Human Services Committee to Take Up Illinois FOCA Bill This Week - UPDATED

UPDATE (3/2/10, 3:15 PM): We're told that the committee will be holding a hearing on this bill in the Capitol next week, on March 10th. Be there if you can!
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The Human Services Committee of the Illinois General Assembly will be taking up the Illinois FOCA bill this week, possibly as soon as tomorrow.

If you were involved in fighting against this bill last year, then you will want to save the trouble of going through it all again this year, by stopping it from even getting to the House floor. Committee Chairwoman Naomi Jakobsson is a co-sponsor of the bill, and committee member Sandy Cole, whom I ran against in the recent primary, voted for this bill in committee last year, and will probably do so again. The STOP ILLINOIS FOCA blog reports:

They are the people who get to vote on whether or not this bill moves on to the House floor. It’s important that everybody contact these representatives whether or not they are YOUR representative.

They all represent you as an Illinois citizen on this committee, so they need to hear your voice.

Call, write, fax and visit these reps and tell them to vote NO on HB6205. Tell them:

• HB6205 will create a huge expansion of abortion in Illinois
  
• HB6205 will force Illinois school children into “condom training” sex-ed from pre-school
  
• HB6205 will make it more difficult for women to seek justice after a botched abortion
  
• HB6205 will pave the way for the gutting of the Parental Notice Act of 1995, which a strong bi-partisan majority of Illinoisans support

Please call, write and visit as many of these Reps as possible. Here’s the list of names and phone numbers to call. For all the details on how to contact these Reps and maps to their offices, see the full list below:

• Rep. Naomi D. Jakobsson 217-558-1009
  
• Rep. Constance A. Howard 217-782-6476
  
• Rep. Patricia R. Bellock 217-782-1448
  
• Rep. Sandy Cole 217-782-7320
  
• Rep. Annazette Collins 217-782-8077
  
• Rep. Mary E. Flowers 217-782-4207
  
• Rep. Timothy L. Schmitz 217-782-5457

I hope you'll find time today to make a call. Or six.