{"id":320214,"date":"2024-10-14T12:49:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T17:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=320214"},"modified":"2024-10-13T23:15:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T04:15:58","slug":"illinois-secretary-state-pro-abortion-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/illinois-secretary-state-pro-abortion-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Secretary of State appointed &#8216;honorary co-chair&#8217; of pro-abortion &#8216;Men4Choice&#8217; group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>This week, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/illinois-playbook\/2024\/10\/09\/the-guys-who-care-about-abortion-00183012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias will join Men4Choice \u2014 an organization fighting to keep the killing of preborn children legal \u2014 as its National Honorary Co-Chair.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Access to reproductive healthcare \u2014 including abortion \u2014 is a fundamental human right. Men have a responsibility to be part of this fight as allies, partners, and stakeholders, and Men4Choice is leading the way on that effort,&#8221; Giannoulias said at the announcement. &#8220;I&#8217;m committed to leveraging my platform to bring more men off the sidelines and build a robust network of men nationwide to support this work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmen4choice%2Fposts%2F931114162383552&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"664\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Men4Choice is an organization that claims &#8220;men need abortion&#8221; in order to protect <em>their<\/em> freedom. In other words, the organization believes that men should fight for abortion, since it allows them to skirt their responsibilities both to women and the children they&#8217;ve created. By legally killing that preborn child by abortion, men who wish to are able to continue living a promiscuous and carefree lifestyle. The message is succinctly put in Live Action&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o950k2HffWw&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.liveaction.org%2F&amp;source_ve_path=OTY3MTQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a>, &#8220;Pro-Choice Men.&#8221; While the video is satire, as the existence of Men4Choice proves, it&#8217;s not at all far from the truth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/lisa-marie-presley-memoir-abortion-regret\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Lisa Marie Presley\u2019s posthumous memoir details abortion regret: \u2018I couldn\u2019t live with myself\u2019<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o950k2HffWw?si=LZugYA1e-U-76Z4c\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Being from Illinois, Giannoulias hails from one of the most pro-abortion states in the country. In appointing Giannoulias, Men4Choice cited his &#8220;100 percent pro-choice record,&#8221; noting his role in creating the &#8220;first in nation legislation&#8221; that protects the &#8220;privacy and safety&#8221; of abortion-seeking pregnant women by restricting automatic license plate readers from tracking them \u2014 bogus legislation that was completely unnecessary, as <em>there is no state threatening to track pregnant women<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The message that men need to come &#8220;off the sidelines&#8221; and fight in favor of abortion is ironic, since pro-abortion advocates have been saying for years that men have no say in what has been labeled a &#8220;woman&#8217;s choice.&#8221; Apparently, as long as men are willing to fight for the killing of preborn children, they&#8217;re allowed and even encouraged to speak.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/survey-abortion-men-decision-abort\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">studies have shown<\/a> that many women would have chosen life instead of abortion, if only they had received support from the father of their children. Men don&#8217;t need to push for more abortion \u2014 they need to step up and care for women and children, especially the most vulnerable children among us \u2014 those in the womb.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-wrap-in1\">\n<div id=\"post-left-col\" class=\"relative\">\n<article id=\"post-area\" class=\"post-320166 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-human-interest category-newsbreak\">\n<div id=\"content-area\" class=\"post-320166 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-human-interest category-newsbreak\">\n<div class=\"post-cont-out\">\n<div class=\"post-cont-in\">\n<div id=\"content-main\" class=\"left relative\">\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/resist-pressure-to-dispense-the-abortion-pill\/\"><b><i>Urge Walmart, Costco, Kroger, and other major chains to resist pressure to dispense the abortion pill<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, it was announced that Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias will join Men4Choice \u2014 an organization fighting to keep the killing of preborn children legal \u2014 as its National Honorary Co-Chair. &#8220;Access to reproductive healthcare \u2014 including abortion \u2014 is a fundamental human right. 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