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SPRINGFIELD – Last Friday, Governor Pritzker signed into law a measure that will allow minor girls to get abortions without their parents being notified.
State Representatives Brad Halbrook (R-Shelbyville); Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur); Blaine Wilhour (R-Beecher City); Adam Niemerg (R-Dieterich) and Chris Miller (R-Oakland) issued the following statement on the extreme abortion measure Governor JB Pritzker has signed into law.
“There is no pretense of abortion being ‘Safe, Legal and Rare’ into today’s Democrat party. The ‘Shout Your Abortion’ party has no acknowledgement or care about the humanity of unborn children," they said. "But it really should not be surprising that the same far-left extremists who deny innocent, unborn babies the right to life would have no qualms about denying parents the right to know when their minor children are seeking an abortion.
"Reasonable people should find common agreement around the simple premise that parents should at least know when their minor children are seeking an abortion. Supporting parental rights should unite – not divide – Republicans and Democrats. Minors need parental permission to go on field trips, get a driving permit or a sports physical. Parents should be involved in the decision to have a surgical procedure regardless of what surgical procedure it is.
"As a society, we need to get back to promoting and supporting families and that begins with supporting parental rights. But sadly, the political elites in our government have declared a war on parents. From radicalism being infused in school curriculum to mask and vaccine mandates to now a ban on parental notification, the rights of parents are under assault. We urge parents across the state to join with us in our efforts to end Gov. Pritzker’s war on families.”
In response to Governor Pritzker signing House Bill 370 into law, which repeals the Parental Notice of Abortion Act, State Representative Mark Batinick released the following response:
“The Governor is signing this bill on the Friday before a holiday week with no bill signing ceremony because the majority of the public would be appalled by this bill being signed into law. This legislation protects child rapists and sex traffickers. Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal trade in the world. If the staff at an abortion clinic must notify a trafficked girl’s parent or guardian, there is a higher likelihood her situation will be discovered and she could be saved from trafficking. I’m disgusted Illinois will no longer have this law to protect girls who have been abused and offer them compassion.”
Justice Antonin Scalia, in Troxel v. Granville 2000, opined in part:
•Parental rights are “unalienable” [unchangeable] and come from God; per the Declaration of Independence. They are among the retained rights of the people [Protected by the Bill of Rights, 9th Amendment, source ~ US Constitution]
Bill of Rights, SECTION 24. RIGHTS RETAINED
The enumeration in this Constitution of certain rights
shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained
by the individual citizens of the State. (Source: Illinois Constitution.)
•Parental rights are “unalienable” [unchangeable] and come from God. They are among the retained rights of the people in the 9th Amendment. From the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator [God] with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,”.
•The Constitutions, neither the US or the Illinois state authorizes the state legislature, governors or judges to come up with their own lists of what “rights” people have and use their lists to overturn the Illinois State Bill of Rights. To do so is unconstitutional. Parental rights are “unalienable” [unchangeable] and come from God; per the Declaration of Independence. God certainly never denied parents the right to raise up their children to maturity through their care, guidance, and education.
To you Christianity haters, it doesn't matter what you believe. The DOI is LAW, it is part of this country's organic law. And those who instituted the DOI believed our rights are unchangeable and come from God the creator. Our founding documents must be understood in the founders original meaning and intend. Only communists and fascists think parents don't have the right to raise their children as THEY see fit.
Parental rights are part of our creator's natural law. Let a stranger try to take a cow's newborn calf from her and see what happens to the stranger.
By the law breaking commie democrat controlled state legislature and our commie governor's denial of parental rights it easy to see that this new unconstitutional law also violates parents constitutionally protected religious liberties, not just section 24 of the Illinois Bill of rights. The Illinois Bill of Rights protects our rights from an oppressive STATE GOVERNMENT!
It was Pritzker's sworn duty to veto House Bill 370 because it violates two protected rights in the Illinois Bill of Rights.
Proverbs 22:6 " Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it."
That mandate from God is to the parents, there are at least 25 more verses in the Bible that shows God intended for the parents to have authority over their children, not govt!
It's insulting and illegal that the corrupt Illinois state govt passes an unconstitutional law making the state legislature co-parents after they swore an oath to uphold the constitutions. The state legislature is obviously rife with deceivers.