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2011 was a huge year in the abortion battle and the Pro-Life Action League was busier than ever fighting abortion on the front lines with hard-hitting grassroots activism.
To show you a sample of what 2011 looked like for the League, we’ve put together this 2 minute video displaying a few of the things we did each month. We hope you enjoy this look back at the last year and that you’ll join us in making 2012 an even bigger year for life!
Every year the Pro-Life Action League brings the light of Christ to the darkness of the abortuary with our “Empty Manger” Christmas caroling day. The video of last year’s event shows just how moving this effective pro-life witness can be.
More and more groups around the country have started holding their own Christmas caroling events at abortion clinics, and now it’s your turn to get involved in this Advent pro-life ministry.
To help you do just that, the League has put together some critical resources that will make your caroling day a success.
The Pro-Life Action League is proud to announce our 9th annual “Empty Manger” Christmas Caroling day Saturday, December 17.
Each year, the League brings the light of Christmas to the darkness of the abortion facility by singing the songs of Christmas right outside their doors.
Join us this year for two tours, one in Chicago and one in DuPage county to make your Advent a pro-life one. [Continue reading ...]
We were thrilled to find out yesterday that the Dimensions Medical Center abortion facility in Des Plaines, Illinois has CLOSED!
Dimensions was one of seven Chicago area abortion facilities owned by the notorious Vinod Goyal, and since last year it has seen a regular pro-life sidewalk counseling and prayer presence thanks to the tireless efforts of Northwest Families for Life (NWFL), a group of grassroots activists headed by local residents Maria Goldstein and Laura Vandercar.
The League was happy to help get Northwest Families off the ground last year. Shortly after NWFL launched, the League’s Joe, Ann, and Eric Scheidler met with Maria and Laura to offer advice and give them a set of signs to use during the times of their abortion clinic witnessing. (These signs direct women to a nearby pregnancy resource center, and they’ve proven so effective that abortion clinic workers have repeatedly tried to steal them!)
We soon realized that Northwest Families meant it when they said they were seriously committed to stepping up the pro-life presence outside the abortion clinics in their community. [Continue reading ...]
Regions Hospital in MN, which will close its abortion center Dec. 9
One of the best tools in the fight to end abortion in America is making it unavailable.
As we found out when we infiltrated last year’s Medical Students for Choice conference, abortionists are already shaking in their boots because of the dwindling number of doctors performing abortions.
Closing down abortion centers makes it that much harder to obtain an abortion, and a long drive might be the last straw that makes a mother stick it out through a difficult pregnancy instead of going through with an abortion.
Well, we’re happy to report that one of only seven abortion facilities in the state of Minnesota will stop its deadly business early next month! [Continue reading ...]
Eric prays a Rosary outside a Germany abortuary in September of this year
I’ve just learned from one of my pro-life contacts in Germany that a court hearing is coming up this Thursday, December 1, on the status of sidewalk counseling in the city of Freiberg. A law enacted earlier this year created a buffer zone around abortion facilities that has effectively outlawed sidewalk counseling. A similar law was put in place in Munich as well.
When I visited Germany this past September, I had the opportunity to pray at the oldest abortuary in Munich, where the sidewalk counseling ban was in force.
It was an eerie experience. My colleague Bryan Kemper and I had to switch off sides of the street to pray a Rosary together, since only one person can stand nearby the clinic entrance at one time. Had we German enough to speak to any of the clients we could have been fined €500 ($670) for doing so.
For an American used to the free speech protections afforded by the First Amendment, the situation for pro-lifers in Freiberg and Munich is hard to imagine.
Please keep Thursday’s court hearing in your prayers. German babies are dying today because courageous German sidewalk counselors have been muzzled by this unjust law.
Planned Parenthood’s Aurora mega-center [Photo by Eric Scheidler]
Pro-life activism is work where you don’t always see the fruits of your labor right away.
Sidewalk counseling is a perfect example of that. You may not know till you get to heaven how many people chose not to abort their babies simply by your presence and your peaceful outreach.
But sometimes God gives us the gift of seeing our work pay off here and now. That happened to sidewalk counselor Joe B. last weekend in Aurora, Illinois. [Continue reading ...]
The disturbing video below from the stalwarts at Pro-Life Wisconsin blew up when it was posted to HotAir.com yesterday. Take a look:
On Monday I received a call from Pro-Life Wisconsin looking for help acquiring the 911 call audio of this incident from the city. If they’re successful in obtaining that, I’m sure we’ll be hearing more about what happened to the poor woman in the ambulance soon. [Continue reading ...]
Domenico di Bartolo's Madonna of Humility
During our Face the Truth Tour a few weeks ago in Cincinnati, one of the local pro-life activists who came out to join us for the day reminded me of something that can’t be repeated often enough.
He and I were talking about various ways to fight abortion, and he remarked that one of the most important things any of us can do is to strive for personal holiness in our everyday lives. I couldn’t agree with him more.
Eric Scheidler has talked in two recent posts about the need for pro-lifers to be diplomats for the cause, and to always keep in mind when we’re talking with people who are pro-choice that our purpose isn’t to “score points” but rather to persuade them to agree with us about the value of life in the womb.
Occasionally, a single conversation with someone who is pro-choice may result in an on-the-spot conversion to the pro-life position. But I suspect that instances like these are more the exception than the rule. [Continue reading ...]
Not that this should come as any surprise, but Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius doesn’t understand pro-life activism.
The Associated Press covered yesterday’s NARAL luncheon where Sebelius gave the keynote address, noting that she mentioned the Pro-Life Action League’s protest of the event:
Outside the event, a dozen anti-abortion protesters silently held large grisly signs depicting aborted fetuses, and Sebelius mentioned the demonstration in her speech.
“I know that some people were a bit appalled at walking through the demonstrators as you came to this lunch,” Sebelius said. “It is a discomfort when you’re coming to lunch, but think about the women who are trying to tap into the health services they desperately need who have to go through that kind of gauntlet in order to access all-too-infrequent services.”