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On Monday, October 18, one of Illinois’ most powerful pro-abortion lobbying groups, Personal PAC, hosts their Annual Awards Luncheon at the Chicago Hilton and Towers with special guest, actress Olympia Dukakis. Ticket prices for the swanky event start at $150 and go up to $5,000.
Personal PAC’s reason for existence is to get pro-abortion candidates elected and to support pro-abortion legislation, like the Illinois FOCA bill, which we have helped to defeat each of the past three years.
Abortion is nothing to celebrate, so we’ll be there Monday to rain on their parade.
Here are the details:
Join us!
All the phone calls, e-mails, protests, legislator visits and prayers have paid off! Friday’s deadline for the passage of new legislation by the Illinois House of Representatives came and went without HB6205—the “Illinois FOCA” bill—ever coming up for a vote.
This morning, the Illinois House of Representatives Human Services Committee passed HB6205, the Illinois
I don’t have information on who our two pro-life, pro-family, pro-sanity votes were, but I assume one of them was Republican Patricia R. Bellock, who raised numerous objections to the bill during the hearing. More details to come soon.
What this means is that the Illinois pro-life community must step up pressure on the entire House. Alicia reported that many Representatives attended the hearing. They’re clearly interested in this bill, which means they all need to hear from us again. And again. And again.
Get talking points and contact links for your State Rep here.
(Cross-posted at StopIllinoisFOCA.com.)
The pro-life movement in Illinois is already mobilizing against the pernicious “Reproductive Health and Access Act” just re-filed in the House of Representatives—better known as “Illinois FOCA”—and you can join the fight by adding your name to the petition just launched at the Stop Illinois FOCA website.
Once you’ve added your name with the online form, click the “Share This” link on the page to forward it to your pro-life family and friends. You can also download a printable petition [PDF] for gathering signatures at church or around the neighborhood.