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After hearing the news yesterday that Richard M. Daley will not run for a seventh term as Mayor of Chicago, I came across an old Hotline in which League Director Joe Scheidler wrote:
Would you believe that twenty years ago as a State Senator, Daley was pro-life? You could count on him to vote for a comprehensive anti-abortion bill. In fact he once flew back from visiting his little sick son, to assure us of an override vote. He supported our cause publicly. He argued with a gay rights group.
But when he became Mayor he sold out on the moral issues. Within a year he was calling for abortions at Cook County Hospital and riding in the gay pride parade. From a supporter of life and decency he became an enemy of both. Power went to his head and he became a big frog in the Chicago Pond. He got his way and made up his own rules, became intolerably arrogant and literally lost it.
That was written in 2003. Even then, most people had long since forgotten that at one time, Richard Daley had been pro-life.
But oh, how times change. [Continue reading ...]
Walter Hoye (right) with Ann and Joe Scheidler in Hawaii last year
In Oakland, California, Pastor Walter Hoye started praying at an abortion clinic when two elderly women asked him to join them because most of the clinic’s clients were African-American.
A quiet, devout man, Hoye began to counsel the women coming to that clinic. And he saved babies. So, in short order, the City of Oakland passed a bubble zone ordinance to try to keep Pastor Hoye and the two older women from reaching out to women and offering them a real choice.
Pastor Hoye was arrested under the ordinance, in spite of the fact that he actually abided by the stipulation not to reach into the 8-foot floating bubble around the abortion clinic clients. He refused to pay a fine and was sentenced to 30 days in jail. [Continue reading ...]
Steve Trombley at Chicago City Hall in October 2009 [Photo by Matt Yonke]
Steve Trombley has a new job. The former CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois (PPI) has just moved to Vermont to take over as CEO of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE). What to make of this transfer?
It had been anticipated by many in the pro-life movement—and probably many in the pro-abortion movement, too—that Trombley would be quietly fired as CEO of what was at that time Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area, once the controversy over their Aurora mega-abortuary had died down.
The lies and deception surrounding Planned Parenthood’s construction of the huge facility in Aurora, Illinois under the cloak of a wholly-owned subsidiary, Gemini Office Development, drew national media attention, spawned three lawsuits and earned Aurora the dishonor of being declared “Ground Zero” in the abortion wars by pro-life and pro-abortion leaders alike. For a while it looked like the entire $7 million project might collapse. [Continue reading ...]
Not many weeks ago I wrote about the new sign which had been placed on the newsstand outside the Planned Parenthood clinic at 1200 N. LaSalle in Chicago. It was an advertisement paid for by a pregnancy center, Aid For Women, offering help to pregnant women.
The next Saturday, the newsstand was gone.
This stand has been there for years and, as far as anyone knows, was never even used. But the moment a pro-life ad goes on it—with a contract to stay up until May—the city tears it down.
As Chicago Tribune columnist Dennis Byrne wrote, “The Constitution protects political and commercial speech of all sorts. JCDecaux signs have advertised booze and featured a bikini-clad woman, but a tasteful sign that offends political correctness may not have made the cut.” [Continue reading ...]
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.