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President Obama made it official on national television. He wants Congress to ignore Senate rules and the American people and use a parliamentary trick called reconciliation, to pass his Health Care Bill. Click here for more. |
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A landmark scientific study, posted in the Washington Post on February 1,2010, shows abstinence education works, and comprehensive sex education does not. The study subjects were Afro American students. The tight guidelines necessitated that the evidence had to be reported, in spite of the Obama Administration's new rules, cutting federal funding to abstinence education programs. There was no doubt about the results. |
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A Very Bad Bill: FOCA is Back
House Bill 6205, the Reproductive Health and Access Act, (disguised Freedom of Choice Act - FOCA), has been introduced in Illinois by Representative Barbara Flynn Currie. This bill is an identical twin to H.B. 2354, which was stopped last year in the legislature, because of an overwhelming amount of effort by the grassroots citizens of Illinois.
What H.B. 6205 Will Do
This bill will establish a "fundamental right" to abortion, more restrictive than Roe v Wade. The bill guts the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act, so that no parental notice will be allowed. Under H.B. 6205, notice would be considered to "interfere with a pregnant woman's right to terminate a pregnancy," regardless of age.
H.B. 6205 tries to hide the fact that it is not meant to repeal the Parental Notice of Abortion Act. However, you don't need to be a seasoned legislator to know, that often a statute is amended by a bill, that substantially changes and alters the statute without repealing it. In Section 15, H.B. 6205 states clearly, "Not withstanding any other provision of this Act or any other law to the contrary," which all legislators should know means the Section "trumps" any existing part of the Act and any other statute enacted before the Act.
The language purports to allow for regulation after viability, but the too broad "health" exception undermines even that. In Doe v Bolton, the US Supreme Court companion decision to Roe v Wade, "Health" was to be considered in "light of all factors - physical, emotional, psychological, familial and the woman's age." In other words, abortions must be allowed for virtually any reason throughout the full 9 months of pregnancy.
Taxpayer Funding of Abortions
Illinois' Ban on taxpayer funded abortions, was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1980. Before the Ban, Illinois paid for 12,738 abortions (1977 thru 1978 fiscal year), as opposed to a few hundred today. Under Section 20 in H.B. 6205, the bill will force taxpayers to pay for abortions for any reason. At a Medicaid rate of around $180.00 per abortion, the estimated cost for the state of Illinois would be about 2.3 million dollars.
Section 20, "Non-discrimination in funding", states, "Notwithstanding any other provision of the Act, or any other law to the contrary, the State shall ensure that individuals eligible for State Medicaid assistance, or other State medical assistance, receive financial assistance for reproductive healthcare, at least to the same extent as other comparable services."
Additionally, "reproductive healthcare" is undefined in the bill, but can be presumed to include abortion, Plan B the Morning After pill, even sterilization for all ages.
Comprehensive Sex Education
H.B. 6205 mandates all public schools to offer "Comprehensive Sex Education Programs" most of which promote and foster condom training and abortion for students as young as 9 yrs. old.
Section 30 "sexual health education" states, "Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any other law, all Illinois public schools shall offer accurate, age appropriate, comprehensive sexual health education as a part of the Comprehensive Health Education Program.
Local school districts would no longer be able to determine their curriculum in this area. Every public student in the state would have to be enrolled in "comprehensive" sex education. What proponents of 'comprehensive sex education consider age appropriate" is not what most of us would consider.
Last but not least, H.B. 6205 removes, under that state's "Comprehensive Health Education Program," the long-standing public policy of Illinois, that "sexual abstinence until marriage should be taught to our children in schools".
If you're interested in Planned Parenthood's new Sex Education Program, click on our website for the download. It seems as if they are trying to create a "perfect storm" for our children. |
