Pro-Life and Pro-Family citizens must contact their State Representatives in opposition to HB 2354.
Planned Parenthood is working overtime trying to pass pro-abortion legislation — the “Freedom of Choice Act” (FOCA) — at the state and federal level. The title of the FOCA bill here in Illinois is the “Reproductive Health and Access Act,” and the bill number is HB 2354.
TAKE ACTION: Please CLICK HERE to contact your State Representative to ask him/her to vote AGAINSTthis pro-abortion bill.
You can also contact your State Representative by calling the Capitol switchboard at 217-782-2000.
**Please forward this information to your pastors and/or church leaders and urge them to include this information in all church bulletins, newsletters, etc., as soon as possible.
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Background
HB 2354 represents a RADICAL & UNPRECEDENTED departure from current Illinois law regarding abortion, public funding of abortion, health care right of conscience, and comprehensive sex education.
ABORTION — CONTRACEPTION
HB 2354 will:
- Prohibit any regulation of abortion at any stage of pregnancy — including the age of mother.
- Prohibit banning Partial Birth Abortion
- Prohibit requiring Parental Notification
- Allow a minor to obtain emergency contraceptives without parental knowledge (Plan-B)
- Require tax-payer funded abortion through Medicaid
HEALTH CARE RIGHT OF CONSCIENCE
HB 2354 prohibits anyone working for a governmental agency from exercising a health care right of conscience in regards to contraceptives (including the morning after pill) and/or abortion.
HB 2354 places three overbearing and unreasonable demands on any health care professional who morally or ethically objects to any type of contraception or abortion procedure:
(1) the health care professional must give all their patients or their employer written notice of their moral religious beliefs;
(2) the health care professional must provide an objective description of health care options he or she is opposed to; and
(3) the health care professional must refer his or her patient somewhere for the very options morally objected to.
And in addition to all this, HB 2354 allows an employer to fire any health care employee having moral objections to abortion under a totally undefined standard of undue hardship!
Quite simply, the enactment of HB 2354 would drive anyone having a religious or moral belief against abortion or contraceptives from Illinois’ health care community!
COMPREHENSIVE SEX EDUCATION
HB 2354 would MANDATE every public school in the state to offer a comprehensive sex education program. No longer would local school districts be able to determine their curriculums in this area; every kindergartener in the state would have to take sex education. One comprehensive sex education curriculum in use includes condom training for 9 year olds!
HB 2354 would wrest local control from school districts and, due to the absence of any real standards in so-called comprehensive sex education, quickens the demise of sexual morality in our society.
CONCLUSION
HB 2354 will prohibit Illinois government and courts from enforcing our Parental Notification Law — which is currently held up in federal court. HB 2354 quashes any right of conscience for moral reasons related to abortion or contraceptives; and mandates the teaching of age-inappropriate comprehensive sex education to all school children!
In short, if this bill is signed into law, Illinois would become a bloody abortion free-for-all.
Take ACTION: Ask your State Representative to vote “NO” on House Bill 2354.
