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September 5, 1992—13-year-old Deanna Bell dies while undergoing an abortion at the Albany abortion clinic in Chicago’s northwest side. Sidewalk counselors Fr. Steve Lesnewski and Tim Murphy see the ambulance arrive and call League Director Joe Scheidler, who rushes over with a camera. They alert the media and 11 reporters cover the story of her death.
September 4, 1982—A camera crew from the ABC’s Nightline comes to Concord Medical Center abortion clinic to film League Director Joe Scheidler and several sidewalk counselors. They film from a van across the street through a one-way window, and wire counselor Monica Migliorino for sound. Monica and the other counselors save five babies from abortions that day.
When Scott Roeder shot dead abortionist George Tiller at his church in Wichita, Kansas last year, abortion advocates were quick to point the finger at the entire pro-life movement.
It will be interesting to see if these same voices will blame former vice-president Al Gore for the recent attack on the Washington, DC offices of the Discovery Channel.
Earlier this week, environmental advocate James Lee took several employees hostage and threatened to detonate bombs if the Discovery Channel wouldn’t agree to create programs espousing his radical environmentalist agenda. Lee addressed a whole manifesto to Discovery, accusing them of contributing to mankind’s destruction of Planet Earth and insisting that they use their cable channels to promote his extremist agenda, including the demand that they “stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants.”[Continue reading ... ]
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.