FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACTS: Eric Scheidler, Communications director, Pro-Life Action League

WHAT: Pro-life protest of President Obama's Notre Dame commencement address, using graphic abortion signs

WHO: Pro-Life Action League and Citizens for a Pro-Life Society. Four busloads of protesters are coming in from Chicago, and three from Michigan.

WHEN: Graduation day, Sunday, May 17 (same day as President Barack Obama's commencement speech)

10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m: A Face the Truth Tour with large graphic signs and hand-held signs reading "Shame on Notre Dame" and "Obama = Abortion" will be held off campus along Angela Boulevard and Michigan Street in the hours leading up to commencement.
2:00 to 3:00 p.m.: Protesters will stow their graphic signs and join the peaceful prayer service taking place on campus during the commencement ceremony. The prayer service, which is taking place in the University's Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, a smaller area, will be broadcast to the university's South Quad, where crowds will be waiting.

Protesters standing along nearly two miles of roadway holding signage with anti-Obama messages and pictures of aborted babies
Pro-life chanting, prayers and hymns

On-site contact: Eric Scheidler, communications director of the Pro-Life Action League 773-251-8792 (cell)

To arrange an interview: Amber Dawe, TC Public Relations 312-422-1333, amber@tcpr.net

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