According to folklore, zombies are undead corpses, or living dead. Such is IL's parental notification law, and it needs cpr right now.

In 1995 - 13 years ago - the IL legislature passed a parental notice law.

All that was needed then was for the IL Supreme Court to write judicial bypass rules, i.e., provide a path through the courts for minors in abusive homes to abort around parents.

The Supremes, being liberal at the time, just said no.

But in 2006 the Supremes, now numbering more sound than unsound justices, issued rules.

By now, however, IL had a liberal attorney general, Lisa Madigan. (How liberal? She voted against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.)...

Lisa just needed to get a federal judge's stamp of approval, but she took such sweet time the Supremes finally sent her a kick-in-the-pants letter to get a move on.

So she did. Then the federal judge who was to give that stamp, David Coar, took his sweet time deciding, almost a year.

Finally on February 28 Coar issued his decision, refusing to lift the injunction. He agreed with the ACLU's argument that the law was faulty because it lacked a consent provision. Only this wasn't a parental consent law; it was a parental notification law. There is already an IL law providing proper consent.

Someone must now motion for Coar to reconsider, providing information on the statute he said was missing.

The only 2 someones this can be are Lisa or Cook Co. State Attorney Dick Devine, another pro-abort. And they only have 10 days, expiring tomorrow.

However, any of the 118 IL state attorneys can intervene if they think they are not being adequately represented. Which is where phone calls come in. IL pro-lifers need to call your state attorney today or tomorrow.

I understand calls are being made at a good clip. I just called my sa, and the receptionist said she had received 5 in the last hour. Numbers for northern IL state attorneys are on page 2. You'll have to google yours if living downstate.

COOK County: Richard Devine, 312-325-9200
DEKALB County: Ron Matekaitis, 815-895-7164
DUPAGE County: Joe Birkett, 630-407-8000
KANE County: John Barsanti, 630-232-3500
KENDALL County: Eric Weis, 630-553-4157
LAKE County: Michael Waller, 847-377-3000
MCHENRY County: Louis A. Bianchi, 815-334-4159
WILL County: James Glasgow, 815-727-8453
WINNEBAGO County: Philip Nicolosi, 815-319-4700

Thanks, Planned Parenthood, seriously.

Backdrop: The State of IL passed a parental notice bill in 1995 that laid dormant for over a decade because the then-liberal IL Supreme Court refused to enact rules so a minor girl in an abusive home could instead get permission from the courts.

In 2006 a constitutionally friendly Supreme Court wrote rules and instructed rabidly pro-abort Attorney General Lisa Madigan to enact the law, which, of course, she dragged her feet on throughout early 2007.

Finally in May 2007, Madigan completed her part, and since then the decision whether to enact the law has been in the hands of notoriously slow federal judge David Coar. The ACLU is disputing whether IL court systems are prepared.

Then Planned Parenthood Aurora reared its ugly head in late July and opened for business in early October, despite huge outcry from citizens.

With parental notice now necessary to protect Aurora families, last week by unanimous vote the Aurora City Council passed a resolution submitted by alderman Rick Lawrence calling on the state to do something....

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Aurora, Illinois urges that the State of Illinois aggressively work with the Attorney General and the courts to resolve the issues involved so that implementation of the Parental Notification Act of 1995 can immediately proceed. Furthermore, we notify neighboring municipalities to be concerned about the same and hereby approve this resolution as fore stated.

Read the full resolution at OpenLineBlog.

With the 2nd largest city in IL passing such a resolution, its 3rd largest city, Naperville, is planning to introduce the same as early as tonight, according to OLB:

Now, city leaders in Naperville are preparing to move forward as well, which makes sense considering the Planned Parenthood facility happens to be between the two cities with a combined metropolitan population of over 400,000 people.

Naperville Councilmen Dick Furstenau and Darlene Senger are both planning to introduce their own parental notification resolution to further push this matter into prime-time focus of everyone in the State of Illinois and U.S. District Court Judge David Coar's courtroom to get action on protecting children.

The matter could be introduced as early as next week's meeting on Tuesday, December 4th and voted upon during the December 18th meeting.

Hopefully more municipalities will follow suit.

[Sun-Times Madigan photo credit: McHenry County Blog]

Yesterday I discussed how the "clergy" loophole in parental notification legislation would allow hired abortion industry "clergy" to bless abortions or any liberal "clergy" member, or actually anyone at all who took five minutes to be ordained online.

Today, I have another suggestion. Abortion mills could call Homer Simpson!

Readers may recall that in 2005 Homer was himself ordained  online after learning he could get $200 for marrying people.  This is about the going rate I imagine "clergy" hired by Planned Parenthood get for blessing abortions.

Following are audios of Homer performing the same duties as would some members of the liberal "clergy" who have no problem advising minor girls to abort:

Download homer_marries_sibs.mp3

Download homer_marries_julio_and_thad.mp3

Hat tip: Reader Edgar

The IL Supreme Court issued parental notification rules last September 20, instructing AG Lisa Madigan to tell a federal judge to lift the injunction on the 1995 law. 

I had a feeling Madigan was stalling to give Rep. John Fritchey's repeal bill time to work through the system.

So four months later - coincidentally - Fritchey introduced his repeal bill January 18, and Madigan announced January 19 she would indeed follow the Supremes' instructions, "ask[ing] the federal court to give the state's circuit courts time to train their staff to handle the new procedures," according to the Chicago Tribune.

Enough time for Fritchey to keep the bloodgates open.   

The current law would ensure a little girl got help from the authorities if she turned up pregnant.  Fritchey's bill would allow her pedophile to get her an abortion before anyone was the wiser.

Should his bill pass, I hope Fritchey will be able to sleep at night, knowing some little girl somewhere isn't, thanks to him.

Hi from DC. Had preplanned a trip here for another reason; got involved in the fight over the interstate parental notification bill yesterday. And it has quickly escalated to an all-out Senate war, because the Child Custody Protection Act would have a major impact on abortion in the US. Read backdrop here.

Senator Frist's bold move took everyone by surprise. But to our side it was a "yee, haw!" moment; to pro-aborts it was an "oh, no" moment (or something like that). So we organized much more quickly than they did. In fact, the other side is still reeling. God forgive me, I'm loving that.

That said, Democrat Senator Dick Durbin, ever earning his name, quickly became the Senate force behind stalling/stopping CCPA, throwing nails, glass, and even his pitchfork on the road to blow out CCPA's tires. Goal? Slow it down at least until Saturday, when senators may leave town for campaign events. CCPA needs 60 votes to overcome procedural roadblocks. Last time the Senate voted on CCPA, there were 65 ayes. And if senators don't leave town, Republicans will suffer more than Democrats for missing opportunities to get their message out at home.

So, our side's goal is to call CCPA for a vote THIS AFTERNOON. Therefore, calls are critical this morning. And make those calls to DC offices if possible, not in-state offices. If you called yesterday, call again today. The Capitol switchboard is 1-202/224-3121. I was proud to hear you ringing Senator Obama's phone off the hook while I was waiting to waste my time speaking to his staff yesterday afternoon. But I did it because someone told me the other day that while some people may seem impossible to convince, placing a pebble in their shoe at least makes it harder for them to walk.

Calls to 14 Democrats who previously voted for CCPA are top priority. If you live in those states, have everyone in your family call, even the dog. Then tell your friends and their dogs to call:

Mark Pryor (AR)
Ken Salazar (CO)
Thomas Carper (DE)
Bill Nelson (FL)
Daniel Inouye (HI)
Evan Bayh (IN)
Mary Landrieu (LA)
Ben Nelson (NE)
Harry Reid (NV)
Kent Conrad (ND)
Byron Dorgan (ND)
Tim Johnson (SD)
Robert Byrd (WV)
Herbert Kohl (WI)

I cannot overstate how important this bill is. More on that when the dust settles. Thanks.

This just in from DC: "Senator Frist filed cloture on ccpa/ciana tonight, as soon as was possible. Cloture will ripen in 30 hours. Then we will vote. And we need to win."

Yes! Good for Senator Frist! A very real pro-life legislative drama is unfolding. Next, 60 senators must vote aye to stop a filibuster and get this important pro-life bill to the President's desk. Session ends Friday. We must all call our senators TOMORROW.

Sen. Frist called for unanimous consent once again this morning to send the Child Custody Protection Act to conference (i.e., for Senate reps to meet with House reps to work out agreeable language, since they passed similar but not identical bills).

This time, supposedly pro-life Sen. Reid stood up and objected, rather than rabid pro-abort Sen. Durbin, heretofore the visible obstructor.

Reid and Durbin say they are objecting on behalf of Sen. Boxer, who submitted an amendment to take away parental rights of incest perpetrators. This is a surprisingly good pro-life amendment. The Senate approved it, but it wasn't in the House language . Frist has promised not to accept any language from conference that doesn't include this amendment, but Boxer says this promise isn't good enough. It's all a smoke-screen.

Reid reminded Frist he could go over Reid's head and call for a vote to send the bill to conference. This was either a taunt or an attempt to find a way out due to pressure. Sources suggest the former. Frist didn't bite. I'm not clear why. Seems to me he would want to get senators on record who might vote for the bill before they vote against it. Furthermore, since CCPA passed 65-34, it seems likely although not guaranteed that a motion by Frist to override Reid would pass.

If CCPA doesn't leave the Senate tomorrow, there won't be time to get all ducks in a row before its September 15 recess. It will become increasingly difficult to see CCPA become law after tomorrow.

IL Federation for the Right to Life launched an urgent nationwide on-line petition drive two days ago and has heard from all but two of 50 states, including one congressman. IFRL is faxing the names they have to Reid, Durbin, and Frist this afternoon but are still gathering names. Please sign this petition.

Or call them at 202-224-3121.

Today the IL Federation for the Right to Life launched a nationwide on-line petition drive telling U.S. Senate Democrats to stop obstructing the Child Custody Protection Act.

This is an urgent matter. The Congressional Pro-life Caucus reported this morning the clock is ticking: "If we hope to see this important legislation signed into law this year, the Senate must act this week to send the bill to conference."

Please sign this petition now at www.ifrl.org/ccpa/ and forward the link to pro-lifers and blogs.

Go here to read IFRL's press release.

Thank you.