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Little Clare Scheidler carols before the empty manger [Photo by EJS]
The Pro-Life Action League and fifty volunteers from around Chicagoland faced bracing cold to sing Christmas carols at four abortion clinics in the first "Empty Manger" Christmas Caroling Day, Saturday, Dec. 20. The caroling day began at Albany abortion mill on the northwest side of Chicago and concluded at the recently closed Concord facility on Grand Ave. downtown.
The carolers began each site with "Away in a Manger," gathering behind a large wooden manger in remembrance of those unborn children who will never "lay down their sweet heads" upon any bed. The manger was also an invitation to abortion-bound mothers to figuratively place their babies upon the manger like baby Jesus.
At Albany and two other sites, American Women's Medical Center on Western Ave. and Family Planning Associates on Washington St., Dan Gura and his daughter Corinna held a large banner reading, "All I want for Christmas is an end to abortion." After singing the rest of our caroling program we concluded each site by facing the clinic and singing "Silent Night."
Deathscorts with their "Condom Tree" [Photo by EJS]
At the Planned Parenthood facility on La Salle St., a half dozen deathscorts emerged from the clinic to "guard" the door, one of whom held a small Christmas tree decorated with condoms. A police officer arrived and rudely demanded that the carolers clear a path on the sidewalk at the behest of the abortion mill operator. As caroling organizer Eric Scheidler patiently submitted to swearing and threats from the officer, teens from a Lake Zurich pro-life club cleared the sidewalk to his satisfaction. There was no other contact with police during the caroling day.
Jesus in the manger at closed Concord Mill [Photo by EJS]
The program concluded at the recently closed Concord abortion mill on Grand Ave., where many Chicago-area activists first cut their teeth back in the 70s and 80s. Some passers-by, on learning what we were there to do, stopped to join us. For this last stop celebrating the demise of the notorious clinic, the group placed a figure of baby Jesus in the manger.
The League conducted the "Empty Manger" Christmas Caroling Day in cooperation with Pro-Life PLAN (Pro-Life Activist Network), a national affiliation of pro-life activist groups that coordinate quarterly pro-life events. The "Empty Manger" Caroling Day was Pro-Life PLAN's first event.
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