Summary of Protest the Pill Day '08: The Pill Kills Babies

We educated, we informed and we witnessed the truth. Thank you to all who participated in this day – whether you were outside of facilities that distribute the pill or simply kept all mothers and preborn babies in your prayers. We made history!

We had a successful press conference on June 6 at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. To view video clips from the press conference click here.

American Life League joined some local protesters in Washington, D.C. outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic and we were provided with many educational opportunities. The opposition was so angry about us getting the truth out about the pill that they were counter-protesting on June 7. We spoke to people from the opposition as well as reporters. People passed by and saw our signs – they too were educated about the fact that the pill can in fact kill preborn babies.

And finally, we'd like to thank God for this successful project. May His will be done as our country continues to be educated on the deadly effects of the birth control pill and we work for the closing of all Planned Parenthood facilities.

Below are some of your stories from the first Protest the Pill Day!

Leslie Hanks, Vice President of Colorado Right to Life holds a sign of her own making in front of the Planned Parenthood in Denver, Colorado.

Pill Kills Day began Saturday, June 7, in front of the Napa, California, Planned Parenthood office at 11 AM. About two dozen prayerful witnesses testified to the facts of death about the pill. For one hour the prayers were offered for the many uninformed patrons who come asking the staff of Planned Parenthood to provide chemicals, hormones, and sex-education as an answer to their problems with the natural consequences of abuse of sex. Attractive literature detailed the devastating effects of the pill, the shot, and the IUD on women who will be chemically altered mothers even though they don't "Plan" to be and don't even know it. They will be mothers of dead babies. The hormones, chemicals and sharp I.U. devises will starve and kill in the secret warmth of their sterilized wombs. Several attention-demanding, chartreuse signs created by American Life League simply proclaimed: "The Pill Kills," as the praying continued for the designated hour of Pill Kills Day for Napa.

Pro-lifers protested outside the Planned Parenthood office in Napa, California on June 7.

Pro-life girls and women join American Life League, protesting the birth control pill on June 7 in Washington D.C.

Jim Sedlak, vice president of American Life League, and Johanna Dasteel, senior congressional liaison of American Life League, discuss strategy on how to defeat Planned Parenthood.

Counter-protesters from the National Organization for Women stood outside the Planned Parenthood in Washington D.C. for a little while, but as the temperature increased to the high 90s, pro-lifers continued to pray and witness while the counter-protesters left. NOW was part of the opposition that attempted to organize counter-protests on June 7. Marie Hahnenberg, researcher and Project Manager of Protest the Pill Day answers questions from the NOW counter-protesters.

Protest the "Pill Kills" Day visited the western suburb of Fort Lauderdale, FL at the Planned Parenthood facility on North Nob Hill Road, West Broward. Pharmacists for Life International Florida Coordinator, Andrew Eells, RPh, BS Pharm, was joined by veteran prolife advocates Richard Allen and Eugene Cunningham on the high traffic street in West Broward for two hours on Saturday morning, June 7.

Cunningham was armed with special editions of pharmacist John Wilks', MS Pharm. book The Pill - How it works and fails, which were cheerfully accepted by many motorists entering and leaving the plaza.

We went to the surgical abortion facility of Planned Parenthood on Professional Drive in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We arrived about 9:50 AM and left at 11:00 AM with Pill Kills signs...Then we left and drove to the new Planned Parenthood on Stadium Drive, also in Ann Arbor...This was a great location-right on the sidewalk which was directly next to the busy four-lane street.

The local THE PILL KILLS PROTEST was a great success.

Today, from 12:45 until 1:45 about 40 people attended the PILL KILLS PROTEST outside of Planned Parenthood of South Texas.

The majority of those attending were an enthusiastic, committed group of pro-life youth, many of them belonging to The Rock for Life Corpus Christi Chapter. Others attending are members of South Texas STOPP, The Helpers of God's Precious Infants, The Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity along with other pro-lifers. Assembling along the sidewalk in the very hot Corpus Christi sun with signs and T-shirts that read "The Pill Kills", "Planned Parenthood Exploits Teens", "Abortion Kills Babies", "Abortion Is Homicide", and more, the youth and adults handed out many, many pro life information flyers to people in the cars passing by. Two workers came out of a nearby business to find out what we were doing and the pill kills/pro-life message was shared with them.

We experienced a lot of thumbs up and approving honks.

KRIS TV came to do a story about the protest. Sixteen year old Christian Puente, vice president of Rock for Life's Corpus Christi chapter, was the spokesman for the protest and gave the interview to the press. Thank you for your prayers and support.

Young pro-lifers in Corpus Christi, Texas protested birth control pill and helped educate young women on the abortifacient effects of the pill.

We had one protest from about 10 AM -12 PM at the local abortuary and one at the Salt Lake Planned Parenthood Clinic. We had people take our literature and ask us friendly questions about the pill protest.

Erik Whittington, director of youth outreach for American Life League (Rock for Life), and Rosh Koch, Rock for Life's Summer Festival Tour team leader, participated in Protest the Pill Day in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Dear Pro-Life Friends,

Just wanted to let you know that the Mauston Area Life Chain Committee sponsored a commemoration of the Griswold v. Connecticut decision on June 10, 7-8 PM. About 50 people met across the street from Family Planning Health Services in Mauston, WI. The weather held out, a couple of different members of the media covered the event. Many PLW members were in attendance and also a number of area clergy members, about 50.

Peggy Hamill, state director of Pro-Life Wisconsin and other pro-lifers from one of the ten different locations pro-lifers protested in the state of Wisconsin on June 7.

If you want to add your story to the many we have already received, send it to protests@all.org.