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Kevin Rilott of the Rockford Pro-Life Initiative took this video of League Executive Director Eric Scheidler after Tuesday’s successful “Face the Truth” Day in Rockford, Illinois. Thanks to Kevin and all the Rockford pro-lifers who came out on hot August day to make the Tour such a success!
And be sure to check out some of the great media coverage the Tour got:
You may remember yesterday’s post about Joe Scheidler’s trip to Durango, Colorado last week to oppose an abortionist who has privileges at a Catholic hospital.
I’m pleased to be able to share this video of the protest and Joe’s talk there. It’s an inspiring look at a very successful protest. Check it out:
The public hearing in Aurora City Council chambers [Photo by Matt Yonke]
I have a cautionary tale today about the need for average citizens like you and me to keep tabs on what our local governments are doing.
We first became aware of that need in the summer of 2007 here in Aurora, Illinois when Planned Parenthood snuck the largest abortion clinic in the country into our town right under the nose of our city government without so much as a word to the public.
Yesterday, an e-mail update alerted our office to a public hearing on a proposed change to the city of Aurora’s peddling ordinance. Cities make changes to their codes all the time to deal with new problems, and on the surface it looked like this change was a simple response to the problem of unsolicited newspapers and fliers being left on people’s lawns, porches and doors. But there was a lot more than meets the eye going on in this ordinance. Be sure to read past the break for video of Eric Scheidler’s remarks! [Continue reading ...]
John Jansen sets up one side of the “Face the Truth” Tour site in Lake Zurich, IL [Photo by Sam Scheidler]
The Pro-Life Action League’s 11th annual “Face the Truth” Tour was a great success and the media stood up and took notice. Local and national sources, both online and in print, covered many different aspects of the Tour.
But perhaps most interesting was some of the coverage that came after the Tour when the Daily Herald, a local news daily, published a story prompted by a letter sent to the League and copied to the paper by the Lake Zurich, Illinois Chief of Police Patrick Finlon.
The Tour had stopped in Lake Zurich on the morning of Thursday, July 15. It was one of the most successful sites on the Tour with record numbers in attendance. A few local police officers were present and helpful. No problems arose with Tour volunteers, though one business owner did obliquely threaten physical harm to volunteers. [Continue reading ...]
Volunteer Chris Iverson holds a 3rd trimester abortion sign on Cicero Avenue [Photo by Sam Scheidler]
The Pro-Life Action League’s 2010 summer “Face the Truth” Tour came to a rousing end last Friday and Saturday with sites on the south side of Chicago and in the city’s western suburbs of Aurora and Naperville.
Friday started out at 43rd Street and Cicero Avenue with great turnout and tons of traffic. The site is located very close to an interchange on I-55 and very close to Midway airport, so thousands of passersby saw the truth about abortion.
The site at 95th & Ridgeland in Oak Lawn/Chicago Ridge was also very well attended and lunch was generously provided by the Chesna family at their nearby home. [Continue reading ...]
“Face the Truth” Tour in West Chicago, IL [Photo by Sam Scheidler]
The Pro-Life Action League’s 11th annual “Face the Truth” Tour is off to a great start with six sites in Chicago’s western suburbs. The Tour scored its first victory even before demonstrations began July 9.
Two days before the start of the Tour, City of West Chicago officials contacted the League’s attorneys at the Thomas More Society (TMS) and told them our planned Tour site—the first of the Tour—would be in violation of a new ordinance restricting public protest. The city had learned of the Tour from a fax sent by TMS to the chief of police, a courtesy extended to all chiefs of police of the cities and villages we visit each summer, informing them of our peaceful protest plans. [Continue reading ...]
The Pro-Life Action League’s 11th annual Face the Truth Tour kicks off tomorrow, Friday, July 9, and we’ve got an exciting new way for you to be a part of the action, even if you can’t be there on the street.
This year, you can follow all the action as it happens on Facebook, Twitter, and the Pro-Life Hotline.
The League staff and I will be posting regular updates along with photos and video whenever possible so you can see how Face the Truth efforts change hearts and minds on abortion. [Continue reading ...]
Dan McSweeney marches outside the midwest’s largest abortuary in Aurora, IL [Photo by Matt Yonke]
God graced us with perfect weather for a protest this Saturday, June 19. It was the day before Father’s Day and it was great to see a strong turnout of pro-life fathers there to show their opposition to Planned Parenthood’s presence in Aurora.
Over 50 pro-lifers gathered over the course of the protest holding signs reading “Stop Abortion Now“, “Planned Parenthood BAD for Aurora“, and the most popular by far at this protest, “Dads for Life“.
It was great to be joined again by local Knights of Columbus, who have started a regular rosary during our monthly protest. Their emphasis on fatherhood and family fit perfectly with the mood of the day. [Continue reading ...]
Dan Wenzel and Liza Shceidler hold graphic abortion signs along Ridge Avenue in Evanston, IL [Photo by Sam Scheidler]
The Pro-Life Action League held our June “Face the Truth” Day in the Chicago suburbs of Evanston and Lincolnwood yesterday, Wednesday, June 16. Evanston is home to Northwestern University and, like many university towns, is quite liberal. We encounter some of the fiercest opposition to “Face the Truth” there.
In light of that, I and the rest of the crew and volunteers were pleasantly surprised to see a great deal of approving support from passersby. There was certainly the expected honks and obscene gestures, many waved, gave thumbs up and even stopped to tell us how much they appreciated our work and that they knew it needed to be done.
Among the more than twenty volunteers who held pictures of aborted babies at the intersection of Davis and Ridge were two students who pray and sidewalk counsel at the Planned Parenthood facility downtown Chicago. They heard about the Truth Day from some of their fellow counselors and decided to join in. [Continue reading ...]
Illinois Senator Roland Burris
The New York Times reports on a new amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, introduced by Illinois Senator Roland Burris, that would allow abortions to be performed in military hospitals. Contact your senators today and tell them to oppose the Burris Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.
Currently, military hospitals cannot perform abortions. This means women in the military must go outside the military healthcare system if they want to procure an abortion. The government approved abortions in military hospitals for a short time after the Roe v. Wade decision, but ever since the late 1970s the practice has been greatly restricted—largely because the government realized it was unwise and politically imprudent to be in the abortion business. [Continue reading ...]