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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.
Walter Hoye (right) with Ann and Joe Scheidler in Hawaii last year
In Oakland, California, Pastor Walter Hoye started praying at an abortion clinic when two elderly women asked him to join them because most of the clinic’s clients were African-American.
A quiet, devout man, Hoye began to counsel the women coming to that clinic. And he saved babies. So, in short order, the City of Oakland passed a bubble zone ordinance to try to keep Pastor Hoye and the two older women from reaching out to women and offering them a real choice.
Pastor Hoye was arrested under the ordinance, in spite of the fact that he actually abided by the stipulation not to reach into the 8-foot floating bubble around the abortion clinic clients. He refused to pay a fine and was sentenced to 30 days in jail. [Continue reading ...]
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 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.
![Monthly protest at PP Aurora, August 2010 [Photo by Sam Scheidler]](/pix/2010/ppauroraaug1.jpg)
The pro-life community of Illinois’ Fox Valley showed what it’s made of this past Saturday during the monthly protest at Planned Parenthood Aurora, with a strong showing of 70 activists. We’ve held this protest every third Saturday of the month since November 2007.
August can be a tough time for pro-life activism, with summer vacations, high temperatures and back-to-school responsibilities tending to dampen participation.
So I issued a challenge to Fox Valley pro-lifers to make a special effort to come out for Saturday’s protest. I e-mailed them about the great turnout at the Rockford, Illinois Face the Truth Day earlier in the month, and said I’d hate to see the Fox Valley outdone. [Continue reading ...]
August 21, 1999—The League sponsors a picket of the Family Planning Associates clinic on the south side of Chicago for the first of two Saturdays, targeting abortionist Lorton Kennedy.
August 19, 1999—For the third consecutive year, the League pickets Lilith Fair, a music festival with an all-female lineup, in Tinley Park, Illinois. The League objects to the fair’s support of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion chain, which passes out condoms at the fair along with stickers reading “My Body, My Choice.”