Our ninth annual Face the Truth Tour starts Friday, July 11 and runs through Saturday, July 19.
If you’re anywhere near Chicago, join us! If not, please say some prayers for us—and, even more importantly, pray that many people’s hearts will be changed by seeing the ugly reality of abortion.
We all know the importance of having our bishops and priests be actively involved in the pro-life movement, leading us in helping to end abortion in America.
The power that these spiritual leaders have, being the ones that we trust and depend on in our spiritual lives, is frankly amazing! I have seen some wonderful instances of them leading their people in pro-life work, and I am always surprised at what they can bring about, even by giving only a little encouragement to their people.
It’s a part of us to look to our priests and bishops for leadership and guidance. So when they show no interest in pro-life work, their people automatically go the same way. It’s up to the priests and bishops to instill in their people a love for pro-life activism. (more…)
If you’re in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, you have a chance to attend a great pro-life event next month:
Pro-Life Boot Camp 2008 will be held July 25-30 at the University of Dallas.
It’s open to high school age students 14 and up, and is sponsored by the Catholic Pro-Life Committee of North Texas.
Get more information here.
Since their school year was already finished, a group of local pro-life teens, including Dolores and Patty Weber and Nate and Sam Scheidler decided last week to take graphic abortion pictures and stand outside one of their local public high schools (Batavia High School in Batavia, IL) on its last day of school.
As soon as they set up their signs, a security guard from the school told them that they would have to move across the street, or else he would call the police. Since these pro-life teens had attended many pro-life demonstrations in the past, they knew they had the right to stand on a public sidewalk, so they didn’t move.
Soon more security guards came, and (more…)
A little over a month ago, I wrote about a group of pro-life students at Anthony Wayne High School in Whitehouse, OH who got into a lot of trouble with their administration for doing nothing more than wearing shirts to school that read, “Abortion Is Homicide”.
A local news station reported on the controversy, and word quickly spread nationwide about the pro-life students’ grossly unfair treatment by the school administration.
One of the pro-life students involved, Jamie Pellek, recently (more…)
Hundreds of crosses that were part of a Cemetery of the Innocents pro-life display at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point were torn out of the ground by a rampaging pro-abortion student May 1. Members of the campus pro-life group, Pointers for Life, caught the entire incident on video.
The vandal, sophomore Roderick King, is a senator in the UWSP Student Government Association. A commentor on the YouTube video page, one Kristen Carlson who says that she is SGA senator, indicates that King is being suspended, but Jill Stanek reports that no such action has been taken.
The pro-life tour across Washington State with Show the Truth was absoutely great! We went from Olympia to Spokane over a period of five days, stopping at abortion mills, colleges, and universities along the way and holding signs and passing out literature.
There were seven of us teenagers along on the tour, and each of us had a wonderful time and really loved every bit of it! It was very inspiring to see all these kids taking time off school and work in order to dedicate some time and energy to saving babies. I think also that we learn very much on these tours!
One college that all of us really like to visit on our tours is The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. (more…)
“We are the majority.”
We have all heard this one on the side of abortion proponents. Regardless of the huge- and growing- amounts of people taking a stand for life, like at Saturday’s rally in Aurora, pro-lifers are constantly labeled as a “small but vocal minority.”
However, with every abortion protest, or rally for life, or vote for a pro-life politician, that “small but vocal” label begins to change.
For example, read Planned Parenthood Aurora’s response to Saturday’s rally. Along with their usual trashing of clinic protests, PP tried to brush off the amount of protesters. Instead of being horrified at the fact over 400 people (many of them teenagers) showed up on a cold Saturday morning at the end of the school year to protest at their clinic, PP dismissed the number claiming that the amount of clinic protesters are “dwindling.”
Funny, if I was expecting a fanatical political minority to be protesting something relatively local on a cold Saturday, I wouldn’t bet on more than 50 people. But for a group of pro-lifers, 400 is apparently a given.
I find all of this especially amusing because the number of volunteers PP was able to summon on Saturday to combat this “minority” was 5.
Please continue to stand up for life!! People do notice!
There’s a full report on Saturday’s rally in Aurora, IL here.
Despite the nasty winds and unseasonably cold temperatures, over 400 pro-lifers came out to protest at the site of the largest currently operating abortion clinic in the U.S.
One of the features of Saturday’s rally was a “Cemetery of Choice” consisting of tombstones with the names of women who have lost their lives due to abortion:
Some students at Anthony Wayne High School in Whitehouse, OH have made a bold move in standing up for their pro-life beliefs. A local news station reports:
They wanted to send a strong message about the sanctity of life, but some local high school students say they were punished for their beliefs….
The T-shirts read, “Abortion is homicide.” The students wore the shirts on April 21…
“We were told we could take the shirts off, turn them inside out or face a two-day suspension,” says senior Kristen Norman. The students say they felt so strongly, they were willing to face the consequences until the school district began adding on more punishments…
We're only a few days out from the big rally at Aurora Planned Parenthood this Saturday, and Jeff Eschbach has just posted this video invitation:
Let's show America what peaceful, effective pro-life activism looks like. Bring your camcorder on Saturday and shoot some footage of the event, then post your video on YouTube as a response to Jeff's.
Find more information on Saturday's rally, including some of the activities taking place and where to park, see here.
Show the Truth WA is a pro-life activist group centered in Olympia, Washington. Their focus is educating about abortion with graphic signs.
Twice a year, Show the Truth has week-long tours during which they travel either up and down or across Washington State and hold educational demonstrations at abortion mills, colleges, and universities. You can visit Show the Truth’s website here.
We have been able to join Show the Truth for all these tours, and we very much look forward to each one! Each of them has been a wonderful experience in pro-life activism, and I have learned an incredible amount from these tours! I especially enjoy going to college and university campuses.
Show the Truth makes a special effort, when on these tours, to join other pro-life organizations at their local abortion mills. This kind of working together is very favorable and productive to the pro-life movement.
Next week, starting on April 21 and ending on April 25, Show the Truth is going to have its spring tour across Washington State. I and my Mom and brother are going along with them, and we’re really excited about doing this again!
Please specially keep us all in your prayers during this pro-life tour! Definitely front-line stuff!
And I will very much encourage any of you to join this kind of tour if there are any in or near your area.
God bless.
If I could only pick one word to describe the 2008 March for Life, it would be:
Huge.
I don’t have time to write much about it now, but I at least wanted to put some pictures:
If you haven’t yet made plans to attend the March for Life in Washington, DC, there’s still time, but not much. The March is January 22 — two weeks from today.
We’ve mentioned before that in addition to the March itself, there are also many great pro-life events being held in and around Washington the previous weekend.
Try to attend one of them if you can:
And, on the morning of the 22nd, there’s also the Blogs for Life Conference, where GFL’s own Eric Scheidler will be one of the speakers.
Hope to see you there!
Every year on the Saturday before Christmas, we visit abortion clinics in Chicago to sing Christmas carols, gathered around a life-size empty manger, which symbolizes the hope every new life brings as well as the emptiness left behind when a child is killed by abortion.
This year’s Caroling Day is Saturday, December 22, and we’re going to conduct two different caroling tours at the same time — one in Chicago and one in west suburban DuPage County.
Join us for one of them if you can:
Don’t live near Chicago? How about doing your own “Empty Manger” Caroling Day at nearby abortion clinics or Planned Parenthood offices?
Pro-life groups all over the country have taken up this idea, and babies have been saved when their mothers heard the caroling.
To make it easy, we’ve prepared a caroling song sheet [PDF] you can copy and pass out.
If you do your own Caroling Day, let us know how it goes.