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Over 1,300 Illinois Citizens Protest Largest Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic By Elizabeth O'Brien AURORA, Illinois, August 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On Saturday over one thousand pro-lifers met to protest before the recently erected facilities or what is said to be the nation's largest Planned Parenthood center in Aurora, Illinois, just outside Chicago. Pro-Life Action League Communications Director Eric Schiedler told LifeSiteNews.com that at least 1,300 pro-lifers participated in the protest. About 900 formed two large picket lines on York Street and another 250 were at a prayer vigil sight next to the new Planned Parenthood center. Another 75 people participated...

Largest Ever Planned Parenthood Abortion Mill Threatens to Open Near Chicago Pro-Life Action League to hold major protest on Aug. 25 By Elizabeth O'Brien AURORA, August 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A huge new abortion clinic, said to be the largest Planned Parenthood Center in the United States, has been constructed near Chicago. In response Illinois pro-lifers have launched a major grass-roots campaign to prevent it from opening on its scheduled date this September. If the 22,000 square-foot, $7.5 million facility opens, it will offer contraceptives, pregnancy tests, sexually transmitted disease testing and abortions. Officials expect to receive 8,000 patients and...

The 6 and 2 to 1 decision in Schiedler v. the National Organization for Women on February 26, 2003 could be seen as a mixed bag for the pro-life movement (it wasn't an 8-1 decision: Chief Justice Rehnquist wrote an opinion for 6 of the justices, Justice Ginsburg wrote a concurring opinion for herself and Justice Breyer). In their favor, the pro-life movement gained a reversal in the national injunction that was made against the Pro-Life Action League, Operation Rescue, and others that forbid them to demonstrate in front of aborion clinics. These organizations can now hold rallies in front...