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News and commentary from the Pro-Life Action League
Dr. Anthony Levatino speaks to medical personnel at Resurrection Hospital [Photo by Corrina Gura]
One July morning when Pro-Life Action League staffers Corrina Gura and Urszula Mihai were praying and sidewalk counseling outside Albany abortion clinic on Chicago’s northwest side, a young woman approached them. She had been to Albany the day before and had initiated a three-day late-term abortion procedure involving the insertion of laminaria to expand the cervix before a dilation and evacuation (D&E) abortion.
But then she had a change of heart. She wanted to stop the abortion. She called several hospitals and no one would help her. She was returning to Albany because it seemed she had no other choice.
Providentially, Corrina and Urszula were there to help. They went with her to the nearby Women’s Center where a counselor recommended they go straight to Chicago’s Resurrection Hospital. [Continue reading ...]
October 8, 1980—The League pickets pro-abortion congressman Birch Bayh at a fundraising cocktail party at the Pope John XXIII retreat house in the Diocese of Lafayette, Indiana. Over 60 picketers hold signs reading “Abort Bayh” and “Shame on the Diocese of Lafayette.” A monsignor at the party speaks to Bayh, confirms that Bayh is pro-abortion and comes outside to thank pro-lifers for being there, assuring them their protest is necessary.
We pro-life activists are often criticized for using graphic abortion pictures in the course of our effort to change the hearts of our fellow citizens on abortion. We’re told that these images are “too disturbing” and that there must be “some other way” to get our point across.
But again and again, the power of graphic images is made manifest—not only through our own experience of how abortion pictures save babies from abortion out on the street, but across a whole host of other issues. [Continue reading ...]
![Pro-lifers march in the Arlington Heights Memorial Day Parade [Photo by Dan Gura]](http://prolifeaction.org/pix/2010/represented.jpg)
Pro-lifers march in the Arlington Heights Memorial Day Parade [Photo by Dan Gura]
The Pro-Life Action League was well represented at Arlington Heights’ Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 31. Scores of pro-life activists wore bright red Face the Truth Tour t-shirts and caps as they witnessed to the sanctity of life during the village’s annual parade. Emblazoned across their backs was our message, Choose Life. They were joined by an equal number wearing t-shirts espousing Life. Many, including little children, carried signs which read We Choose Life. [Continue reading ...]