Twins at 7 weeks gestation
SPRINGFIELD – Last month, during the House Human Services' Committee hearing on HB 40, State Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago) explained to her colleagues why she had an abortion and why she supports taxpayer funding of abortion.
UPDATE: Catholic Conference's Bob Gilligan responded to Cassidy's assertion …
"I had to have that abortion to preserve my fertility," Cassidy, a co-sponsor of the bill, said. "I didn't want to have an abortion, I wanted to have those two babies. But I wanted to survive and I wanted to maintain my fertility." (Audio recording of Cassidy's testimony follows)
Currently, Illinois law allows taxpayer-funded abortions for the health of the mother as well as cases of rape and incest.
UPDATE: Catholic Citizen's lobbyist Bob Gilligan says the procedure Rep. Cassidy referred to in her comments is not considered an abortion. He commented on Illinois Review:
State Rep. Kelly Cassidy asserted in the Sun Times that she had an abortion when she had a blighted ovum and an ectopic pregnancy removed. These procedures are not abortions. A blighted ovum contains no embryo, so a human life is not taken. It's a tumor that is removed from the uterus, and this is a standard gynecological procedure. Removal of an ectopic pregnancy, where the embryo implants in the fallopian tube and cannot be saved, is also a standard procedure already covered by insurance. These procedures would not be affected whether the public pays for abortions or not.
Cassidy is now mother to three sons she eventually had after aborting her first pregnancy with twins. She has been a state rep since 2011, and serves on 11 House committees.
Her legislative biography says that Cassidy is an "LGBT rights activist and organizer; former legislative director for the National Organization for Women; former legislative aide to state Sen. John Cullerton; former Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and Director of Programs and Development in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office; only openly gay female legislator serving in the General Assembly."
"I want everyone in the state to have the choices I had," she said.
HB 40 would not only require taxpayers fund abortions for women on Medicaid and women that are employed by state government, it would remove a passage in Illinois law that declares "that the unborn child is a human being from the time of conception and is, therefore, a legal person for purposes of the unborn child's right to life from conception under the laws and Constitution of this State."
Among other purposes, that provision provides a legal basis for protecting unborn children that suffer harm via assaults of their mothers, vehicular accidents and the like.
It also determines that if the U.S. Supreme Court were to overturn the 1973 Roe vs Wade decision, and the states were given authority to legalize abortion, in Illinois, abortion would be become illegal.
Over 8200 persons filed witness slips in favor of HB 40. About 3500 have filed slips in opposition to the bill. HB 40 passed committee February 8th along partisan lines, and now awaits a vote on the Illinois House floor. Senate passage is assumed and Governor Rauner has not declared whether he would sign the bill or not.
The section to be deleted if HB40 become law is as follows:
What about the trauma and invasiveness her unborn twins underwent? What a very sad story … for her, her surviving sons and what a sad example she sets as a mother and lawmaker. We live in heartbreaking times.
She killed two offspring in the womb, so she blind remain fertile
That’s sick
so the babies are all cool with you but she has to die or become barren. lol. This is why you’ll never win. That woman has a right to her life just like you do. Stay the F out of her medical decisions regarding HER life.
How about her possible death? and leaving those babies who none of you really care about without a mother? any brains want to tell me where Jesus said Babies > Mothers?
Even orthodox jews will permit abortion to save a mother’s life.
Everybody non Evangelical knows that this is really about your evangelical need to control everyone else’s behavior while you all live morally corrupt lives without mirrors or until caught. Evangelical who voted for a morally corrupt pig for President and all applauding while the other pigs move in for the big money are showing the entire country what frauds they are. They use Christ as a cover.
State Rep. Kelly Cassidy asserted in the Sun Times that she had an abortion when she had a blighted ovum and an ectopic pregnancy removed. These procedures are not abortions. A blighted ovum contains no embryo, so a human life is not taken. It’s a tumor that is removed from the uterus, and this is a standard gynecological procedure. Removal of an ectopic pregnancy, where the embryo implants in the fallopian tube and cannot be saved, is also a standard procedure already covered by insurance. These procedures would not be affected whether the public pays for abortions or not.
If strongly oppose the use of my tax dollars for the murder of unborn babies… unborn babies feel pain during the murder (abortion)… not that this heartless state rep cares.
“I want everyone in the state to have the choices I had,” she said. “
She wants everyone to have a choice except the most innocent of all…. the defenseless babies. People like propagandist Cassidy makes me want to barf, the truth ain’t in her!
One of my most cherished friends was conceived during a rape and survived a failed abortion. She is a phenomenal person…
What medical condition, other than ectopic pregnancy results in the need for an abortion? In the case where the fetus is not in the womb, the abortion is medically necessary because the baby cannot survive, and allowing it to grow could result in the death of the mother. We get that. I don’t see that as an “abortion” where one chooses to kill the baby.
Roe v. Wade aborted the Federal Constitution by deciding that a “Right to Privacy” was a Federal Right. It extended the enumerated rights in the first nine amendments to the Constitution and weakened the 10th Amendment. The “short cut” bypassed the right of each state to devise a system of laws — including either state wide statutes or the further delegation of authority to each locality to determine whether or not that entity would permit through licensing the licensing of an abortion facility or facilities within its borders and under what circumstances.
Prolifers want to protect life – be it the mother’s, the child’s … and your ridiculous condemnation of the prolife mindset exposes your own bigotry against the unborn and their disposal when convenient.
Evangelicals and Catholics alike would have fought to protect your life – oh really – despite the anger and animosity you harbor towards them.
It is not the religious that want to control your life – it is the non-religious that want to control the religious. Let’s be honest.
honest? you hide behind Christ attacking the rights of others using HIS name and then claim other pick on you? really? Mind your own business. Worry about whether YOU get to heaven or not. Stay out the medical decisions of OTHER WOMAN and OTHER FAMILIES. You are overly entitled and self righteous you deserve the condemnation you get… hypocrite.
Oh really –
Just one question – when does an unborn baby reach the stage of having constitutional rights?
PS… This is a misleading story !!!! The picture is not her ultrasound!!!! She had an ectopic pregnancy and a tumor. She would have died without the surgery.
never. Children don’t even have “all constitutional” rights.
Again, you think turning this into a police state policy will garner more support for your movement? Getting the government involved to watch and make sure the woman cows in the country all give birth is not going to promote your cause AT ALL.
I noticed that when the babies are born you call those very same woman who kept their babies whores. How’s that promoting your cause?
When the babies are born.. your GOP has cut medical coverage for them because they are the children of whores? right?
You want to control, judge others while sitting at home being your amoral selves. You want woman to have the babies.. and then you want to blame them for the economy and all YOUR personal lack.
My my, one can certainly tell you’re a lib. Why is it always necessary for you people to call names and use vulgar language? If the “pregnancy” was ectopic then the removal wasn’t really an abortion since the fetus wasn’t in the womb. What we Christ loving “frauds” are really opposed to is the ending of a life for inconvenience or any other such selfish reason.
All the children of illegal immigrants USED TO BE FETUSES too!
Show how much you care for those children by not supporting the new Federal policy implemented by Trump of serparating mothers from their children.
How many of you have in an ounce of integrity. How many of you aren’t hypocrites regarding the sanctity of ALL LIFE. Not just the white skinned ones.
An abortion ends a pregnancy. That’s literally what it is. That you don’t want to call it one because such a mother “deserves” he abortion is irrelevant.
In all seriousness could IR consider banning the troll or at least deleting comments like when it says as a matter of fact that people on the boards called women “whores” when that was in fact never said so the troll could not possibly have noticed.
i thought the point of delayed comments was to monitor the trolls. The longtime IR readers and commenters deserve better than to read this nonsense.
Abortion ends a life… it’s the murder of an unborn child. Just because you call it abortion instead of murder is irrelevant.
Murder is the taking of an innocent life; there is not a more innocent life than an unborn baby’s.
Democrats always want to reward democrat voting criminals for breaking the law
I oppose all ILLEGAL ALIENS…. I don’t care what the color of their skin is. No one should be rewarded for violating our immigration laws. Illegals can and should go back to their country of origin. Job & welfare poaching illegals are not entitled to take from Americans. Illegals steal 3 billion dollars a year from Illinois tax payers… and Illinois has a massive debt. Illegals deny Americans freedom… with the help of the communist freedom hating democrats
Trump folks are only going after brown skinned folks… I have yet to see white Canadians or any White Europeans being who are here illegally being deported. have you? cut you crap. you voted in racists into the White House… own it.
Another post that should be deleted.
Name a white Canadian or European here illegally that has not been deported.
Do you drink when you wake up in the morning? Your posts become more incoherent throughout the day.
Well “murder” is a legal term that doesn’t cover abortion, so no, they’re not the same thing. By your logic, organ donation is murder because it also the taking of a life. Or is it? Pro life activists make a big deal about when a heartbeat starts, so if you transplant a heart, the donor must still be alive. It’s thousands of times bigger than an embryo and still beating, so I guess it must be alive.
So when the issue is making a decision to kill a baby it’s “Mind your own business.”
When the issue making a decision on how to operate a business you want the government telling you who you must cater to.
You are an incoherent fool.
As I see it, ILLINOIS REVIEW believes in free speech and open exchange of ideas, even if those ideas are leftist, lunatic or crackpot.
(Sorry, I repeated myself TWICE.)
The “liberal media,” by it’s own actions,
shouts down, beats up, or censors anyone who disagrees with it.
I guess I don’t consider cyber-graffiti to be on the level of speech.
The troll has yet (in the many year’s it has been trolling here) to offer an actual idea.
Murder is in my dictionary… its a criminal act. Just because a lying Supreme court says its a privacy right doesn’t mean it is one. That court wrote law and lied. No one who isn’t in denial know when you end a life, a life with a beating heart you murder…
Abortion ends a life… it’s the murder of an unborn child. Just because you call it abortion instead of murder is irrelevant.
Murder is the taking of an innocent life; there is not a more innocent life than an unborn baby’s.
what are Trump folks??