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August 28, 2007—Hundreds of pro-lifers from across the western suburbs of Chicago back an Aurora City Council meeting to express their opposition to a huge new abortuary being build in the city by Planned Parenthood. The community had learned about the nearly-completed construction only weeks before, when the press uncovered Planned Parenthood’s deliberate scheme of secrecy. Over 100 speak out against the new abortuary, but only 4 in favor. Mayor Tom Weisner agrees to launch an investigation into possible fraud by Planned Parenthood.
Speaking at a Canon Law symposium in Slovakia this week, Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput gave voice to some sobering thoughts on what the future holds for Christianity in general and the Catholic Church in particular, which he called “the most compelling and dangerous heretic of the world’s new order.”
In his address, Chaput spoke of the dangers inherent in moral relativism, which inevitably results in such “foundational injustices” as abortion, which he called “the crucial issue of our age.”
He went on to make some eye-opening statements about human rights and the nature of government: [Continue reading ...]
August 27, 1988—The 5th annual Pro-Life Action Network (PLAN) convention, hosted by the League at Chicago’s historic Bismarck Hotel, concludes. PLAN drew together 97 pro-life leaders from 24 states to discuss a unified strategy for pro-life activism.
On Wednesday the Ms. Magazine Blog reported, “Yesterday, the Alaskan primary ballot included a measure to institute a parental notification law for minors seeking abortions. Unfortunately, the law passed.”
That last sentence sums up the attitude of radical feminists, Planned Parenthood, the ACLU and others who seek the breakdown of the traditional family.
Rather than see parental involvement in an adolescent’s health care — in this case, surgery or drugs to kill her unborn baby — as a positive influence in a young girl’s life, they view a parent’s role as intrusive, if not downright abusive. [Continue reading ...]
August 26, 1995—The League sponsors a sidewalk counseling training seminar at the Radisson Hotel in Lincolnwood, Illinois, where 100 pro-lifers receive instruction on the Chicago Method of sidewalk counseling, which focuses on alerting those entering an abortion clinic of the various lawsuits filed against the facility and its staff.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth
Pro-lifers have good reason to be happy about U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth’s decision this week to prevent the Obama administration from expanding embryonic stem cell research.
In his decision, Lamberth determined that an executive order signed by President Obama in March 2009 was at odds with an appropriations bill rider commonly known as the Dickey-Wicker Amendment, which prohibits taxpayer funding of research in which human embryos “are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death.” [Continue reading ...]
August 25, 2007—Over 1,300 pro-lifers participate in protest at the site of a massive new abortuary being built in Aurora, Illinois, dubbed the “Abortion Fortress.” League Communications Director Eric Scheidler coordinates the dynamic protest, which includes an “old school picket,” prayer vigil, Face the Truth Tour and leafleting of the neighborhood.
The abortion industry is motivated by greed.
That is the premise of the new pro-life film Blood Money.
The film has several main ideas it expounds upon such as:
The League’s own founder and National Director, Joe Scheidler makes several on-screen appearances, sharing his knowledge of the sordid industry.
August 24, 1986—League Director Joe Scheidler visits Fr. Edward Markley in a Montgomery, Alabama, prison where he is serving time for praying at an abortuary. The previous evening, Joe held a press conference on the steps of the state capital and led pro-lifers in a march in front of the prison in protest of Fr. Markley’s unjust imprisonment.
![Monthly protest at PP Aurora, August 2010 [Photo by Sam Scheidler]](/pix/2010/ppauroraaug1.jpg)
The pro-life community of Illinois’ Fox Valley showed what it’s made of this past Saturday during the monthly protest at Planned Parenthood Aurora, with a strong showing of 70 activists. We’ve held this protest every third Saturday of the month since November 2007.
August can be a tough time for pro-life activism, with summer vacations, high temperatures and back-to-school responsibilities tending to dampen participation.
So I issued a challenge to Fox Valley pro-lifers to make a special effort to come out for Saturday’s protest. I e-mailed them about the great turnout at the Rockford, Illinois Face the Truth Day earlier in the month, and said I’d hate to see the Fox Valley outdone. [Continue reading ...]