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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.
I attended the opening show of the pro-life documentary Blood Money last week at the Pickwick Theatre in Park Ridge, and afterward, the film’s producer/director, David Kyle, led a short discussion and answered questions from the audience.
Someone asked what ordinary pro-lifers could do to help get the movie into other theaters, and David said the best way is to get others to come and see it during its time here in the Chicago area.
From a theater’s standpoint, it’s all about attendance: if a movie is able to draw large crowds in one city, there’s a good chance that theaters in other cities will show it too.
If you haven’t seen Blood Money yet, there’s still time. It’s playing at the Pickwick through this Thursday, September 2 (see show times here, and get directions here).
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.
The abortion industry is motivated by greed.
That is the premise of the new pro-life film Blood Money.
The film has several main ideas it expounds upon such as:
The League’s own founder and National Director, Joe Scheidler makes several on-screen appearances, sharing his knowledge of the sordid industry.
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 16, 2007—The Pro-Life Action League hosts a press conference and standing-room-only community meeting in Aurora, Illinois in opposition to a huge new abortuary Planned Parenthood is building there. Speakers include League Director Joe Scheidler, American Life League’s Jim Sedlak and Thomas More Society attorney Jason Craddock. League Communications Director Eric Scheidler, who lives in Aurora, is quoted in the Aurora Beacon the next morning declaring, “Whether it’s 40 days or prayer or 40 years of effort, we will shut down the abortion fortress of Aurora.”
August 12, 1989—League Director Joe Scheidler joins 150 national pro-life leaders in St. Louis for a national think tank on pro-life strategy in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, which restored some ability by states to regulate abortion. The leaders’ consensus is that piecemeal approach offered by Webster will make it take longer to gain full, national protection for the unborn child.
August 2, 1997—League director Joe Scheidler delivers the banquet talk for the closing session of the international pro-life conference in Dublin, Ireland, hosted by Youth Defence, Ireland’s highly effective pro-life organization. Scheidler speaks on “The Inside Story” of abortion—the testimonies presented at the Pro-Life Action League’s Abortion Providers Conferences. During the three-day conference Scheidler also pickets the Marie Stopes abortion referral center.