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Expert on Stopping Planned Parenthood to Address Action Steps for Aurora to Shut Down Abortion Provider
Aurora, IL—On Thursday, August 16, national expert Jim Sedlak founder of STOPP Planned Parenthood will speak to the media and concerned Aurora citizens about the new abortion center in their community. A press conference is scheduled for 5:00 PM in front of Planned Parenthood located at 3051 E. New York St. in Aurora. In addition, a community meeting will be held at 7:00 PM Thursday evening at the Prisco Community Center located at 150 W. Illinois Street (also in Aurora). Sedlak, Joe Scheidler of the Pro-Life Action League and legal expert Denise Mackura will discuss strategies for shutting down Planned Parenthood and keeping them out of the schools in Aurora, Naperville and surrounding towns. Abortion rights protests are being organized by NARAL to be held during the meeting at the community center.
Aurora, IL, August 15—”Next month, Planned Parenthood intends to open one of the largest abortuaries on the face of the earth,” said Pro-Life Action League Communications Director Eric Scheidler. “We’re praying that never happens.”
Chicago, July 6—”In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the federal ban on partial birth abortion, we need to show our fellow citizens that all forms of abortion are brutal and should be outlawed,” said Joe Scheidler, National Director of the Pro-Life Action League, commenting on the League’s Face the Truth Tour, scheduled for July 7-14 throughout the Chicago area.
Chicago, June 7—The Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health (ICAH), one of the state’s leading advocates of “comprehensive” sex education, will host an adults-only fundraising event tonight in Chicago that promises a “Neo-Burlesque Performance” by former Miss Exotic World Michelle L’amour, a stripper whose website disclaims that it “is not intended for viewers under the age of 18 and should not be viewed by such”.
AURORA, May 11—“It was a great day in Aurora when the abortion clinic at Galena Boulevard and May Street shut down,” said Eric Scheidler, the Communications Director of the Pro-Life Action League and spokesman for the ad hoc group, Aurora Citizens for Life. “We don’t want an abortionist operating in our neighborhood.”
Chicago, May 8—”I’ve waited twenty-one years for this news!” said Joseph M. Scheidler, National Director of the Chicago-based Pro-Life Action League.
On May 8, 2007, Federal Judge David Coar issued his Final Judgment in NOW v. Scheidler, the federal lawsuit brought by the National Organization for Women under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act in June 1986.
Chicago, May 7—”I’m sorry we have to picket this Mercy Home fundraiser,” said Joseph M. Scheidler, National Director of the Chicago-based Pro-Life Action League. “But Hillary Clinton’s appearance at their Graduates’ Luncheon is just wrong! This is a well-known and much loved Catholic institution, while Senator Clinton is unabashedly hostile to the Catholic Church’s teaching on the value of life.”
Chicago, April 18—”This is a good day for unborn babies and for the future of America,” said Joseph M. Scheidler, National Director of the Chicago-based Pro-Life Action League.
Chicago, Feb. 9—When Barack Obama announces his presidential candidacy on February 10 at 10:00 a.m. at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, members of the Pro-Life Action League and other pro-life organizations in Illinois will be present to expose Obama’s ardent support for abortion on demand, for any reason, up through the very day of birth.
Chicago, Nov. 16—The Pro-Life Action League applauds the American Catholic bishops for reiterating the Catholic Church’s constant teaching on the sinfulness of contraception in the document “Married Love and the Gift of Life,” released by the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops this week at their annual fall meeting.