Parents who object to their daughter’s abortion would be required to pay for it and could be held liable under a pro-choice bill that passed the Illinois House Wednesday.

The bill, H.B. 25, liberalizes the state’s abortion laws and declares abortion a “fundamental right, as Christian Headlines previously reported.

But the bill also repeals language that explicitly protected parents from being forced to pay for their daughter’s abortion if they didn’t give consent.

Current law states: “No parent shall be liable for any expense incurred by his or her minor child when an abortion is performed on such minor child without the consent of both parents of such child.” The bill – which passed, 64-50 – deletes that section of law.

Republican Rep. Avery Bourne, who voted against the bill, said during floor debate the bill targets parental rights.

“It takes out measures that we have legislated over the years, because we think it’s important to stand up for the people who are impacted,” she said.  

Bourne asked the bill’s sponsor, Democratic Rep. Kelly Cassidy, why the language was removed. 

“Currently under statute,” Bourne said, “a minor child goes [and] gets an abortion – her parents if they did not consent to that cannot be held liable for the expenses of that abortion. Under this piece of legislation, the parents could have to…

A Greenville, SC couple is suing both the state and the Trump Administration after a Christian foster care agency rejected their application to become foster parents. Eden Rogers and Brandy Welch, who have been married for three years and have two children of their own, applied to become foster parents through Miracle Hill Ministries, but the agency turned down their application because they feel “a religious obligation to partner with foster parents who share our beliefs and who are active in a Christian church.”

In January, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a waiver that allowed foster care agencies who receive federal funds in South Carolina to refuse to offer services that come into conflict with their religious convictions. The lawsuit alleges that the HHS and South Carolina are guilty of “unlawfully authorizing state-contracted, government-funded foster care agencies to use religious eligibility criteria to exclude qualified families from fostering children in the public child welfare system.” They further claim the waivers violate the establishment, equal protection, and due process clauses of the United States Constitution.

Rogers and Welch expressed their disbelief that they would be rejected on religious grounds, citing their commitment to family and membership in Greenville’s Unitarian Universalist Church. Welch…

A leading Christian abolitionist has said that the number one way to effectively battle the modern-day sex trafficking trade is to stop watching pornography.

Christine Caine, an international evangelist, leads global anti-trafficking organization A21, which helps police prosecute traffickers and offers care to the victims of sex slavery.

As the organization notes on its website, there are more people enslaved in the world today than “ever before in human history.” Now, through its global network of anti-slavery campaigns, A21 hopes to change that for good. The first step? Stop watching porn.

In a talk at Bethel Church’s “Heaven Come” conference in Los Angeles last weekend, Caine insisted that the pornography industry is being fueled by human trafficking and urged Christians to flee from the sordid material.

“I’ll tell you how to stop human trafficking, sex trafficking overnight… if people stop watching porn…Just stop it,” Caine implored, according to Fox News. 

Nothing is free,” she said of the adult industry, noting that many women and children are trafficked into the business. “Porn costs somebody.”

The gifted speaker also took aim at sexually explicit television shows such as Game of Thrones. 

“Here I am trying to put traffickers in jail and you’re watching Game of Thrones,” she said, highlighting the hypocrisy of many…