Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner pledges to sign a bill allowing taxpayers to fund abortions.
September 29, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — Illinois’ liberal Republican governor, Bruce Rauner, stunned and outraged pro-life advocates yesterday by reversing himself and pledging to sign a bill forcing the state’s taxpayers to pay for Medicaid abortions.
Illinois taxpayers “will now be complicit in the deaths of 10,000 to 15,000 more babies every year,” after the bill, HB 40, becomes law, Illinois Family Institute (IFI) warned. Its projection is based on the increased number of new Medicaid recipients in the Democrat-dominated state in the last five years.
The new law also guarantees that Illinois will continue to allow abortion-on-demand even if the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling is overturned.
Rauner made his HB 40 announcement at a press conference Thursday as his wife and Illinois First Lady Diane Rauner, a pro-abortion feminist, applauded in the back of the room. The governor’s demeanor was somber and serious, as if he fully realized the devastating political implications in his own party of what he was saying.
Asserting that signing the bill was true to his values, Rauner said, “I personally am pro-choice. I always have
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