<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Sending this early so people have time to read it over:</span><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 18.190000534057617px;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Whereas abortion is a major medical procedure which comes with possible health risks, including uterine perforations, lacerations, hemorrhaging, infections, blood clots, problems conceiving and carrying a baby full term, infertility, and death,</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 18.190000534057617px;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Whereas women who have an abortion may suffer from mental issues and PTSD after the procedure,</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 18.190000534057617px;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Whereas pro-abortion advocates claim women will seek out unsafe abortions if abortions were to become illegal, evidence from abortion clinics including the Women's Medical Society Clinic in Philadelphia, owned, and operated by Dr. Kermit Gosnell prove otherwise. In 2011, Gosnell, his wife, and eight employees were charged with a total of 32 felonies and 227 misdemeanors in connection with deaths, illegal medical services, and regulatory violations at the Women’s Medical Society Clinic. Gosnell was convicted of the murders of three infants who were born alive after using drugs to induce birth. Gosnell was also convicted of manslaughter in connection with the death of one woman during an abortion procedure and was convicted for several other related crimes.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 18.190000534057617px;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Whereas countless numbers of nameless women and millions of the unborn have died during abortion procedures,</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 18.190000534057617px;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Whereas sex traffickers can and do force their victims to receive abortions,</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 18.190000534057617px;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span class="gmail_default">Whereas Planned Parenthood workers have been captured on video discussing Planned Parenthood selling aborted baby parts to scientific laboratories, including performing abortions in a manner that allows for efficient harvesting of in-tact body parts for maximum sale price and profit<span class="gmail_default">,</span> </span><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 18.190000534057617px;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Whereas abortion is a topic used by government and politicians to divide citizens against each other when citizens should be uniting against the ever expanding and freedom limiting government,</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 18.190000534057617px;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Whereas the subject of abortion is used as a political tool for politicians from both the left and right during election time,</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 18.190000534057617px;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Whereas government funded Planned Parenthood donates millions of dollars each year to pro-abortion political candidates,</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 18.190000534057617px;"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Therefore, be it resolved, the Libertarian Party of Illinois shall add to the Party Platform “The Libertarian Party is adamantly against government involvement in any and every aspect of our lives. Citizens should not be forced to pay for abortions or abortion counseling via taxes or fees. Government should stop all payments to, and funding for, providers who perform abortions, counsel pregnant women about abortion as an option to terminate pregnancy or refer patients for abortions.”</span></font></p></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>Kelly Liebmann</strong><br><br>Greenwood Township Trustee<br>Selective Services Region 1 Board Member<br>Deputy Voter Registrar<br>Treasurer, McHenry County Libertarians<br>LPIL IT Operations Director<br>Greenwood 3 Libertarian Party Precinct Committeeman<br>Convention Committee Member<br><br><em>"It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." -Thomas Paine</em></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";"><br></span></div></body></html>