More Proof That Rockford Pro-Lifers Have Saved Lives
Rockford, Il – (ProLifeCorner.com) – 1-26-2012 – by James - The story below from Lifesite News shows the prayers, sacrifices, and hard work of pro-lifers throughout the state of Illinois and especially in Rockford are saving lives. Even before the Rockford mill closed the numbers of babies killed by abortion in Rockford had been going down because of the prayers, love, and help offered to mothers in need by Christian pro-lifers.
We still have a lot of work ahead of us to end abortion but it is good to see real lives and souls are being saved
Illinois Abortions Drop to 37-Year Low, Down 9 Percent
by Steven Ertelt | LifeNews.com | 1/25/12 1:16 PM
Abortions in Illinois have dropped 9 percent in 2010 from the prior year and the state health department indicates they are now at a 37-year low. Abortions are expected to drop further now that Rockford’s abortion business has closed.The Illinois Department of Public Health indicates 41,859 abortions were done on women and children in Illinois in 2010 — which is the lowest recorded total since the Supreme Court made virtually all abortions legal in Roe v. Wade in 1973, when 32,760 abortions were done in the state.
Planned Parenthood of Illinois President Carole Brite told the Chicago Sun Times she is glad abortions have declined but doesn’t know why they have decreased, though she speculated contraception may have been responsible — however she cited no figures to back up the claim.
Bill Beckman of the Illinois Right to Life Committee told the newspaper he thinks the abortion decline might be represented in the shift in public opinion towards the pro-life position that has occurred over the last several years.
“Certainly it seems like the level of people willing to be active in some way or another could be seen as increasing,” he said. “I think that overall, just the public mind-set of abortion is changing and that’s having an impact on people being more reluctant to make that choice.”
According to the Times: “The 2010 figure was down from 46,077 in 2009, a 9 percent decrease, state records showed. Procedures in Cook County decreased 1,356, from 25,196 in 2009 to 23,840 in 2010. The number of abortions for non-Illinois residents decreased from 3,624 to 3,050. Abortions among Illinois minors — age 17 and under — dropped from 2,991 to 2,725.”
The number of abortions on teenage girls in the state could decline further if the state ever enforces a 1995 parental involvement law that has been tied up in court.
Tom Schafer, deputy director of the state’s Office of Health Promotion, told the newspaper the state counts abortions at 26 abortion facilities and those done by 95 and 140 individual physicians, who may not always report to the state. The state’s abortion figures may also be lower than the actual number as the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, which works more closely with abortion businesses and abortion practitioners, shows 54,920 abortions in Illinois in 2008 while the state’s health department recorded 47,717.
The abortion business in Rockford, Illinois has been closed down permanently after recently reopening following an agreement with the state after violations it engaged in that caused its closing temporarily late last year.
Earlier this month, the Northern Illinois Women’s Center in Rockford closed after having its license suspended by the Illinois Department of Health after failing an inspection following up on previous violations state officials found in June. The state told the abortion business it needed a plan of correction and, despite the plan, the corrections had not been sufficiently made and health inspectors still found numerous violations.
Department of Public Health officials gave the abortion center a three-page report of deficiencies on September 29 signed by Damon T. Arnold, the director of the state department. The notice says officials “found conditions at (the Northern Illinois Women’s Center) that are directly threatening to the public interest, health, safety and welfare requiring immediate, emergency action.”
Thank God and thank you
Thu, 01/26/2012 - 9:17am — Joyce (not verified)Thank God and thank you pro-lifers. Every baby saved is hope for our world.
Here's a look at the white
Thu, 01/26/2012 - 10:17am — Carl (not verified)Here's a look at the white washed NIWC web-site http://www.niwc-rockford.com/
Yes, pro-lifrs have saved a lot of lives and helped closed down a demonic killing center.
Thanks to Wayne and company I
Thu, 01/26/2012 - 10:30am — Digby O' Dell (not verified)Thanks to Wayne and company I think it will be hard for another mill to come to Rockford because now people asociate abortion with racism, bigotry, hatred, and dirty-nasty-dangerous conditions.
The Rockford abortion mill
Thu, 01/26/2012 - 3:39pm — Letter in Beloit news (not verified)The Rockford abortion mill was shut down by an emergency order of the Illinois Department of Public Health on September 29, 2011.
Prayerful pro-life witnesses continued their presence outside the former Turner Elementary Schoolhouse. That is where thousands of pre-born children have been put to death during recent years. Men and women from all walks of life, and from all religious denominations have been assembling, witnessing and counseling every week for 20 plus years to pray for the moms and their babies. Prayers included the fathers of the babies, and families touched by the mother’s pregnancy.
It was in God’s time that this abortuary (abortion mill) closed its doors forever on January 13, 2012.
So many mothers, often young girls chose life for their baby during those years and wonderful baby showers were given for them by members of the pro-life community. Just this last Christmas, I received a Christmas card from one of the little boys that was saved. He is 9 years old now.
America was a more beautiful place when we did not believe that a “problem” could be solved by killing the innocent pre-born child and wounding the woman for the rest of her life. A pregnant woman, be she a teenager or older makes a forever decision, be it her choice to deliver and guide her child to adulthood, or to have her pre-born baby killed. The latter is a “forever decision” that haunts her for her lifetime.
So as we are marking 39 years of legalized abortion, there is a bright light in all of this and we are grateful to God.
Video of abortion mill worker
Thu, 01/26/2012 - 4:38pm — Brian (not verified)Video of abortion mill worker who quit.....more good news!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POuZezoJBVY&feature=share
Here is another good link
Thu, 01/26/2012 - 5:42pm — Kevin (not verified)Here is another good link about the Rockford mill
http://prolifeaction.org/hotline/2012/closed/
January 22nd marks the sad
Thu, 01/26/2012 - 7:29pm — Marshall (not verified)January 22nd marks the sad anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion across the United States. More than 50 million unborn children have perished since, 70,000 of these babies in Rockford. Let us pray that the truth of the value of all life, born and unborn, will be once again championed all over the world.
Eternal Father, Source of Life, open our hearts to see and desire the beauty of Your plan for life and love. Fill us with Your Holy Spirit so that our love will be generous and self-giving and we may be blessed with joy. Grant us great trust in Your mercy. Forgive us for not receiving your gift of life and heal us from the effects of the culture of death. Instill in us and in all people a sense of the sacredness of every human life. Inspire our efforts to protect and care for the most vulnerable, especially women who are pregnant and their unborn children, the sick and the elderly. Strengthen us in the hope that with You nothing is impossible. We ask this in the Name of Jesus who by His Cross makes all things new. Amen.
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