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News and commentary from the Pro-Life Action League
The mother of a 6th grade girl who was not allowed to wear a pro-life T-shirt at her public school in Merced, California filed a federal lawsuit this week against the school, claiming that the school violated her daughter’s First Amendment rights.
The design on the girl’s shirt can be seen above, right.
The school claims it had the right to prevent the girl (identified in court documents as “T.A.”) from wearing the shirt on the grounds that it violated the school’s dress code, which states:
Personal articles, clothing, or manner of dress shall make no suggestion of tobacco, drug, or alcohol use, sexual promiscuity, profanity, vulgarity, or other inappropriate subject matter.
July 30, 1988—In response to a written request from League Director Joe Scheidler, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin celebrates a memorial Mass and officiates at the burial of over 2,000 aborted babies at Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois. The bodies had been retrieved from garbage drums at Vital-Med Lab in Northbrook, Illinois. The Cardinal tells reporters that he is simply performing a corporal work of mercy—burying the dead.
Pro-lifers at 2009 Rockford Face the Truth Day [Photo by Sam Scheidler]
On Tuesday, August 10, the League will join forces with the Rockford Pro-Life Initiative for a Face the Truth Day in Rockford, Illinois.
This will be our 7th consecutive year visiting the city, which is unquestionably one of the nation’s abortion hot spots, due to the presence of the particularly bizarre and macabre — even by abortion facility standards — Northern Illinois Women’s Center.
Among the window displays at NIWC are a rubber chicken attached to a Crucifix and a poster showing Jesus giving the middle finger, along with the inscription “Even Jesus Hates You.” [Continue reading ...]
July 29, 1991—League Director Joe Scheidler and Assistant Director Jerry Horn travel to Wichita, Kansas, to join the ongoing national picket of notorious abortionist George Tiller’s late-term abortion facility. During Joe’s inspiring talk to 1,200 people gathered at the Wichita Plaza Hotel, he is presented with an injunction ordering him and all the pro-lifers to stay away from the facility. Despite the injunction, 200 pro-lifers blockade Tiller’s clinic.
Mercy Regional Medical Center in Durango, Colorado
Ever since abortion was legalized by the Supreme Court in 1973, Catholic hospitals have had to grapple with the problem of having physicians on staff who perform abortions elsewhere.
Legally the administrators of these hospitals can only insist that doctors adhere to the hospital policy prohibiting abortion and other practices contrary to Catholic teaching on hospital property.
But the Catholic hospitals are still faced with the scandal caused by having an abortionist on staff. Catholic health care institutions are directed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to be concerned about the danger of scandal in any association with abortion providers.
How can the hospital be sure that the abortion provider is not referring patients to his other location for abortions, sterilizations or birth control? How can the hospital be sure that the abortionist’s lack of respect for the sanctity of life does not transfer to his treatment of patients in the hospital? [Continue reading ...]
July 28, 1992—The League files a lawsuit against Cook County Hospital, asking for a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the decision by Cook County Board President Richard Phelan to resume performing abortions there. The League hosts a press conference at the hospital and League Director Joe Scheidler gives interviews to a dozen media outlets. The TRO is granted the next day by Cook County Judge Lester Foreman.
Ann Scheidler at Sidewalk Counseling Seminar, July 24 [Photo by Joe Scheidler]
On Saturday, July 24, I gave a sidewalk counseling seminar at St. Ansgar’s Parish in Hanover Park, Illinois. Greg and Sandy Kascewicz took the initiative to organize and publicize the seminar attended by over three dozen potential sidewalk counselors.
Many people who regularly go out to pray at an abortion clinic are reticent to approach an abortion-bound woman to offer her a chance to choose life.
Admittedly it seems difficult to intrude in someone else’s personal life an decisions. But the pro-lifer who steps out in faith to come to an abortion clinic must realize that he or she has something very valuable to offer a woman who thinks abortion is her only choice. We offer hope, life and real choice.
July 27, 1983—The League breaks the story that late-term abortionist George Tiller incinerates the bodies of babies aborted at his Kichata, Kansas, facility along with the bodies of dead dogs and cats. Multiple media outlets pick up the story, but only the Catholic newspaper The Wanderer credits the League for uncovering it.
John Jansen sets up one side of the “Face the Truth” Tour site in Lake Zurich, IL [Photo by Sam Scheidler]
The Pro-Life Action League’s 11th annual “Face the Truth” Tour was a great success and the media stood up and took notice. Local and national sources, both online and in print, covered many different aspects of the Tour.
But perhaps most interesting was some of the coverage that came after the Tour when the Daily Herald, a local news daily, published a story prompted by a letter sent to the League and copied to the paper by the Lake Zurich, Illinois Chief of Police Patrick Finlon.
The Tour had stopped in Lake Zurich on the morning of Thursday, July 15. It was one of the most successful sites on the Tour with record numbers in attendance. A few local police officers were present and helpful. No problems arose with Tour volunteers, though one business owner did obliquely threaten physical harm to volunteers. [Continue reading ...]
July 26, 1993—The League protests President Bill Clinton when he visits Chicago for a Democratic party fundraiser. When Clinton arrives at Midway Airport, 50 protesters greet him with signs that spell out “CLINTON = ABORTION.” More than 100 pro-lifers protest the fundraiser that evening at the Chicago Historical Society, and Clinton’s motorcade passes right by the protest.