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PROTEST THE PRO-LIFE ACTION LEAGUE Wednesday at IIT and UIC

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PROTEST THE PRO-LIFE ACTION LEAGUE

The "Pro-Life Action league", a fanatical anti-choice
group that harasses women and abortion clinics, is
coming to UIC and IIT this Wednesday, April 7th.

The group has planned a "Face the Truth" college
campus tour in the Chicago area--where they stand on
the street with graphic signs and spout their hate.

Joe Scheidler, the group's head, is known for saying
things like "I would like to outlaw contraception" and
"We won't be happy until there is no fornication and
no abortion."

We need to oppose their anti-woman, anti-choice agenda
on our campuses.

Wednesday:
8:30 at IIT:
Assemble at 33rd & State

11:30 at UIC:
Assemble at Halsted and Polk, outside the CCC

ALSO, please join us in making posters and more on
Tuesday evening prior to the protest. UIC students
are meeting from 5-7 in the East Cafeteria of the CCC
(750 S. Halstead). Bring materials!

Below is more info on the Pro-Life Action League's
sexist, racist, and anti-gay hate.

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"PRO-LIFE"? THAT1S A LIE!
THEY DON1T CARE IF WOMEN DIE!

What is the Pro-Life Action League?

Run by religious zealot Joe Scheidler and his fanatic
anti-choice followers, the "Pro-Life Action League" is
dedicated to harassing abortion providers and the
women who seek abortion services.

They want to force women back into the days of back
alley abortions and wire coat hangers.

In their own words, they are:

RAVING SEXISTS AND RELIGIOUS FANATICS WHO WANT TO
OUTLAW ALL CONTRACEPTION:

"We're sick of reading letters from know-nothing
feminists and their lackeys about how terrible it is
to outlaw partial birth abortion. These people are
nuts and evil and stupid. Other than that they're just
fine."--Joe Scheidler

"The feminist movement of today has accepted the
sexist idea that women have to be unburdened of
children in order to achieve in a society built with
the model of a childless male in mind."--From
"Abortion and Liberation" on the Pro-Life Action
League's Web Site

"Pro-aborts are terrified when a tiny, helpless unborn
baby is given any value whatsoever. They must know
deep down somewhere that this tiny little
person is inherently valuable and has the power to
totally unravel the tower of lies that allows the
liberal feminist and her allies to indulge their
selfish lifestyles."--Scheidler

"I think contraception is disgusting--people using
each other for pleasure[and] for those who say I can1t
impose my morality on others, I say just watch
me."--Scheidler

"I would like to outlaw contraception."--Scheidler

"Planned Parenthood is the leading promoter of
abortion and pre-marital sex, formerly known as
fornication. They are largely responsible for the
breakdown of the family, the increase in sexually
transmitted diseases among teenagers and the huge
numbers of abortions in this country and throughout
the world."--Scheidler

"We won't be happy until there is no fornication and
no abortion."--Scheidler

"It's dirty. It's promoting lesbianism, masturbation
and pedophilia."--Scheidler, protesting a performance
of the play, the Vagina Monolgues


ANTI-GAY BIGOTS:

"I've personally known too many converted and cured
homosexuals to take the alibi seriously that they
can't change"--Joe Scheidler

"While I can see eye to eye with a black man or woman,
can agree whole heartedly with a Jew or an Arab, feel
perfectly at home with a dwarf, I
would find it impossible to be at one with someone who
hates Christ, mocks my religious beliefs or believes
that homosexual marriage is just fine.--Scheidler

"I am uncomfortable with a rabid pro-abortionist, a
pornographer, an atheist who believed my Catholic
beliefs are false, and a flaming homosexual who
believes in same sex marriage. Sorry, but that's me
and I'm not about to change.--Scheidler

"Just as I will never accept homosexuality,
pornography or abortion as normal, I will not accept
those who practice these perversions as normal or
people to be cultivated, until they change. I know
wonderful people who have fought all these perversions
and who I count among my best friends."--Scheidler

ANTI-SEMITIC:
"Some really unhappy Jewish people who possibly
suspect that they missed the boat and are in the wrong
church, don't want to be reminded that the majority of
the world has accepted the true Messiah and they
didn't and they still don't want to acknowledge that
they're wrong. Christ came to his own
and His own received him not and they still don't
receive him and it just eats at them."--Joe Scheidler


STALKERS WHO TARGET ABORTION PROVIDERS AND PATIENTS
WITH THINLY-VEILED THREATS--AND WORSE!:

Scheidler, has bragged that he has helped organize a
"pro-life Mafia" and has vowed to stop abortion by
"any means necessary."

In 1985, in the midst of a rash of clinic arsons and
bombings, Scheidler proclaimed "a year of pain and
fear" for anyone seeking or providing an abortion.

Scheidler has publicly praised convicted arsonists for
their effectiveness and their zeal. "I don't cry real
hard when I hear about one of their firetraps burning
down," he has said.

In 1998, a jury found that the Pro-Life Action League
orchestrated 121 crimes involving acts or threats of
unlawful force or violence:

--In Los Angeles, they beat a post-operative ovarian
surgery patient over the head with their anti-abortion
sign, knocking her unconscious and causing her to
bleed from the sutures in her abdomen.

--In Atlanta, they seized a clinic administrator by
the throat, choking and bruising her.

--In Pensacola, Florida, in March 1986: "Scheidler and
other Pro-Life Action Network leaders were in town,
staying at the home of John Burt, another
anti-abortion activist. On the evening of March 25,
Joe Scheidler, [admitted former KKK member] John Burt,
Joan Andrews, and others discussed what form of
Oprotest1 they would conduct at the clinic the next
day. Several, including Joan Andrews, who was
well-known for destroying medical equipment, agreed to
invade the clinic the next morning. Scheidler also
agreed to enter, if he thought he could do so without
being arrested. Sure enough, the next day, John Burt,
Joan Andrews and others invaded the clinic. They threw
the clinic's administrator down the stairs, injuring
her badly; they shoved a NOW volunteer against a wall,
causing her permanent injury; and they wrecked the
medical equipment, putting the clinic out of business
for several days. During the mayhem, Scheidler stood
outside, handling press
relations for his group. He praised those who went in
and took credit for
the invasion and property destruction." [Testimony of
NOW lawyer Fay Clayton, before the House Judiciary
Committee]


"One method that has been used successfully to get an
abortionist to cut down on his practice and even to
swear off doing abortions is for a pro-lifer to make
him a target for conversionSEfforts are made to get to
know this abortionist's family, his church
affiliation, his memberships in professional
organizations and clubs, and other facts about his
lifestyle. Manifestation of this interest is always
genuine, and persistent."-- Scheidler

"Several years ago we tracked down a twelve year-old
girl who was going to have an abortion so that we
could talk her out of it. Talking a woman out of
having an abortion is not news. But tracking her down
by using private detectives is."--Scheidler

"You can try for 50 years to do it the nice way or you
can do it next week the nasty way."--Scheidler


JOE SCHEIDLER SAYS HE "ABHORS VIOLENCE", BUT HE HAS NO
PROBLEMS WITH THE VIOLENCE OF BACK ALLEY ABORTIONS.

HE HAS NO PROBLEM ADVOCATING TACTICS THAT LEAD
DIRECTLY TO THE HARRASSMENT OF AND ATTACKS AGAINST
ABORTION PROVIDERS AND WOMEN!
 
 

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