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Ambulance and squad cars tend to a victim at Planned Parenthood Aurora [Photo by Eric Scheidler]
Today League Executive Director Eric Scheidler and I were out praying and sidewalk counseling at Planned Parenthood in Aurora, Illinois. It was a cold, rainy April afternoon, but we were getting a lot of literature into people’s hands, mostly as they were exiting the clinic.
I got the impression that many people had not gotten the help they were looking for from Planned Parenthood and were happy to hear about other options, like Waterleaf Women’s Center, our local pregnancy resource center just down the street.
As we were getting to the end of our hour of prayer and counseling, an ambulance came tearing around the corner from New York Street and sped into Planned Parenthood’s parking lot. I’ve seen a few ambulances come to Planned Parenthood and this one was certainly moving with purpose. [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 ...]
Of the dozens of books and articles written about the effect of abortion on men, one the most interesting and comprehensive is Arthur Shostak and Gary McLouth’s Men and Abortion.
It consists mainly of interviews with 1,000 men in thirty U. S. abortion clinics waiting for their partners having abortions. It seems to have captured their various attitudes of indifference, guilt, or fear of harm to their partners.
While the book was written in the mid-80′s, it probably echoes interviews that would be conducted today.
What is unusual about the book is not the finding that many men go through grief and loss almost as much as women, or that most men get no counseling but are ignored or even mistreated by abortion clinic staff.
March 13, 2004—Generations for Life, the youth division of the League, holds a Spring Conference at St. Mary of the Angels Catholic Church in Chicago. A group of 25 teens receive training in sidewalk counseling and hear talks on the importance of activism and how to communicate the pro-life message effectively. Irene Vickers (pictured left) tells her story of getting an abortion shen she was a teen, and how she finally turned her life back to God.
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Vicki Thorn speaking at Resurrection Hospital in Chicago [Photo by John Jansen]
Vicki Thorn, founder of the post-abortion outreach Project Rachel, has an extremely informative talk entitled, “Abortion: A Hidden Loss.” And she certainly proves her point that every abortion is a loss not only to the mother and the father of the aborted child and their extended family, but also to society.
Vicki, who also founded the National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing, spoke Tuesday at Chicago’s Resurrection Hospital to an audience of caregivers, chaplains, mental health professionals, and pro-lifers looking to learn more about the hidden effects of abortion. The event was co-sponsored by the Archdiocese of Chicago Respect Life Office.
Vicki explained why women have abortions, and addressed the desperate need for post-abortive women—and men—to be helped through the grieving process. [Continue reading ...]
Danielle and Robb Deaver tell their story to the Des Moines Register.
I don’t want to minimize the pain of Danielle and Robb Deaver at the loss of their baby Elizabeth.
But I do want to direct people to this story simply because I cannot wrap my head around the logic being used by the Deavers (and others) who are upset that they weren’t allowed to murder their 22-week old unborn baby.
According to her testimony in an online video, Danielle Deaver’s water broke when her baby was 22-weeks old in utero. She explains that her doctor stated the baby would not continue to develop properly inside the womb because she wouldn’t have enough room to grow. (They seem to be describing a condition known as Oligohydramnios, low amniotic fluid, or Anhydramnios, no fluid. A doctor describes those situations here.)
The doctor gave them a less than 2% chance that her baby could survive and have “any quality of life” (2:16), and “we just couldn’t do that” to the baby or to themselves. They asked the doctor to help them “put an end to this nightmare” and the doctor said he couldn’t, blaming the Nebraska law. He told them there was “nothing” he could do to help them. [Continue reading ...]
Our opposition is forever saying that abortion is “safer than childbirth.” That myth is addressed in length in the League’s Frequently Asked Questions section here.
Among the leading reasons this myth persists is that abortion injuries and fatalities are simply not reported. We don’t know how many women are injured from abortion because people cover it up, so the numbers on face seem to show that abortion is quite safe.
Abortion is not safe. Unfortunately, we can’t accurately tell just how unsafe it is. [Continue reading ...]
I’m very excited to share this new video from last Saturday’s “Empty Manger” Christmas Caroling Day. My assistant Matt and I put in some long hours to get this video put together before Christmas Eve, so I hope you’ll really enjoy it.
If you like what you see here, consider conducting a caroling day like this in your own community. We’ve even got a song sheet [PDF] you can download with a selection of appropriate carols.
Here’s wishing a Merry Christmas to everyone who braved the cold, all across the country, to illuminate the spiritual darkness enveloping our nation’s abortion facilities with the light of Christmas hope.
The broken window in the front of Joe and Ann Scheidler’s Chicago home [Photo by Ann Scheidler]
At a little after 2:00 AM on Thursday morning I awoke to the sound of breaking glass. My first thought was that a shelf must have fallen in the china cabinet. Then I heard it again. Joe and I got up and went downstairs to check out what had happened. We did not suspect anything particularly untoward. I didn’t have my contacts or glasses so I wasn’t seeing too clearly. Everything looked OK. We decided it must have been something outside, so we went back to bed.
Later in the morning when we were about to head to 7:30 Mass, Joe went out front to see if anything looked suspicious. At about the same time that he discovered shards of glass all over our front porch, I discovered a chunk of asphalt and lots of broken glass on the floor in the dining room.
A few minutes earlier I had noticed that the living room seemed a bit cold, but the windows are covered with lace shades so it wasn’t obvious that a window was broken. After finding the dining room break, I checked again in the living room. Sure enough on the floor was a plastic bag with a piece of asphalt and a note in an envelope. [Continue reading ...]
Writing in a November 4 Salon.com column, Tracy Clark-Flory begins:
Women are taking to Twitter with a blunt statement of fact: “I had an abortion.” In fact, so many are tweeting about their experience that the hashtag “#ihadanabortion” began trending on the site yesterday. It all started with a tweet from @IAmDrTiller: “Time for us to come out. Who’s had an abortion? Show antis we’re not intimidated by scare tactics. Use: #ihadanabortion.”
Clark-Flory acknowledges the “provocative” nature of women tweeting about their abortions, noting, “That’s the whole point, though — to take this private conversation public, to scrub the ‘a-word’ of stigma and shame.”
Campaigns like this that set out to normalize abortion are doomed to fail.
Why? Because they’ve always failed. And there’s no reason to believe things won’t be different this time. [Continue reading ...]