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You may remember yesterday’s post about Joe Scheidler’s trip to Durango, Colorado last week to oppose an abortionist who has privileges at a Catholic hospital.
I’m pleased to be able to share this video of the protest and Joe’s talk there. It’s an inspiring look at a very successful protest. Check it out:
The public hearing in Aurora City Council chambers [Photo by Matt Yonke]
I have a cautionary tale today about the need for average citizens like you and me to keep tabs on what our local governments are doing.
We first became aware of that need in the summer of 2007 here in Aurora, Illinois when Planned Parenthood snuck the largest abortion clinic in the country into our town right under the nose of our city government without so much as a word to the public.
Yesterday, an e-mail update alerted our office to a public hearing on a proposed change to the city of Aurora’s peddling ordinance. Cities make changes to their codes all the time to deal with new problems, and on the surface it looked like this change was a simple response to the problem of unsolicited newspapers and fliers being left on people’s lawns, porches and doors. But there was a lot more than meets the eye going on in this ordinance. Be sure to read past the break for video of Eric Scheidler’s remarks! [Continue reading ...]
Do you recognize this man? This is the student from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who attacked our signs and tried to steal my camera, right after I shot this picture of him.
As I distributed literature in downtown Chicago last week, I heard some crazy excuses for not taking my pamphlet (and thus educating themselves about abortion).
My top two favorites were, “I’m too old to have children” and “I’m not an American, so I try to stay out of it.”
It’s like people think they’re not allowed to take a position on abortion because they’re not planning to have one. This is one of the pro-aborts favorite arguments: “If you don’t like abortion, don’t have one.”
During the League’s Face the Truth Tour yesterday in Evanston, Illinois, I took a few moments to offer a suggestion on how to respond when people object to this particular pro-life campaign. My assistant Matt shot this footage and edited the video.
Check out this video of our protest of Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richard’s talk at Planned Parenthood of Eastern Iowa’s 30th anniversary celebration a few weeks ago.
Not only did 150 pro-lifers protest for nearly two hours in the steady rain, but Planned Parenthood’s high-dollar donors got to see the truth about abortion. Who knows, maybe even Richards herself saw the pictures of aborted babies that lined the street that night.
Between the rain, the news coverage and the interference from the FBI, it was quite an exciting protest. For a more detailed account, check out Eric Scheidler’s extensive blog post detailing every aspect of the protest’s conception, planning and execution.
It began to pour as I drove to Planned Parenthood on Saturday morning.
Foolishly, I wondered whether I would be out there alone this week.
Imagine my shock at seeing twenty college students standing in front of the clinic, in addition to many of the Saturday regulars!
I arrived just as David was coming back from his car with a tarp, which enabled some of those who didn’t have umbrellas to avoid the pouring rain.
But they would have stayed even if it meant continuing to get drenched. This was a devoted group!
At this month’s protest of Planned Parenthood in Aurora, Illinois, League Executive Director Eric Scheidler encouraged the crowd with news of 3 babies that had been saved from abortion in the previous week by the peaceful outreach of pro-lifers praying and counseling outside area abortuaries.
Over 70 people came out to protest the facility, one of the largest in the country. The monthly protests have been taking place since before the facility opened back in October of 2007.
Check out the video to hear more about the saves as well as important news about some events coming up this week that need your support in prayer: the “Face the Truth” Day on Wednesday, May 19, the protest of Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Thursday, May 20 and the ruling in the zoning case against Planned Parenthood Aurora on Friday, May 21.
Be sure to leave some encouragement for Eric and the rest of his crew in the comments section as they head into this whirlwind of a week!
Earlier this week, a news story broke about a high school in Washington state that helped a 15-year old girl get an abortion at Planned Parenthood without her parents’ knowledge (see video at right).
Shockingly, at this point it appears that nothing the school did was illegal.
This is due, in part, to the fact that Washington is one of 16 states that currently does not have a parental involvement law in effect [PDF].
College students Mike Schaefer and Jimmy Becker decided to do something out of the ordinary last spring break.
Instead of the usual vacation, they wanted to give up their spring break year to do something productive for a cause they felt passionate about and came up with Biking for Babies.
The idea was for Mike and Jimmy to bike a 500 mile route across Illinois over their spring break with people pledging to donate money for every mile they rode. Proceeds were donated to worthy pro-life organizations to help the fight against abortion.
Population Research Institute has just released the second installment in its “Overpopulation Is a Myth” series— a slickly produced video that explains in easy-to-understand terms why underpopulation is the real looming demographic disaster.
I first saw this video earlier this week, and about an hour later I received an e-mail from a journalist in the UK asking for a brief comment for a story he was writing about a young British woman who, based on a belief that having children would have damaging effects on the quality of life of people already living, had decided to be sterilized.