Slain Pro-Life Advocate Jim Pouillon Known as the Peaceful Abortion Sign Guy

[lemonbeam]

Owosso, MI (LifeNews.com) – Jim Pouillon was known as the sign guy by resident of this otherwise sleepy local community 45 minutes northeast of Lansing, Michigan. But Pouillon was shot Friday morning as he did what he did best – hold his pro-life sign outside of a local high school letting students and teaching know some of their peers are missing.

Cal Zastrow, a longtime pro-life advocate in Michigan knew Pouillon well, calling him a “close friend” and said he “got his martyr’s crown this morning” after suffering multiple gunshots and claimed his life.

“I talked to him on the phone this week and prayed with him before he went out to Owosso High School to minister,” he said.

While Pouillon was active in protesting abortion – and his death will bring up the issue of abortion and violence again in the wake of the shooting of late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller – he always condemned violence as a solution to the violence of abortion.

“Jim was completely non-violent and he condemned violence,” Zastrow said.

Judy Climer, president of Flint Right to Life, described Pouillon to the Flint Journal newspaper as “just a nice, elderly gentleman who was disabled, used an oxygen tank and wore leg braces.”

Climber said he would regularly visit abortion businesses in Flint and Saginaw to pray and hold pro-life signs.

“I knew him very well. He told me one time God put in his heart a passion for the little babies that have the right to be born and they were being denied that right,” said Climer. “He even told me once he’d be willing to die for that belief. That’s what I hear him saying right now.”

Pouillon was involved in a pro-life free speech case several years ago that saw him sue local police after he was arrested for “refusing a lawful police order” to move from city hall steps and for “obstructing passage to a public building."

His attorneys filed a lawsuit on his behalf saying police violated his rights to freedom of speech, religion, and assembly.

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, under presiding Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, denied his motion for summary judgment and, after a jury found against him, his renewed motion for judgment.

Pouillon appealed the decision and an appeals court held that the steps of the city hall were a public place and Pouillon was within his First Amendment rights to protest abortion there.

The court eventually upheld a portion of the decision and overturned parts of it.

Steven H. Aden, the senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, represented Pouillon in the case.

“Jim Pouillon was a courageous friend of both unborn children and the First Amendment right to speak up on their behalf, and he will be sorely missed," Aden told LifeNews.com today.

“I hope his loss, and his example, will inspire many others – particularly young people – to take up the cross he bore and defend the right of all of God’s children to live, and to live in peace,” he said.
In the legal documents in the case, his attorneys described Pouillon this way: “James Pouillon is a dedicated anti-abortion protester whose non-working life is largely devoted to activism in that cause.”

“He was a familiar figure on the streets of Owosso, where he staged abortion protests for a portion of each day almost every weekday for over ten years,” they said.

“On the date he was arrested, he had decided to move his protest from his customary post on the sidewalk to a position on a small plaza separating upper and lower short flights of steps to city hall, or on the steps themselves,” they added.

“On the sidewalk, he had often been the target of verbal abuse as well as assorted missiles, and had once been almost run down by a motorist who swerved onto the sidewalk and drove straight at him,” they concluded.

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[Jesus_123]

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Prayer**

Lord Jesus
through
Thy Sign of Eternal Love,
+ Thy Holy Cross +
open Heaven we pray,
and take the precious prolife soul
. . . of this dear . . . brutally slain . . .
. . . prayerful . . . elderly . . . man . . .
into the
Peaceful Realm of
Thy Heavenly Father,
that he may be comforted there
in holy blessed peace,
and find rest from his labors
in the
Great Kindness of the Holy Presence of God.
Lord have mercy.
And for the second man also killed
we also pray
for the rest, comfort and repose of
his soul with
Thee.
Thank You
Dear Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen.
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Prayer for Help Against Spiritual Enemies

Glorious Saint Michael, Prince of the heavenly hosts, who stands always ready to give assistance to the people of God; who fought with the dragon, the old serpent, and cast him out of heaven, and now valiantly defends the Church of God that the gates of hell may never prevail against her, we earnestly entreat you to assist all of us who remain on earth also, in the painful and dangerous conflict which we sustain against the same formidable foe.

Be with us, O mighty Prince! that we may courageously continue the fight and vanquish that proud spirit, whom you, by the Divine Power, gloriously overthrew, and whom our powerful King, Jesus Christ, has, in mankind’s fallen nature, completely overcome; so having triumphed over the enemy of our salvation, we may with you and the holy :angel1: angels, praise the clemency of God Who, having refused mercy to the rebellious angels after their fall, has granted repentance and forgiveness to fallen man. Amen.

Link: ewtn.com/Devotionals/prayers/Spiritual_Enemies.htm


“For me prayer is a surge of the heart,
it is a simple look towards Heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love,
embracing both trial and joy.”
- Saint Therese of Lisieux

. . . all for Jesus+
*. . . Holy Mother of God+
. . . please pray for these two souls so recently slain+
. . . and please pray for their families and friends+
. . . precious **Blood of Jesus ***Prevail+
. . . for the brutal disordered soul who committed these atrocities we pray
and commend into Thy Hands Lord . . . +​

 

[MJE]

God bless this dear and courageous man. RIP

 

[JReducation]

Whether it’s Dr. Tiller or Mr. Pouillon, society must learn to respect the right to life of every individual. I hope that this incident will serve to awaken a respect for human life, in the womb and on our streets. As a society, we cannot condone or silently tolerate the shameless and senseless attack on human dignity and life. Mr. Pouillon is another Maximilian Kolbe.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF

 

[Luke65]

Thanks lemonbeam, and thank you Jesus_123 for your beautiful offering. Thank you Lord Jesus for giving us Your wonderful servant, and welcome him into Your Kingdom, and bless all those who loved him.

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

“No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:35-39)

 

[Holly3278]

Suspect in Owosso killings hospitalized

An Owosso man accused of fatally shooting an abortion protester and business owner was hospitalized Saturday morning after an apparent suicide attempt.

Shiawassee County Prosecutor Randy Colbry said Harlan Drake, 33, suffered “a serious gash” after cutting his arm near the wrist at the Shiawassee County Jail, but he was expected to recover.

Drake was arraigned Friday afternoon on two charges of first-degree murder in the Friday morning shooting deaths of anti-abortion activist James Pouillon, 63, and gravel pit owner Mike Fuoss, 61, both of Owosso Township.

Drake also was charged with carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent after police say he intended Friday to target a third victim – James Howe, an Owosso real estate agent. Police said they arrested Drake at his home before he could fulfill those plans.

Contacted at home, Shiawassee County Sheriff George Braidwood would not provide information about Drake’s self-inflicted wound or suicide watch protocols at the jail.

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