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Update 1/19/05: Tapes and CDs of the outstanding SpeakOut Illinois 2005 Conference are now available by calling the League at 773-777-2900. Have your credit card ready.
The SpeakOut Illinois 2005 conference will take place January 16 at the Hyatt Regency, Oak Brook, and will focus on the theme New Insights — New Tactics. Join us for an afternoon of inspiring and informative speakers, including Feminists for Life President 2003 Serrin Foster and Master of Ceremonies John Morales.
Ann and I just returned from a fund-raiser for the League hosted by Jennifer Giroux of Cincinnati, Ohio. She put the whole event together in less than a month and raised more than $10,000 for the League.
They even auctioned off one of the last copies of my book, CLOSED. It brought a bid of $350.
We’ll be out of town trying to raise money for the League early this week. Say a prayer for us.
It’s tough to run a national organization when your enemies have so much of your money tied up and a federal injunction against you, even though the highest court in the land ordered them to give your money back and vacate the injunction.
But we manage, and have redoubled our efforts to make abortion illegal and keep women from having abortions even while they’re legal.
We have many things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, not least of which is the fact that moral values played an important role in the recent election. True, there is still much to be done since those mostly concerned with moral values was only 22% of the electorate, but it’s a start.
Noel Naughton holds both a Malachi and a “Perjury?” sign outside the Wrigley Building [Photo by EJS]
Three dozen pro-life activists gathered in unseasonably warm weather outside the Wrigley Building Thursday, Nov. 18 for the final Face the Truth Day of the year. The site was chosen to coincide with an award being given to NOW attorney Fay Clayton at the 410 Club inside.
Our group was spread out along the east side of Michigan Avenue with their signs in full view as guests began to arrive for the event — including Fay Clayton herself, who exited a cab right in the middle of the display. She quickly darted past the protest and into the Wrigley Building.
George Weigel and Christopher West believe it is time to detonate “a theological time bomb” in the Catholic Church. The time bomb is the teaching of Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body.
They and other scholars and informed Catholics say what is needed is a return to the Church’s teaching on sex and marriage, as found in the129 talks given by Pope John Paul II summing up his mature understanding of the theology of the body as a catechesis for the Church in the wake of the sexual revolution. These talks, given from 1979 to 1984, encompass almost everything we need to know about living our lives according to God’s plan.
Eric Scheidler and kids alert passers-by that there’s an abortionist in their neighborhood [Photo by Pat Morris]
On Saturday, Nov. 13, the Pro-Life Action League led fifty activists in an “Old-Time Picket” at the new location of notorious abortionist Jan Barton’s Des Plaines abortion mill. The American Women’s Medical Center moved earlier in the year from another location in Des Plaines.
Our group held signs reading “Stop Abortion Now,” along with large graphic signs of first and second trimester abortions. Three large arrow-shaped “Abortionist” signs alerted passers-by to the fact that there is an abortionist operating in their neighborhood.
The Pro-Life Action League’s picket last Saturday of Dr. Jan Barton’s new abortion mill in Des Plaines drew fifty pro-life activists who lined up on both sides of South River Road to hold signs pointing out that an abortionist now works in the multi-purpose building.
The verdict in the Scott Peterson double murder trial underscores the right to life of every unborn child, commented Pro-Life Action League National Director Joe Scheidler in a statement to the press shortly after the verdict was announced Nov. 12. “We believe that every unborn life is valuable,” said Scheidler. “This case adds to the increasing evidence that it is no longer possible to pretend that an unborn baby has no right to life.”
If you read this Action News Hotline before Saturday, try to make it out to our picket at 9 a.m. in front of Jan Barton’s new abortion mill in Des Plaines. That’s from 9 to 11 a.m. at 110 S. River Road, which is between Golf and Rand Roads.