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The former head of Catholics for a Free Choice [sic], Frances Kissling, wrote recently at Feministe to express her disappointment with a new Missouri law that requires abortion facilities to offer ultrasounds and information on embryonic and fetal development to women seeking abortions.
Kissling is particularly incensed that the law will require abortion-bound women to be told these words:
The life of each human being begins at conception. Abortion will terminate the life of a separate, unique, living human being.
Her response:
Once again, a state legislature thinks it can settle a question that no philosopher, lawyer scientist or other expert has ever been able to figure out.
September 3, 1988—Two dozen League members picket Park Medical Center, a Chicago abortion clinic. League staffer Tim Murphy, dressed as the Grim Reaper, is arrested for having participated in a “lock and block rescue” the week before, in which locked his neck to a bicycle lock embedded in a block of concrete.
League staff recognized at the Chicago CCHD awards dinner (from left: Ann Scheidler, Joe Scheidler, Eric Scheidler, and M.C. Fr. Frank Hoffman) [Photo by Matt Yonke]
On September 1, the Pro-Life Action League was honored as a recipient of one of the grants awarded in 2010 by the Chicago Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), along with 20 other Chicago-area groups working to alleviate poverty and injustice on all levels.
The evening began with Mass at St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish on Chicago’s near north side, celebrated by Bishop Francis Kane, auxiliary bishop of Chicago and former head of the Chicago CCHD.
September 2, 1989—The League launches a statewide project aimed at enlisting Catholic priests to demand Christian leadership from elected officials. Many priests respond favorably, indicating they will give homilies on abortion and will pray for women and unborn children on a regular basis in the prayers of the faithful at Mass.
Will the Commonwealth of Virginia be placing new regulations on abortion? Will these regulations make abortion safer, or just rarer?
President Bill Clinton became known for his mantra, that he wanted abortion to be “safe, legal, and rare.” Many, including the Guttmacher Institute [pdf] picked up on this quote, agreeing that most in the abortion-rights crowd want this—they’re not “pro-abortion” because they want it to be both safe and rare, but always legal.
So I’m perplexed when laws are introduced that would make abortion safer—even if it potentially also makes abortion rarer—(all while keeping it 100% legal) that some groups get so up in arms.
To begin, abortion is not safe. This should make the abortion-rights crowd angry in my mind.
September 1, 2007—Over 700 pro-lifers, including 500 teens, attend a “Youth for Truth” Rally in Aurora, Illinois in the lot next to Planned Parenthood’s new “Abortion Fortress,” scheduled to open soon. The rally is organized by teens from several area schools, with help and encouragement from League Communications Director Eric Scheidler, who also speaks at the event, alongside pro-life speaker Yvonne Florszack-Seeman.
A second police officer consults with Officer Stevens (sitting in the car) while pro-lifers (left) pray outside of Planned Parenthood in Chicago.
Just when things might be looking up for pro-lifers facing Bubble Zones everywhere, since Pastor Walter Hoye’s Bubble Zone arrest was overturned last week, Officer Stevens of the Chicago Police Department reminds us that it’s not over until the law is gone.
Officer Stevens was the first on the scene on Saturday, August 28th. I still don’t know why he was even there.
There were two sidewalk counselors down the street, outside of the fifty foot bubble, and I was standing, motionless, 8-10 feet from the door of the clinic.
Perhaps it’s because several women took the literature I gave them, since the inexperienced “deathscort” standing alone at the doorway wasn’t as quick at pushing the girls through the entrance as some of the others are. Planned Parenthood doesn’t like when the girls carry copies of the lawsuits that have been filed against them into the clinic, I suppose.
I attended the opening show of the pro-life documentary Blood Money last week at the Pickwick Theatre in Park Ridge, and afterward, the film’s producer/director, David Kyle, led a short discussion and answered questions from the audience.
Someone asked what ordinary pro-lifers could do to help get the movie into other theaters, and David said the best way is to get others to come and see it during its time here in the Chicago area.
From a theater’s standpoint, it’s all about attendance: if a movie is able to draw large crowds in one city, there’s a good chance that theaters in other cities will show it too.
If you haven’t seen Blood Money yet, there’s still time. It’s playing at the Pickwick through this Thursday, September 2 (see show times here, and get directions here).
August 31, 1998—The University of Notre Dame hires Senator Bill Bradley — a notorious abortion supporter — to its teaching faculty. League directors Joe and Ann Scheidler write to the provost urging him to revoke the position and to return to a respect for Catholic teaching. Joe urges hotline callers to write the provost as well in honor of his daughter Sarah, a junior at Notre Dame.
In the current issue of First Things, editor Joseph Bottum highlights some remarks by Mitch Daniels, the Republican governor of Indiana and presidential candidate, who has made the news by keeping Indiana out of the oceans of the debt that have swamped other states.
But, Daniels says, all of us should put our disagreements aside for the time being and all get together to solve the economic crisis. He has been strongly criticized by family values groups and even rival Republican candidates like Mike Huckabee.
Will any true pro-lifer take a time-out on fighting abortion because someone thinks a truce on this and other social issues should be called? [Continue reading ...]