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(Left to right) Paul Wierzbowski, Joe Scheidler, Ann Scheidler, and Joronda Crawford at the Illinois Capitol [Photo by John Jansen]
Over 50 pro-lifers headed to Springfield for the SpeakOut Illinois Lobby Day on Wednesday, March 10. Hearings were held on Wednesday morning on the Illinois version of the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), known to the Illinois legislature as the Reproductive Health and Access bill, HB6205. Unfortunately the bill passed out of the Health and Human Services Committee by a vote of 5-2.
But providentially, pro-life activists representing the dozens of pro-life groups affiliated with SpeakOut Illinois were at the Capitol Wednesday to talk with their legislators and ask them to oppose any further expansion of abortion in Illinois. HB6205 would give Illinois its own Roe v Wade and make it virtually impossible to restrict or regulate abortion in any way. HB6205 also mandates tax dollars to pay for abortion and requires “comprehensive” sex education in public school districts.
Pro-life stars gather in Ohio: (back row, from left) Fr. Tom Euteneuer, Brian Gail, David Bereit, Joe Scheidler, Bobby Schindler—(front row) Jennifer Giroux, Lila Rose, Janet Smith, Jill Stanek [Photo by Ann Scheidler]
Jennifer Giroux, Executive Director of One More Soul, came up with a creative fundraising event this past weekend in Cincinnati. “Dancing With the Pro-Life Stars” was a gala evening featuring a dais of leaders across the pro-life spectrum.
Joe Scheidler shared the stage and the dance floor with Jack and Barbara Willke, David Bereit, Bobby Schindler, Jill Stanek, Brian Gail, Janet Smith, Lila Rose and Fr. Tom Euteneur. Fr. Tom claimed that he had a dispensation that allowed him to stay off the dance floor. [Continue reading ...]
Graffiti on the tarp attached to the fence at Albany Medical-Surgical Center reads “GO-DIE!” [Photo by Ann Scheidler]
When I arrived at the Albany/Family Planning Associates abortuary this morning, a couple of the prayer warriors who were also just arriving, directed my attention to the canvas tarp on the chain link fence around the parking lot. There in orange spray paint was the message “Go-Die!”
We couldn’t figure out the meaning of the message. Is it meant for the pro-lifers who stand along that fence and pray for the babies, the mothers, the fathers and the clinic staff? Or is it aimed at the clinic itself?
I have been counseling and praying at Albany for years. I know everyone else who comes there on different days to counsel or pray. I can’t imagine that any of them would be the “graffiti artist.”
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Hundreds of Illinois pro-lifers gather at SpeakOut Illinois [Photo by Sam Scheidler]
Here in Illinois we are fortunate to have a strong coalition of pro-life organizations, under the banner of SpeakOut Illinois. On Saturday, January 30, SpeakOut Illinois held its twentieth annual conference.
Over 350 adults and 130 teens attended the concurrent SpeakOut and TeenSpeak events.
Phill Kline, former attorney general of Kansas, was electrifying as the keynote speaker.
His topic, “The Foundation of Liberty and the Rule of Law: The Need for Truth,” emphasized the importance of electing individuals who will enforce the law, not just those who might pass pro-life legislation. [Continue reading ...]
Marie Smith on a Face the Truth Tour with the League
Loyal activist and longtime Pro-Life Action League volunteer Marie Smith, 86, died December 21 of a massive heart attack. Marie was the mother of eight children and had many grandchildren.
The previous day, while at Mass at St. Mary of the Angels Parish in Chicago, she told her son Richard that she hoped to have her funeral there.
Marie was exceptionally devoted to the pro-life cause. The very first League Face the Truth Tour in the year 2000 lasted ten days, visiting three sites every day. Marie joined every one of those thirty sites. Featured on the League’s Face the Truth video, she has been an inspiration to pro-life activists of all ages.
For the past eight years, Marie had served as the volunteer custodian of the files at the League’s chicago office, where, every Tuesday, she came to work with a box of Dunkin Donuts for the staff. We pray that Marie will be greeted in heaven by the Lord and by a chorus of voices of the children whose lives she cherished as she worked for their protection and respect.
A few weeks ago, the Pro-Life Action League was alerted to a play in Chicago with an abortion theme. Keely and Du is a drama about a group of fanatic pro-lifers who kidnap a pregnant woman to prevent her from having an abortion.
I acquired a copy of the script and read it. The play was fraught will the usual stereotypes about pro-lifers as religious fanatics who will do anything to further their cause, and I found the style rather hackneyed.
One of the actors, who portrays an evangelical minister in Keely and Du came to our office to pick up some literature and get a sense of the attitudes of pro-life activists. He bought and read Joe Scheidler’s book CLOSED:99 Ways to Stop Abortion, then came back and spent an hour-and-a-half talking with Pro-Life Action League staff about our mission and our tactics.
Pro-Lifers at Mt. Rushmore: Ann and Joe Scheidler with South Dakotans Jean and Al Carlson
The eyes of the nation are on South Dakota, where statewide abortion ban passed by the legislature and signed into law by South Governor Mike Rounds earlier this year is being jeopardized by a ballot initiative brought by Planned Parenthood. On November 7 we will see whether the law banning nearly all abortions in the state will stand.
Joe and Ann Scheidler traveled to Rapid City, SD on the last weekend in October to bolster the pro-life campaign to defend the law. They were invited by Al Carlson, director of Citizens for Life, which has been working diligently in the western half of the state to mobilize pro-lifers and to educate the electorate on the importance of voting YES on November 7.
League Executive Director Ann Scheidler submitted the following letter to the Chicago Tribune’s “Voice of the People” section in response to a column by Mary Schmich:
Mary Schmich (”Coming to grips with abortion’s new vocabulary,” Feb. 18) has joined the chorus of abortion supporters who think you can have it all—respect for the value of the unborn baby and protection of the absolute right of a woman to destroy that baby for any reason.
The U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is hosting a new exhibit on the Nazi’s pursuit of the master race. The exhibit reveals how the Nazis worked to eliminate anyone they considered to be defective and rewarded women who gave birth to large numbers of blond, blue-eyed Aryan children.
According to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, and reported in the nation’s major newspapers, there are fewer multiple births from test-tube pregnancies. The cited reason for this decline is that fewer embryos are being implanted in the wombs of women hoping to have a baby.