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Today in League History

May 31, 1997

05/31/2011

May 31, 1997—The International Socialist Organization hosts a “closed” rally in the Wicker Park neighborhood in Chicago to “defend abortion…

Abortion

May 30, 1985

05/30/2011

May 30, 1985—Ms. Magazine highlights League director Joe Scheidler in a 25-page special on “enemies of choice” in the May-June…

Abortion

May 29, 1987

05/29/2011

May 29, 1987—League Director Joe Scheidler invents the slogan, “Abortion: A baby can live without it,” recording it in his…

Abortion

May 28, 1994

05/28/2011

May 28, 1994—Just days after pro-abortion President Bill Clinton signs into law the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act…

Abortion

May 27, 1984

05/27/2011

May 27, 1984—After the League protests the flippant treatment of abortion in an episode of the NBC sitcom Buffalo Bill…

Abortion

May 26, 1984

05/26/2011

May 26, 1984—The League conducts an “abortion clinic blitz,” entering ten Chicago abortuaries in a single morning to pass out…

Abortion

May 25, 1989

05/25/2011

May 25, 1989—The League launches a boycott of Maxwell House Coffee for not only advertising on the pro-abortion TV movie…

Abortion

May 24, 1990

05/24/2011

May 24, 1990—League staffer Andy Scholberg (pictured right) is rebuked by a federal judge for seeking to join an ongoing…

Law and Politics

May 23, 2000

05/23/2011

May 23, 2000—League Director Joe Scheidler does a one-hour interview with Denise Coccialone on “Purely Pro-Life” about the League’s new…

Abortion

May 22, 2001

05/22/2011

Abortion

May 21, 1991

05/21/2011

Abortion

May 19, 1987

05/19/2011

May 19, 1987—League Director Joe Scheidler and staffer Andy Scholberg fly to Salt Lake City, Utah, to protest the National…

Abortion