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.

• See the complete 2008 Tour schedule
• Watch the Pro-Life Action League’s “Face the Truth” video
• See our “Answering Common Objections to Face the Truth” page

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.

Abortion is a spiritual battle, an intense battle between good and evil. This gives our priests and bishops an even greater responsibility to take an active interest in it. And imagine their responsibility to protect their young people from the evil of abortion!

I often truly wonder why they don’t do so very often. I honestly can’t come up with an answer to this one. If I was a priest or a bishop, I would take full advantage of my position to help end abortion. I will never understand otherwise.

After all the long years of study, all the hours of prayer and discernment, all the zeal and dedication that it took for our priests and bishops to get where they are, wouldn’t they be more than ready and eager to do all they can to eliminate the great evil of abortion?! Wouldn’t they be burning to fully excercise their sacred offices?! Wouldn’t they be on fire to do all the good they can?!

I don’t understand.

I think, however, that it is very important for us lay people to very specially help our priests and bishops with pro-life work. We need to be more dedicated to working with and for them, and not just asking and expecting them to do it all. I’ve been recently working with my pastor to do more pro-life activist work at my parish, and he has been very supportive! While asking him for a lot of support and help, I have been taking on a lot of the actual work and personally doing some of the time-consuming jobs. This is very helpful and encouraging to him because he can be involved in pro-life work but does not have to use up all his time on it.

One area that priests and bishops can assist the pro-life movement in a very special way is the 40 Days for Life. There is an incredible story about the success of a bishop leading this campaign in Texas. Wow! He had 89 different churches and 800 people all involved in the 40 Days for Life at one abortion mill! And yes, this mill just shut down! The story can be read here. It is an excellant example of the power that our spiritual shepherds have in leading their people in doing great things for the Church.

May we all do our best to encourage and support our priests and bishops in pro-life activism!

God bless.

Simply put, it is an effort to challenge pro-abortion politicians on their abortion stance, describing abortion procedures to them in the words of abortionists, and then asking them, “When you say you support abortion, is this what you mean?”

Such a challenge could be used in any town hall meeting that any official is holding for the public.

Making it necessary for politicians to face up to what they’re supporting in such a way can be powerful! Not only does the politician have to hear and face what abortion really is, but all the other people in the room also are fully informed about what abortion does to babies.

This project also serves to unmask abortion before politicians and the public. It makes abortion to no longer be merely “a choice for women”, or a vague “right” that the Supreme Court validated 35 years ago, or a “family planning choice”, or any other deceiving, sugar-coated lie. And who better know what abortion is than abortionists who perform them? Whom we will be quoting in our challenges to politicians.

Fr. Frank was also talking about how this “Is This What You Mean?” project can be used in so many other areas of pro-life activism. In classrooms, debates, blogs, and editorials are just a few places where we can expose abortion to those who either support it or who are considering supporting it. Anyone who says, “I am pro-choice”, or, “I support abortion”, needs to hear what abortion really is.

Like graphic signs, this project is another way of showing exactly what abortion is, but with words instead, the words of those who perform abortions.

I am certainly going to be a part of this very powerful project, and I hope that you too will use this new way of defending the unborn.

God bless.

The vast majority of Americans support parental notification laws—even many who call themselves “pro-choice”—and states that have passed these laws have seen a reduction in abortions among minor girls [PDF].

Christina at Real Choice summed it up:

If it’s about “choice”, there’s no excuse for anybody — except sexual predators and people who profit from sexual abuse of underage girls — to oppose Sarah’s Law.

A group called Friends of Sarah is sponsoring a YouTube video contest to promote Sarah’s Law. Details are available here.

The first entry has already been submitted:

(If you’re wondering “Who is Sarah?”, you can find out here.)

One article about this can be read here. I have not heard about anything like this before, and am surprised. I wondered what made them do this.

It’s true that there have been quite a few actresses and singers who have been having babies; perhaps the girls wanted to have babies too! I was thinking that it is beneficial to the pro-life movement to have all these actresses being so happy about their babies. But I didn’t suspect that something like this “pregnancy pact” would happen!

The real tragedy will be if the schools, in efforts to prevent something like this happening again, try to encourage contraception and abortion for their students. We’re going to have to undo all such nonsense all over again!

It’s strange how in the news article, they’re talking about how the school may now provide contraceptives to its students. I’m thinking, just start teaching abstinence! Then watch all their problems disappear!

Maybe the schools are under pressure from Planned Parenthood to encourage contraception and abortion.

But yeah, this is difinitely a surprising and even interesting situation, and I am going to watch for more news about it.

God bless.

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.

We hope to see you at the Westin in Lombard, IL on Saturday, January 31 for this amazing event!

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 eventually so did the school’s principal, who told Nate Scheidler that the public sidewalk in front of this public school was not public property.

Nate disagreed, and said that the First Amendment guaranteed their right to be there.

Then, the police came, and they too, like the school’s principal, didn’t believe the public sidewalk in front of a public school was public property.

After more back and forth, the pro-life teens continued to stand their ground, and stayed as long as they had planned to. (My co-worker Matt Yonke has more details on the Families Against Planned Parenthood blog.)

I have to give them credit: They knew their rights, and they weren’t about to let anyone take them away.

Most of the time when we deal with police officers while doing pro-life demonstrations, we have no problems at all, but we certainly have dealt with our share of uncooperative police.

That’s why for our Face the Truth Tour next month, we’re working with our attorneys to write a professional brochure to give to police officers in the various cities we visit to explain that we’re well aware of our rights and that what we’re doing is perfectly legal.

Bryan Kemper from Stand True will be speaking. More information to follow, so stay tuned . . .

P. S.

There are still CDs available from this past year’s TeenSpeak conference featuring former abortionist Anthony Levatino and pro-life speaker Scott Klusendorf. Due to a generous grant we were able to order more CDs after giving out over 30 sets so far.

Order yours today!

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 posted a comment on our blog entry regarding the T-shirt controversy, and I think it’s worth posting here as well:

Hello, I am Jamie Pellek of Anthony Wayne High School. I had just googled my name our ot curiosity to see how many sites had helped us raise awareness, and have taken the time to be sure I thank every single person who has given us re-assurance, compliments, and words of hope.

I believe even though we were not permitted to wear our shirts in school, and I decided to agree to dis-agree with my administrators – I still believe we made our stance clear and strong. I only hope in the near future that abortions will be illegal, as the value of life is far beyond grasp of our realities. I thank this website, along with our supporters, as we were constantly ridiculed and jabbed at with ignorant remarks.

I thank the Christian environment, our supporters, and of course The Rock for Life, Thomas More Law Center, and my school (as ridiculous as this sounds). I stand by my actions, and next year in college I will hopefully be getting involved in an organization where I may start setting precedents for younger generations throughout the United States. Thanks again! Sincerely, Jamie Michael Pellek.

If anyone would like to send similar circumstance stories, words of encouragement, or even would just like to talk and get all of those juicy details, I would love to receive your emails.
JMPellek08@hotmail.com

Odds are you’ve heard these words before. Though the Apostle Paul was speaking to Timothy when he said this, I have always seen this bit of scripture as powerful and motivational words to encourage the youth of the pro-life movement.

Some people may be condescending and spiteful toward you simply because you are young and interested in the pro-life movement. Don’t be discouraged. Your efforts may do more good than you know. I just recently went to my first pro-life rally, and after it was over people kept coming up to us and telling us how inspired they were to see so many young people involved. Even simply educating yourself and others about pro-life issues does a whole lot of good. Your efforts do not go unnoticed.

I came across a very interesting article that I believe gives at least one key to why Harry Potter is such a hit with my generation. And given the fact that our times are immersed in the Culture of Death, the article made a lot of sense to me.

This article can be read here, and is titled, “Harry Potter, the Archetype of an Abortion Survivor”. It was written by Dr. Philip Ney, the famed child phsychiatrist and phsychologist, and his wife. It discusses how the story of Harry Potter happens to match almost perfectly the mind frame, struggles, emotions, and difficulties of young people who are abortion survivors! And it mentions that these youth have taken a great interest in Harry Potter because in his problems, struggles, emotions, and difficulties, they seem to recognize their own lives.

Now who are abortion survivors? An abortion survivor is anyone who was almost aborted or who easily could have or might have been aborted. It is common for all those born after January 22, 1973, to be known as “abortion survivors”, but in the article that I am referring to, the term “abortion survivors” only includes those people who were almost aborted or who could easily have been aborted.

This article might certainly hold the key to the popularity of Harry Potter. All the young people who have survived abortion are constantly seeking (often unconsiously) to sort out their lives and find answers to their many questions and difficulties that have arisen after they found out that they are abortion survivors.

Perhaps they find in Harry Potter an expression of their difficulties. And with that comes their hope that such difficulties can be resolved.

Who knows how Ms. Rowling could write so perfectly the untold story of one of today’s great tragedies?

However, Harry Potter will not, I believe, be a good source for the healing of abortion survivors. They may see their story there, but yet it cannot help them a lot because it is at the same time a very ungodly tale. And how can they heal without God?

Someone needs to write another story that is parellel to the difficulties that abortion survivors face, but which is at the same time a path to real healing for them.

God bless.

The main reason why he’s so good is that he’s able to explain why abortion is wrong in a simple, convincing, and logical way by focusing on just one single question.

In an article titled “A Short Defense of the Pro-Life Position”, Scott writes:

Pro-life advocates contend that elective abortion unjustly takes the life of a defenseless human being. This simplifies the abortion debate by focusing public attention on just one question: Is the unborn a member of the human family? If so, killing him or her to benefit others is a serious moral wrong. Conversely, if the unborn are not human, elective abortion requires no more justification than having a tooth pulled.

This is not a debate about privacy or trusting women to make their own responsible choices. For example, does the right to make one’s own responsible choices include the rights of parents to abuse children in the privacy of the home? Therefore, if the unborn are human like other children…killing them in the name of privacy is a clear moral wrong. Hence, the abortion debate is really about one question: What is the unborn? Is he or she a member of the human family? Everything comes back to that one question.

When talking about abortion with someone who is “pro-choice”, pro-lifers must always bring the discussion back to this question, because it’s painfully obvious that:

1. life begins at conception; and, therefore:
2. an unborn children is just as much of a human being as you or me.

Usually, when “pro-choice” public figures are asked about the humanity of the unborn child, they try to dance as fast they can around the question and say something ridiculous about “potential life”, like this:

Sometimes, though, some “pro-choicers” actually try to argue that unborn children really aren’t human beings (in spite of science, reason, and the fact that honest abortion supporters openly admit that abortion really does take a baby’s life).

One example of just such a “pro-choicer” is a commenter on JivinJ’s blog named Selina, who attended a debate at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) on Wednesday night between Scott and Nadine Strossen, the president of the ACLU.

About the debate, Scott writes:

I made the case both scientifically and philosophically that the unborn are human. I also made it clear I would concede the debate if Nadine could demonstrate, using good scientific reasoning, that the unborn were not human.

Nadine never took the challenge, but instead simply kept reasserting (without a shred of evidence) that the unborn were “potential” humans, not actual ones.

Well, if the unborn are only potential humans, what are they actually? A potential X must be an actual Y. So, again, what are these alleged ‘potential’ humans? Fish? Dogs? Rats? Here’s the problem: Abortion choicers must explain how two human parents can create offspring that is not human but later becomes human. Inventing a story just won’t do. The explanation must be persuasive and have scientific evidence to back it up. During the debate, no such explanation came from the abortion-choice side.

Selina wasn’t convinced:

But how can she [Strossen] give “scientific reasoning” to the concept of “human”? According to the Princeton dictionary a human is “any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage”. Does a zygote display any of these attributes?

At this point, I jumped in, using a technique Scott calls “trotting out the toddler”:

Our one-year old son can’t yet walk (heck, he can barely crawl). I can count the number of words he knows on one hand. And no one would seriously try to make the case that he possesses “superior intelligence”.

Is he a human?

Are all persons with low IQs human since they do not possess so-called “superior intelligence”?

How about people who stutter? When I was a kid, I had a terrible stuttering problem.

Was humanity conferred on me only when my speech became “articulate” after three years of speech therapy?

What about individuals who suffer severe paralysis such that they are unable to walk? Since they cannot be characterized by “erect carriage”, have they given up their humanity?

If you find yourself in a similar situation when discussing abortion with someone who is “pro-choice” who tries to claim unborn children are not human beings, listen very carefully to him or her explain exactly why they are not, according to their definition of what a “human” is.

Listen for those descriptions of an unborn child that also apply to other human beings who are already born and point out that according to whatever their definition of “human” is, they would also have to say that certain other human beings who are already born should also be allowed to be killed.

Instead, Korin chose to let one of her cousins (who had just found out she was unable to have children) adopt her baby:

“In my mind, I was thinking about an abortion,” Cuico said. “But I didn’t want to because the baby was already moving in my stomach. I felt sad just thinking about an abortion. It was an emotional roller coaster for the next month….”

“I had a change of heart. If I had an abortion, I don’t know how I would’ve lived with myself.”

[HT: JivinJ]

I just read an article from Time Magazine that really was an “ingenious” attack on human life and dignity! I really can’t believe what I read sometimes. Our pro-life position seems so terribly sensible and simple compared to some of the Culture of Death “reasonings”.

This article, which can be read here, is titled, “Want to Wreck the Environment? Have a Baby”. And then it goes all into how babies are the long-sought answer to studies that try to discover what ruins the environment and why food prices are going up so much.

Now, I usually make it a point to not think ill of people and be charitable to them no matter how stupid their arguments seem, but this article heated me up unbelievably. The one word that came rushing to my head and tongue was, “DUH!!!”.

I KNEW THE CAUSE OF INCREASED FOOD PRICES A LONG TIME AGO!! WHY, WE WERE JUST AT A NICE RESAURANT FOR MOTHER’S DAY, AND MY SIBLINGS AND I NOTICED THAT AT ANOTHER TABLE, A BIG PLATE OF BLUEBERRY PANCAKES WAS BEING TOTALLY WASTED!!! WE’RE THROWING AWAY ALL OUR FOOD! NO WONDER FOOD PRICES ARE HIGH! DUH!!!

Yeah, I just about lost it on my family while telling them about that crazy article. I had to vent my heat somewhere. But of course they get a kick out of my heated disgust of such nonsense.

I honestly wonder what’s the incentive for the authors of those kind of anti-life inventions. Wouldn’t it be so much easier and praiseworthy for them to start a stop-wasting-our-food campaign? Maybe they’d even get government funding for such a thing! And really, do they believe that “too many babies” is in fact the answer to increased food prices?

Or do they just want to scare people into not having kids? Or were they paid millions by Planned Parenthood to invent such a “solution”?

For me, that article was the last straw. The plain and bizarre ridiculousness of it was brazen, and I can’t believe that that kind of nonsense made it into Time Magazine. I guess that the media only wants a big and emotional story, true or untrue.

After reading that article, one memory was very strong in my mind. I could only think of the time that I had read something somewhere that said something like, “The food in America’s garbage bins could feed the poor of all the world”.

God bless.

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”.

This year, though, ICAH seems to be going for a more respectable approach to its annual fundraiser.

Apparently, there will be no strippers or porn providers as the guests of honor. And it looks as if they’ve scrapped the adults-only policy.

So, are they really less extreme than they used to be? Not really.

This year, the keynote speaker is scheduled to be U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky, who has a “100% Pro-Choice” score from NARAL Pro-Choice America.

I mentioned over a year ago that on the ICRSE’s links page, one of their “recommended links” for teens is Go Ask Alice!, Columbia University’s “Health Q & A Internet Service”. (The link is still there today.)

Just one click from the Go Ask Alice! home page takes you to a page that lists several questions. One of these questions is, “Menage a Trois?”

Answering this question, Go Ask Alice! gives advice on how to arrange a threesome, and says that “there’s nothing wrong with giving it a try, as long as you’re all practicing safer sex…” (That’s just for starters. On the site, there’s much, much worse.)

And, ICAH, like every major pro-abortion organization, continues to oppose parental notification and consent laws [PDF] — which the vast majority of Americans support, even many who call themselves “pro-choice”!

Remember that the the next time someone calls you an “extremist” for being pro-life.

SFL’s president, Ben Andrews, wrote to tell us:

Things are going pretty well in our club. We’ve got a Pro-Life trip to Knott’s/boycott of Grad Nite to send a message to Disney to stop funding Planned Parenthood coming up on May 10th (more info on the SFL blog).

We raised almost 200 dollars at our last Bake Sale.

A couple of students have shared speeches with the group (with help from the curriculum). We have a prayer and fasting at lunch event coming up this Friday, and have a couple more fundraising ideas in the works: a t-shirt contest (again from the GFL curriculum) and free art show with a box for donations.

And we’re working on trying to put together a Pro-life Awareness week which would involve a program similar to the one that raises awareness for car crash fatalities. Throughout the day people are killed (or in this case) aborted. For the rest of the day they’re “dead” and remain silent and morbid looking. At the end of the day people are reunited with the dead. Since someone is aborted every 20 seconds, a person would be used to represent several people.

I especially like this last idea, as it’s a new variation on a well-known theme.

Students for Life, you’re off to a great start! Our prayers are with you!

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.

Like the recent abortion art project by Yale art student Aliza Shvarts, here is another attack on the pro-life message that people on both sides of the issue are condemning.

In the video, King defends his desecration of the memorial crosses by saying that women have a constitutional right to abortion. Never mind that the students also have a constitutional right to freedom of expression—a right that was actually spelled out in the Constitution in 1789, rather than “discovered” by the Supreme Court in 1973.

It’s disturbing to see the campus police letting King get away with trampling pro-life students’ freedom of speech. The officer in the video ought to be suspended from duty as well.

It’s disturbing all around to see how the false account of sexual freedom that underlies support for abortion—and which one suspects King has a particular stake in protecting—undermines respect for our most basic freedoms. But I’m glad the incident was caught on tape. Kudos to Pointers for Life for capturing that footage.

Their diligence is bearing fruit: local media have covered the story, popular conservative blogger Michelle Malkin wrote a post on it today, and it’s all over the pro-life blogosphere.

It’s interesting to see how very different the types of comments were from the “pro-choice” students compared to those of the pro-life students in the The Exponent’s letters to the editors section in issues after Trapped… appeared.

One student wrote:

I’m baffled as to why the Exponent would actually insert such trashy propaganda into its pages. … I’m used to finding the weekly Arby’s coupon, or sometimes a Geico ad every day before I rip out the coveted crossword and Sudoku. However, for some reason unbeknownst to me, I found this fodder from humanlife.org in my Exponent. This makes me absolutely sick knowing the Exponent willingly accepted this garbage for an insert. Push your moral propaganda somewhere else; don’t pollute this university with it.

Another said:

The insert in the Exponent on Tuesday was very rude. I cannot believe that the Exponent would show so much disrespect to a woman. It was disgusting and vulgar and I and many of my girlfriends find this insert to be very offensive. … I understand the fact the Exponent does not write the inserts and it is just a way of advertising and a way for them to make money, but I would think that someone with somewhat of a heart and a brain would find this to be a bit much. I can understand doing an article about it with different points of view but the Exponent has taken this way too far. I cannot believe that the Exponent continues to show how women continue to have no rights and how a woman’s rights are not growing.

Still another student wrote:

I’m extremely disappointed in you. In the Tuesday edition of your paper you chose to include an ad by the “human life alliance” which spread propaganda and blatant lies across Purdue campus. The fact that you allowed such rubbish to be circulated with your fine newspaper is a disgrace. … It’s one thing for there to be articles and opinions given by the Pro-Abortion and Anti-Abortion groups, as both sides have some valid arguments.

On this last one, I at least have to give the student credit for having the honesty to use the term “pro-abortion”.

In contrast, notice how much better structured the pro-life students’ arguments were.

See here, here, here, and especially here, where student Jeffrey Williams mocks the outrage of “pro-choice” students upset about the paper’s choice to allow Purdue Students for Life to place copies of Trapped inside it:

How dare you, Purdue Exponent? How dare you distribute an insert that provides contact information for establishments designed to help young pregnant mothers? Surely this encroaches upon the rights of women somehow! I find it abhorrent that this insert provides the testimonies of experts and women who have actually gone through abortions. We’re college students; we can figure it out for ourselves. Didn’t we settle this once and for all on the opinions page a few weeks ago? And how dare they cite their sources!? The Human Life Alliance even had the nerve to bring men into this by telling a father’s side of the story! Since when do men have the right to be informed about decisions regarding their own children? Also, if a woman has the right, no, the obligation, to protect herself by having an abortion, then the press has no right to give accurate descriptions of how this is accomplished, as it is simply too graphic. What Constitutional right does the press have to provide free information designed to help people? Shame on you, Purdue Exponent!

You can start a conversation like the one at Purdue at your school, too. To find out about getting Trapped… inserted in your school paper, contact HLA’s distribution coordinator, Jillian Roemer, by e-mail, or by phone at 651-484-1040.

You can also order copies on their site.

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.

This college is known in Washington for some of its students who are strongly and aggressively active in furthuring the Culture of Death. By no means are all of Evergreen’s students involved in such things, but those who are have made a name for their college.

And of course these students wouldn’t all congregate at Evergreen if the college was not friendly to their cause in the first place.

So The Evergreen State College is a stronghold for the Culture of Death and those who promote it, and we love to go there and educate the students about abortion and its consequences.

If we arrive there later in the day, we will almost surely have a pretty fantastic counter-demonstration and debates with the students. During Show the Truth’s first visit to Evergreen a few years ago, there was quite an uproar. The pro-life people had their signs spray-painted and punctured, and an excited crowd of students were totally unglued about the visit.

Thankfully, no one was hurt, and hopefully the students learned about abortion. And Show the Truth made a resolution to return again to Evergreen.

Since that first visit, things have somewhat smoothed out, and the students are accustomed to seeing our display. However, there are still many good discussions between us and the students.

During my very first visit to Evergreen, I seriously felt like losing it! I’d never been in any such situation before, and the taunts of the students were almost overwheming. I was fifteen, and they’d say things like, “I hope that you grow up and go to college someday and learn that you are wrong”. The good thing is, I didn’t lose it, and since then I feel like I’ve come such a long way in knowing how to talk with people and keep cool and really help them with their difficulties.

We always hold graphic signs of aborted babies when we are at Evergreen. We also hold a few graphic signs of live preborn babies. And I found that the students really like to see such positive graphic signs; they like to be told what they can do. While holding aboption signs, I’ve had several students come over and thank me for holding that sign instead of a sign with an aborted baby on it.

It might be a good idea during such demonstrations to have only a few signs with aborted babies and a lot of signs that show adoption and the life of the preborn child.

Another college that we were really hoping to be able to visit during this tour was Columbia Basin College in Ellensburg, Washington. This college actually has a public room inside their buildings, where people can put on educational demostrations and have great access to students who are on break from class.

Last spring Show the Truth was able to have their display inside this college, and it went wonderfully. We were able to hand out literature and fetal models to students and talk with them.

I remember two young guys coming over to our table rather hesitantly. They really wanted to see what we were doing. I said hi and kind of tried to welcome them over. They commented that I was probably wondering why they, being boys, were interested in preborn babies and pregnancy. I said, “Oh no, because you guys can be fathers!” They immediately approved of that and became comfortable. I found it very wonderful that they loved the idea of fatherhood and babies, and it was an eye-opener to see that the idea of abortion being a “woman’s issue” is only a falsehood that is forced on them; they do not willingly accept it and are eager to embrace their vocation of fatherhood, if only they would be allowed to.

We were not able to have a table inside this college again this year because the student who signed us up for last year is no longer attending that college.

When we arrived in Yakima, Washington, we went first to the Cedar River abortion mill there. Every year this particular visit is very interesting. The employees here all come pouring out of the mill to watch our demonstration. We usually have a couple of vehicles with large pro-life signs, and these really set the employees off.

Once we even had the abortion mill employees out on the street holding pro-abortion signs in retaliation to our signs! We figured that we were being really effective! There is a great little pro-life group that demonstrated outside this mill once a week. Every year they are faithfully there with us and are doing an awesome work.

And in Yakima, we always have one or more news people come out to interview us and take pictures. One of these is a Christian news station and is very wonderful and supportive of us!

While in Yakima, we stayed overnight at a former seminary that is now the headquarters for Reach Youth Ministry. This is a group that does a very wonderful work of putting on retreats for young people in efforts to bring them closer to Christ. We love meeting the super kids that are in this Ministry, and they are always excited to see us.

It happened that one of the nights that we stayed in Yakima was the night for Reach’s annual fundraising dinner. We thought it would be great to go to this and give our suppot to their work. As it turned out, the dinner was spectacularly impressive and too much fun! They did a superb job on the whole thing, and everyone there (it was a full room) had a great evening! Some people gave speeches, and the Reach kids put on their own little skit. There were also some sweet little girls who put on this most wonderful little skit you ever saw! They sang beautifully and were totally confident up there on stage.

And wow! the Reach group really knew how to raise money! They gave us some great ideas for our pro-life fundraisers! We were very glad to have been able to attend this dinner and always look forward to returning to Yakima.

And now the abortion mill in Spokane, Washington. Whoa!! It’s aggressive there! We almost always have one or two aggressive incidents while we are in front of the Planned Parenthood there.

People will come up screaming at us, and stop short of physical abuse. So we keep our cameras ready, and are grateful for all the men that we have in our group!

The Planned Parenthood is situated on a fairly busy street right next to a very busy intersection, so we get great coverage for our signs. And the strange thing about this particular Planned Parenthood is that the building right next to it is a daycare center!!

Why in the world?!
And even stranger is the fact that the women who staff the daycare center come over to us and complain about our graphic signs. Yep, this is one of our easiest cases to argue.

I didn’t get the chance to speak with any of these women, but if I would’ve, I might have said something like, “What would you expect to see if you worked at a daycare built right next to Auschwitz?”

There is a really wonderful lady who puts on pro-life demonstrations at the Spokane Planned Parenthood every week, and she is doing a terrific job. She has definitely met with some aggressive and angry retaliations from passersby. Her husband is a lawyer and is thus able to help her very much with any cases involved with pro-life. He is also Show the Truth’s lawyer.

Several years ago, my mom was able to talk a little with one of Planned Parenthood’s escorts while we were there on a tour. A short time later, one of these escorts quit this job, and we believe that he was the same escort who mom talked with. This was very exciting and great news for us!

While in Spokane, we also stopped at Gonzaga University. We usually have a pretty good reception here. We noticed that the students there, though they don’t always agree with what we’re doing, are polite and caring. This is a breath of fresh air for us.

Sadly though, I was told by a supportive student that our graphic signs are very needed at Gonzaga. I guess that a lot of students there support abortion. I expect better from a Catholic University.

One of our last stops was Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. We had a very satisfactory stop there, being able to hold signs and pass out some literature.

We also were challenged by the campus security there, who said that we could not legally stand where we were standing with our signs. The director of Show the Truth handled it very well. He actually ended up calling 911 because the campus security officer was getting out of hand and needed to be put back in line. It was comical seeing the police arrive to help take care of campus security! But it all worked out and there were no arrests.

Our second to last stop was at the Planned Parenthood in Olympia, Washington. This was on Friday, when they do abortions. They usually do around eight abortions on Fridays, but on this Friday we believe that they did one abortion. We are hopeful that we prevented the other average seven!

And when we were there on Friday, Planned Parenthood actually called in counter-protesters. And one of them was the former head of NARAL!! So they must be getting desperate.

It can be an interesting time at the Olympia Planned Parenthood because we sometimes encounter students from The Evergreen State College. They usually don’t give us too much trouble, but recently someone (who looks like he comes from Evergreen) wrote vulgar graffiti on the pro-life sign on Show the Truth’s truck.

Our last stop on our tour was at the Planned Parenthood in Centralia, Washington. This went extremely well, do in large part to the vast support for pro-life in this area. We were able to hand out a whole bunch of fetal models to passing cars and had an impressive display of signs in front of Planned Parenthood.

Altogether it was a fantastic tour, and we are all very pleased with it! We got to do some great work for life, and we got to meet and work with some absolutely wonderful people in the pro-life movement. We also learn so much on these tours!

Our very special thanks to all the great people who helped us, who joined us, and who hosted us at their homes on this tour, and for all the prayers for us and our work; and a very, very big thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Sauley who organized the tour. We love seeing you and working with you, and you are each a huge blessing! God bless and love you all!

And before I finish this somewhat lengthy account, let me tell you of a very unique and very wonderful little incident that happened while we were at the Planned Parenthood in Centralia. I can’t resist telling you all about it! It was one of those things that don’t happen very often, and it was also one of those things that only those in the pro-life movement get to see!

This is what happened: We all suddenly noticed that, a ways down the street from where we were standing, there was a young man standing with a cardboard sign. He had a mohawk haircut dyed pink, and was wearing black clothes with all kinds of silver chains, buttons, and other trinkets. We couldn’t see what his sign said because he was standing with his side facing us, but we (most of us) immediately assumed that he was holding some kind of sign that was against us. However, we did wonder why he was standing so far away from us.

The director of Show the Truth decided to go over and take a picture of this interesting guy. But then we saw him cross the street and shake hands with the guy and start talking. I thought, “Wow, Mr. Sauley (the director) is great at being able to talk and get along with just everybody!”

After a little bit Mr. Sauley came back and told us about the guy standing over there. He said the guy’s parents came over from Russia in the 1960’s, and his dad was a punk rocker. The guy also is a punk rocker like his dad. The guy also said that his mother hates him, sadly and strangely.

So after telling us these things about the guy standing over there, Mr. Sauley asked us, “And do you know what his sign says?” We said, “What?!” It said,

Thank God
Mommy
didn’t
abort me