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League history, NOW v. Scheidler, Action News, Joe Scheidler, League staff
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Mike Busse holds a Malachi sign against a bus shelter with a movie ad reading "What Hath God Wrought". The very same shelter displayed a similarly fitting slogan at the 2006 Spy Wednesday Tour. [Photo by EJS]
A dozen stalwart members of the Pro-Life Action League launched the 2007 Face the Truth Tour in the face of ravaging, icy winds in downtown Chicago on Spy Wednesday, April 4. On Spy Wednesday the Church remembers the treachery of Judas Iscariot, who launched his plot to betray Jesus on a Wednesday.
Our Tour began with an "early bird" site at Madison Street and Wacker Drive, with wave after wave of commuters from the nearby rail stations facing the undeniable truth of what abortion does to an unborn baby.
One of those commuters was a blogger named Kai who posted a negative commentary on the Truth Day entitled "Fetus Day." Calling the pro-lifers "crazies," she declared, "You are not going to make me decide Roe v. Wade is blasphemous because you made me retch in my coffee this morning." I attempted to respond to this blogger and explain our mission, but was blocked from doing so.
Tour coordinator Eric Scheidler on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive [Photo by Sam Scheidler]
The morning concluded with a chilly site along Lake Shore Drive at Buckingham Fountain. Our entire group was grateful to have been called to make such an important Holy Week witness for the sanctity of life.
Face the Truth Days will continue through the spring, and the annual Face the Truth Summer Tour will be held throughout northern Illinois July 7-14 with sites in Chicago, Rockford, Joliet, Naperville and elsewhere. Mark your calendar and plan to join us!
[Back to Top]The Pro-Life Action League continues to be a resource for news media on the abortion issue. Reporters know they can count on us for the pro-life perspective, and we appreciate the opportunity to deliver our message to a wider audience.
On January 10, David Kupelian of WorldNetDaily, doing a piece on "The Marketing of Evil," requested the names of activists who deal directly with counseling women out of having abortions. He wanted to interview sidewalk counselors and others working in Crisis Pregnancy Centers. We gave him two of our best: Cathy Mieding and Mary Strom. Later that day I was interviewed by Al Kresta for Kresta in the Afternoon, relating two of my most memorable experiences as a pro-life activist.
"Reporters know they can count on us for the pro-life perspective."
On February 1, Eric Scheidler was interviewed on Capitol Public Radio's Day to Day program about California's fetal homicide law and its implications for the abortion issue.
During the League's picket of Sen. Barack Obama when he announced his bid for President on February 10, in Springfield, IL (see story), we were interviewed by WMAQ-TV, WBBM Radio, The Daily Herald, The Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Southtown Economist, as well as several downstate newspapers. The coverage helped us expose Obama's a pro-abortion stand, a fact largely neglected by the liberal media.
Monica Migliorino Miller, a teacher at Madonna University in Michigan with whom I've worked fighting abortion for 28 years, interviewed me March 13 on her radio program, The Christ and Culture Forum. We discussed the need for pro-life activists to stress the suffering involved in abortion on many levels, including the suffering of the victim—the child—and to oppose "pragmatism," the spirit of compromise that plagues our times.
The April 18 announcement of the U. S. Supreme Court's 5-4 decision upholding the Partial Birth Abortion Ban brought the media to our office as we did interviews with Diane Jones for PBS Radio in New York, Michael Jones of CNN Radio, John Cody in Chicago on WBBM Radio, Jan Sluizer of AP Radio, Larry Mantle of KPCC Air Talk, a debate with Planned Parenthood, and an interview with Ed Pilkington of the Manchester Guardian. On April 19 we were on Relevant Radio with Drew Mariani to discuss UNICEF and its abortion involvement.
[Back to Top]The Pro-Life Action League is recognized throughout the country as the resource for sidewalk counseling information. As more pro-lifers become familiar with the Pro-Life Action League website, we receive more inquiries from those who would like to join a prayer team at an abortion clinic or become a sidewalk counselor.
Fortunately there are fewer and fewer abortion clinics around the United States. But that also means that some pro-lifers need more direction in order to find out where they can help. When requests come to the League, I search the Life Dynamics website to find out where the closest abortion clinic is located. Then I look for a pro-life group to which I can refer the enquirer.
We would like to make this process more efficient by creating a comprehensive database of all the active sidewalk counseling and clinic prayer groups. It would be tremendously helpful if you, the reader, are involved in such a group, and could provide me with contact information for anyone who might like to join you. Please call me at 773-777-2900 or fill our our contact form. I will really appreciate your help.
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