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Help Move the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act Forward

The Thomas More Society has done a great job in defending the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act of 1995. After successfully defending the Parental Notice Act in the Federal Courts, the ACLU filed an Illinois lawsuit against the Act. Now the pro-life Thomas More Society has sent the Illinois Supreme Court a motion to transfer the legal case directly from the Appellate Court to the Illinois Supreme Court, arguing that every day the Act is not enforced, pregnant minors are at risk for abortion. Their request for transfer of the appeal is that “public interest requires prompt adjudication.” Currently, the First District of the Illinois Appellate Court is not expected to render a decision for at least a year..

Peter Breen, Thomas More Society's executive director and legal counsel said, "More than 15 years ago, with overwhelming bipartisan support, parental notice was supposedly made the law in Illinois. But as we sit here today secret abortions on pregnant minors continue unabated." He continued, "With this motion to transfer, the Supreme Court has the opportunity to immediately and definitively decide the constitutionality of parental notice in Illinois."

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ERA Threatens Wives' and Widows' Social Security Benefits

by Phyllis Schlafly

     Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has made it clear that ERA would abolish the homemaker wife's and widow's benefits in Social Security. This is the benefit that most mothers and grandmothers rely on.
     The Social Security Act is sex-neutral -- employed women receive exactly the same Social Security benefits as employed men.

     But what about the homemaker wife who is financially dependent on her husband for much or most of her life, who may work in the labor force only a few years or only part-time, and therefore does not build up enough credits in Social Security to receive a significant retirement check based on her own earnings? The Social Security System recognizes her value by giving the homemaker "wife" a check for 50% of her husband's benefit over and above the check he receives. Upon her husband's death, the widow receives the full benefit that her husband had been receiving. (The law also gives this benefit to a dependent husband, but we know that nearly all dependent spouses are women.)