June 28, 2010
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Join Pro-Life Wisconsin in your community
this summer
This summer, Pro-Life Wisconsin and our affiliates throughout the state
will be making the pro-life message visible. We will be marching in
parades, connecting with young and old alike at county fairs, and
continuing our regular prayer efforts outside Wisconsin's abortion
mills.
 Pro-Life Wisconsin
Ozaukee County invites all to join the parade! Join us in
Cedarburg on Sunday, July 4 for an 11 a.m. start! Proudly carry our
banner, casually toss a few pounds of candy or just walk along with us
and support PLW! Cheering "fans" all along the mile-long route help to
make this an event worthwhile! Contact Charmaine at
plwozaukeecounty@hotmail.com or (262) 387-0587.
Pro-Life Wisconsin
Bayfield County (Moqua Pro-Life) invites all to join them in
the Fourth of July Parade in Ashland. Meet at noon at Main St. and 9th
Ave. Banners and handouts will be provided. For info, call Kathy
Huybrecht at (715) 746-2577.
Pro-Life Wisconsin
Sheboygan County will be marching in the Sheboygan Brat Days
parade on August 7 at 9 a.m. Call Pat Piper at (920) 786-1004 for more
information.
We need volunteers to help
staff our booths at county fairs! Contact Pro-Life Wisconsin at
(262) 796-1111 or email info@prolifewisconsin.org for more information.
We will have booths at the following fairs, among others:
- Waukesha County
- Fond du Lac County
- Ozaukee County
- St. Croix County
- Wisconsin Valley Fair (Marathon County fair)
- Juneau County
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Pro-Life Wisconsin in
the news
- Pro-Life Wisconsin's response to NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin's letter
to the editor, which advocated the use of eugenics, was printed in the
June 22 edition of the Wisconsin
State Journal. Read our letter to the editor here.
Read
NARAL's
letter
here.
- Jill Stanek's weekly column for World
Net
Daily focused on the use of telemedicine in Planned
Parenthoods nationwide and included the research Pro-Life Wisconsin did
on telemedicine in Wisconsin. Read Jill's column here.
- Pro-Life Wisconsin state director Peggy Hamill and board member Greg
Wagner were interviewed for a LifeSiteNews article about Bishop Morlino
of Madison. Read it here.
- Father Frank Pavone discussed, on National Pro-Life Radio, our
request for an opinion from the Wisconsin Attorney General regarding
the University of Wisconsin training abortionists at Planned
Parenthood. Read about it here.
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Planned Parenthood missing $1 billion in federal
taxpayer funds
Rita Diller, executive
director of American Life League's STOPP project, in a June 21 Washington Times op-ed:
 A new report from the U.S.
Government Accountability Office (GAO) on federal tax money funneled
into Planned Parenthood and similar organizations raises more questions
than it answers about the nation's largest abortion chain.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America's (PPFA) audits show the
organization spent just $657.1 million between 2002 and 2008 from
federal government grants and programs, but the abortion behemoth's own
annual reports show that it took in $2.3 billion from government grants
and programs during the same time period.
That's not pocket change. Why the discrepancy?
The report (the first of its kind since 2002) was released in response
to a request from 31 U.S. senators and representatives and in an
atmosphere increasingly hostile to abortion. Not surprisingly. then,
its findings are fueling an escalating outcry to defund Planned
Parenthood.
Since 2009, at least five nationwide polls have confirmed that a
majority of Americans consider themselves pro-life.
Someone, then, needs to explain to all those people why $2.3 billion in
tax dollars have been doled out to an organization that admits to
systematically having killed more than 1.8 million pre-born babies
between 2002 and 2008 and then reports it only spent $657.1 million in
federal dollars.
Click
here to read more of Diller's op-ed. To read American Life League's
report on Planned Parenthood's funding and the $1 billion question, click here.
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Milwaukee's Alverno College website links to
pro-abortion groups
From LifeSiteNews:
A conservative student group has launched a protest against Alverno
College, a Catholic educational institution for women, whose research
division directs online visitors to several pro-abortion and
homosexualist groups.
TFP (Tradition, Family, Property) Student Action launched the peaceful
protest after discovering links to extreme pro-abortion groups
including the National Organization for Women, the Center for
Reproductive Rights, EMILY's List, and the Feminist Majority
Foundation, on the resource page of the Alverno College Research Center
for Women and Girls.
In its mission statement, Alverno College states that its curriculum,
which "includes both a philosophy and a program of education," is
"rooted in Catholic tradition." Alverno College president Mary Meehan
has not responded to LifeSiteNews's request for comment as of press
time.
TFP Student Action has launched a protest petition
asking Alverno to remove the abortion advocacy links.
“It’s scandalous for a Catholic college to have any links with abortion
advocacy groups or to present them as legitimate resources for
students,” said TFP Student Action director John Ritchie. “Groups
that deliberately favor the sin of abortion are not resources, but
death sources.”
Click
here to read more.
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U.S. bishops back Phoenix bishop in nun
excommunication abortion case
From LifeSiteNews:
The Doctrinal Committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
(USCCB) published a document
last week to clarify misunderstandings about the case
of an abortion that took place in a Catholic hospital in Phoenix.
A media frenzy erupted in May after Phoenix Bishop Thomas Olmsted
announced the automatic excommunication of a nun who contributed to the
decision to go ahead with the procedure. The nun in question, Sister
Margaret McBride, had claimed that the abortion was necessary to save
the life of the mother, who was suffering from pulmonary hypertension.
However, while various media gave the impression that pulmonary
hypertension is a condition where abortion would be curative, Catholic
medical experts pointed out that this is not the case.
In fact, neonatologist Dr. Paul Byrne explained to LifeSiteNews that
with pulmonary hypertension, an abortion, although it may relieve some
of the stress on the heart, may also make the situation worse due to
the stress of the abortion procedure. Dr. Byrne also explained that the
literature on the condition indicates that there have been successful
interventions for pregnant women with pulmonary hypertension that have
enabled both mother and child to survive.
In its statement, the USCCB Committee presents two scenarios that
distinguish “between medical procedures that cause direct abortions,”
which it says are “never morally permissible,” and those “that may
indirectly result in the death of an unborn child,” which in certain
extreme situations can be permissible.
Click
here to read more.
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Affiliate announcements
Pro-Life Sidewalk
Counselor Training: Saturday July 31, 9 a.m.
to noon; St. Bridget Parish, 600 Clifford Ave., Loves Park, Ill.
Sidewalk counseling is exactly what the name implies — standing on the
sidewalk outside an abortion clinic, counseling women and couples on
their way inside. It is a last attempt to turn their hearts away from
abortion and offer real help. Veteran sidewalk counselor JT Eschbach
from the Pro-Life Action League will be conducting this free seminar
that is open to people of all ages who are interested in knowing how to
be an effective witness for Christ and life at an abortion clinic. This
training is also very helpful for anyone interested in learning
how to talk to people about abortion and help guide them to real help.
To attend, email Kevin at
everylifematters@comcast.net or call (815) 494-0333. Sponsored by
The Rockford Pro-Life Initiative and Pro-Life Wisconsin.
Pro-Life Wisconsin Dane
County will have pro-life stations of the
cross and a picnic with Fr. Rick Heilman
and the missionary image of Our Lady of Guadalupe: Sunday, July 18 at 5
p.m. at the Orin Rd. Planned Parenthood in Madison. Pro-Life Wisconin's
state director Peggy Hamill will be attendance. Pro-life family
picnic to follow across the street at Our Lady of Victory property.
Bring dish to pass if able, not required. Table settings and drinks
will be provided. Bring your own lawn chairs. Call Jeanne at (608)
516-8632 any questions. Headcount helpful, not required, for picnic.
Mark Kimble, a Dane County
affiliate member, is doing an Appalachian Hike For Life this
summer. Mark has testified on pro-life issues at the Capitol and has
prayed in front of abortuaries in Madison for years. Pro-Life Wisconsin
is among the groups whom Mark will be donating the proceeds from his
Hike For Life to. Click here
for more information.
Pro-Life Wisconsin Dane
County maintains a regular prayer presence outside the Planned
Parenthood abortuary in Madison. Call Peter at (608) 256-0585 about
prayer dates and times.
Pro-Life Wisconsin
Chippewa Valley prays and gives public witness against abortion
and contraception outside the Eau Claire Planned Parenthood (1231
Menomonie St.) every Thursday from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. and the first
Saturday of the month at 11 a.m.
Pro-Life Wisconsin
Milwaukee County gathers regularly on Saturday mornings at the
Affiliated abortion center in Milwaukee, between 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.
SIDEWALK COUNSELORS ARE NEEDED! If you can come pray or counsel women
entering the abortuary, please contact Peggy Hamill, (262) 796-1111, or
e-mail info@prolifewisconsin.org for more information.
Pro-Life Wisconsin
Outagamie County invites you to love your preborn neighbor as
yourself, by going out to the places where abortions are sold and
committed. Please plan to come and sidewalk counsel (beside the
driveway), pray and witness with signs. Abortions are scheduled from 8
a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday at Planned Parenthood Appleton
North on 3800 N. Gillett St.
Pro-Life Wisconsin
Walworth County prays at Planned Parenthood in Delavan, 312 S.
7th St., on Tuesdays from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Call Phil for more
information, (262) 742-3299.
Pro-Life Wisconsin
Waukesha County will join other pro-lifers for monthly prayer
in front of the Planned Parenthood in Waukesha, 426 W. Main St. Prayer
gatherings will be held the fourth Saturday of every month at 10 a.m.
Pro-Life Wisconsin Juneau
County gathers for prayer witness every Monday from 4 p.m. to 5
p.m. at Family Planning Health Services, 522 State Road 82 # F, in
Mauston. Please call Richard Irwin, (608) 565-6706, for more
information. They meet every second Tuesday of the month at the Hatch
Public Library in Mauston at 7 p.m. in the Community Room.
Pro-Life Wisconsin Kenosha
will have a Saturday prayer vigil at 11 a.m. in
front of Planned Parenthood in Kenosha, located at Roosevelt Rd. and
36th Ave. Contact Karie Kinzler at kakinzler7@yahoo.com or (262)
656-0301 for further details.
Please join Pro-Life
Wisconsin Racine for a prayer vigil every Wednesday from 11 a.m.
until noon at the Racine Planned Parenthood, 832 Main St. All are
welcome to join with your presence or your prayers.
Rock County Chapter of
Pro-Life Wisconsin encourages people to come to the Rockford
abortion mill to pray, witness and counsel. Called “NIWC,” the Northern
Illinois Women’s Center, is located at 10th St and Broadway, Rockford,
Ill. Mothers seeking abortion enter between the hours of 7 a.m. and 10
a.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays. The Rosary begins at 9:30 a.m. followed
by the Divine Mercy Chaplet. For more information please call Mary Jane
Stephan (815) 624-2270 or (815) 670-1166. PLW Rock County is also on Facebook!
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Courtesy
announcements
40 Days for Life Wausau: In
honor of St. Maria Goretti's feast day on July 6, we will pray the Holy
Rosary and Divine Mercy at Family Planning Health Services, 719 N. 3rd
Avenue in Wausau, on Tuesday, July 6 at 10 a.m. Be a witness for the
unborn and to promote the virtue of chastity in honor of Saint Maria
Goretti. Saint Maria Goretti died at the age of twelve. She
was obedient to God and gave mercy to her attacker. Pray for us,
Saint Maria Goretti, to be silent no more. Any questions, please call
Janet, (715) 848-2174.
40 Days for Life -
Milwaukee: Save the date for the fall 40 Days for Life! Will be held
September 22 through October 31 at Affiliated Medical Services in
Milwaukee. For details call (414) 236-0688.
Missionaries to the Preborn will have a pro-life picket on
Saturday, July 17, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Greenfield, WI at S.
76th St. & W. Layton Ave. Park on S. 74th St. Signs will be
provided. Contact Jim Soderna with questions at (414) 462-3399.
Holy Hour for the Unborn:
St.
John
the
Evangelist
Parish, 8500 W. Cold Spring Rd., Greenfield,
Wis. We come together every fourth Wednesday of the month from 7 p.m.
to 8 p.m. to pray for the end of abortion. The church has 24 hours of
Adoration seven days a week. Contact Kathy Knaack with questions,
Kathy.knaack@gmail.com.
Eyewitness for Life:
You
are
invited
to
learn
about
the
important
lifesaving
work
of
Eyewitness
for
Life.
By
attending
a
one-hour
Seeing
is Believing event
you will get to tour our new facility and learn how Eyewitness for Life
utilizes the miracle of ultrasound technology to rescue the women we
serve, and the children they are carrying, from the tragedy of abortion
- thereby saving two lives at a time. The upcoming event will be held
on June 26. Our program begins at 10 a.m. Eyewitness for Life is
located at 9008 W. Burleigh St., Milwaukee. Call (414) 462-5483 or
email eyewitness@milwpc.com with questions.
St. Mary's Oratory Holy
Name Society prays the Rosary once a month on Saturday at 10:45
a.m. at Family Planning Health Services. Call Ron Putzer at (715)
842-5368 to confirm date.
Cenacles of Life
meets every Saturday morning at 6:45 a.m. to pray two Rosaries for
pro-life intentions before the 7:30 a.m. Mass at St. Mary's Catholic
Church in Pine Bluff, west of Madison.
The Servants of Our Lady
of Guadalupe has a prayer vigil every Monday at 4:30 p.m. in
Wisconsin Rapids on 8th St. by the Shopko mall to pray for the closing
of the Planned Parenthood. If you have any questions contact Will
Goodman at (608) 698-7443.
The Servants of Our Lady
of Guadalupe has a prayer vigil every Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. in
Stevens Point in front of the strip mall next to Family Video to pray
for the closing of Family Planning Health Services. If you have any
questions contact Jen Dunnett at (715) 340-2779.
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