DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Amid mounting pushback, Sen. Dick Durbin, a pro-abortion Democrat from Illinois, declined a lifetime achievement award on Tuesday he was scheduled to receive from the Archdiocese of Chicago. The announcement drew widespread criticism due to Durbin’s history of abortion advocacy despite identifying as Catholic. The decision to award Durbin the lifetime achievement award faced strong pushback from several American bishops, including Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Durbin’s home diocese. Dick Durbin is the kind of politician who should be disciplined by Church leaders, not honored,” Cortes added. “Someone who says, ‘I’m against abortion,’ but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life.