VFL email 9.1.2015

We need you tomorrow – Wednesday, 9/2!

OPEN HOURS

Wednesday, 9/2/15 – Only 65% filled on this Abortion Day – 2 needed at 12p; 1 needed at 1p; 1 needed at 2p; 1 needed at 3p and 2 needed at 4p.

To sign up for hours go to: vigilforlife.org/calendar/monthview or e-mail info@vigilforlife.org or call Gwen at (608)393-8545.
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From Pro-Life Wisconsin

ACT NOW: State Legislature to Hold Public Hearing on Bills Defunding Planned Parenthood

This Wednesday, 9/2/15, the Assembly Health Committee will hold a public hearing in the State Capitol on two bills that that will further defund Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin (PPWI), the state’s largest abortion provider. Authored by Representative Andre Jacque (R-De Pere), Assembly Bill (AB) 310 and Assembly Bill (AB) 311 together will eliminate approximately $7.5 million in public funding from PPWI.

Pro-Life Wisconsin (PLW) State Director Dan Miller and Legislative Director Matt Sande will attend the public hearing. Sande will offer public testimony. Casey Mattox, senior counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom and a national expert on Planned Parenthood’s fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars, will also testify along with Sue Thayer, former Planned Parenthood of the Heartland clinic manager.

Assembly Bill 310 would redirect federal Title X family planning funds away from organizations that perform or refer for abortions to public entities including state, county, and local health departments and clinics. Currently, more than $3 million annually in Title X funds are granted directly to PPWI.

Assembly Bill 311 would dramatically reduce PPWI’s Medicaid reimbursement rate for contraceptive drugs, paying them at the actual cost they pay for these drugs, not the artificially inflated rate they and other family planning clinics are getting now. This will eliminate $4.5 million from PPWI.

In 2011, PLW was the lead organization in defunding PPWI of $1 million annually in Title V block grant funding, forcing the closure of 5 of their birth control/abortion referral clinics. With your continued help, we will close them all!

ACT NOW!

1. ATTEND – Please ATTEND the Assembly Health Committee PUBLIC HEARING this Wednesday in Room 417 North of the State Capitol Building at 9:00 a.m. and register or testify in support of AB 310 and AB 311.

2. CALL/EMAIL – If you cannot attend the public hearing, please CALL or EMAIL your state representative and state senator NOW and urge him/her to DEFUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN – PASS AB 310 & AB 311!

Tell him/her that “Abortion is NOT healthcare and taxpayer funding of abortion providers violates my conscience.”

To find out who your state representative or state senator is,click here maps.legis.wisconsin.gov/ and type in your street address, city and zip code in the upper right hand corner. Click on the search icon to the right and the name and contact information of your state representative and state senator will appear, along with their pictures.

If you prefer to leave a telephone message with your state representative and state senator, please call the toll-free State Legislative Hotline at (800) 362-9472.

Thank you for making a difference!
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Vigil for Life – Madison will have a representative giving testimony in favor of AB 310 and AB 311 at the hearing. However, it is still important for you to either come to the hearing and, at least, register in favor of these bills or to send word to your state representative and state senator.
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40 DAYS FOR LIFE

We are in full planning mode for our upcoming 40 Days for Life campaign! This year’s 24/7 campaign starts on Wednesday, September 23rd at 6p and ends on Sunday, Nov. 1st at 5p. We are still looking to fill some of our volunteer positions:

Vigil Day Captain

Ensure that either 12 hours or 24 hours of the same day each week throughout the 40 days has a presence on the sidewalk by calling people to fill any open spots. (A great way for someone who cannot make it to the sidewalk to still be very involved with sharing the Gospel of Life.)

Emergency Prayer Warrior – Day (8a-6p) or Night (6p-8a)

Put your name on the list to fill hours when all other resources have been exhausted. You can give your availability for getting these calls.

If you are able to help us in either of these capacities, please call Gwen Finnegan at (608)393-8545 or e-mail Gwen at info@vigilforlife.org
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40 DAYS FOR LIFE 2015 FALL CAMPAIGN KICK-OFF

Join Vigil for Life Madison as we kick-off our fall 40 Days for Life campaign with a special presentation from Vicki Thorn. Vicki is the foundress of Project Rachel and the Executive Director of the National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing located in Milwaukee, Wi. This kick-off event will take place on Sunday, Sept. 20th, 2015 at 2 p.m. at the Bishop O’Connor Center in Madison.
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NATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FOR THE UNBORN MEMORIAL SERVICE

When: September 12, 2015 at 10 a.m.
Where: St. Michael’s Cemetery, 109 S. Military Road, Dane, WI
What: This memorial will be a part of simultaneous services held throughout the nation at the gravesites of aborted children. There are dozens of such gravesites, some of them holding as many as 16,000 bodies. This common act of prayer witnesses to our society that we are truly living amidst a holocaust, and that the abortion debate is not simply about beliefs or viewpoints but about lives that have been lost to abortion.

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Mark your calendars: Pro-Life Wisconsin’s Annual Auction Dinner featuring Abby Johnson at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee on October 17.
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Prayer for Justice

Father, you have given all peoples one common origin.
It is your will that they be gathered together
as one family in yourself.
Fill the hearts of mankind with the fire of your love
and with the desire to ensure justice for all.
By sharing the good things you give us,
may we secure an equality for all
our brothers and sisters throughout the world.
May there be an end to division, strife and war.
May there be a dawning of a truly human society
built on love and peace.
We ask this in the name of Jesus, our Lord.

Amen.