CHICAGO – Tuesday, the Chicago Sun-Times' editorial board and the Chicago Tribune's popular columnist Eric Zorn both encouraged the Illinois General Assembly to expand abortion rights in Illinois. The state's top abortion provider is Planned Parenthood.
The Sun-Times hysterically paints a scene that demands the Illinois legislature act to protect mothers that do not want the children they are carrying – and do not mention the little ones they're carrying:
Consider the worst-case scenario, in which Roe v. Wade is overturned and the provisions of Illinois’ 1975 law that are now under court injunction go into effect. Doctors then could be charged with a felony for providing abortion care or even certain types of contraceptives. A husband would have the right to go to court to prevent his wife from having an abortion. Contraception or diagnostic tests during pregnancy could be “problematic” and difficult for women to obtain.
Eric Zorn steps in as a soloist in the abortion chorus, saying it is even more important that Illinois expand abortion rights since the neighboring state of Missouri recently passed legislation restricting abortions after the first eight weeks.
The Democrats that control the Illinois legislature have just a few days to determine just how much they will strive to please the state's abortion industry by passing legislation to make Illinois one of the nation's most pro-abortion.
Planned Parenthood – one of the only industries in Illinois that thrives with little or no state oversight – leads the campaign online for the "Reproductive Health Act", saying "Abortion is Health Care":
Illinois Right to Life Executive Director Mary Kate Knorr hoped that the radical bills were dead in committee, but earlier this week she sent out an alert saying pro-life lobbyists were hearing the measures would be revived.
"We suspect the bills will be revived based on the reports of anonymous sources who have shared that members of the legislature are expressing a renewed interest in them," Knorr told Illinois Review.
"At this point, it appears that leadership must decide whether they will stand with the people of the state, who made their stance on these issues known back in March when 4,000 showed up at the state house to oppose them, or with the corrupt Illinois abortion industry."
Apparently, the Democrat leadership is deciding how far they will go to make Illinois the midwest's most abortion-protecting state – something both the Sun-Times and Tribune are advocating take place.
