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Sign posted by NIWC landlord Wayne Webster before its license was suspended Sept. 30 [Photo via Pro-Life Corner]
At a hearing this week, an administrative law judge ruled that one of the most bizarre, macabre abortion facilities in the country—Northern Illinois Women’s Center (NIWC), in Rockford—will remain closed until at least January 4.
NIWC had its license suspended and has been closed since September 30, after an inspection by the Department of Public Health earlier this year “found conditions that are directly threatening to the public health, safety and welfare requiring immediate, emergency action,” which the facility failed to correct by the time of a follow-up inspection conducted on September 15.
Thus, as of now, NIWC has been closed for two months, and it will be at least one more month until it’s allowed to reopen—if it’s allowed to reopen at all.
For obvious reasons, pro-life news outlets and bloggers have been closely following the NIWC saga. But take note of who is not talking about it:
Pro-aborts. [Continue reading ...]
Pro-abortion IL Governor Pat Quinn
Following the League’s protest of Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn at Personal PAC’s luncheon November 17 at the Chicago Hilton and Towers, our longtime friend Jim Finnegan — who was part of our protest that day &mdadsh; read a Chicago Sun-Times story that explained what had gone on inside.
The article so inflamed Finnegan that he wrote in high dudgeon a rebuttal to the Sun-Times:
Disturbing to read the remarks from Personal Pac Executive Terry Cosgrove to Gov. Quinn at the event at the Hilton Towers. You can safely say “it got my Irish up.”
Cosgrove was just getting warmed up when he yelled down to Quinn, “Governor, I think that’s the Irish Catholic in us, isn’t it?”
That’s as disgusting as it gets. Both of these lightweights are total sellouts to their ancestral and faith beliefs.
Canon laws 1398 and 1329 of our Catholic Church clearly state that those who by their assistance allow abortions are automatically excommunicated from the Church that both Quinn and Cosgrove membership within.
I must admit, as I was one of the 61 standing in the cold in front of the Hilton Towers, I thought that without a sincere confession from both of these so called “Irishmen,” the cold might be the least of their worries when their earthly journey is over.
Jim’s letter to the editor was the lead in Sunday’s Sun-Times letters page, under the headline, “Gov. Quinn’s a Catholic sellout.” He signed his letter, James Patrick McManus Finnegan. How Irish can you get!
A revealing article appeared last week in the New York Observer about one of the more bizarre elements within the world of abortion: namely, abortion doulas.
The author, Rachel White, opens the article with a description of a training session for volunteer abortion doulas given by the Doula Project‘s Lauren Mitchell and Mary Mahoney at an unnamed Manhattan hospital — in which the first 6 of the 40 hours of classroom instruction are devoted to astrology.
Yes, astrology. Oh, and this training session is being held at 9:00 on a Sunday morning.
That in itself tells us quite a lot. After all, it’s quite true that supernature abhors a vacuum. [Continue reading ...]
Coupon for $50 off a Sunday abortion at Orlando Women’s Center. (Click image for full size [PDF]).
Abortionist James Pendergraft has had his share of problems, what with having his medical license suspended four times and having a $36.7 million malpractice verdict upheld against him — just to name a few.
So it’s not hard to imagine that he’d be pretty hard up for customers. Hence, his latest gimmick to try to drum up business: he’s offering coupons for $50 off the cost an abortion…but the coupons are only good on Sundays.
The singularly evil character of the whole thing is mind-boggling: as if killing babies up to 24 weeks gestation isn’t bad enough in itself, Pendergraft is preying on desperate, financially struggling women on the day Jesus rose from the dead — a day on which, incidentally, most abortion clinics aren’t even open.
The coupon is advertised on the website of Pendergraft’s Orlando Women’s Center. You can see it for yourself here [PDF], or above, right. [Continue reading ...]
What could cause pro-life Christians to join forces with Planned Parenthood?
Lies. Planned Parenthood’s go-to move, and, I believe, the largest reason why Mississippi’s Initiative 26 ballot measure was defeated at the polls yesterday.
The measure, a proposed “Personhood” law, would have declared “every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the functional equivalent thereof” to be a person deserving of the full protection of the law. Resulting laws the measure would require, would likely ban all forms of abortion.
There were strong indications prior to yesterday’s vote that the measure stood a very good chance of passing and that many, even most, Mississippians supported the idea. So what happened? [Continue reading ...]
Jennie Goodman and Governor Pat Quinn
On Thursday, November 17, Personal PAC will hold its annual fundraising luncheon in Chicago.
Personal PAC is “dedicated to electing pro-choice candidates to state and local offices in Illinois.” Their motto—It’s Pro-Choice or No Choice—is unwittingly revealing. They believe in No Choice for an unborn baby. Nor do they really believe in choice for women.
Personal PAC actively opposes even measures that are beneficial to women such as a 24-hour waiting period before making a choice for abortion, laws mandating informed consent and Illinois’ parental notification law, which remains unenforced 16 years after being enacted. [Continue reading ...]
The fight against abortion in America is going fast and furious right now, and the League has three opportunities this month for you to fight abortion in the Chicago area.
This is also a good time to mention the Pro-Life Calendar on the League’s homepage where we list pro-life events from across the country. Contact us with your event information and we’ll put it up for the whole pro-life community to see!
Now, for the League’s November events. First we’ll kick things off next Thursday, November 10 with a Face the Truth Day downtown Chicago. Meet outside the Wrigley Building, 410 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago (Map) for the first site at 9:30 a.m., then head up to the Art Institute, just a few blocks south (Map), for the second site at 11:30. [Continue reading ...]
Lately I’ve been getting a lot of overwrought e-mails from the pro-abortion lobby (I’m signed up on all their lists), warning that “anti-choice” legislators are on the verge of taking away women’s access to abortion.
Hyperbole is common enough on both sides of the abortion battle, but the kind of outrageous exaggeration coming from the pro-choice side in recent weeks has side has been off the charts—and in the end it may backfire.
Take this, for example, from the National Organization for Women’s Terry O’Neill: “It’s part of the radical right’s core strategy to chip Roe v. Wade to bits. They won’t outlaw abortion per se, they’ll just make it virtually impossible to access.”
The disturbing video below from the stalwarts at Pro-Life Wisconsin blew up when it was posted to HotAir.com yesterday. Take a look:
On Monday I received a call from Pro-Life Wisconsin looking for help acquiring the 911 call audio of this incident from the city. If they’re successful in obtaining that, I’m sure we’ll be hearing more about what happened to the poor woman in the ambulance soon. [Continue reading ...]
Yesterday, pro-life blogger Jill Stanek posted a cartoon called “Occupy Womb Street” that originally appeared at the leftist website The Daily Kos. The target of cartoonist Jen Sorenson was the pro-life leadership of the House of Representatives, which passed the Protect Life Act last week.
The cartoon is clever, despite its hateful attitude towards both the unborn child and childbirth (which even some feminists cherish as the special province of women). I credit Sorenson for her creative play on the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, as well as her pun on the word “labor” in the cartoon’s last panel.
But what impresses me most about this 4-panel comic is panel 2, in which a fetus holds a picket sign reading “Will work for nutrient rich blood.”
Here Sorenson unwittingly highlights the humanity of the child in the womb, not only by recognizing the child’s utter dependence on its mother at this early stage of life, but drawing what can only be called a cute little fetus. [Continue reading ...]