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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.
The package insert from the emergency contraceptive Plan B. Read closely the bold section that explains "how this product works."
On April 24, Aurora Beacon columnist Jeff Ward wrote a column titled “Your beliefs have nothing to do with my Rx.”
In it Ward argues that pharmacists who don’t want to sell Plan B and other oral contraceptives should not have become pharmacists in the first place.
He also argues that “the not so funny inevitabilities” of a moral stance that prohibits a pharmacist from dispensing Plan B would similarly keep Muslims from selling Nyquil (which contains alcohol) or “Jewish pharmacists wouldn’t fill Heparin prescriptions because that blood thinner is derived from pig intestines.” [Continue reading ...]
The arrest of Tracy and Jean Chase, two of the “ND 88″ at Notre Dame, May 17, 2009 [Photo by Citizens for a Pro-Life Society]
We were happy to receive word today that all charges have been dropped against the group nicknamed the “ND 88,” who were arrested when President Obama came to give the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame on May 17, 2009.
When President Obama was announced on as the Notre Dame commencement speaker in March 2009, pro-life groups across the nation, starting with the Pro-Life Action League League, denounced the invitation. Protests soon began, and the League erected billboards along the Indiana Toll Road decrying Obama’s “pro abortion choice” stance.
Commencement Day, May 17, was met with huge protests, with the League and Citizens for a Pro-Life Society busing in hundreds of activists to hold graphic abortion signs and picket signs with the message Obama = Abortion.
As part of the protests that day and in the weeks before, 88 individuals decided to engage in civil disobedience, protesting onto the grounds on the University in protest, in defiance of Notre Dame police orders. They were arrested and charged with trespassing. [Continue reading ...]
Libelous signs placed by Rockford abortion facility staff to scare women away from pro-life mobile ultrasound
Due to the presence of the Northern Illinois Women’s Center — a particularly bizarre and macabre place, even by abortion facility standards — the city of Rockford, Illinois is unquestionably one of the nation’s abortion hot spots.
Outside NIWC, an indomitable group of pro-life activists have had numerous run-ins with police in recent years over their First Amendment rights to protest and sidewalk counsel — and, more recently, their efforts to park a mobile ultrasound unit on the public street in front of the deplorable facility, whose window displays include a rubber chicken attached to a Crucifix and a poster showing Jesus giving the middle finger, along with the inscription “Even Jesus Hates You.”
Yet despite strident opposition from some of the city’s powers that be, the Rockford pro-life community is continuing its push to get a permit for the mobile ultrasound unit. [Continue reading ...]
Four squad cars responded to the call. Two parked on the small side street, one on either side of the road, narrowing the road for other vehicles.
Since the Chicago Bubble Zone was first enacted in 2009, the majority of the trouble has taken place at the Planned Parenthood clinic at Division and LaSalle on the city’s Near North Side. The one exception was the first day the ordinance went into effect, when Ann Scheidler was told she could not stand within 50 feet of the entrance to the clinic.
Well, the situation at PP has cooled down ever since the arrest and subsequent dropping of charges against supposed bubble zone violators there.
Now the tension at Albany has increased. Four officers responded to the calls from the clinic about the pro-lifers this morning. The one in charge–and the least pleasant one–was one Sergeant Kivel.
An interesting incident occurred this morning at the Albany Medical-Surgical Center, the late-term abortion clinic located near our office on Chicago’s Northwest Side.
Two of us from the League were praying in the alley when the two women who had been counseling at the sidewalk entrance approached us.
They said that a police officer—who was now parked in a nearby parking lot overlooking the abortion clinic—had told them they couldn’t stand within 15 feet of the entrance to the clinic. He told them he was sympathetic to their cause, but that the administrator of the clinic was becoming increasingly insistent that a pro-lifer be arrested. [Continue reading ...]
Monsignor Philip Reilly
Indomitable pro-life veteran and world renowned sidewalk counselor Monsignor Philip Reilly will visit the Chicago area on April 8-9 for a series of events focusing on the spiritual battle against abortion.
Msgr. Reilly has been active in the pro-life movement since 1967 — six years before Roe v. Wade — and in 1989, along with just four volunteers, he founded the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants outside the infamous Choices abortion center in Brooklyn, New York. Helpers Chapters now span across the United States and 18 countries worldwide.
Don’t miss this chance to learn from and pray with this holy priest!
The schedule for Msgr. Reilly’s Chicago visit is as follows:
Two squad cars talk to Planned Parenthood’s director after a client spews obscenities at pro-lifers [Photo by Matt Yonke]
I’ve spent a goodly amount of time outside our local Planned Parenthood in Aurora, Illinois lately, and I’ve noticed a number of things happening there that don’t happen outside your local podiatrist’s office. Or that of your local dentist, pediatrician, or general practice doctor.
At Planned Parenthood Aurora yesterday, a young man waiting outside, talking on his cell phone while his significant other got an abortion, yelled at me and the two other pro-lifers there. He led off with asking whether we were going to adopt his baby if his girlfriend didn’t have the abortion. When we responded with an enthusiastic, “Yes, we will adopt your baby!” he changed his tack.
Next he started screaming, and I do mean screaming, at the top of his voice, that we should mind our own business and let people make their own choices. When I replied that we were only offering more options, not trying to force anyone to do anything, he finally ran out of arguments and started in with the vulgarity. [Continue reading ...]
Planned Parenthood's sign is trying to enforce unnamed state and federal statutes against public photography.
Why the sudden fear of photography?
Perhaps Planned Parenthood Old Town put up this sign (see photo, left) on Monday the 21st because of the ambulance which pulled up to its doors on Friday, March 18.
Quick thinking 40 Days for Life vigil co-coordinator Darlene snapped a few pictures of the ambulance just outside the door of the clinic (see photo below).
As Darlene wrote in a message to me, she specifically chose to not take any photographs of the woman who was being taken away: [Continue reading ...]
March 22, 1997—League staff members are dispatched to Albany Medical-Surgical Center abortuary on Chicago’s northwest side to monitor police activities there. The previous week, police had threatened to arrest seven pro-life counselors and prayer partners if they returned to the facility, without citing any specific violation. Squad cars circle the abortion clinic repeatedly, but the police do not disrupt the pro-lifer ministry.