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Have a great Thanksgiving weekend. Think of all the things you have to be thankful for and then give God a mighty “Thank You”—because there is hardly any sin greater than ingratitude.
It apparently bothered Jesus a lot when he had cured ten lepers and only one came back to thank Him. He made a special point of this ingratitude. And try as we may, we can’t help but resent it when we’ve done something special for someone and it’s as though it didn’t happen. No response.
Chicago, Nov. 23—The Pro-Life Action League will lead a picket by parents and their daughters at American Girl Place in Chicago on Friday, November 25, from 10:00 a.m. to noon, in protest of American Girl’s ties to the pro-abortion advocacy group, Girls Incorporated.
By now it’s no secret that there will be a major protest of American Girl Place at 111 East Chicago Avenue (map) on Friday, Nov. 25, at 10 a.m. The Friday following Thanksgiving is traditionally the biggest shopping day of the year, and there will be many Mothers taking their daughters to American Girl Place to buy dolls and that is why the Pro-Life Action League is selecting this day for a protest of American Girl for linking up with pro-abortion, pro-lesbian Girls Inc.
Steve Chapman in Thursday’s Chicago Tribune Commentary assures us that Plan B, “emergency contraception,” is just a plain old contraceptive, not an abortifacient as we pro-lifers had thought.
Chapman says most Americans are leery of aborton, but are comfortable with birth control. He says the pro-life movement has opposed morning after pills as abortion-in-disguise. But, he says, it turns out that pills like Plan B just block fertilization but don’t cause abortion.
Poor Sam Alito. His past stand against abortion was clearly based on a logical conclusion that “Roe is bad law,” and he said so in his opinions and commentaries. Now that he has to get votes from liberal Senators like Charlie Schumer and Ted Kennedy, he must try to back peddle and disavow his former comments.
The National Pro-Life Action Center’s Stephen Peroutka says that, “A nominee who is willing to take the seemingly mandated Roe oath, whereby they testify that it is settled law, never to be overturned, is not the type of justice worthy of pro-life support ” Peroutka is right if this is what Alito is really doing.
We predict that the secular media will never get it right—even when Americans sometime in the future turn completely around and eradicate abortion, just as we did slavery and child labor, and gave women the vote and made it possible for Southern Blacks to go to the polls, the media still won’t get it right.
What they won’t get right is that human beings—every bit as important and valuable as they are—are killed by chemical abortions, that most forms of so-called contraception are abortifacient, that embryonic stem cell experiments kill human being, and that these are not opinions, but facts that are denied at one’s peril.
We took a minute at 11AM Friday to pray for those who died fighting for our country. We owe them a deep debt of gratitude for paying the ultimate price. God rest their souls.
I’m currently reading stacks of questionnaires the League sent out this year asking supporters when they got active in pro-life, what triggered their interest and what was their most memorable pro-life experience. We also asked why they like the Pro-Life Action League.
Tune in to PBS (in Chicago Channel 11, WTTW) at 8 o’clock (9 o’clock Eastern) Tuesday night, Nov. 8, to watch a Frontline special on the abortion wars called “The Last Abortion Clinic.” It deals with the closing of a Jackson, MS clinic and other abortion clinics across the South, and how pro-lifers have been demonstrating, sidewalk counseling and helping pass restrictive legislation resulting in fewer abortions and more clinic closings.
Since the League announced a boycott of the American Girl doll company over their ties to the pro-abortion group Girls Incorporated, pro-life parents have been seeking alternatives for their daughters. Several excellent doll lines are available:
“Ordinary girls—extraodinary faith”—that’s the theme of these dolls created by Mission City Press. A Life of Faith began as a series of books about girls living out their Christian faith with heroism. Girls loved the books so much, they began to ask for dolls to go along with them, and now the company offers four different beautiful dolls, each with a full line of accessories.
The good news out of Milwaukee is that the infamous Summit abortion clinic on N. Water St. has closed its doors for good This is one of Susan Hill’s infamous abortion clinics in the chain that has been suing the League for nearly twenty years.
When NOW v. Scheidler was launched in 1986, the Women’s Health Organization (WHO) had a dozen abortion clinics across the country. The League led pickets at WHO clinics in North Carolina, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Delaware, Indiana, Florida, and Washington D. C., and now about half of them are closed.