Here's Your Monday Update

YOU'RE INVITED TO PRO-LIFE WISCONSIN'S
2021 LIVING COURAGE AWARDS DINNER

Join us on Thursday, April 22, 2021, at the Pavilion Exhibit Hall at the Washington County Fair Park and Conference Center (3000 County Hwy PV, West Bend, WI 53095) for the 2021 Living Courage Awards Dinner. The evening will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a social hour, followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m.

Hear from our keynote speaker, Steve Karlen, who, shortly after getting involved in the pro-life movement as a volunteer leader with the 40 Days for Life campaign in Madison, found himself at the center of a nationwide controversy. The University of Wisconsin-Madison health system was preparing to open a late-term abortion center on campus, but Steve and his wife Laura led the victorious fight alongside Pro-Life Wisconsin to oppose this barbaric plan. Steve served as Pro-Life Wisconsin’s development director (2010-2012) and is now the Campaign Director for 40 Days for Life where he trains and assists local 40 Days for Life campaign leaders, co-hosts the 40 Days for Life Podcast, and edits the 40 Days for Life Day 41 magazine. His latest book, This is When We Begin to Fight, will be available for purchase and signing upon the conclusion of the Living Courage Awards Dinner on April 22, 2021.

Most importantly, we will honor our Activist of the Year, Gwen Finnegan of Madison Vigil for Life, and Legislator of the Year, Representative Chuck Wichgers.

Gwen Finnegan has served as the Volunteer Director of Vigil for Life-Madison since January 2014, has led Madison’s 365 for Life campaigns, and coordinated eight 40 Days for Life campaigns. “Thank you to Pro-Life Wisconsin for recognizing my efforts with Vigil for Life-Madison. I share this award with all of those who sign up for hours to witness for life through Vigil for Life-Madison,” remarked Gwen.

Representative Chuck Wichgers is a staunch supporter of the right to life and believes in protecting human life at all levels from the not yet born, those with special needs, to the eldest among us. “I’m honored to be chosen as Pro-Life Wisconsin’s Legislator of the Year,” shared Chuck. “It’s an honor I feel compelled to share, however, with my father and mother who faithfully served God and the pro-life community by raising 13 children with absolutely no regrets! They now enjoy a growing list of over 70 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. My parent’s pro-life witness to trust in God’s plan for them inspires me to recognize and defend the God-given dignity of every human life from conception to natural death in my capacity as a state legislator in Madison.”

We hope you will join us for an evening celebrating Wisconsin's pro-life heroes!

PRO-LIFE WISCONSIN PAC ENDORSES
JUDGE SHELLEY GROGAN FOR
WISCONSIN COURT OF APPEALS

The Pro-Life Wisconsin Victory Fund Political Action Committee (PAC) has endorsed Judge Shelley Grogan for Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District 2. Headquartered in Waukesha, District 2 covers twelve counties in the southeastern corner of Wisconsin: Calumet, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Kenosha, Manitowoc, Ozaukee, Racine, Sheboygan, Walworth, Washington, Waukesha, and Winnebago counties. The general election is scheduled for Tuesday, April 6.

A judicial conservative with a deep respect for and commitment to the rule of law, Judge Grogan will adjudicate independently and impartially. She will work with a servant’s heart to protect and preserve our Constitutional freedoms and maintain law and order. Her belief in the dignity of the human person, devotion to family, and fidelity to our federal and state constitutions as written make her the only choice for pro-life voters. Pro-Life Wisconsin is proud to endorse Judge Shelly Grogan.

Judge Grogan has 25 years of experience in both civil and criminal law, working with constitutionally conservative judges and justices. She served as the judicial law clerk to both Judge Ted Wedemeyer and Judge Ralph Adam Fine at the state court of appeals and currently serves as Justice Rebecca Bradley’s permanent Judicial Assistant at the Wisconsin Supreme Court. She also serves as the sitting judge for the City of Muskego and works as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School.

Judge Grogan graduated from Marquette Law in 1992 with honors and worked as a civil litigator prior to joining the Wisconsin Appellate Courts. She and her late husband raised their three children in Waukesha County.

The Victory Fund PAC is urging the citizens of southeast Wisconsin to get out to the polls on Tuesday, April 6 and vote for Judge Shelley Grogan for Wisconsin Court of Appeals. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. for this nonpartisan race. More information available here on where you should vote, who else is on your local ballot, and information on voting absentee if you cannot vote on Election Day.

PRO-LIFE WISCONSIN WELCOMES
NEW AFFILIATE IN GREEN BAY

Pro-Life Wisconsin is delighted to welcome our newest affiliate, Pro-Life Green Bay. Led by a team of committed and passionate pro-life leaders (pictured above, Kait W., Kaiti W., Stephen A. Tallulah C., Pastor Mike T.)

Pro-Life Green Bay’s vision is to be, “a driving force for the pro-life movement in Green Bay and the surrounding areas – to inspire and equip people and churches to join our mission.” Their mission is full of hope! Pro-Life Green Bay exists, “to empower individuals and churches to walk out their commitment to valuing all human life, from fertilization until natural death, by regularly coordinating outreach opportunities in support of pro-life organizations that fit our mission. We provide practical help and loving support for people wherever they are on their journey, including decision making around pregnancy, adoption and foster care, parenting, and post-abortion care.”

Pro-Life Green Bay is already involved in Pro-Life Wisconsin’s Save Lives: Sidewalk Counseling Training program, having attended two sessions and witnessing on the sidewalks in Milwaukee and Green Bay. We know many babies will be saved and lives changed for the better because of this affiliate.

UNETHICAL COVID-19 VACCINE
AUTHORIZED BY U.S. FDA

On February 27, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for the third COVID-19 vaccine for the prevention of coronavirus disease. The Janssen/Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine is now allowed to be distributed in the U.S for use in individuals 18 years of age and older. The Janssen/J&J vaccine uses the abortion-derived cell line PER.C6 in its development and production. PER.C6 is a proprietary cell line owned by Janssen, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, developed from the retinal cells of an 18-week-old fetus aborted in 1985. View the Charlotte Lozier Institute vaccine chart here for more information.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR STATE DIRECTOR!

Will you help us celebrate our State Director, Dan Miller's birthday? Dan turned 55 this past Sunday, and we want to celebrate him in a big way! Since his return to the pro-life movement in 2010, Dan has helped save hundreds of babies from abortion and works diligently to change hearts and minds in Wisconsin.

Please consider donating $55 (or any amount) to Pro-Life Wisconsin today to honor Dan and celebrate the countless babies who now enjoy a birthday because of his efforts with Pro-Life Wisconsin!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE CAMPAIGN

The largest 40 Days for Life campaign is underway now! Join us on the sidewalks outside of local abortion facilities in your community to pray for an end to abortion. 40 Days for Life's peaceful presence on the sidewalks since 2007 has saved 18,012 lives, closed 107 abortion centers, and helped 211 abortion workers to quit. Be a part of the movement to end abortion! Find a participating location near you here.

Our 40 Clergy 40 Days program will be active during this 40 day campaign as well! If you are clergy or religious and would like to get more involved in the mission to end abortion, please sign up to pray outside of an abortion center here. State Director of Pro-Life Wisconsin, Dan Miller says, "When priests, pastors, clergy and religious join us on the sidewalks to pray, babies are saved 100% of the time!"

4TH ANNUAL PRAYER CARD
ART CONTEST IS OPEN NOW!

Do you know someone who loves painting, drawing, photography, or graphic design? We are accepting artwork until April 30, 2021. Students (Grades 1-12) have a chance to win the 2021 PLW Art Contest for their grade!

Winning entries will receive the following:

- Their design featured on a prayer card
- 500 prayer cards for their church
- 3 tickets to 2022 March for Life Chicago
- 3 tickets to the 2021 PLW Love for Life Gala

One Grand Prize Winner will receive all the above and $100 cash.

PURCHASE YOUR CHOOSE LIFE WISCONSIN PLATE, AND SAVE LIVES FROM ABORTION!

Choose Life license plates have been available to Wisconsin motorists since late October 2017. Pro-Life Wisconsin and Wisconsin Family Council partnered to underwrite all the administrative costs of Choose Life Wisconsin, which allows us to give to give every penny that comes from the sale of the plates to Wisconsin’s incredible pregnancy care centers!

With 1,791 of these plates on cars in the Badger State, sales have resulted in a total of nearly $100,000 which has been granted to over twenty-five Wisconsin pregnancy resource centers in a little over two years.

If you would like to be a part of the mission to save lives, get your Choose Life Wisconsin license plate today! For more information call Pro-Life Wisconsin at 262-796-1111 ext. 110.

U.S. HOUSE PASSES PRO-ABORTION ‘EQUALITY ACT’ TO WRITE TRANSGENDERISM INTO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW: (LifeSiteNews) – “The U.S. House of Representatives voted 224 to 206 today to pass the ‘Equality Act,’ which would write transgenderism into federal civil rights law, compel medical professionals to commit abortions and transgender surgeries, and expand taxpayer-funded abortion on demand.” Read the full story here.

THE EQUALITY ACT WOULD REQUIRE GOVERNMENT-FUNDED ABORTION: (National Review) – “But the Equality Act is more insidious still. In addition to rendering male–female distinctions essentially null for the purposes of law, it would smuggle in a redefinition of discrimination that would make it impossible for individuals and institutions to decline to perform or pay for an abortion […] the law would treat refusals to perform an abortion as pregnancy discrimination, which would be treated as an illegal form of discrimination on the basis of sex.” Read the full story here.

U.S SENATOR CINDY HYDE-SMITH WILL OPPOSE XAVIER BECERRA BECAUSE HE’S A RADICAL ABORTION ACTIVIST: (LifeNews.com) – “Pro-life Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith promised Thursday to oppose the nomination of Xavier Becerra as the secretary of health, noting that his experience is not in health care but in ‘filing lawsuits to go against anything that is pro-life […]’ Becerra, a career politician, is the attorney general of California and a former U.S. congressman. He has a radical pro-abortion record that includes prosecuting the undercover journalists who exposed Planned Parenthood’s aborted baby body parts trade, supporting partial-birth abortions and attempting to force the Little Sisters of the Poor, nuns who serve the poor and elderly, to fund abortions.” Read the full story here.

MARCH 2 – Join Dan Miller for "Sidewalk Counseling 101 - Save Lives" at Pro-Life Wisconsin (15850 W Bluemound Rd Brookfield, WI 53005). Sidewalk Counseling 101 is the first training session of our Save Lives program which prepares participants to stand up for the most vulnerable in our society by speaking directly to mothers and fathers outside of abortion facilities. RSVP here.

APRIL 22 – Join Pro-Life Wisconsin for the 2021 Living Courage Awards Dinner on April 22, 2021 at the Washington County Fair Park & Conference Center. Register here.

PRINTING OPPORTUNITY – PLW is looking to add another full-service printer to our supplier list. The printer should be able to handle small jobs and bigger jobs that might require multiple pieces. Mailing capabilities would be a plus. Printer should support our mission and view your assistance to us as serving the needs of the most vulnerable. Please contact Jim Matthias (office@prolifewi.org) if you would like to be considered.

INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY – Do you have a pro-life heart and want to do more for the movement? Pro-Life Wisconsin has an opening for a part-time internship effective immediately, with 32 hours per week as a maximum. Enjoy a flexible schedule and a wage that is commensurate with your skillsets. Applicants should be conversant in all Microsoft Office products and able to type. If your active faith life animates your pro-life convictions, and you would like to work with a team committed to ending abortion, not regulating it, please submit your resume to Jim Matthias - office@ProLifeWI.org

LA CROSSE: We would like to see at least two people pray every day of the week outside Planned Parenthood. If you can commit to this weekly prayer, please let Marie Allen know. We encourage people to pray in groups of two if possible. You may choose your own time, and sidewalk counseling and signs are optional. Pro-Life literature is available if anyone wishes to distribute. Questions? Call 608-784-5189.

MILWAUKEE: Join us every Tuesday at 6:00 PM (rain or shine) to pray the Angelus followed by the Rosary in reparation for sins of ingratitude at the Fatima Shrine (141 N 68th St Milwaukee, WI 53213).

ROCK COUNTY: Pro-Life Wisconsin, Rock County Chapter meets monthly at the Beloit Public Library. For further information, contact Miriam at: plwrcc@charter.net.

WINNEBAGO COUNTY: Please join us in prayer every first Monday of the month from 5:30pm-6:30pm to exercise your 1st amendment free speech rights in the public right of way (nearest to Marcus Cinema) in Oshkosh, near Planned Parenthood (378S Koeller St, Oshkosh, WI 54902). Bring your own sign, or use one of ours! Contact Don Doro 920-279-3496 or ddurawa1@yahoo.com.

WISCONSIN RAPIDS: Please join us in prayer on the 2nd Monday of each month at 4:00pm along 8th Street near Planned Parenthood. Gather in the Grace's parking lot at 3:45pm.

ONGOING – Toda America con Cristo and Family Life Council, Inc. has begun creating pro-life resources for the latino community. If you or someone you know would benefit from these resources please view the webpages both here and here.

ONGOING, KENOSHA – Participate in the Rosary in Kenosha at 6:00 p.m. every Sunday at St. Therese Parish (2020 91st Street Kenosha, WI 53143) in reparation to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart. View flyer here.

HIRING, BEAVER DAM – Pregnancy Support Center of Dodge County, Inc is located in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. The center currently has two part-time positions open: 1) Executive Director and 2) Client Advocate. If interested, please contact the center via e-mail: pscdc16@gmail.com with your name, e-mail, phone number, and the interested position. A job description and the instruction of the application process will be emailed to you.

MARCH 6, WAUKESHA – Join parishioners from St. Paul's and St. Bruno's on Saturday, March 6, 10:00 a.m. in the public space outside of Planned Parenthood in Waukesha (426 W. Main St Waukesha, WI 53186) for a Rosary for Life's Connection and Prayers to End Abortion.

MARCH 13, MENOMONEE FALLS – Did you miss attending the Women of Christ Morning of Grace Half-Day Retreat held at St. Anthony's last November? Here's a second chance and just in time for Lent! Join us on Saturday, March 13, from 8:00 a.m. – noon. Hear pre-recorded presentations from 3 local priests on topics dear to a woman's heart, pray in Eucharistic Adoration, participate in the Sacrament of Reconciliation, and join us for Mass with Fr. Andrew Linn. Don't wait to sign up, we expect to be filled to capacity again. Register here. Questions? Contact Graceanne at graceanne.fk63@yahoo.com

MARCH 20 – Men, We Need You! We find ourselves in very troubling times. For years the denigration of the family unit has taken its toll on the Church and on us men. Backed into a corner by an increasingly anti-Christian society, men that I talk to are starting to take a stand. But many of them don’t know where to start. The goal of the Men of Christ conference is to change the life of every man that attends by giving them the tools, education, and most importantly fraternity with like-minded men to help equip them to lead their families to Christ. Click Here here to see if there is a parish in your area that is physically hosting one of our gatherings. If you don’t see a parish in your area, would you consider taking the lead to coordinate the hosting at your parish? We’ve made this virtual conference very simple to implement and we will supply you with a playbook to make it very easy.

MARCH 20, WAUKESHA – Join parishioners from St. Paul's and St. Bruno's on Saturday, March 20, 10:00 a.m. in the public space outside of Planned Parenthood in Waukesha (426 W. Main St Waukesha, WI 53186) for a Rosary for Life's Connection and Prayers to End Abortion.

APRIL 3, WAUKESHA – Join parishioners from St. Paul's and St. Bruno's on Saturday, April 3, 10:00 a.m. in the public space outside of Planned Parenthood in Waukesha (426 W. Main St Waukesha, WI 53186) for a Rosary for Life's Connection and Prayers to End Abortion.

For inclusion on this list, please send a PDF or JPEG of the event flyer along with a short write-up about your event to info@ProLifeWI.org