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We all have a lot to be down about what with all the corrupt politicians, bad laws, bad economy, bad television and on and on. But it does little good to keep complaining, especially when we as Christians know how it all ends, in ultimate victory for good, and eternity with God.
So here are some things to be happy about right now:
On Thursday we had two definite saves at the Albany abortion mill on Elston Avenue, one through Cathy Mieding’s counseling and another started by Cathy and completed by Fr. Steve Lesniewski. [Continue reading ...]
For many years pro-lifers (including this writer) have predicted that someone in the secular media would, eventually, get it right—the abortion story, that is.
Now Robin Abcarian of the Chicago Tribune has come about as close as you can come.
In the Wednesday, March 3 edition of the Tribune, she writes about the
Georgia Billboards featuring the face of a black baby with the slogan “Black Children are an Endangered Species.” On the bottom of the billboard is the website, TooManyAborted.com, which claims that “under the false liberty of reproductive freedom we are killing our very future.” [Continue reading ...]
Abortion chain operator Susan Hill is dead at 61.
Susan and I have a long history, as she was one of the abortionists who got the League all tangled up in NOW v. Scheidler.
It seems that I was always picketing and protesting at Susan’s mills. After all, she was managing twelve at one time.
I had protested outside her mill in Fort Wayne, Indiana and she called the bomb squad, without even warning us that a bomb was expected to go off and blow the big brick building right into our line of march—that is, if someone had set a bomb.
Then I picketed one of her mills in North Carolina, and since it was inside a general office building I went in, but Susan called the police, so we had to stay way outside the building.
Then it was one of Hill’s abortion mills in Wilmington, Delaware that I went into to see what an abortion clinic looked like and to let her know that about a thousand pro-lifers would be protesting outside her mill the next day. She called the police.
I got out before the police came but she filed a warrant and I was arrested and locked up the next day. Luckily, the police were polite and cooperative enough—after a little persuasion by several hundred picketers—to let the march finish and allow us to give some talks before they marched me off to my cell.
“]![Father John Jenkins at the March for Life [Photo by Ann Scheidler]](http://prolifeaction.org/pix/2010/jenkins.jpg "jenkins")
Besides being probably the largest Pro-Life March in Washington to commemorate the January 22, 1973 U. S. Supreme Court’s unconstitutional rulings that legalized child-killing in America, this year’s 37th annual March for Life afforded many opportunities to advance our cause.
There were meetings, seminars, planning sessions, talks, discussions, and even the scheduling of numerable new programs to be launched in 2010.
Walter Krawiec, seated center, passed away at the age of 88
One of the last, few, truly Renaissance men died peacefully Saturday at Our Lady of the Resurrection Hospital. He died from a heart attack and complications of pneumonia. Walter Krawiec was 88 years old.
Despite his many talents, commissioned paintings, travel, and deep interest in music, Walter found time to spend every Thursday morning praying at the Albany Medical-Surgical Center with a group of pro-life activists. [Continue reading ...]
Just looking around at our goofy society—our mindless politicians; their unworkable, irrational, juvenile, and almost humorous solutions (if they weren’t so dangerous); their economic nonsense with tax and spend program; the legalization of moral depravity: you get the idea—I can’t help but think of the famous words that William Shakespeare put into the mouth of the Prince of Denmark in his play, Hamlet: “The time is out of joint! O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right.”
Hamlet had just found out from the ghost of his father that the father’s brother, Hamlet’s brother, Hamlet’s uncle murdered him so that he could marry Hamlet’s mother; his girlfriend Ophelia is going mad and drowns herself; Hamlet kills her father thinking he is someone else; and other sundry problems. And Hamlet has to settle it all as amicably as possible, which ends up with his own death, or something like that.
What a sad state of affairs when even the people who write a city ordinance don’t know what it means. That makes it almost impossible for anyone else to have a clue, so the alternative is to give it ones own interpretation based on one’s preferences.
At issue is the new so-called “bubble zone” invented to try to keep pro-life sidewalk counselors from talking abortion-bound women out of killing their offspring. The ordinance apparently went into effect Nov. 16 when it got published.
Well, the Democrats got the Affordable Health Care for American Act through the House on a squeaker, but not without an amendment banning use of tax money for abortion.
The bill passed 220-215. Many pro-lifers are predicting that this ‘no-money for abortions’ amendment will be dropped in the Senate version, or somewhere along the line, that it won’t be adhered to, and that was just a ploy to get the pro-life vote and keep pro-lifers happy.
Our hat is off to the more than 150 pro-life activists who came out to protest in front of Chicago City Hall on Wednesday, October 7 against Planned Parenthood’s patently unconstitutional, mindless bubble zone ordinance which would deny pro-lifers the life-saving program of talking women out of abortion.
Our sidewalk counseling not only saves children’s lives, but frees woman from lives of regret, despair, depression, self-loathing, and even suicide. Six times more women commit suicide following an abortion than women who carry an unplanned pregnancy to term.
You will soon be hearing this message on your telephone:
“Hello. This is Joe Scheidler of the Pro-Life Action League. The Chicago City Council is about to vote on an ordinance to prohibit pro-life counselors from speaking to and even leafleting women outside abortion clinics. It will deny free speech, and a woman’s right to know. Please contact Mayor Richard M. Daley’s office and urge him to oppose this ordinance that creates a “bubble zone” at abortion clinics. To be transferred to the Mayor’s office, press one on your phone now. Thank you.”