{"id":97,"date":"2021-01-19T00:04:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T00:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=97"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:06:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:06:19","slug":"joe-scheidler-the-great-chicago-pro-life-leader-gone-at-age-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life-net-bf3c43.ingress-alpha.ewp.live\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Joe Scheidler, the great Chicago Pro-life leader, gone at age 93."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the years he had many visits to the NY area. He was responsible for the conversion of dozens of abortionists, and an unnumbered crowd of people are walking the earth today because of his efforts.   Below are some tributes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the Pro-Life Action League, which he founded –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy father\u2019s proudest accomplishment was the pro-life work of those he inspired to take an active role in the fight against abortion, the greatest injustice of our time,\u201d said Eric Scheidler, Joe\u2019s oldest son, who serves as the League\u2019s executive director. \u201cFor years, people have been telling me about the talk or protest where they met my father, and how his words and example prompted them to do more than just talk, but to take responsibility for addressing the injustice.\u201d …Joe\u2019s career as a pro-life activist took him to every state in U.S. and countries on four continents, as well as through countless court battles, including the notorious NOW v. Scheidler RICO case, the longest case in U.S. federal court history and the only one to make three trips to the U.S. Supreme Court, including 8-1 and 8-0 rulings in 2003 and 2006 that fully vindicated him. His 1985 book CLOSED: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion, a centerpiece of the NOW v. Scheidler trial, became the manual for pro-life activists throughout the world. Joe Scheidler died of pneumonia at the age of 93 at 9:45 a.m. on Monday, January 18, 2021, surrounded by his family at his home on Chicago\u2019s northwest side. Joe is survived by his wife Ann, seven children, twenty-six grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. Funeral arrangements will be announced shortly in his official obituary. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe\u2019s career as a pro-life activist took him to every state in U.S. and countries on four continents, as well as through countless court battles, including the notorious NOW v. Scheidler RICO case, the longest case in U.S. federal court history and the only one to make three trips to the U.S. Supreme Court, including 8-1 and 8-0 rulings in 2003 and 2006 that fully vindicated him. His 1985 book CLOSED: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion, a centerpiece of the NOW v. Scheidler trial, became the manual for pro-life activists throughout the world. Joe Scheidler died of pneumonia at the age of 93 at 9:45 a.m. on Monday, January 18, 2021, surrounded by his family at his home on Chicago\u2019s northwest side. Joe is survived by his wife Ann, seven children, twenty-six grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. Funeral arrangements will be announced shortly in his official obituary.

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– View more at: https:\/\/prolifeaction.org\/2021\/pro-life-action-league-mourns-the-death-of-founder-joe-scheidler\/<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Joe\u2019s career as a pro-life activist took him to every state in U.S. and countries on four continents, as well as through countless court battles, including the notorious NOW v. Scheidler RICO case, the longest case in U.S. federal court history and the only one to make three trips to the U.S. Supreme Court, including 8-1 and 8-0 rulings in 2003 and 2006 that fully vindicated him. His 1985 book CLOSED: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion, a centerpiece of the NOW v. Scheidler trial, became the manual for pro-life activists throughout the world. Joe Scheidler died of pneumonia at the age of 93 at 9:45 a.m. on Monday, January 18, 2021, surrounded by his family at his home on Chicago\u2019s northwest side. Joe is survived by his wife Ann, seven children, twenty-six grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. Funeral arrangements will be announced shortly in his official obituary.

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– View more at: https:\/\/prolifeaction.org\/2021\/pro-life-action-league-mourns-the-death-of-founder-joe-scheidler\/<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Joe\u2019s career as a pro-life activist took him to every state in U.S. and countries on four continents, as well as through countless court battles, including the notorious NOW v. Scheidler RICO case, the longest case in U.S. federal court history and the only one to make three trips to the U.S. Supreme Court, including 8-1 and 8-0 rulings in 2003 and 2006 that fully vindicated him. His 1985 book CLOSED: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion, a centerpiece of the NOW v. Scheidler trial, became the manual for pro-life activists throughout the world. Joe Scheidler died of pneumonia at the age of 93 at 9:45 a.m. on Monday, January 18, 2021, surrounded by his family at his home on Chicago\u2019s northwest side. Joe is survived by his wife Ann, seven children, twenty-six grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. Funeral arrangements will be announced shortly in his official obituary.

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– View more at: https:\/\/prolifeaction.org\/2021\/pro-life-action-league-mourns-the-death-of-founder-joe-scheidler\/<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This from Life News –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scheidler was heralded as one of the early pro-life leaders to participate in protests at abortion clinics and to encourage Americans to vocally oppose abortion by speaking out for unborn children at the very abortion centers where they are killed. Scheidler has been fighting for the rights of the unborn even before the infamous Roe v. Wade decision. After working for other pro-life organizations for several years, Joe founded the Pro-Life Action League to serve the need he saw for pro-life Americans to take bold, direct action to save babies from abortion in their own communities.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This from Human Life International  –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Scheidler, the founder of Chicago\u2019s Pro-Life Action League, was an indefatigable fighter for human life and a stellar example of a Catholic husband and father. He was known as \u201cThe Godfather of the Pro-Life Movement\u201d for his nearly half-century of full-time activism in defense of human life, and because he literally wrote the book on pro-life activism, \u201cCLOSED: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is Joe with the late Father Paul Marx, founder of Human Life International.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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