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The Jaycees in Palatine, Illinois have told the Palatine Area Catholics Respect Life organization that they can’t carry their usual banner (pictured right) in the Fourth of July parade this year—because it has a picture of an unborn baby on it!
Despite the fact that the sign received applause and standing ovations along the parade route last year, the sign has been vetoed.
The pro-lifers were told they could replace the fetus with a picture of a pregnant woman, and march with the 80 other entries. But the group’s co-founder, Martin Kelley, refused the offer, saying it defeats their purpose. The Jaycees claim they made a mistake last year by allowing the picture to be used, but claim they didn’t see a clear image of it. The story is catching the media’s attention and was featured today on the Huffington Post.
Now that the Jaycees have taken a good look, they have determined that the picture “crosses a line.” You can call the Jaycees at 847-604-0288 and let them know that there’s nothing offensive about unborn babies, and the banner should be allowed in the parade.
In one way or another, we will all miss Tom Roeser, who died on Sunday at the age of 82.
Some of us will miss him as a longtime friend. Others will miss him as a prolific and enormously informed political analyst—as evidenced in his many columns in the Chicago Sun-Times and the Wanderer, in his books, and on his popular Sunday evening talk show. Others will miss the man who was chairman of nearly everything. [Continue reading ...]
Of the dozens of books and articles written about the effect of abortion on men, one the most interesting and comprehensive is Arthur Shostak and Gary McLouth’s Men and Abortion.
It consists mainly of interviews with 1,000 men in thirty U. S. abortion clinics waiting for their partners having abortions. It seems to have captured their various attitudes of indifference, guilt, or fear of harm to their partners.
While the book was written in the mid-80′s, it probably echoes interviews that would be conducted today.
What is unusual about the book is not the finding that many men go through grief and loss almost as much as women, or that most men get no counseling but are ignored or even mistreated by abortion clinic staff.
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Vicki Thorn speaking at Resurrection Hospital in Chicago [Photo by John Jansen]
Vicki Thorn, founder of the post-abortion outreach Project Rachel, has an extremely informative talk entitled, “Abortion: A Hidden Loss.” And she certainly proves her point that every abortion is a loss not only to the mother and the father of the aborted child and their extended family, but also to society.
Vicki, who also founded the National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing, spoke Tuesday at Chicago’s Resurrection Hospital to an audience of caregivers, chaplains, mental health professionals, and pro-lifers looking to learn more about the hidden effects of abortion. The event was co-sponsored by the Archdiocese of Chicago Respect Life Office.
Vicki explained why women have abortions, and addressed the desperate need for post-abortive women—and men—to be helped through the grieving process. [Continue reading ...]
On February 21, pro-life champion Dr. Bernard Nathanson died in New York at the age of 84 after a long battle with cancer.
Dr. Bernard Nathanson with League National Director Joe Scheidler
The pro-life movement lost a powerful voice in defense of unborn children in the recent death of former abortionist Dr. Bernard Nathanson.
Along with Lawrence Lader he had founded NARAL (then called the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws). He had performed abortions enthusiastically for many years, directed the largest abortion facility in the Western world, and by his own accounting was responsible for 75,000 deaths.
As difficult as it is to say now, at the time of his pro-life conversion many years ago, I did not quite trust him. I was skeptical of his story that he didn’t realize abortion was the taking of a human life until he saw an ultrasound. Perhaps he just seemed too matter-of-fact about what he’d done, without the contrition that his role in the abortion business would warrant. [Continue reading ...]
What with Live Action’s last few exposés of Planned Parenthood degradation of young girls, the despicable and grisly murders of born babies by late term abortionist Kermit Gosnell, an actively pro-abortion President, our hard earned money being used to pay for abortions—well you get the idea.
“The times are out of joint,” as Hamlet said. So what can we do about it?
Jesus said that without Him we can do nothing. And something has to be done, and it has to be done through Him. So what we can all do, and must do, in these times, is pray. [Continue reading ...]
League Executive Director Eric Scheidler and Bryan Kemper of Stand True protesting abortion in Dublin
Hilary White writes from Ireland that “D-day for Ireland’s pro-life laws looms: urgent prayers requested.”
The facts are even more sinister than Miss White reveals in her call for prayers. The decision this Thursday could, and will, if passed, introduce an evil we can hardly imagine. It could, for the first time ever, be a step towards establishing abortion as an internationally recognized “human right.”
Ireland has been one of only three European countries that have banned abortion, the others being Poland and the tiny Malta.
Leading abortion opponents have seen a disaster coming for some time, ever since Ireland joined eleven other countries in the Single European Act some years ago. Of these eleven, only Belgium did not have legal abortion, but it shortly followed the others. [Continue reading ...]
Abortionist LeRoy Carhart is well known for his challenges to the Partial Birth Abortion Bans passed by the state of Nebraska and by the United States Congress.
One way to decrease abortions, especially the late term ones, is to keep the abortionists from coming into your town or anywhere in your state.
Take the case of good old late-term abortion provider LeRoy Carhart. He had worked alongside Dr. George Tiller in Wichita, Kansas—helping him out doing late term abortions.
Then after Tiller was shot to death on May 31, 2009, Carhart announced that he would move right into Tiller’s mill and continue his late term abortion practice. But lo and behold, the Tiller family closed down the business and Carhart had to look elsewhere. [Continue reading ...]
The big question now is: What does the Republican takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives do for the pro-life movement?
First of all, it is an major embarrassment to President Obama, as he essentially admitted in his post-election press conference.
The takeover of the House sends a clear message to Obama that his first two years in office have been essentially a disaster. Even he has had to acknowledge that fact.
And the turnover to a more pro-life and conservative House sends a clear message that Obamacare is so bad that it will lose whatever support it needs, and should be dismembered, piece by piece. This is probably
the greatest good to come from the November 2 elections. [Continue reading ...]
Missy Smith
Way back in 1992 a young man from Southern Indiana called our office to see if we had some graphic pictures of aborted babies he could use as part of his campaign for the U.S. Congress.
Young Mike Bailey had first thought of running for state office, but then he found out that if he ran for Federal office he could put on any ad campaign he wanted, excluding only materials that were pornographic. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) found this to be a federal candidate’s right, which persists today. [Continue reading ...]