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According to this news article about the arrest of eight members of Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College in North Carolina on Tuesday:

College officials said the group refused to comply with their requests and acted confrontational, shoving one of the security guards.

“Confrontational”? “Shoving”?

You tell me:

See also this post on the Survivors blog, Response to Survivors’ Press Conference in Asheville.

God love you, Survivors!

HT: Jill Stanek

I’ve written before about the hate mail we get on a regular basis here at Pro-Life Action League/Generations for Life/Families Against Planned Parenthood.

As you might guess, with all the attention these past several weeks surrounding the fight against the Abortion Fortress of Aurora, we’ve been seeing far more hate mail than usual.

Here are some of the messages we’ve received in recent days:

Perhaps if the members of your organization spent more time working out at fitness centers instead of getting together worrying about other people’s private sexual lives, your members wouldn’t look like a bunch of big fat Catholic cows.

And:

You pathetic Jesus freaks are NOT wanted in Aurora. Your childish Jesus BS is just that. What should of happened years ago is your mama aborted you.

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From an e-mail Eric just sent:

In light of recent developments, I think it would be a good idea for many of us to be present at City Hall [at] 4:30 when the mayor and aldermen will meet in a “Committee of the whole.”

Here’s the news:

1. I am informed that NO ABORTIONS were scheduled for today — in fact, it looks like no clients were being seen. So we can afford to devote some forces to prayer at City Hall.
2. We have filed an appeal with the Aurora Zoning Board of Appeals today. That appeal SHOULD have resulted in an immediate stay, with Planned Parenthood remaining closed. The City is not enforcing the law, once again, so we need to be there with our witness.

Finally, I have important news about the Prayer Vigil. Because Planned Parenthood is now open, the time has come to shift from a round-the-clock vigil to a “Life Force Team” mode.

This means that we will commit to being present at the Planned Parenthood site during ALL hours that they are open.

Please visit the vigil page to pledge to be there praying when PP is open. The calendar will now display the hours from 7-5 each day.

I’ll write again soon with more information on this new phase of our ongoing prayer campaign.

Meanwhile, please join me at City Hall this afternoon at 4:30 to pray for the mayor, corporation counsel and aldermen.

No matter where you are, no matter when you actually read this, please offer some prayers that Aurora city officials do the right thing.

And, if you’d like to follow the Aurora Planned Parenthood situation more closely, please sign up for Eric’s e-mail updates here.

“Its all I can do when one of the Scheidlers shows up to NOT run them over.”

This comment on a post at the radical left-wing blog The Daily Kos about the September 25 City Council meeting illustrates why the pro-life movement will ultimately prevail. This reason is simple:

We are not filled with hatred for our opposition. We are not afraid to talk to them. We are not content to merely assert the correctness of our position and sniff at anyone who questions us.

Take a look at that post at The Daily Kos. The original author, "Got a Grip," isn't too bad, though he or she seethes with contempt for the pro-life crowd in the City Council Chamber. But the comments are a hot bath of vitriole.

What's notable is how much time and energy is devoted to slamming me and my father and the rest of the pro-life "rabble." They really have no argument other than "pro-lifers are a bunch of knuckle-draggers."

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From last night…Check it out:

The rally in Aurora Saturday was huge.

The Chicago Tribune estimated a crowd of 1,000. The Aurora Beacon estimated 1,200.

The actual number may have even been higher.

Watch the local FOX News station’s coverage of the rally here.

Note Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area president Steve Trombley’s comments during the news segment:

We want people to understand that 90% of what we do is about providing contraception and basic health care, both of which prevent the need for abortions. We believe that health center will do more in one day to prevent abortions than those protesters will do in a lifetime.

Ah, yes, because everybody knows that making contraception more widely available is the answer to preventing abortion, right? (more…)

The new Planned Parenthood abortion clinic under construction on June 28 in Aurora, IL [Photo by Eric Scheidler]

There’s an article in today’s Chicago Tribune — titled “Abortion clinic built under radar” — that confirms information we got several weeks ago that Planned Parenthood is planning to slyly move into a building currently under construction in Aurora, IL.

The building is located next door to a Dominick’s grocery store and other businesses, and there are homes a block away.

If it opens, this huge 22,000 square foot building will be one of Planned Parenthood’s largest abortion clinics in the country.

The Planned Parenthood location is close to homes and shopping [Photos by Eric Scheidler]

As Eric said in an article on the Pro-Life Action League site, “They tried to sneak into Aurora with this massive new facility, but we found them out. Now they’ll try to sneak into our schools and lure in our children. We won’t let them.”

We’ve already begun making a series of plans — including leafleting the surrounding community, talking directly to the contractors, holding a community meeting with Jim Sedlak of STOPP Planned Parenthood, and protesting at the site on August 22. (more…)

If anybody deserves to be picketed, it’s MTV.

And the teens and young adults at Stand True, Generation Life, and CEC for Life are going to do just that tomorrow morning at the network’s headquarters in New York City.

Before they arrive there, they’ll be stopping to pray at several abortion clinics and abortionists’ offices. Here are the details:

New York City Abortion Mill Prayer Walk and MTV Protest

When: Friday, July 27th 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM Prayer Walk

11:00 AM - 2:00 PM MTV Protest (more…)

Alex and Brett Harris — the Christian teenage twin brothers who blog at The Rebelution — have just begun their first-ever tour:

The Rebelution was one of the first blogs to link to our blog when we first got started last year, so just as Alex and Brett were willing to support us then, we’re happy to return the favor by supporting them now.

Their site explains that the Rebelution is “a teenage rebellion against low expectations”: (more…)

I received an e-mail yesterday urging GFL to get the word out about the following protest. Clearly aware of the pro-abortion position of the National Education Association (NEA), I was more than happy to post about this event. If you can’t protest the event or at your own state capital, at the very least, I think it’s important to be aware of the position of the NEA.

“Pro-Life teachers, parents, and students are mobilizing to peaceably and prayerfully picket the National Education Association’s meeting at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Sunday, July 1 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM,” announces Bob Pawson, Coordinator of Pro-Life Educators And Students (PLEAS).

“It is vital to focus nationwide attention on the pro-abortion activism of this powerful union’s leaders - a union which is supposedly dedicated to protecting children, as well as teachers’ jobs. Twenty-five abortions equal one lost classroom, one lost teaching career, and a catastrophic loss to America’s future.”

Pro-Lifers across America are urged to picket NEA affiliates in state capitals on Monday, July 2, 11AM–1PM to maximize public awareness and media coverage. Any pro-abortion counter-picketers will generate greater public and media attention. About 10,000 teachers-delegates from all fifty states will attend the NEA Convention.

“We are taking to task the leadership of America’s largest and most socio-politically meddlesome union, for essentially misrepresenting many teachers on the abortion issue. We teachers and school employees love children. It’s insane for our union’s leadership to condone, much less promote, the killing of babies in their mothers’ wombs. In addition to the moral outrage, it’s economic suicide. We resent having our dues monies and good names used to misrepresent us on moral, social or political issues. NEA must abandon its ‘Family Planning’ Resolution I-13 and other policies, out of respect for the diversity of 3.2 million members,” said Pawson

For further information about the picket contact:

Bob Pawson
Pro-Life Educators And Students (PLEAS)
National Coordinator
PO Box 2826
Hamilton Square, NJ 08690
609.610.3522
bobpawson@bringyourbible.com

FOX and CBS have refused to run a new ad for Trojan condoms that features…

…women at a bar surrounded by pigs. When one pig goes to the restroom and returns with a condom purchased at a vending machine, he is transformed into an attractive man. The end of the commercial carries the message: “Evolve: Use a condom every time.” [source]

Dr. Vanessa Cullins, Planned Parenthood’s vice president of medical affairs, isn’t happy about the FOX/CBS decision to reject the ads:

As the nation’s leading reproductive health care advocate and provider, Planned Parenthood knows that for sexually active people, condoms are the best way to prevent unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections [emphasis added].

“The best way?” (more…)

Here is the press release we sent out about tonight’s ICAH fundraising event:

Sex Ed Fundraiser to Feature Stripper

CHICAGO, June 7 — The Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health (ICAH), one of the state’s leading advocates of “comprehensive” sex education, will host an adults-only fundraising event tonight in Chicago that promises a “Neo-Burlesque Performance” by former Miss Exotic World Michelle L’amour, a stripper whose website disclaims that it “is not intended for viewers under the age of 18 and should not be viewed by such”.

“Isn’t it ironic that ICAH is holding an adults-only fundraiser featuring a stripper who has an adults-only website,” commented John Jansen, co-director of Generations for Life, a Chicago-based youth outreach, “yet at the same time they expect parents to trust them to know the best way to teach their children about sex.” (more…)

Currently, a group called SisterSong is holding a “reproductive justice” conference in Chicago.

On the website for the conference — which has the amazingly unoriginal title “Let’s Talk About Sex!” — the group says:

Since the right to have sex is a topic rarely discussed when addressing reproductive health and rights issues, SisterSong believes that sexual prohibitions are not only promoted by moral conservatives in this country, but also by reproductive rights advocates who fail to promote a sex-positive culture.

Apparently, SisterSong doesn’t believe it’s good enough to simply be pro-choice; in their view, it’s also necessary to oppose “sexual prohibitions”. What exactly these prohibitions are, they don’t say, but if, as they claim, having sex merely for pleasure “is a human right”, then, hey, anything goes! (more…)

The Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health is at it again.

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you might remember ICAH. In partnership with Planned Parenthood, they’re part of a coalition whose goal is to strip all funding of abstinence education for Illinois schools and instead require them to use condom-based sex education programs.

Last year, ICAH held its annual fundraiser at Playboy’s executive offices.

That event — view the invitation here [PDF] — included a VIP reception with Playboy CEO Christie Hefner, the daughter of Hugh Hefner, who founded the magazine in 1953. Several years ago, Christie decided that the company could make more money by producing increasingly harder-core pornography — something that even her father was reluctant to do for a long time.

This year, ICAH’s annual fundraiser — an adults-only event, of course, just like last year’s — is being held at Stone Lotus, “Chicago’s premier liquor spa”. (more…)

The man knows how to lead:

The Archdiocese of Saint Louis has posted a Q & A about Archbishop Burke’s opposition to outspoken abortion-rights advocate Sheryl Crow’s involvement with a fundraising event for Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital. The Archbishop also posted a video explaining why he has had to act as he has…

Archbishop Burke obviously thinks featuring such a high profile pro-abortion activist as Crow in a fundraiser for a Catholic children’s hospital might confuse people a bit and lead them to think that the Church’s stance on abortion can’t be all that important.

Read more here.

It’s hard to say enough good things about Archbishop Burke’s decision to resign from this children’s hospital’s board of directors after the hospital invited Sheryl Crow to perform for a fundraising event.

Is his decision popular? No. But was it right?

Yes.