{"id":212290,"date":"2019-10-11T17:38:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T22:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=212290"},"modified":"2019-10-11T17:40:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T22:40:14","slug":"pro-life-groups-rally-illinois-planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-groups-rally-illinois-planned-parenthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-life groups hold rally outside the secretly-built Illinois Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Wednesday night, Students for Life, together with local pro-life groups from Missouri and Illinois, held a rally at a new Planned Parenthood facility which was built in secret and is set to open later this month.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An estimated <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/studentsforlife.org\/2019\/10\/10\/over-400-people-showed-up-to-rally-against-the-secret-abortion-mega-facility\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">400-500 protesters<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> joined in marching around the facility, headed by a large sign that read: \u201cPlanned Parenthood hurts women.\u201d The crowd was largely decked-out in blue shirts declaring, \u201cI am the Pro-life Generation.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the speakers who were <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnd.com\/news\/local\/article235912747.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">scheduled<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to appear were Illinois Right to Life Executive Director Mary Kate Knorr, Madison Reynolds of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Students for Life, and Mary Varni from the Archdiocese of St. Louis. State Rep. Avery Bourne, who strongly opposed Illinois\u2019 Reproductive Health Act (RHA) that enshrined abortion as a fundamental right in the state and removed licensing requirements for abortion clinics, was also in attendance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<style>.mcclatchy-embed{position:relative;padding:40px 0 56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%}.mcclatchy-embed iframe{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%}<\/style>\n<div class=\"mcclatchy-embed\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bnd.com\/news\/local\/article235977857.html\/video-embed\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/illinois-abortion-law-worse-thought-plan-fight-back\/\">The abortion law in Illinois is even worse than we thought. Here\u2019s a plan to fight back.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s not easy to be pro-life in the legislature,\u201d she said to the crowd, according to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnd.com\/news\/local\/article235936982.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Belleview-News Democrat<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cThis last session, they passed the RHA, and they said they were passing that because they needed to do it in case Roe v. Wade is overturned. They said it was just cleaning up some language. Well, here\u2019s what it actually did,\u201d she said as she indicated the new building. \u201cThis is what the RHA did. This is what they wanted to have happen. They wanted Illinois to be an abortion destination in the Midwest. They wanted women to come from other states to here, to not only get abortions that are illegal in other states, but they expanded late-term abortion so that they are now legal in Illinois, and they can be performed here. What they wanted in the General Assembly was for taxpayers like us to have to pay for abortions.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fairview Heights location of the new Planned Parenthood facility is just over the border from St. Louis, Missouri, where a large abortion facility is fighting to keep its license after failing multiple health inspections and sending dozens of women to the emergency room over the years. Currently, the St. Louis facility is being allowed to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/dangerous-missouri-abortion-failed-abortions-remain-open\/\">operate without a license<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-secretly-building-illinois-mega-facility\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As previously reported by Live Action News<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the new construction in Fairview Heights began around August 2018 under the auspices of a shell company, specifically to conceal the purpose of the building and corner the St. Louis market. Because of the location\u2019s centrality and proximity, it was chosen to be a \u201cregional hub,\u201d reports the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnd.com\/news\/local\/article235705512.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Belleview-News Democrat<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bourne told attendees at the rally that despite several setbacks, the fight is far from over. \u201cTo repeal this law,\u201d said Bourne of the RHA, \u201cWe have to keep fighting on the sidewalks. We have to keep fighting in the legislature. We have to keep fighting in the hearts and minds of our friends and families and neighbors. We have to be advocates here and advocates at the ballot box.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday night, Students for Life, together with local pro-life groups from Missouri and Illinois, held a rally at a new Planned Parenthood facility which was built in secret and is set to open later this month.\u00a0\u00a0 An estimated 400-500 protesters joined in marching around the facility, headed by a large sign that read: \u201cPlanned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":606,"featured_media":212335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2793,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is 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