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The Pro-Life Action League wrapped up the celebration of its 30th anniversary this month, and to celebrate 30 years of hard-hitting, grassroots activism, we put together this short video showing 30 years of pro-life history in just 2 minutes!
Check out the video for one picture of the League’s activism from each of the last 30 years. You’ll see how pro-life activism has developed over the years as well as the spirit of compassion for mothers and babies that has been the hallmark of the League’s work from the beginning.
Thanks for your support over the last 30 years. We won’t stop fighting till abortion becomes unthinkable.
With our summer “Face the Truth” Tour hitting the streets July 8-16, the Pro-Life Action League is proud to present an exciting new video explaining the Face the Truth approach to pro-life activism and why we believe it’s one of the most important tools in fighting abortion. Check it out:
The video was shot on last year’s Face the Truth Tour by the crack team over at Spirit Juice Studios and really captures the League’s unique approach to the tactic in a punchy 2 and a half minute package.
This video is a great way to show your friends or family who might be unsure about joining in pro-life activism that it’s necessary for our culture to see the reality of abortion. It also shows that regular people from all walks of life take part and that it’s safe and effective.
Share this video and the Face the Truth Tour itinerary with your friends and on all your social networks today. Let’s get people fired up about sharing the pro-life message with Face the Truth!
Next Wednesday, the pro-abortion group NARAL is holding a secretive “members-only” reception in Chicago, and the Pro-Life Action League is going to be there to protest.
Thanks to some pro-life sleuthing, we were able to find out all about NARAL’s reception, including the location, which they’ve been keeping under wraps.
The purpose of NARAL’s reception is to thank Illinois’ pro-abortion Congressmen for opposing what they like to call the “war on women”—their crazy term for pro-life legal efforts like trying to keep taxpayers from having to pay for abortions.
Never mind that half of the 3,400 unborn babies killed every day would grow up to be women. NARAL doesn’t care about them. But pro-lifers do! That’s why the League will be there next week, showing that the real war is being waged against future women—and men—growing in their mothers’ wombs.
Join in if you can, and if you’re not in the area, be sure to tell all your Chicagoland friends and relatives:
Event: Protest of NARAL “members-only” reception
When: Wednesday, June 8th, 5:00 p.m.
Where: The Gage Restaurant, 24 S. Michigan Avenue (map)
The protest will take place on the sidewalk right outside The Gage restaurant, just across the street from Millennium Park.
I hope you’ll be able to join the League as we show NARAL and our their friends in Congress—including Bobby Rush, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Luis Gutierrez, Mike Quigley, Danny Davis and Jan Schakowsky—the truth about abortion.
May 23, 2000—League Director Joe Scheidler does a one-hour interview with Denise Coccialone on “Purely Pro-Life” about the League’s new billboard campaign. The billboards promote a toll-free number for getting help from local crisis pregnancy centers, bearing the adorable image of his toddler grandson, Aaron and the words “Choose Life.”
May 21, 1991—Federal Judge James Holderman dismisses the NOW v. Scheidler case, saying there is insufficient evidence to prove the National Organization for Women’s claims and that the racketeering (RICO) charges are “nonsense.” His ruling would be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, allowing the case to go forward to trial in 1998.
May 18, 1994—The National Organization for Women (NOW) issues a statement saying they have amended their complaint in the NOW v. Scheidler case, first filed in 1986, adding arson and bombing to the charges against League Director Joe Scheidler and the other defendants. League staffer Ann Scheidler remarks that this is just a media stunt. Meanwhile Joe, unfazed by the latest allegations, gives a talk in Boston to a standing-room-only crowd of over 300 pro-lifers.
May 5, 2007—League Director Joe Scheidler travels to Christendom College in Front Royal, Virginia where the next morning he is scheduled to give an commencement address entitled “To Wait in Joyful Hope for the Coming of Our Savior, Jesus Christ” and receive the “God and Country” award from the college. Joe meets a number of old friends and reports that he is delighted with the people, the liturgy and the location, which he calls “a little bit of Heaven at the entrance to the Blue Ridge Mountains.”
May 8, 2007—Judge David Coar (pictured right) enters final judgment in the long-running NOW v. Scheidler case, formally clearing League Director Joe Scheidler of racketeering charges and nullifying the national injunction imposed after Joe lost his 1998 trial. Remaining unresolved is the issue of court costs, which the law requires be paid by the losing party. After over 20 years of litigation, the amount owed to the League by NOW and the abortionists is over $70,000.
Planned Parenthood has been trying to clean up their image because of all the dirt Live Action and other groups have been digging up on them lately.
They know the unsavory reality of the way they do business is coming to light, and they know it’s hurting the way the public perceives them.
That’s why they’ve been running a series of ads trumpeting their supposed support for families in a series of radio ads across Chicagoland, and that’s why they’re having their “Generations Gala: A Celebration of Healthy Families” fundraiser at the Chicago History Museum this Thursday, May 5.
You read that right: Planned Parenthood, the nation’s #1 abortion chain is holding an event claiming they support “healthy families.”
Well the League is not going to let them get away with that. Holding galas and trying to buy a clean image with radio ads does not erase the over 300,000 babies Planned Parenthood kills every year.
Join the League in protesting this insidious event and showing the truth about Planned Parenthood. There are three ways you can help:
After years of pro-life activism, I can tell you it’s spiritual warfare whenever abortion is opposed. Support in prayer from pro-lifers across the country is integral to the success of any protest, especially when you’re going toe to toe with Planned Parenthood, the Goliath of the abortion industry.
This fight against Planned Parenthood needs every pro-lifer in the country on board. Please join in however you can to make this effort to expose the true face of Planned Parenthood’s work to the public a success.
April 29, 1991—The League leads 300 activists in a picket the National Abortion Federation (NAF) convention in Chicago. They display 97 tombstones bearing the names of women who died from legal abortion. One third of all abortionists belong to NAF, and they perform half of all abortions in America. The next day includes a picket of Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris, who is speaking at the convention.