Because of your help, the charges against pro-lifer Joe Holland were dropped last week, but another good pro-lifer has been arrested! We need your help to make sure the charges against David Avignone are also dropped!
Visit ArrestedforPraying.com to learn how you can help David and pass the link along to all of your friends!
NOTE: 312-744-3300 is the correct number for the Mayor’s office
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Illinois is currently taking a road trip through the state, inviting people to share their reproductive health stories. Last night, the ACLU stopped at the Champaign Public Library to assess the barriers to reproductive health care on campus and within the greater Champaign-Urbana area. A small group of women attended the event. Topics ranged from Emergency Contraception availability in hospitals to Sex Education in schools.
There were a number of things that surprised me about the discussion and the event as a whole. We were all in agreement that more needs to be done for pregnant women and parents on campus. There is no pre-natal care on campus and pregnant students are referred to the local women’s health clinic. For those students who have children, there is no childcare facility available. The lack of assistance on Campus leads most pregnant students to chose abortion or drop out of school. It is clear that students are not aware of all the choices they do have on campus, an issue SFLI will be combating with our first Activism Day of the school year on September 7th.
This was the first time that I have been surrounded by people who are just as passionate about the pro-choice movement as I am about the pro-life movement. It was an eye opening experience. During the course of the discussion it was easy to feel defeated. However, during the end of the event one woman begin to share her concern about the future of abortion. She felt that the pro-life movement was gaining steam everyday, and she was especially afraid of the 40 Days for Life campaign. She described 40 Days as one of the scariest and most threatening events put on by pro-lifers due to its organization and impressive number of participants. This gave me a great amount of hope. Pro-choice activists are noticing our work and they have become fearful of our success. We have put them on the defensive.
Every day we are closer to winning this battle, but we can never rest, even when we have won.
Check out this great event hosted by the Our Lady of Good Counsel Respect Life Office in Aurora. This is a great opportunity to hear a pro-life activist share her story! Click on the image for more information!
[From the Thomas More Society]
This morning, Thomas More Society attorney Peter Breen entered a “not guilty” plea to the charge of disorderly conduct on behalf of Joseph Holland, the first person arrested under the new Chicago “Bubble Zone” ordinance, which prevents certain types of picketing activity outside local abortion clinics. Holland, a Northwesten University graduate student, was praying the rosary on a public sidewalk outside the Planned Parenthood Near North abortion facility on July 3 when staff called the police, claiming that he had violated the new ordinance.
[UPDATE] Following public criticisms of new federally-funded health insurance plans that would have covered elective abortions in Pennsylvania and New Mexico, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a statement that the agency will act to exclude abortion from this program. This shows the need for a clear mandate from congress excluding explicit taxpayer funding of abortion, instead of making it dependent on the the President.
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During the passage of the recent healthcare reform legislation in the United States, a great deal of controversy was generated by the use of taxpayer funds to pay for abortion and in a last-minute compromise, President Obama decided to sign an executive order banning federal funding of abortion right before he signed the healthcare reform legislation.
Pro-Life organizations were united in their opposition to the proposed legislation as well as the executive order, because they felt that it actually concealed an expansion of abortion and made American taxpayers responsible for paying for more and more abortions.
Evidence of the wisdom and foresight of prolifers is becoming more clear and has most recently presented itself in the revelation that the Obama Administration just approved the FIRST direct taxpayer funding of abortion through new high-risk insurance pools in Pennsylvania.
For more information, check out: Obama Administration OKs First Tax-Funded Abortions Under Health Care Law and No Abortion Coverage in High Risk Pools, HHS Says
intern jerry. h/t Daniel O’Neil and Alicia Torres
