Illinois Legalizes “Death Penalty” by Dismemberment Abortions of Viable Unborn Preemies

The Thomas More Society ^ | 12 June, 2019 | Peter Breen, Vice President, Senior Counsel

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Illinois RHA Makes Radical Changes to Allow Abortion on Viable Fetuses

The Thomas More Society has declared Illinois Governor JB Pritzker’s signing of SB 25, the state’s extreme abortion law, to be tantamount to “legalizing the death penalty, with no possibility of appeal, for viable unborn preemies.”

Peter Breen, Vice President, Senior Counsel

 

“The legacy of this governor, and any legislator who voted to pass this law, will be that of cruel dehumanization of unborn Illinoisans on a mass scale,” declared Peter Breen, Thomas More Society Vice President and Senior Counsel.

The Honorable Peter Breen, former Illinois Representative and Thomas More Society Vice President and Senior Counsel, issued a brief analysis and response to the Democratic supermajority’s legislation, rushed through the Illinois House during the Memorial Day weekend and sent to the governor’s desk by the State Senate on June 4, 2019.

“This law is the most radical sweeping pro-abortion measure in America and makes Illinois an abortion destination for the country. The deceptively titled ‘Reproductive Health Act’ gives our state some of the most extremely permissive abortion laws of any state in the nation,” explained Breen.

Under the New IL RHA Law:

The law brings about the following, which Breen labels “disgraceful”:

• All licensing requirements for abortion clinics are abolished, and health and safety inspections ended, despite those inspections shutting down numerous dirty abortion clinics in recent years
• Dismemberment abortions of “preemie” babies, who feel pain, without anesthesia, are legalized
• Every private health insurance policy, including those for small churches and religious nonprofits, must pay for elective chemical and surgical abortions
• Every unborn child, up to and even during birth, will now have NO legal rights in Illinois
• Abortion is labeled a “fundamental right,” protected to a greater degree than Free Speech and other First Amendment rights

“The governor and the Democratic supermajorities who fast-tracked this legislation have created a new ‘death penalty’ in Illinois, with no possibility of appeal, for viable unborn preemies,” Breen remarked.

Reporting Requirements Now Lifted on Abortions in State of Illinois

The law, signed by Pritzker on June 12, 2019, removes reporting requirements for all abortions including those done on viable babies, repeals penalties for performing illegal abortions, allows nurses to perform medical abortions, strips away abortion conscience protections for health care workers, and eliminates existing licensing and health and safety inspections of abortion clinics. It expressly strips all rights from unborn children and wipes nearly every abortion regulation off the books in Illinois, subjecting any that remain to a court challenge under a near-impossible-to-meet “strict scrutiny” standard.

Viability Redefined to Allow Abortion of Premature Infants Able to Survive Outside Womb

“This act is barbarous. Its definition of ‘viability’ expressly excludes many babies who today live and thrive when born premature — these babies now have zero legal rights or protections, under this law,” said Breen.

The new law permits dismemberment abortions of living, viable, and unanesthetized premature babies, who feel pain while they are being torn limb from limb. The new definition of mother’s “health” is so broad that it provides no protection for any post-viability baby.

Breen suggests that this law, purporting to improve health care for women, instead, by removing all regulation and oversight, sends it back to the dark ages.

“This law creates a ‘fundamental right…to have an abortion, and to make autonomous decisions about how to exercise that right.’ The General Assembly majority and governor have placed abortion as the primary and principal right in Illinois, above all others,” the attorney and former legislator explained.

Under this law, every health insurance policy in Illinois is now required to cover elective abortions, even late-term ones. There are no exceptions for churches, religious nonprofits, pro-life individuals, or small business owners. It even strikes current law that protects parents from having to pay for a child’s abortion, when performed without parental consent.

Violation of Conscience Protections for Health Care Workers in IL RHA

Illinois’ new abortion mandate also strips the express right in current law for health care workers to choose not to participate in abortions.

Breen is particularly concerned about the stripping of all licensing requirements for abortion clinics. “This removes the only effective tool the state government has to regulate and shut down unsanitary and unsafe abortion clinics, like Rockford’s ‘House of Horrors’.”

“The legacy of this governor, and any legislator who voted to pass this law, will be that of cruel dehumanization of unborn Illinoisans on a mass scale,” declared Breen. “They will bear the legacy of thousands of late-term dismemberment abortions inflicted on perfectly healthy, viable children. They will bear the legacy of many thousands more children aborted in Illinois instead of being allowed to live, with the resulting psychological trauma to their mothers, including teenagers, who might otherwise have brought their children to term. They will bear the legacy of harm done to those women who suffer from abortions performed in filthy unlicensed clinics.”

Breen added, “This law violates the deepest moral and ethical convictions of millions of Illinoisans. While the Democratic supermajorities in the 101^st General Assembly and Governor Pritzker have sped these radical measures into law, the citizens of this state can and must make their voices heard.”

[amorphous]

Illinois; bankrupt monetarily, morally, and spiritually...

[JZelle]

So it’s easier to become an abortionist than it is to become a hair dresser.

[gibsonguy]

Pretty much everything that evil butcher Gosnell is in jail for is now legal in IL.

[CondorFlight]

Time to excommunicate every Catholic legislator who voted for that bill.

If not for this, and if not now, then when?

[Thank You Rush]

Why is that any different from this:

https://www.topsecretwriters.com/2011/07/8-worst-nazi-human-experiments-you-never-knew-about/

It’s not - they just don’t want to call it experimentation. Babies first and then WHO? Guess!!

[amorphous]

There’s gonna be another lake where Illinois used to be - get out while you still can.

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[Rurudyne]

The only time I’ve ever uttered the words “Thus says the Lord” when I wasn’t reading Scripture had to do with a vision/dream I’d just had where I spent most of it looking for a place to stand where blood wasn’t oozing up from the ground.

When I realized it was about abortion that’s when I woke up.

As I woke I found myself saying: “Thus says the Lord, shall a bloody nation not have blood from the Lord?”

These pro-abortion radicals are like the people of Judah in exile in Egypt who told Jeremiah that they were going to certainly pour out libations to the Queen of Heaven ... and they will ultimately bring the same kind of judgment against this nation if they manage to persist.

Considering all the people who seem just like they’ve been turned over to a Romans 1:18-32 reprobate mind it may be fair to say judgment is already underway.

Remember the covenant to free their fellow Israelites that the people of Judah had earlier broken and what Jeremiah said to them about that?

It is important not to take back repentance!

Efforts to end abortion now underway in various States must go through and more States need to join.

Texas needs to get with it too.

[Truthoverpower]

Demon cats. Pure evil. Satan is proud of them. His minions

Destroy innocent life. Highest of evil

[A_Former_Democrat]

You would think that moms and women that want to be moms would absolutely hate abortion

[I want the USA back]

Mothers should be allowed to drown, strangle or suffocate their new-born babies. (Cries of horror are heard.)
Yes. It is essentially no different from the current system, in which a highly-paid doctor kills the baby. The mother then can avoid thinking about what is happening to the baby. With my suggestion, she would know what she is doing to the baby, and the number of babies killed this way would drop dramatically.

What’s the difference? The doc punctures the babies head or the mom throws the baby into a lake. No difference at all!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE NOW, DO NOT COMPLY ILLINOIS CONSERVATIVES

[headstamp 2]

The end point of Democrat governance.

[amorphous]

Then he said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are
peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues.

And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot,
make her desolate and naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire.

For God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His purpose, to be of one
mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.

And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the
kings of the earth.”

~ ~ ~

We must change where we're headed before it's too late...

[Rurudyne]

Jeremiah has the message for those who take back repentance.

We got a reprieve when Hillary lost.

We possibly won’t get a second chance. Even if Trump gets reelected if this nation falls back as these persons in Illinois want to rather than presses on it can turn out to be for his injury ... for there have been times in Scripture when the king suffered for the evil decisions of the people.

[RJS1950]

Well, if that is considered to be appropriate for living but unborn babies then it should be an appropriate form of execution for death-row inmates. Brings new meaning to going medieval on them.

[mumblypeg]

I can’t even read this stuff anymore.
Every time we move in small increments toward sanity on the pro-life side, the ghouls just unleash more horrifying levels of depravity.

[madprof98]

Cupich will probably give these legislators a medal.

[mosesdapoet]

By voting democrat this is what Illinois did
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3749188/posts/#40
Which by the way can print up makes a nice poster and drives em nuts.

[amorphous]

And Jonah/Nineveh has the message for those who do. My pet theory is the Bible is an active/living document. It foretells our future depending upon choices people make. Read it regularly. :)