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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 ...]
Pro-lifers at 2009 Rockford Face the Truth Day [Photo by Sam Scheidler]
On Tuesday, August 10, the League will join forces with the Rockford Pro-Life Initiative for a Face the Truth Day in Rockford, Illinois.
This will be our 7th consecutive year visiting the city, which is unquestionably one of the nation’s abortion hot spots, due to the presence of the particularly bizarre and macabre — even by abortion facility standards — Northern Illinois Women’s Center.
Among the window displays at NIWC are a rubber chicken attached to a Crucifix and a poster showing Jesus giving the middle finger, along with the inscription “Even Jesus Hates You.” [Continue reading ...]
The Avon Walk for Breast Cancer will be coming to Chicago on June 5 and 6. While I believe the cause is a good one, they are going about it all wrong and they’re hurting their efforts to eliminate the disease.
Avon hopes to raise money to find a cure for breast cancer, but ignores a major cause of breast cancer: abortion.
Not only do they not warn people of the risk, but Avon has joined with UNIFEM to promote “women’s issues.” This phrase, like “women’s health” or “reproductive rights,” has become a code word for the promotion of a universal right to abortion. (I was reminded of this when I heard how UNIFEM planned to help Haiti after the earthquake.) [Continue reading ...]
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Children praying for an end to abortion [Photo by Dan Gura]
The tradition of prayerful protest continues this Saturday when we will again line Dempster Street to expose their dark secret.
Last year a doctor, who asked not to be named, came down to thank us for being there and said “they” know we are there and “they” are not very happy about it. She urged us to never stop until the hospital stops aborting healthy babies (the hospital performs “selective reduction” abortions and abortions on minor girls without parental notification). [Continue reading ...]
An article by Sarah Kliff in the current edition of Newsweek has some sobering news for the country’s largest “pro-choice” organizations.
They’re worried about what the future holds, because they don’t see young people stepping up and rallying to their cause — and yet, that’s exactly what they do see happening on our side.
Citing new NARAL research from earlier this year, the article notes:
A survey of 700 young Americans showed there was a stark “intensity gap” on abortion. More than half (51 percent) of young voters (under 30) who opposed abortion rights considered it a “very important” voting issue, compared with just 26 percent of abortion-rights supporters; a similar but smaller gap existed among older voters, too.
After pointing out that “Millennials are more likely than their boomer parents to see abortion as a moral issue,” Kliff writes:
Millennials also came of age as ultrasounds provided increasingly clear pictures of fetal development. “The technology has clearly helped to define how people think about a fetus as a full, breathing human being,” admits former NARAL president Kate Michelman.
Quite so. Once you see a baby on ultrasound, it’s rather hard to be convinced that it’s anything other than, well, a baby.
Can one father plus two mothers make one baby?
Two stories have come to my attention this week that are just sickening.
If you thought you’d already heard of all of the ways an unborn child—created in the image and likeness of God—could be disrespected, you were wrong. [Continue reading ...]
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Pro-lifers pray in front of Goyal's new location. [Photos by Dan Gura]
Since 1996 abortionist Vinod Goyal—owner and operator of seven abortion clinics in Northern Illinois—has sought permission to move Dimensions Medical Center abortion clinic from Des Plaines into a medical office building in Arlington Heights. [Continue reading ...]
We answer the phone here at the League “Pro-Life Action League,” yet we receive a surprising number of phone calls asking how much abortions cost or whether we perform abortions. We always refer them to a crisis pregnancy center or spend some time talking about their decision and the dangers of abortion.
But a phone call today alerted us to something beyond simply “surprising”: Our phone number and address are listed on a solicitation for “The Home Abortion Kit.” [pdf] [Continue reading ...]
Ann Scheidler outside Atlanta’s Feminist Women’s Health Center abortion facility [Photo by Kateri Howard]
This past weekend I was invited by Kateri Howard, organizer of Atlanta, Georgia’s 40 Days for Life Campaign, to conduct a sidewalk counseling seminar in Atlanta. 30 people attended the Friday evening seminar at Immaculate Heart of Mary parish hall.
On Saturday morning I joined a few of the 40 Days prayer warriors at the Feminist Women’s Health Center on Cliff Valley Road. The abortion clinic presents many of the obstacles that sidewalk counselors confront across the country. The building is set far back from the road. There is an aggressive security guard on duty. There are three driveways into the clinic parking lot. [Continue reading ...]
Concerned Citizens of Naples (Florida) has announced details of their first picket of abortionist Philip Waterman’s Fort Myers house. Waterman is a “circuit” abortionist who travels from Fort Myers to Naples on a regular schedule.
League Executive Director Eric Scheidler was in Naples helping local activists when abortions started there a few months ago. Now he’s helping the folks on the ground there craft their media message as they continue to fight against the killing of innocent babies in their community.
The event will take place on Sunday, March 21st between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Waterman lives at 904 Robalo Drive in Fort Myers [map]. For further information, please contact Ed Melone at 239-438-1033. [Continue reading ...]