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I’ve made this point many times, but the ring leader of the Aurora protests has admitted it repeatedly.

Contraception is more the root cause of abortion than anything else”

Source: “Abortion foes’ new rallying point: Conservatives take on contraception,” Judith Graham, Chicago Tribune (Illinois), September 24, 2006

“I would like to outlaw contraception. … [C]ontraception is disgusting – people using each other for pleasure.”

Source: “Steinberg right on Bush,” Jeff Robertson, Chicago Sun Times, March 20, 2006

“Contraception is not the answer to this nation’s high abortion rate.  On the contrary, flooding our society with contraceptives has only encouraged the kind of irresponsible sexual behavior and anti-child mentality that directly leads to abortion.”

Source: “Planned Parenthood Battles Scheidler over Contraception,” Pro-Life Action League, Christian NewsWire, October 23, 2006

“The issue of contraception is coming out of the closet and is becoming a major issue in the ongoing battle for souls.”

Source: Joe Scheidler, Action News Hotline, Wednesday 14 March – Thursday 15 March 2007 , http://www.prolifeaction.org/hotline/2007/0314.htm 

He’s a direct action kind of guy:

Mar. 26, 1986 — Members of Pro Life Action Network (PLAN), a coalition co-founded by Scheidler and which Scheidler called the “pro-life mafia”,  invade a clinic in Pensacola, FL. They throw the clinic administrator down the stairs, injure a NOW chapter president, and destroy medical equipment.  The clinic is forced to close for days.  According to NOW, “Joe Scheidler stands outside during the invasion, praising those who went in and taking credit for the mayhem.” (From the NOW website: http://www.nowfoundation.org/issues/reproductive/scheidler-timeline.html)

As I mentioned when Keyes came to the state:

For example, in Delaware, Joseph Scheidler and three other large men illegally entered a clinic, trapping the clinic administrator inside. The men put the phones on hold ? effectively cutting her off from the outside world ? and told her they were there to “case the place.” This was shortly after several clinics had been bombed. In another incident, Scheidler went to Pensacola and met with John Burt and Joan Andrews. Together, they discussed and planned an event to take place at the Ladies Center.

The next day, while Scheidler was outside doing “P.R.” (he did not want to get arrested), Burt, Andrews and two others burst into the clinic, shoved the administrator to the floor and slammed an escort up against a wall. Then they went upstairs to wreck equipment.

Still more evidence of force and violence came as the jury heard from a doctor who had been stalked, her house surrounded, and her life threatened. She was also physically assaulted by Monica Miller and Matt Trewhella.

The jury also heard evidence of scores of blockades, which deprived people of access to the clinics, and where people were assaulted for daring to try to enter. One woman, who was going to see her doctor for postoperative surgery (surgery that in no way was related to abortion and that had been done to try and save her reproductive organs), was hit over the head with a picketer’s sign. And the jury heard more.

More on a fine fellow:

Scheidler vowed to stop abortion “by any means necessary.”

Source: Testimony of Fay Clayton counsel for the Certified Plaintiff Classes in National Organization for Women, Inc., et al Joseph M. Scheidler, et al., July 17, 1998

“You can try for 50 years to do it the nice, polite way, or you can do it next week the nasty way.”

Source: “Militant Abortion Opponent Playing by His Own Rules,” Hanke Gratteau Chicago Tribune, January 21, 1985

“We have shut down hundreds and hundreds of abortion clinics around the country.”

Source: Joseph Schiedler, Aug 2007, found on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a04QSZXrKo)

“I just wish I had a medal or some sort of battle scar for each time I was arrested.”

Source: Joseph Schiedler, Aug 2007, found on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a04QSZXrKo)

“I’m doing what I have to do. So what? I’ve got some misdemeanors … I don’t consider myself a criminal.”

Source: “Can Abortion Protesters Be Sued as Racketeers? – High Court to Decide,” Sharon Cohen, Associated Press, December 4, 1993.

“For instance, 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 a private detective is.”

Source: Joseph Schiedler, The Director Pro Life Action League, Closed: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion, 1985

Pat Buchanan called Scheidler the green beret of the pro-life movement.

Source: “MAN WITH A MISSION JOE SCHEIDLER PULLS NO PUNCHES IN HIS CRUSADE AGAINST ABORTION,” Linda Witt, Chicago Tribune, August 11, 1985 Sunday

“[Scheidler] bragged about his unusual actions, such as absconding with fetal remains (Wash. Post, 12/6/93) or picketing the homes of doctors (“Home Pickets Work,” USA Today, 10/19/95).”

Source: People for the American Way Website:  http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2007/05/racketeering_ca.html

So the Aurora City Council is bending over backwards for a guy who thinks it’s appropriate to track down people thinking of getting a fully legal medical procedure with private detectives.  Think about that for a minute.