Concerned Women for America of Illinois applauds and affirms the Bush administration’s recent official acknowledgment that our unborn are children, and calls upon Illinois legislators to acknowledge and protect children after they are born as well.
Last spring, the Illinois General Assembly could not muster the votes to pass the Born-Alive Infants Protection bills offered to protect those babies who are intentionally delivered prematurely and left to die after birth. Ironically, one of the bills was based on a federal bill supported by pro-choice Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), and Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.). Yet our Illinois House of Representatives would not even pass it out of committee.
When then-employee and nurse Jill Stanek came forward with the startling revelation about hospital abortion practices at Christ Hospital and Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Sen. Patrick J. O’Malley (R-Palos Park) not only resigned in protest from the same hospital council, he also moved to introduce the Born-Alive Infants Protection legislation. Sadly, the bill is stalled to this day.
Concerned Women for America of Illinois calls upon our General Assembly and governor to follow the lead of the Bush administration. We urge you to reread the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gives equal protection to all people born in the United States and affirms that no state shall “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Babies who are born and alive need legal protection, too.
