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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.
As Sidewalk Counselors and Prayer Warriors gathered on Saturday, February 13, 2010 to pray outside of Planned Parenthood at 1200 N. LaSalle in Chicago, they were subjected to yet another interpretation of the Bubble Zone law.
This weekend saw the return of Officer Hagen. This is the officer who, on January 9, inaccurately told us we could not picket within 150 feet of the clinic or stand within 8 feet of the door but, upon reading the ordinance, magnanimously granted us permission to pray.
I’m back at my desk in Aurora, Illinois feeling tremendously energized after last Friday’s March for Life in Washington, D.C. The huge, extremely upbeat pro-life crowd—estimated to be as high as 300,000 or more—is a tremendous inspiration for taking on the challenges of the coming year.
During the March I recorded a couple of videos—one right before the March began and another from the street outside the Supreme Court, where the March concludes every year. I posted these to Facebook during the March, but now I want to share them here, via YouTube:
What a great day that was! And now, back to work!
Since the enactment; of Chicago’s Bubble Zone law in November, I’ve been joining the St. Mary of the Angel’s Young Adult group at Planned Parenthood Saturday mornings. There’s never a dull moment, with the police showing up nearly every week.
This week was no different. There were about twenty prayers present at the time, including several seminarians from Mundelein Seminary and the League’s Joe Scheidler. The police arrived and spoke with the “clinic escorts” at the doorway, who gestured towards the seminarians.
The officer went inside, then returned to her car. Shortly afterwards two more squads arrived. The officer who took charge (whose name I did not get, unfortunately), then told us about the Bubble Zone law [PDF]—apparently as Planned Parenthood interpreted it for her.
On Saturday, December 19, the Pro-Life Action League hosted its 7th annual “Empty Manger” Caroling Day, bringing the joy of Christmas to 9 abortion mills across the Chicago area.
The League split the caroling day into two “tours,” one in Chicago and one in suburban DuPage County. The DuPage tour started at ACU Health Center in Hinsdale with about 15 pro-lifers.
Several women were seen exiting the clinic as pro-lifers caroled, and a sidewalk counselor was on hand to offer them support and information. One counter-protester from NARAL’s “Illinois Choice Action Team” came for about ten minutes, holding a sign opposing the carolers.
Wednesday, December 16, pro-lifer Rachelle Crile went to the Planned Parenthood facility in Aurora, Illinois at 8 a.m. to sidewalk counsel as she has done on regular basis since attending a Pro-Life Action League sidewalk counseling seminar in September. After about 45 minutes in temperatures below 20 degrees, Rachelle went to her car in an adjacent parking lot to warm up before returning to the her sidewalk counseling post.
As Rachelle sat in her car, a couple in a white SUV pulled into the lot a couple rows behind her. Rachelle had a feeling the people might be headed to Planned Parenthood. Since Wednesday mornings are a prime time abortions there, Rachelle knew a life could be on the line, so she said a prayer, grabbed her literature and approached the car.
On November 14, 2009, the Pro-Life Action League held a sidewalk counseling seminar in Chicago at St. Mary of the Angels Church. Sidewalk counseling training is a central part of the League’s mission, but this seminar had an extra sense of urgency due to the “bubble zone” recently passed in Chicago.
At the time of the seminar, the ordinance had passed but was not yet being enforced, and there was a great deal of uncertainty among pro-lifers about what implications the law would have for them in their life-saving work outside Chicago’s abortuaries. [Continue reading ...]
Joe Scheidler and Fr. Paul Kalchik lead pro-lifers in a Rosary at Albany abortion clinic in Chicago [Photo by Ann Scheidler]
The 40 Days for Life campaigns in Aurora and Chicago closed on Sunday, November 1 with great pro-life events.
In Chicago, pro-lifers gathered at the Albany Surgical Medical Center for a candlelight recitation of the Rosary at 6:30 p.m. led by Fr. Paul Kalchik of Resurrection Parish in Chicago. League national director Joe Scheidler, a Knight of Columbus, was in attendance in full Knight regailia.
A lone protester came to cause trouble at the ceremony, but stalwart activist Mike Busse engaged him in conversation. He even persuaded the young man to accompany him to the visit the chapel at the nearby Women’s Center pregnancy resource center where the Blessed Sacrament is reserved.
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Pro-lifers protest the bubble zone outside city hall [Photo by Sam Scheidler]
On September 29, the Pro-Life Action League learned of a proposal for a 50 foot “bubble zone” around all health facilities in Chicago. Inside the bubble zone, no one could come within 8 feet of a person approaching the facility without their permission. This ordinance would put a muzzle on sidewalk counselors in the city of Chicago, making it nearly impossible for them to peacefully offer help to women seeking abortion.
The League also learned that the measure could go before the full City Council for a vote at their next meeting. In response to this news, the League and a coalition of other Illinois pro-life groups organized a massive grassroots effort that culminated on the morning of October 7, with a protest and press conference outside Chicago’s City Hall just prior to the City Council meeting.