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		<title>Without the Right to Life, No Other Rights Matter</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/03/without-the-right-to-life-no-other-rights-matter/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Sanctity of Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anna Moeller]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p data-start="230" data-end="411">The Declaration of Independence emphatically affirms that all human beings are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, the first of which is the right to life.</p>
<p data-start="413" data-end="672">The Bill of Rights reinforces this principle. <a href="https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-5/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Fifth Amendment</a> states that <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>no person shall &#8220;be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law&#8221;</strong></span> — explicitly protecting the right to life within the legal framework of the United States.</p>
<p data-start="674" data-end="922"><a href="https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-14/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Fourteenth Amendment</a> extends this protection further, declaring that <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>no state shall &#8220;deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.&#8221;</strong></span>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/03/without-the-right-to-life-no-other-rights-matter/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Four Most Ignorant Words in American Politics</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/10/the-four-most-ignorant-words-in-american-politics/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 11:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Sanctity of Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kamala Harris]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Peter Heck</em></p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t annoy me that people have disparate opinions on issues that matter, or more specifically, that others would find my own personal opinions ill-informed or wrong. The world might well be a boring place if everyone agreed on everything, so you won&#8217;t find me in the camp of those wishing to eliminate intellectual or ideological diversity.</p>
<p>What <em>does</em> annoy me is when a sizable group of people are willing to suspend intellectual curiosity to the issues that matter, put their fingers in their metaphorical ears, and refuse any modicum of critical thinking when forming and spouting opinions.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/10/the-four-most-ignorant-words-in-american-politics/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dennis Tipsword Earns IFA’s Endorsement!</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/06/dennis-tipsword-earns-ifas-endorsement/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2022 12:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[comprehensive sex education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dennis Tipsword]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>IFA Staff Reports</em></p>
<p>We were very impressed with his presentation and the question and answer session with Woodford County Chief Deputy Sheriff <strong>Dennis Tipsword, Jr.</strong>  Not only does he have 27 years of law enforcement background, with a specialty in drug interdiction, he owns three small businesses, including an ammunitions machine shop.</p>
<p>Dennis is passionate on the right to life, ethics in government, responsible spending, and preserving Second Amendment rights to protect our families. His experience as a police officer also informs his opposition to the expanded &#8220;comprehensive&#8221; sex education mandate which, in our opinion, is nothing more than grooming innocent and vulnerable children for early sexual activity.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/06/dennis-tipsword-earns-ifas-endorsement/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Putting a Human Face on Abortion</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/04/putting-a-human-face-on-abortion/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2021 18:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Sanctity of Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Claire Culwell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Josh McDowell]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Jerry Newcombe</em></p>
<p>One of the great blessings of the United States is that written into our national birth certificate, the Declaration of Independence, is the acknowledgment that we are endowed by our Creator with the right to life.</p>
<p>But the right to life is under assault today through the widespread practice of abortion – and has been for decades.</p>
<p>Amazingly, through the years, there have been a few that actually survived an abortion attempt.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/04/putting-a-human-face-on-abortion/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>If You Value Human Life, You Must Vote For Donald Trump</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/12/if-you-value-human-life-you-must-vote-for-donald-trump/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2019 12:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>In this election season, one thing becomes more evident every day. If you value human life, you have no choice but to vote for Donald Trump.</p>
<p>“How can you say that,” you shout. “How can anyone claim that only one man or one party stands for human life and the dignity of the human being?</p>
<p>There is a one-word answer: Abortion.</p>
<p>Oh, I can hear the chorus of malcontents. “You conservatives are so myopic.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/12/if-you-value-human-life-you-must-vote-for-donald-trump/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Sanctuary City … For Abortion?!</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/05/a-sanctuary-city-for-abortion/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2017 11:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Nate Madden</em></p>
<p>Sanctuary city jurisdictions are local governments that seek to trample upon and undermine the federal government’s constitutional role in enforcing immigration law by offering cover to illegal aliens. However, another sort of “sanctuary” legislation in the U.S. seeks to continually and legally trample the human conscience to protect abortion.</p>
<p>Religious groups in Missouri are now suing to overturn a St. Louis “abortion sanctuary” city ordinance that would have disastrous effects on the freedoms of religion, speech, and association.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/05/a-sanctuary-city-for-abortion/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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