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NOTE: Due to its length, this article is split into three parts.
Peaceful May 5 Morning at Triton [Photo by EJS]
During the protest I received two other cellphone calls. The first was from a young woman claiming to represent a group of Christian Columbia College students who had made pro-life signs expecting to join our planned protest there. I told her I wanted to believe that she was a sister in Christ, but that I couldn't disclose our plans without being certain. My gut told me she was an imposter.
The next cellphone call confirmed that suspicion. It was from a pro-lifer who isn't on our mailing list. He too was at Columbia College and said no pro-life students were on the scene. In fact, it was the pro-aborts who had given him my cellphone number. He understood why I couldn't say what we were up to. Later that month we met in person at a protest at abortionist Vinod Goyal's house in Inverness.
From Triton we moved on to Wilbur Wright Junior College on the northwest side of Chicago, while the pro-aborts took their meaningless counter-protest to Roosevelt University. The two polite Chicago police officers who monitored the demonstration at Wright were glad to hear the counter-protesters were on the other side of town.
We were back downtown on June 2 to leaflet nine area campuses with a clever flyer produced by Life Dynamics in Denton, TX. The cover of the flyer is filled with slogans like "Pro-Choice," "Reproductive Freedom" and "The Right to Privacy," while the inside declares, "Pretty Words. Grim Reality," with a gruesome picture of a first trimester abortion and several chilling facts about what "choice" really means.
Dan Payne leaflettig, June 2 [Photo by EJS]
The flyer was so stealthy that some volunteers felt uncomfortable passing it out. In fact, some passers-by refused to take the flyers, declaring they were pro-life. Though it was tough to be mistaken by fellow pro-lifers, it was good to discover their position and know that more flyers would reach the intended "pro-choice" audience. Some five thousand flyers were distributed that day at Harold Washington College, Roosevelt University, UIC, the School of the Art Institute, Columbia College, and the downtown campuses of DePaul University, Loyola University, Northwestern University and National Louis University, as well as Daley Plaza.
Before the leafleting campaign, I bicycled down to the University of Chicago, our original morning site, but saw no sign of the pro-aborts. I found them in the afternoon when I bicycled up to our original midday site at DePaul's Lincoln Park campus.
The Pro-Life Action League’s fifth annual summer Face the Truth Tour begins Wednesday, July 7 and runs through Satuday July 17. We will visit over two dozen sites, including the Art Institute of Chicago, shown below during the 2003 Tour. Join us as we take the fight against abortion to the streets of Chicago.
I rode right past their small group, unnoticed by my nemesis from the March and April Campus Truth Days, then stopped to take some pictures from a safe distance. It was disappointing to see that the pro-aborts were allowed on DePaul property in front of the student center at Belden and Sheffield Avenues. Would campus officials have tolerated pro-lifers there? Or like Loyola in March would they have restricted us to the public sidewalk? Maybe next year we'll find out.
On a radical left-wing website, the pro-aborts have boasted about our "retreat" from the Campus Face the Truth Tour. With the publication of this article, they will finally learn that they were duped on May 5 and June 2. We can't keep them from showing up during the widely publicized Summer Blitz Tour, July 7-17, but if they do we're prepared with measures to ensure the safety of our volunteers and the continued effectiveness of Face the Truth.
We wouldn't be meeting this kind of resistance if Face the Truth weren't working. The increasingly desperate defenders of abortion want us to stop. We're not about to.
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