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If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you might remember the Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health (ICAH).

In partnership with Planned Parenthood, ICAH is part of a coalition called the Illinois Campaign for Responsible Sex Education. (ICAH and the ICRSE apparently operate out of the same office, as they have the same mailing address.)

The Campaign’s goal is to strip all funding of abstinence education for Illinois schools and instead require them to use so-called comprehensive sex education programs.

You may also remember that two years ago, ICAH’s annual fundraiser was held at the headquarters of Playboy magazine in downtown Chicago. I took part in a protest of the event, and wrote about it here.

Tickets to the adults-only event cost $75, and those who kicked in an extra $50 were also entitled to “a tour of the Playboy offices and art collection” as well as a VIP reception with Christie Hefner.

Christie Hefner (the daughter of Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy), has been its CEO since 1982. It was she who 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.

ICAH’s 2007 fundraiser — also an adults-only event — featured a stripper and was held at “Chicago’s premier liquor spa”.

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“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:

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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:

Post your video response!

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.

Yeah, it’s true.

Because guess what: he can’t support Planned Parenthood without also supporting black genocide!

Planned Parenthood is hugely involved in aggressive black genocide. Not only do they accept money to expressly kill little African American children (as John exposed in a recent post here), but they make it a point to build their death mills in minority neighborhoods, so that they can make money off the poverty of many African Americans by killing their children. Go here to learn about a new building that Planned Parenthood is trying to erect on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, a minority neighborhood, in Portland, Oregon.

Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was very strongly in favor of black genocide. At one time she said to a minister that she was working with to bring her teachings to the black community: “We do not want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population”.

So Planned Parenthood facilitates black genocide. And Barack Obama supports Planned Parenthood, as can be seen here.

Now, some recent election news has been about Obama’s pastor giving racist speeches. I wonder why the news hasn’t gone all out about Obama’s support for black genocide. And his pastor’s supporting black genocide by supporting Obama who supports black genocide.

Obama’s pastor said in one speech that America invented AIDS to exterminate black people. He really got it for saying that. And maybe he should. But I want to know why he forgot to mention that Planned Parenthood was invented to exterminate black people.

Planned Parenthood has done their work well. It’s up to us to expose them.

God bless.

The UCLA pro-life student group Live Action has just released the second video in a series exposing Planned Parenthood’s racism:

Read more about their investigation here.

HT: Jill Stanek

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Yesterday, UCLA pro-life students, led by junior Lila Rose (who made national news last year when she posed as an underage girl and secretly recorded a conversation in which a Planned Parenthood Los Angeles employee recommended that she lie about her age to avoid being reported as a victim of statutory rape, and was then threatened by PPLA with a lawsuit), have just released the latest edition [PDF] of their newspaper, The Advocate.

It’s an eye-opener:

Over the summer, The Advocate… [had] an actor call [Planned Parenthood] clinics across the country and pose as a donor. The actor… communicated… a very racist agenda, the one Margaret Sanger, PP’s founder, envisioned.

He… asked to donate money specifically for the abortions of African-American babies… to “lower the number of blacks in America.” Despite his bigoted requests, no PP employee (or director of development, in one case) declined the tainted money…. In fact, some even went as far as agreeing with the antiblack agenda….

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I’ve said before that it’s fairly common for us to get hate mail at Pro-Life Action League/Generations for Life. We’ve especially gotten a lot the past several months during the ongoing fight against Aurora Planned Parenthood.

Many of these messages criticize us for fighting Planned Parenthood because, you know, abortion isn’t the only thing Planned Parenthood does.

One guy who wrote us last month plainly said — and these are his exact words — “Yes, it is wrong to kill babies but you can’t say that all Planned Parenthood does is kill babies.” (more…)

Note: This entry originally appeared on the Families Against Planned Parenthood blog on 11/27/07.

Tonight for the first time the Aurora City Council will vote on an agenda item of concern to the pro-life community: a non-binding resolution proposed by Alderman Chris Beykirch which calls upon the State of Illinois to do what it takes to enforce the 1995 Parental Notice Act.

As of 3:30 p.m., over 70 people are signed up to speak on this agenda item. I will begin live-blogging the City Council meeting at 6:00 p.m., with help from my assistant Matt.

6:00 p.m. The aldermen are filing in and taking their seats. Corporation Counsel Alayne Weingartz is in position, ready to interrupt every community speaker at the two-minute-and-thirty-second mark.

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Should Planned Parenthood be charged with distributing pornography to children?

American Life League/Rock for Life thinks they should.

I think they’ve got a good argument:

HT: Jill Stanek

Today's monthly protest at Planned Parenthood was a tremendous success, with over 200 pro-lifers coming out to be witnesses for life, despite the chilly air and drizzle.

From 9-11 a.m., the group picketed on the north side of New York Street, held large signs of babies born and unborn on the north side of New York and large "Jesus" signs along the west side of Oakhurst, and prayed near Planned Parenthood. Many also signed the parental notification petition and picked up Yard Signs to take home.

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Monthly Planned Parenthood protest: 9-11 a.m. Sat. 11/17

Inspired by the tremendous success of last month's "We're Here for Life" rally, we will now conduct a protest every third Saturday of the month at Planned Parenthood, 3051 E. New York Street (map). Picket signs will be provided.

These monthly protests punctuate the ongoing Life Support effort, offering prayer and assistance for Planned Parenthood clients every hour the facility is open. If you missed the October 27 Rally, don't miss the first monthly protest.

Clinic witness seminar: 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sat. 11/17

Our ongoing pro-life presence at Planned Parenthood depends on a core group well-trained in clinic ministry. At this two-hour seminar sponsored by Our Lady of Mercy Church at 801 S. Eola Rd. in Aurora (map), the Pro-Life Action League's Ann Scheidler will teach you how to reach out to abortion-bound women and offer them the choice for life.

The seminar by will include a Power Point presentation, role playing, sample literature and more, and is not only for those interested in sidewalk counseling. It is important for prayer warriors to understand the counselor's role and how best to offer support. Also discussed will be important legal questions that we face on a daily basis at the site.

Registration is $10 for materials and refreshments and advance registration is strongly encouraged; call 773-777-2900 to sign up.

Benefit screening of Bella: 2:50 p.m. Sat. 11/17

If a morning protest and mid-day seminar aren't enough to fill your Saturday with pro-life activities, come to a free screening of Bella at the Cantera Theatre (map) at 2:50 p.m, provided by the generosity of Republican congressional candidate Jim Oberweis.

If you haven't seen the inspiring pro-life film Bella yet, this is your chance to do so—and to support the efforts of Fox Valley Families Against Planned Parenthood too. You will have the opportunity to offer a donation for your free ticket—a donation of $10 is suggested. All proceeds will benefit the ongoing efforts of Fox Valley Families Against Planned Parenthood.

Note: This entry is cross-posted at Families Against Planned Parenthood.

The Aurora police did a great job of keeping the peace and defending our First Amendment rights—that is, until the near the end of the Rally, when Police Chief William Powell and Corporation Counsel Alayne Weingartz came on the scene.

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After our rally on August 25 that brought out over 1,200 people to the Aurora Planned Parenthood site, Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area CEO Steve Trombley tried to downplay the numbers, saying this was a one-time thing:

Most people spend their Saturdays taking their kids to the soccer game, doing things around the house, and I think as time moves on, people will go back to their normal lives.

As I said at the time, what Trombley apparently doesn’t realize is that fighting abortion is something we do as part of our “normal lives”.

We’re. Not. Going. Away.

That’s why we held another big rally in Aurora on Saturday.

Roger of Fox Valley Families Against Planned Parenthood has a great post about the rally — appropriately titled, “Looks Like We’re Not Going Away” — with lots of pictures and links to many more.

Check it out!

See also the WGN News video coverage of the rally here.

Related

Marcel of Mary’s Aggies wrote to us this morning about a new post on their blog exposing the major problems with a recent Planned Parenthood report in which:

researchers concluded that in order to achieve more “safe abortions”, governmental policies should continue to be loosened to provide access to them.

Marcel also posted on this subject last week.

It seems we're not the only ones suing and Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area and PP/CA CEO Steve Tombley. One of our researchers recently uncovered two lawsuits that reveal some internal strife at PP/CA.

In one suit, Dr. Murray Pelta, O.B. Gyn, medical director at PP/CA for ten years, is suing Planned Parenthood and Steve Trombley for firing him in violation of his employment agreement.

In his Verified Complaint [PDF], Pelta states that he did favors for Trombley, like writing “discreet” medical prescriptions for Trombley’s personal use, without recording or reporting them.

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