Why March in Chicago?
Cook County, where Chicago is located, performed 23,189 abortions in 2018. That is more than the total abortions in 2019 in Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri COMBINED!
Chicago is the largest city in the Midwest and, tragically, the epicenter of abortions in the region. Your public witness in the Windy City city matters - it is truly mission territory!
Why Illinois?
In 2019, Illinois performed 46, 517 abortions, a 10% increase over the prior year. This startling number affects the entire Midwest. 7,534 of those abortions were performed on non-residents! This is 1,866 more out-of-state abortions than in 2018 (and the number has been rising since 2014)!
Illinois’s permissive abortion laws means that the abortion industry targets people in Illinois and in neighboring states to come to Illinois. New abortion clinics are opening near state borders to draw residents of other states in, such as Waukegan (next to WI) and Fairview Heights (next to MO). An Illinois Planned Parenthood report called Illinois the “Abortion oasis of the Midwest”.
The need is greater than ever; we must stand up for life!
What’s at Risk?
Now, the abortion industry and their friends in the Illinois legislature want to take away your rights as parents to be involved in your daughter’s medical care by repealing Parental Notification of Abortion.
This commonsense law requires abortion clinics to inform a parent 48 hours prior to performing an abortion on a minor. Parental Notification currently saves an average of 1,078 babies each year.
The Illinois abortion industry is moving to profit off of doing abortions on minors without parents even knowing it. This includes girls from out of state!
72% of Illinois residents support the Parental Notification Act, regardless of their position on abortion. If it is repealed, Illinois will be the only state in the Midwest without Parental Notification.
What happens in Illinois will affect the entire Midwest!
Come to the March to stand up for the unborn and their mothers. Join over 10,000 marchers in making a public witness for those who cannot defend themselves!