Pro-Life Demonstrator Suffers Heart Attack and Dies at Planned Parenthood Protest

Pro-Life Demonstrator Suffers Heart Attack and Dies at Planned Parenthood Protest August 29, 2015

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Robert J. Adis  (Photo from obituary, Vermuelen-Sajewski Funeral Home)
Robert J. Adis
(Photo from obituary, Vermeulen-Sajewski Funeral Home)

A pro-life protester died last week at a demonstration in front of Planned Parenthood’s clinic in Livonia, Michigan.

Robert Adis of Canton, Michigan, was one of the estimated 68,000 pro-life Americans who joined in prayer and protest at Planned Parenthood clinics across America on Saturday, August 22. The 73-year-old Adis pushed his wife Joan, who is confined to a wheelchair, to the line where over a hundred abortion opponents prayed, sang, and held signs protesting Planned Parenthood’s support for abortion and illegal sales of aborted babies’ body parts. Bob wasn’t feeling well, though; so he left Joan with the other protesters and returned to his car to rest.

While seated in his vehicle, Bob did not improve–in fact, his serious chest pain continued. Holding his chest, he called a friend from his church, Harvest Bible Church of Westland, over to the car and asked to be driven to the hospital. Bob was rushed by ambulance to St. Mary Mercy Hospital in Livonia, where he was pronounced dead.

Protesters gathered at Planned Parenthood in Livonia
Protesters gathered at Planned Parenthood in Livonia

For Bob and Joan Adis, August 22 was a special day: It was their 55th wedding anniversary. And yet the couple, who met in kindergarten, had chosen to spend their morning defending the unborn. In the last hours of his life, Bob Adis prayed and protested on behalf of those most vulnerable, the babies in their mothers’ wombs.

The Detroit Free Press quoted his pastor, the Rev. Dan McGhee of Harvest Bible Church in Westland. Pastor McGhee said:

 “It’s a remarkable thing to me that Bob, on the very last day God gave him on Earth, he spent it to advocate for life for those who are not given the chance to live their lives. That shows kind of heart he had.”

Protest - Pastor DanMonica M. Miller, professor, author and local pro-life activist, co-founder of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, said of Adis,

“This man died standing up for the cause of life.”

Protest - kidsBesides his wife Joan, Robert Adis leaves behind five children and ten grandchildren.

Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon him.

 

 

Photo credit: Greg Gurta


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