parental notification of abortion law and the devastating effects watering down this law – specifically by expanding the definition of the word “guardian” – will have on young girls in crisis.… Continue Reading
This week’s episode spotlights Mary Kate Knorr, the executive director of Illinois Right to Life.
Mary Knorr joins Monte Larrick to take a hard look at the planned attack of Illinois’ parental notification of abortion law, how to stem the overwhelming assault on this critical law, what Illinois could look like if parental notification of abortion is repealed, and holding anti-life lawmakers accountable.
They also take an over-arching view of what Planned Parenthood and anti-life activists are attempting to accomplish in Illinois, why cultivating strong relationships with your children (grandchildren), especially daughters, is so vital to slow the consistent emergence of crisis pregnancies, and finally a proposal in Springfield to legalize physician assisted suicide.… Continue Reading
