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September 2, 1989—The League launches a statewide project aimed at enlisting Catholic priests to demand Christian leadership from elected officials. Many priests respond favorably, indicating they will give homilies on abortion and will pray for women and unborn children on a regular basis in the prayers of the faithful at Mass.
September 1, 2007—Over 700 pro-lifers, including 500 teens, attend a “Youth for Truth” Rally in Aurora, Illinois in the lot next to Planned Parenthood’s new “Abortion Fortress,” scheduled to open soon. The rally is organized by teens from several area schools, with help and encouragement from League Communications Director Eric Scheidler, who also speaks at the event, alongside pro-life speaker Yvonne Florszack-Seeman.
August 31, 1998—The University of Notre Dame hires Senator Bill Bradley — a notorious abortion supporter — to its teaching faculty. League directors Joe and Ann Scheidler write to the provost urging him to revoke the position and to return to a respect for Catholic teaching. Joe urges hotline callers to write the provost as well in honor of his daughter Sarah, a junior at Notre Dame.
August 30, 1995—League Director Joe Scheidler heads to South Africa with Fr. Paul Marx and Brian Clowes of Human Life International and Rev. Johnny Hunter of the Life, Education and Resource Network (LEARN) to help persuade the South African Parliament not to pass an extremely liberal abortion law opposed by a majority of the people.
August 29, 1996—After a week of pro-life activities across the City of Chicago during the Democratic National Convention at the United Center, pro-life activists line both sides of Ogden Avenue with large graphic abortion signs. Delegates heading to the United Center for convention’s final day—including President Bill Clinton and his motorcade—drive right past the display.
August 28, 2007—Hundreds of pro-lifers from across the western suburbs of Chicago back an Aurora City Council meeting to express their opposition to a huge new abortuary being build in the city by Planned Parenthood. The community had learned about the nearly-completed construction only weeks before, when the press uncovered Planned Parenthood’s deliberate scheme of secrecy. Over 100 speak out against the new abortuary, but only 4 in favor. Mayor Tom Weisner agrees to launch an investigation into possible fraud by Planned Parenthood.
August 27, 1988—The 5th annual Pro-Life Action Network (PLAN) convention, hosted by the League at Chicago’s historic Bismarck Hotel, concludes. PLAN drew together 97 pro-life leaders from 24 states to discuss a unified strategy for pro-life activism.
August 26, 1995—The League sponsors a sidewalk counseling training seminar at the Radisson Hotel in Lincolnwood, Illinois, where 100 pro-lifers receive instruction on the Chicago Method of sidewalk counseling, which focuses on alerting those entering an abortion clinic of the various lawsuits filed against the facility and its staff.
August 25, 2007—Over 1,300 pro-lifers participate in protest at the site of a massive new abortuary being built in Aurora, Illinois, dubbed the “Abortion Fortress.” League Communications Director Eric Scheidler coordinates the dynamic protest, which includes an “old school picket,” prayer vigil, Face the Truth Tour and leafleting of the neighborhood.
August 24, 1986—League Director Joe Scheidler visits Fr. Edward Markley in a Montgomery, Alabama, prison where he is serving time for praying at an abortuary. The previous evening, Joe held a press conference on the steps of the state capital and led pro-lifers in a march in front of the prison in protest of Fr. Markley’s unjust imprisonment.