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Pro-choice blogger Katie Klabusich
Pro-choice blogger Katie Klabusich, a former Chicago area abortion clinic escort, recently wrote a post entitled, “Picketers vs. Patients.”
In the post she parrots the worn out liberal talking point that pro-life sidewalk counselors and prayer partners are actually “killing women” by scaring them so badly they are forced into the arms of the likes of convicted murderer and abortionist Kermit Gosnell.
This is, of course, patently false. Most women drive or walk right by sidewalk counselors without a care in the world.
After all, as much as Klabusich wants to make it sound like a horrible gauntlet, we’re most often talking about grandmas with rosaries offering free help here, not shouting mobs with pitchforks.
But something else in the post caught my attention, and that was the other worn out liberal talking point Katie parroted: the idea that the graphic images of the victims of abortion that pro-lifers use are “photoshopped”. [Continue reading ...]
The Pro-Life Action League was featured in a recent story on the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) about the public display of graphic images of aborted babies in the public square.
The story revolves around a Colorado Supreme Court decision that issued an injunction against the use of graphic images in public, claiming that they cause “psychological harm” to children. Find out more about that decision here.
The CBN piece was a great exposé, but also be sure to check out the additional interview footage with Pro-Life Action League Executive Director Eric Scheidler in which he addresses various questions surrounding the public display of graphic abortion pictures, including those raised by the Colorado Supreme Court decision.
We thought it was too good not to share. Check out Eric’s complete interview below:
For the Pro-Life Action League’s first “Face the Truth” day of 2013, we were pleased to take the show on the road to northwest Indiana at the invitation of Lake County Right to Life based in Highland, Indiana.
The tour had been over a year in the offing, but finally schedules aligned and on March 21, we set out from Chicago to take the truth about abortion to three sites on the streets of Hammond, Highland, and Merrillville, Indiana.
League staff all agreed it was the coldest Face the Truth day in recent memory with temperatures in the mid-teens at the first site. Still, over 20 stalwart activists came out and made the day a huge success.
Law enforcement confiscated two of our industrial sized warning signs in Hammond, citing a city ordinance. We believe the confiscation was not covered by the ordinance and are looking into the legality of their actions, but thankfully we were able to recover them during the second site. [Continue reading ...]
Highland, Ind.—As the Indiana legislature works to tighten abortion pill regulations, Hoosiers will have opportunity to face the truth about abortion and its deadly results. Thursday, March 21, the Pro-Life Action League will bring the bold visual displays of its Face the Truth Tour to northwest Indiana.
Pro-life witnesses will line the roads in Hammond, Highland, and Merrillville, holding pictures of beautiful babies in their mothers’ wombs, juxtaposed with huge graphic photographs of aborted babies. The dramatic display will visually expose the tragedy of their tiny broken bodies—an ugly truth that Americans must not ignore.
This controversial tactic always meets with some level of opposition, but the goal is not to offend or to shock, but rather to raise awareness and change attitudes. Face the Truth allows people to confront the horrible injustice of abortion with their own eyes—and when they do, they are more likely to do something to try and prevent that injustice. [Continue reading ...]
The Pro-Life Action League is excited to announce that for our first “Face the Truth” day of 2013, we’ll be hitting the road to Northwest Indiana on Thursday, March 21.
When our friends at Lake County Right to Life in Highland, Indiana, invited the League to bring our hard-hitting brand of activism to their area, we jumped at the chance.
Pro-lifers will be pouring in from Illinois, Indiana and Michigan to make this day of pro-life activism a success, and we hope YOU will be one of them!
Here’s the complete schedule:
Nothing more effectively drives people away from any involvement with abortion than seeing what abortion does to its unborn victims. [Continue reading ...]
The following is a guest blog post by Monica Migliorino Miller Ph.D., director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society and author of Abandoned: The Untold Story of the Abortion Wars (St. Benedict Press, 2012).
On the 40th anniversary of Roe. v. Wade, Simcha Fisher posted an article at National Catholic Register online entitled “Eight Reasons Not to Use Graphic Images at the March for Life.” Simcha’s negative view of graphic images is part of a larger debate within the pro-life movement on the use of abortion victim photos, and I now offer this rebuttal.
Simcha prefaces her eight reasons by stating: “A public place is not the place to use these images — ever.” Simcha makes it clear that she does not oppose the use of graphic images in certain contexts, but she attempts to argue that they should never be used in a public forum.
Simcha contradicts her own position when she states that seeing the photos caused her to “be shaken out of a vague, fuzzy support for the pro-life cause into the realization that this is a life and death struggle — real life and real death.” If so, then why oppose the public display of the tragedy of abortion when others, too, may be shaken into the same realization? Here are Simcha’s reasons and my response to them. [Continue reading ...]
NOTE: This article is one of a series on the “top ten” accomplishments of the pro-life movement over the past 40 years since unborn children were stripped of their legal right to life by the 1973 Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton Supreme Court rulings.
In a series of articles these past ten days, I’ve been discussing the concrete accomplishments of the pro-life movement since the U. S. Supreme Court stripped unborn children of their legal right to life in their Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton rulings, handed down 40 years ago today.
This series has been intended to serve two purposes. First, it offers a response to the criticism coming from some in the pro-life movement, mostly newcomers, that little has been accomplished since Roe. As I have shown, this is profoundly not the case.
Secondly, this series offers some perspective, both on what things might have looked like in the absence of all the pro-life Americans have done over the past 40 years, and on what a valuable legacy we have to build upon.
With the 40th anniversary of Roe and Doe upon us today, I offer here a wrap-up of my list. As we soberly, somberly reflect on the legacy of these rulings—over 55 million dead and a society deeply wounded—may this overview of our accomplishments give us courage and confidence moving forward: [Continue reading ...]
NOTE: This article is one of a series on the “top ten” accomplishments of the pro-life movement over the past 40 years since unborn children were stripped of their legal right to life by the 1973 Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton Supreme Court rulings.
One day in May last year, two young women met on the sidewalk outside an abortion clinic.
One of the women, Shevelle, was sixteen weeks pregnant—already showing. She was there for an abortion.
The other woman, Carol, was serving her first day as a pro-life sidewalk counselor. She was there to talk Shevelle out of getting that abortion. But she couldn’t, even after Shevelle learned about the risks of abortion and how a woman had died at this same abortion clinic.
Finally, Carol told Shevelle, “If you’re going to go through with this, at least let me give you a hug.”
Shevelle agreed. Carol embraced her, and Shevelle immediately broke down sobbing. She changed her mind about the abortion, and Carol accompanied her to a nearby pregnancy resource center for help.
Shevelle’s daughter Saveah was born in November—saved by a hug. [Continue reading ...]
NOTE: This article is one of a series on the “top ten” accomplishments of the pro-life movement over the past 40 years since unborn children were stripped of their legal right to life by the 1973 Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton Supreme Court rulings.
Last month, the entire nation was struck with horror over the massacre of 20 young children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School at Newtown, Connecticut. We all felt the pain of their tragic murders; we mourned the loss of their young lives.
That mourning was only amplified as we learned more about the massacre—as we connected those 26 bodies with particular names and faces, acts of heroism or kindness, dreams and aspirations that will never be realized.
It is right and just that we should respond in this way. But that response points to one of the great injustices of abortion: we have no names, no faces to connect to the 55 million children who have been legally killed by abortionists over the past 40 years.
God alone knows their names and their faces. But though we cannot mourn these children as they truly deserve—by name—we have not forgotten them.
Roe v. Wade‘s earliest victims would now be raising their own children by now. Some of them might even be grandparents.
Reflections like this help us to get our heads around the scale of this tragedy, whole generations cut down with every abortion. Brothers and sisters, friends, spouses, coworkers, neighbors we will never know. [Continue reading ...]
NOTE: This article is one of a series on the “top ten” accomplishments of the pro-life movement over the past 40 years since unborn children were stripped of their legal right to life by the 1973 Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton Supreme Court rulings.
In 1995, the Gallup polling company asked Americans for the first time whether they consider themselves “pro-life” or “pro-choice” with respect to abortion. Only 33% answered “pro-life,” while 56% said they were “pro-choice.”
By 2002 the gap had tightened, and in 2009, Gallup reported a majority of 51% lining up under the pro-life banner, compared to 42% for pro-choice.
This trend has continued. In 2010 Gallup called the shift to the pro-life position “the new normal,” saying that their data suggests “a real change in public opinion.”
By 2012, the pro-choice number had dropped further, to 41%, a trend seen among Republicans, Democrats and independents. [Continue reading ...]