10 minutes to PROTECT WOMEN AND CHILDREN AT RISK

10 minutes to PROTECT WOMEN AND CHILDREN AT RISK

This week, women and babies in Oregon need your help. Can you take ten minutes this week to send an email, and/or make a phone call to your Oregon Senator?

SB 490 threatens to reduce and possibly eliminate the freedom of Pregnancy Resource Centers (PRC) throughout Oregon from offering life-giving options and resources to women and babies at risk.

Please join thousands of PRC’s supporters in appealing to our state Senators to stop this intrusive, discriminatory, unconstitutional bill, currently in the Senate Rules Committee.

PRCs speak caring, life-giving direction into the lives of women and girls facing unplanned pregnancies. SB 490 seeks to muzzle that voice with unreasonable regulations and restrictions from the Oregon Health Authority. This discriminatory legislation potentially burdens PRCs with regulations and penalties that would reduce and in some cases close Oregon PRCs. (Find out more about Oregon PRCs and SB 490 at www.oregonpregnancycenters.org).

Here’s what we can do:

This week, please contact the Senator from your district by email, phone, or appt. and respectfully state your opposition to SB 490, and your support of your PRC. To find yours, go to:

http://www.leg.state.or.us/senate/ .

We need you to do this, this week (April 15-20). Other pro-life agencies (ORTL and OFC) will “carry the ball” over the next two weeks. Then, if the bill is still alive, we will send another email to ask you to once again contact your senator in a couple weeks to urge them to oppose the bill’s movement and passage. (The Rules Committee can present the bill to the Senate for a vote anytime between now and the end of the session in late June).

This bill is the latest attempt in Planned Parenthood’s long-standing national campaign against PRCs. If it passes in Oregon, it will be the first time a state has legislated against PRCs. This will set precedence for other states. We need to stop it here – for the women and babies in our community, and for those in the rest of the nation.

These Senators especially need to hear from their Eugene constituents:

                                    Sen. Chris Edwards (D)
District: 007
900 Court Street NE
S-405
Salem, OR 97301
Phone: (503) 986-1707
Fax: (503) 986-1080
WebSite: http://www.leg.state.or.us/edwardsc/
E-Mail: Sen.ChrisEdwards@state.or.us

 (Portions of Lane and Lynn)
 Lee Beyer (D)
PO Box 131
Springfield 97477
541-726-2533

(Portions of Lane and  Douglas)
 Floyd Prozanski (D)
PO Box 11511
Eugene 97440
541-342-2447

If you are not sure which of these to contact, go to this website, put in your address and it will tell you.
 http://www.leg.state.or.us/findlegsltr/

Thank you for caring. Thank you for saving our Voice for Life.

Larry Gadbaugh, CEO, Pregnancy Resource Centers of Portland