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Pro-Life Wisconsin Affiliates to Observe Roe v. Wade
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010


For Immediate Release
January 19, 2010

Contact: Peggy Hamill, State Director, (262) 796-1111, Cell (414) 416-0489
Virginia Zignego, Communications Director, (262) 796-1111, Cell (262) 370-3993

Pro-Life Wisconsin Affiliates to Observe Roe v. Wade

January 22, 2010 will mark the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that decriminalized abortion. More than 50 million lives in the United States have been lost because of abortion, a casualty that continues to grow daily.

While hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers descend on Washington, D.C. in protest of Roe v. Wade, Pro-Life Wisconsin affiliates throughout Wisconsin have local events occurring to mark January 22.

In addition to the planned affiliate events, two buses with over one hundred representatives of Pro-Life Wisconsin will leave Wednesday, January 20 as part of Pro-Life Wisconsin's annual pilgrimage to the March for Life in Washington, D.C. There they will join an estimated crowd of 300,000 pro-life activists from across the country in what has become one of the nation's largest marches for social reform.

"The impact of Roe v. Wade in Wisconsin has resulted in more than 500,000 babies killed through surgical abortion," said Peggy Hamill, State Director of Pro-Life Wisconsin. "Abortion is a tragedy, happening in communities every day in Wisconsin."

The following are planned PLW affiliate events for the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade:
Pro-Life Wisconsin Outagamie / Winnebago County will gather for prayer at the Planned Parenthood abortuary in Appleton, located at 3800 N. Gillett St., from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Jan. 22.

Pro-Life Wisconsin Juneau County will gather for 37 minutes (one minute for each year of legalized abortion) on Jan. 22 at 7 p.m. at the Juneau County Courthouse, located at 101 State St. in Mauston.

Pro-Life Wisconsin Dane County will gather for a prayer vigil on Jan. 22 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at 1 South Park St. in Madison where a second trimester abortion clinic is being considered.

Pro-Life Wisconsin Kenosha will have a prayer vigil on Saturday, Jan. 23 at 11 a.m., at Planned Parenthood in Kenosha, located at Roosevelt Rd. and 36th Ave.

Pro-Life Wisconsin Rock County will be praying and witnessing at the abortion mill in Rockford, Ill., on Jan. 22 from 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. A holy hour of prayer will follow at St. Peter's Adoration Chapel in South Beloit, Ill. For more information call Charlene Tolme at (608) 362-3406.

There will be a prayer vigil at Family Planning Health Services in Wausau, located at 719 N. 3rd Ave., on Jan. 21 at 2 p.m.

The Pro-Life Wisconsin buses will depart from St. Francis Church in Necedah at 10 a.m. and St. Mary's Church in Elm Grove at 1:30 p.m.

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