After this week’s election upset, which will give Republicans a net gain of four seats in the Illinois House next session, Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) moved HB 4013 to third reading. This means it can be called for a vote at any time during the Lame Duck Veto Session (Nov. 15, 16, 17, 29, 30 and Dec. 1) – when retiring or defeated lawmakers return to address unfinished business and are no longer accountable to the voters.

HB 4013 is a terrible big government and pro-abortion bill and tops our list of concerns as we go into the final stretch of the 99th Session of the Illinois General Assembly.

HB 4013 removes all prohibitions on using taxpayer-funding for abortions throughout the full nine months of pregnancy under Medicaid, and removes the ban on state employees’ insurance policies paying for abortions.

Based on the current number of Medicaid recipients, HB 4013 would have the potential to increase abortions in Illinois by at least 37 percent!  In real numbers, that would be about 15,000 more babies slaughtered with our tax dollars each year! 

Please call your state representative today and insist they opposes the use of your tax dollars going to kill pre-born babies.

We need you to urge your state representative to oppose HB 4013!

Take ACTION: Please click HERE to send a message to your state representative to ask him/her to vote AGAINST this pro-abortion bill.

You can also contact your state representative by calling the Capitol switchboard at (217) 782-2000.

Please call today! It’s a matter of Life and Death!

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State Representative Scott Drury (D-Highwood) wrote this to a constituent who opposes HB 4013*, the bill that would remove all restrictions on taxpayer-funded abortions:

Thank you for your email.  As a devoted husband and father of two children, I have a deep understanding of how rewarding parenting can be.  However, not every pregnancy is planned or desired.  It is, therefore, vital that all women have access to safe reproductive health care without government interference.  Should the legislation you reference be called for a vote, I will support it.

Very truly yours,

Scott R. Drury

As indicated by the adverb “however,” it appears Rep. Drury believes that only planned, desired children will provide adults with rewarding experiences, and, to “progressives,”  personal pleasure and subjective desire are First Principles—the ultimate arbiters of morality. Not only do empowered Leftist women and other “progressives” want the absolute, unfettered right to act in accordance with their autonomous desires, but they demand that others pay for their actions—including even the killing of their children.

I would challenge the notion that someone who believes subjective desire and good planning trump the rights of the pre-born constitutes a “devoted father.” A devoted father sacrifices his desires and his plans for the good of his children—all of his children. Same goes for devoted mothers.

While Drury waxes noble about safe, reproductive healthcare, maybe he could address how safe abortion is for the other party involved—you know, the tiny, helpless, undesired, unplanned baby. Perhaps not every pregnancy is planned or desired, but every pregnancy necessarily means a second human life is present who deserves at minimum “government interference” to prevent its slaughter. If our government can’t be counted on to “interfere” when stronger humans seek to destroy the lives of the weakest among us, then the government has lost all moral authority and deserves to cease to exist.

What a sickening rationalization of selfish, regressive barbarism.

Remember, Rep. Drury, the babies you want to compel taxpayers to pay to kill didn’t plan to come into existence, and devoted mothers who don’t desire them, don’t have to raise them. No babies are truly unwanted even if their biological mothers don’t want them.

Take ACTION: First, please click HERE to send a message to your state representative to ask him/her to vote AGAINST this pro-abortion bill.

Please also email or call Rep. Durry’s office to politely let him know what you think about the use of taxpayer dollars for the destruction of pre-born human life.  His district phone number is (847) 681-8580 and his email is:  repdrury@gmail.com

Lastly, 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.  Our state lawmakers return from Easter break next week, and HB 4013 may come up for a vote in the Illinois House anytime before the end of May.

* HB 4013 is sponsored by State Representatives Sara Feigenholtz (D-Chicago), Carol Sente (D-Lincolnshire), Ann Williams (D-Chicago), and Elizabeth Hernandez (D-Cicero).

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Written by Cal Skinner

Pro-Life and Pro-Family citizens must contact their State Representatives in opposition to HB 4013.

Late last week, State Representative Sara Feigenholtz introduced HB 4013, a bill that would remove all prohibitions on taxpayer funding of abortions.  In other words, this legislation would reverse the current law which bans taxpayer funding of abortion under Medicaid.  In 1977 there were over 12,700 abortions paid for under Public Aid’s Medicaid program with taxpayer dollars.

Take ACTION: Please click HERE to send a message to your state representative to ask him/her to vote AGAINST this 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.

Background 

In the late 1970’s the State of Illinois stopped paying for most abortions for those on Public Aid. Shortly thereafter, abortions were removed from services paid for by the State Employees Health Plan

Now, State Rep. Sara Feigenholtz has introduced House Bill 4013.

It will allow the payment for abortions for both state employees and those on Public Aid. Details on the type of abortion would no longer need to be submitted. The requirement of a physician’s statement that the abortion was required to save the life of the mother would no longer be required.

In addition, it allows the Department of Health and Human Services to make grants to nonprofit agencies and organizations that use such grants to refer or counsel for, or perform, abortions. The most prominent of such not-for-profit agencies is Planned Parenthood.

The bill also would allow physicians who have been convicted of performing an abortion procedure in a willful and wanton manner upon a woman who was not pregnant at the time such abortion procedure was performed.

Arguments in Opposition

In a year when the budget is in more trouble than any time within the last fifty years, it is not the time to force state agencies to spend more money than last year.

Re-instating abortions for Public Aid clients is a thinly-disguised way to make sure there are fewer black and brown babies. As a white liberal Republican woman told a legislative colleague privately on the House floor during a 1990’s debate on a bill that would encourage abortions, “We have too many black babies.”

The bill would allow state-paid abortions for sex selection or any reason at all.

Cal Skinner is a former Illinois state representative (1973-1981 and 1993-2001) from Crystal Lake. He began government career in the U.S. Budget Bureau before it was called the Office of Management and Budget and served as McHenry County Treasurer from 1966-1970. Mr. Skinner ran for GOP nomination for Congress in 1980, ran for State Comptroller in 1983, and ran as Libertarian Party candidate for Governor in 2002. Mr. Skinner holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics from Oberlin College and a Master’s degree in public administration from the University of Michigan.

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