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Today in League History

May 6, 1987

05/06/2011

May 6, 1987—The League holds a press conference in front of the Michigan Avenue Medical Center abortion clinic, displaying the…

Abortion

May 5, 2006

05/05/2011

May 5, 2006—The Pro-Life Action League’s youth outreach division, Generations for Life (GFL), issues a press release demanding that Planned…

Abortion

May 4, 2007

05/04/2011

May 4, 2007—The League sponsors its first ever “Face The Truth Evening” along Chicago’s glamorous Magnificent Mile. While Face the…

Abortion

May 3, 1996

05/03/2011

May 3, 1996—Congressman Henry Hyde (R-IL, pictured left) calls the League’s office to personally assure the staff that he “won’t…

Abortion

May 2, 1988

05/02/2011

May 2, 1988—League Directors Joe Scheidler and Andy Scholberg help cooridinate an Operation Rescue demonstration of 750 pro-lifer activists at…

Abortion

May 1, 1997

05/01/2011

May 1, 1997—Overwhelmed by the volume of work demanded by the NOW v. Scheidler case, attorney Tom Brejcha (pictured right)…

Abortion

April 30, 1994

04/30/2011

April 30, 1994—Joe Foreman hosts a Pro-Life Action Network (PLAN) conference in Chicago to discuss the future of activism, now…

Abortion

April 29, 1991

04/29/2011

April 29, 1991—The League leads 300 activists in a picket the National Abortion Federation (NAF) convention in Chicago. They display…

Abortion

April 28, 1989

04/28/2011

April 28, 1989—Directors Joe and Ann Scheidler, along with staffers Andy Scholberg and Tim Murphy, represent the League at the…

Abortion

April 27, 1986

04/27/2011

April 27, 1986—Barbara Menes (pictured right), League administrator and Joe Scheidler’s personal secretary, collapses at the League’s sixth annual banquet…

League News

April 26, 2008

04/26/2011

April 26, 2008—The League hosts an multi-faceted protest at Planned Parenthood’s massive “Abortion Fortress” in Aurora, Illinois, coordinated by Communications…

Abortion

April 25, 2003

04/25/2011

April 25, 2003—League Director Joe Scheidler is honored at the Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN) Midwest Conference with the…

Abortion