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Down in Atlanta on Sunday Bob Roethlisburger was driving Troy Newman’s Truth Truck with graphic abortion signs when he was pulled over by the local constabulary and told that he could not show the “offensive, obscene pictures” to the genteel people of that Southern City, where they used to make Blacks sit in the back of the bus.
We have to thank Our Sunday Visitor for the Thanksgiving prayer the Scheidlers, all 32 of us around the family table, will be saying at our Thanksgiving Day meal in the old Scheidler home.
The prayer is as follows:
Lord, we thank you for the goodness of our people and for the spirit of justice that fills this nation. We thank you for the beauty and fullness of the land and the challenge of our cities. We thank you for our work and our rest, for one another and for our homes. We thank you Lord (here each member of the family who wishes to mention a particular good he or she is especially thankful for). For all that we have spoken and for all that we keep in our hearts, accept our thanksgiving on this day. We pray and give thanks through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
More than 200 pro-life stalwarts participated Saturday in a peaceful picket outside Planned Parenthood in Aurora.
Aurora’s Police Chief Bill Powell had promised arrests if there was any semblance of disobeying his orders, which are sometimes inconsistent with—and contradictory to—former directives. But all went well and there were no arrests.
In probably the strongest statement the Catholic Bishops have yet made concerning abortion and the Catholic responsibility to elect pro-life legislators, a meeting of the nation’s Roman Catholic Bishops in Baltimore on Wednesday said voters’ eternal salvation may be at stake.
A weird story on the Chicago Tribune news services says there is not presently any strong evidence that “abstinence-only” programs are working.
A report supposedly based on a review of the research that has been done, released by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, assures us that efforts to promote abstinence appear to have little positive impact.
Pro-lifers we’ve talked to wonder what happened to the Rev. Pat Robertson, to have so enthusiastically endorsed for President of the United States a man who promises to keep us paying for abortions, to keep abortion legal, and who seems to believe that it is some kind of civil right for homosexuals to get married.
Illinois’ favorite son, Congressman Henry Hyde, received the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Tuesday from President George Bush.
Hyde, in Illinois recovering from heart bypass surgery, could not be at the White House for the ceremony, but his son Robert received the medal for him. Hyde, 82, served 32 years in Congress, is retired, and received the medal primarily for his strong support for human life.
He is best known for the Hyde Amendment that cut off federal funding for most abortions. This was passed in the late 70′s and has been modified several times, but continues to restrict federal money for abortions.
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Huge picket along New York St. during the Oct. 27 Rally—See larger version [Photo by Sam Scheidler]
Despite brisk temperatures, a biting wind, and threats of rain, a crowd of 1,000 activists from all walks of life gathered for the Pro-Life Action League’s “We’re Here for Life” Rally outside the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Aurora, IL—the largest abortion facility in the U.S.
Many people began the day by taking a one-mile prayer walk around the facility. They then formed a formidable picket line along New York Street, which stretched all the way from Eola Road one-fifth of a mile to Oakhurst Drive.
Saturday’s prayer vigil and protest at Planned Parenthood’s largest abortion mill in the world in Aurora, IL was a huge success with more than a thousand attending and praying that the mill will go away.
If you live in the Chicago Metropolitan area mark your calendar now for Saturday, October 27 so you’ll remember to attend a massive rally at the new Planned Parenthood Abortion Fortress in Aurora, IL starting at 9:00 in the morning and concluding at 11:30.