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Q & A on abortion, the unborn child, where we stand on the issues and more

Helping abortion-bound women choose life for their babies

Unmasking the truth about abortion in the public square

Our youth outreach, raising up a new generation of pro-life leaders

Abortion industry converts tell the inside story

News and commentary from the Pro-Life Action League

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Fall 2011

Volume XXX No. 2

Face the Truth 2011: Pitch Perfect

League's 12th Annual Tour Sets a Whole New Standard

Face the Truth signs over the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago

With eleven years of Face the Truth Tours behind us, the League set a new standard for running a smooth, orderly Tour this year. With very little interferance from passersby, police or pro-abortion protesters, the Tour was able to reach thousands with the truth about abortion.

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League Scuttles Local Attack on Free Speech

Eric Scheidler addresses the Aurora, IL City Council

For over a year now, the League has been watching proposed changes to a local ordinance in Aurora, Illinois that would make it illegal to distribute literature without applying to the government for a permit. Realizing this would crush our rights to quickly communicate with local citizens, the League's Matt Yonke and Eric Scheidler lead the opposition to this pernicious ordinance.

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Guttmacher Report Shows Planned Parenthood a Funding Sinkhole

Planned Parenthood's funding increases while unintended pregnancy fails to decline

League Executive Director Eric Scheidler posted on the League's Hotline blog an incisive analysis of the relationship between Planned Parenthood's taxpayer funding which has increased every year and the rate of unintended pregnancy which has increased over the last few years. If PP's mandate is to reduce unintended pregnancy, why the discrepancy?

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Sidewalk Counselors Gather for National Symposium

Ann Scheidler addresses pro-lifers at the National Sidewalk Counseling Symposium

League representatives Joe and Ann Scheidler and Matt Yonke gave talks at the first National Sidewalk Counseing Symposium in Minnesota hosted by Pro-Life Action Ministries. The League was encouraged to meet and help counselors from around the country and learn from some of the best in the business.

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Bubble Zone Tensions Crop Up at Second Abortuary

Police confer outside Albany abortion clinic

Since 2009, the League has been fighting and living under a "Bubble Zone" ordinance in Chicago that restricts free speech and interferes with the life-saving work of sidewalk counseling. The ordinance is constantly being enforced differently by different police officers and almost never according to the actual perameters of the law. Read about the confusion this bad law has created and how the League is fighting this hinderance to activism.

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Generations for Life News

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GFL Accepted into Youth Ministry Federation, Club Update: Geauga Catholic Teens for Life, and Why Are Young People Becoming More Pro-Life?

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Other Stories

Letters to the Editor

Volume XXX No. 2
Fall 2011