Pro-Life Icon Dies at 93 After Long Supreme Court Battle
C-SPAN screenshot of Joseph Scheidler, founder of the Pro-Life Action League Joseph Scheidler, an early leader and icon of the pro-life movement, passed away on Monday at the age of 93. He began the fight against abortion shortly after the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 and founded the Pro-Life Action League in 1980 to recruit and equip pro-life Americans to speak out for unborn children. Yet Scheidler also fought a decades-long court battle for his right to free speech in opposition to the abortion industry, a battle that birthed the Thomas More Society. “My father’s proudest accomplishm...