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Eric Scheidler with Fr Frank Pavone at the Priests for Life headquarters in New York
Last week it was my special privilege to visit the offices of Priests for Life in Staten Island, which I learned is known as the “forgotten borough” of New York City, having more in common with the Jersey suburbs. I was there to record an interview for Fr. Frank Pavone’s pro-life EWTN program, Defending Life, and to update the Priests for Life staff and pastoral associates on the League’s work.
With the amazing outreach that Priests for Life has, there are many partnership opportunities for the Pro-Life Action League. We’re the recognized national experts on the kind of creative, dynamic activism that constitutes the “next step” for many who are drawn into the pro-life movement through the outreach of Fr. Frank and the other priests and missionaries of Priests for Life. [Continue reading ...]
Eric and April Scheidler and family
[Photo by Sam Scheidler]
Last week the US Department of Agriculture released its 2009 report on the cost of raising children. Not surprisingly, the cost is higher than it used to be—22% higher than in 1960.
According to the report the average cost of raising a child to the age of 18 is $222,360, the biggest increase being in child care and education, and most of that is child care. The nation’s media is quick to emphasize the fact that children don’t come cheap. But you need to take all these number with a grain of salt ($2.99 per pound).
Three generations of pro-life men: Eric, Joe and Nate Scheidler at a protest in 2004 [Photo by Danita Covington]
This weekend we celebrate Father’s Day, and I thought this would be a good opportunity to address a common objection raised by abortion advocates: that men, because they can’t get pregnant, have no business saying or doing anything about abortion.
Of course, that rule only applies to pro-life men. If a man supports abortion, he’s more than welcome to speak out and take action. No one on the other side objects to men acting as clinic escorts (or as we call them, “deathscorts”) or joining a counter-protest—let alone paying for an abortion.
But really, the idea that men should have no say in abortion because they can’t get pregnant is nonsense. And as a son and a husband, as the brother of three sisters and, above all, as the father of six daughters, I have a deep interest in women’s welfare. [Continue reading ...]
June 3, 2000—The League holds the first of two major demonstrations at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois after nurse Jill Stanek exposed the hospital’s practice of allowing infants who survived a late-term abortion attempt to die without medical treatment. Stanek would go on to publish Pro-Life Pulse, the nation’s premier blog for pro-life news and commentary.
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Pro-Life Action League. Joe Scheidler founded the League on this date in 1980 to end abortion through activism and education.
Joe and the League invite you to celebrate this milestone with a year-long retrospective of highlights from the past 30 years. Visit each day to see what happened on that day in a previous year in the League history.
Today a jury in Wichita, Kansas took only 37 minutes to find Scott Roeder guilty of first degree murder for shooting abortionist George Tiller back on May 31. Along with every other major pro-life organization, the Pro-Life Action League swiftly condemned Tiller’s murder. There is no place for violence in our peaceful movement to restore respect for the lives of unborn babies.
Shortly after the verdict was announced, I received a call from CBS radio asking for comments, and I’d like to share those reflections here.
Walter Krawiec, seated center, passed away at the age of 88
One of the last, few, truly Renaissance men died peacefully Saturday at Our Lady of the Resurrection Hospital. He died from a heart attack and complications of pneumonia. Walter Krawiec was 88 years old.
Despite his many talents, commissioned paintings, travel, and deep interest in music, Walter found time to spend every Thursday morning praying at the Albany Medical-Surgical Center with a group of pro-life activists. [Continue reading ...]
After spending two days at Notre Dame listening to truly great minds striving to work out a solution to the University’s fall from grace during the past forty or so years, I have almost nothing to report except that there is enormous concern and much sadness over the present situation “in that little bit of Heaven that’s just outside of South Bend,” as the old song from “Clashmore Mike” goes.
Clashmore Mike, incidentally, was a student produced musical on campus way back in the late 1940’s, and the full text of the hit song was “Golden days spent under the Dome, happy in our Indiana Home. Sad when we know our student years must end, in that little bit of Heaven that’s just outside of South Bend.”
I just don’t understand how there are Catholics out there who still don’t get it.
A friend sent me the following letter to the editor from the Quad Cities Times by Bernie Tadda:
I went to get my hair cut a few weeks back and the stylist asked me where I work. I have to admit that I still tense up when I tell perfect strangers where I work, since I don’t know how they will react.
I told her I work at the Pro-Life Action League, a group devoted to telling people the truth about what happens during abortion and to helping women choose a life affirming alternative to abortion-like adoption or parenting. She looked at me and said, “Wait, that sounds ‘pro-choice’ to me-you’re giving these women choices.”