HealthPartners’ Clinic Campaign

The 40 Days for Life Twin Cities campaign has focused on HealthPartners' Regions Hospital. The truth of HealthPartners' and abortion now needs to be shared in front its clinics in the Metro area.

Why? Most HealthPartners' members do not get their health care at Regions Hospital.

They are unaware that HealthPartners' Regions Hospital has a dedicated abortion facility within Regions Hospital, which HealthPartners owns and operates, and their medical premiums are supporting an HMO that kills children up to 20 weeks!

Bringing this truth to neighborhood clinics has helped to convince more HealthPartners' members to write Mary Brainerd, HealthPartners' CEO, the board of directors and demand that HealthPartners get out of the abortion business completely. By proclaiming the truth we can recruit more prayer warriors to pray for the end of abortion at Regions Hospital. By proclaiming the truth we can encourage pro-life employees of HealthPartners to stand up for life in their workplace and let them know they are not alone!

This effort has been and will continue to be a prayerful and peaceful presentation of the truth at neighborhood HealthPartners' clinics. You will not have to sidewalk counsel. You only have to stand on a public sidewalk or right of way and pray, hold a sign, and give out informational literature.

The staff at Pro-Life Action Ministries is reviewing the strategy to bring an end to the abortuary at Regions Hospital and for HealthPartners to get outof the abortion business completely. Continue to monitor this site for updates on the new initiatives at Regions. Please continue to come out to the hospital to pray and hold signs. Contact us if you plan to participate in future events. When you plan to go out on your own, call us about parking, how to get signs/brochures and where to stand.

Please go to our newsletter and website for upcoming activities.

Thanks to your prayers, participation and working together with other caring believers, we are "Stopping Abortion One Life at a Time!"

In Him,

Brian Walker, Program Director
Pro-Life Action Ministries
651-771-1500
brian.walker@plam.org

Progress Report and Action Items

• Opening Prayer Vigil video clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsdIsQlBfxs 
• Singing Holy, Holy, Holy at 7:30 a.m. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik-Oouw7jsM 
• David Bereit, National Director of 40 Days for Life credits Pro-Life Action Ministries http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afs6qEcBfDs
  

• From three large rallies with more than 100 in attendance for two of these http://plam.phanfare.com/2696724_5395699
  

Community outreach: Petition to close Regions' Abortion Facility - Our 40 Days for Life community outreach is a petition drive to gain signatures which will be presented to Regions Hospital officials.  We are simply asking for the closing of the abortion facility.  All are asked to help gather signatures, from your church, family, friends, co-workers, neighbors, wherever signatures cane gathered.  Regions and HealthPartners go to great lengths to keep the public from knowing of this abortion facility.  By passing this petition around, that will change.

We, the undersigned, urgently request that Regions Hospital, owned by HealthPartners, stop killing unborn babies. We respectfully request that the abortion facility within Regions Hospital be closed so the public may be assured that Regions Hospital, and its owner HealthPartners, are truly committed to the health of all patients including the most vulnerable-the unborn.

The following link is for a printable petition: http://www.plam.org/News/petition.pdf .  There is also a link on our www.plam.org site website.

Upcoming - A lot of activities and events.  Please join in with any and/or all. (All 40 Days for Life Twin Cities activities are at Regions Hospital, 640 Jackson St., St. Paul, Minn.  55101. It is not too late to encourage your pastor to join with us and help lead prayer at Regions Hospital.)

• October 8 - 40 Days for Life - Fr. Dennis Zehren, Church of the Epiphany.
• October 9 - 40 Days for Life - Fr. Michael Skluzacek, Church of St. John the Baptist, Fr. Michael Creagan, Church of St. Joseph, & Fr. Thomas Seig, Church of St. Michael.
• 40 days for Life Mid-Point Prayer - Sunday, October 10, 3:00 p.m., with Pastor David Fronsoe and Bishop Lee Piche`.
• October 11 - 40 Days for Life - Fr. Robert Altier, 4:00 p.m.  
• Sidewalk Counseling Seminar - Learn how to save lives directly.  Monday, October 11, from 7:00-9:00 p.m at the University of St. Thomas, St. John Vianney Seminary, Pope Benedict Room, 2110 Selby Ave., St. Paul, Minn.  55105 (Directions:  http://vianney.net/directions.aspx ).
• October 12 - 40 Days for Life - Pastor David Fronsoe, Evangelist Crusaders Church.
• October 13 - 40 Days for Life - Fr. John Mitchell, Church of St. Pius X.
• October 14 - 40 Days for Life - Fr. Fitzpatrick, Church of St. Rose of Lima & Pastor Chris Monson, East Immanuel Lutheran Church.
• October 15 - 40 Days for Life - Fr. Bryan Pederson, Church of the Sacred Heart.
• October 20 - 40 Days for Life - Fr. Brian Fier, Most Holy Trinity & Fr. Thomas Duffner, Holy Family Catholic Church.
• October 23 - 40 Days for Life - Fr. Tom Wilson, Church of All Saints, Fr. Thomas Hill, Church of St. Joseph & Fr. James Zappa, Mary Mother of the Church.
• 40 Days for Life Closing Prayer - Sunday October 31, 3:00 p.m., with Pastor Fred Thoni and Archbishop John Neinstedt.
• "Living the Gospel of Life" radio show airs Saturday at 11:30 a.m. - Noon on AM 1330 Relevant Radio in the Twin Cities.   And it has newly expanded to K-YES AM 1180 in St. Cloud, MN.  The show airs Fridays at 9:30 a.m.  The show can be heard online from anywhere in the world at  http://relevantradio.streamguys.us/flash/ondemand.html .  Click on the "Living the Gospel of Life" link once on that web page.  Please pass the word about the show.  Let us know what you think or of topics not covered.
  

Information Distributions and Rallies

Things are continuing to heat up with HealthPartners. Since beginning our efforts in November 2006, there have been information distributions at 13 HealthPartners clinics around the Twin Cities. Thousands of brochures exposing HealthPartners have been distributed to patients and employees at these clinics. Thousands of others have seen the large placards as they have driven past these clinics during these distributions. The effectiveness of this type of activity is amazing.

Petition Drive

Petitions are available through our office or as a PDF file which can be sent via email. A great way to get a large number of petitions signed is to have a petition signing Sunday at your church. We can provide all the petitions necessary and brochures explaining HealthPartners involvement in abortion. Petitions have been presented to HealthPartners at their annual meeting. We will continue to cllect signatures and testimonies and will present these to HelthPartners on future occasions. Please spread the word about our petition!

Boycott HealthPartners

We have heard from many who have switched their health coverage away from HealthPartners. If you are in a position to make a change, we strongly encourage you to do so. But please make sure you clearly communicate to HealthPartners the reason for leaving and that you would be willing to return should they close the abortuary at Regions Hospital. If you cannot make a change, please communicate to HealthPartners your desire to leave and their need to close the abortuary at Regions.

Call, Write, Email

Please continue to call, write and email message HealthPartners board members and its CEO, Mary Brainerd The HealthPartners website provides a list of board members with short individualized biographies at http://www.healthpartners.com/portal/26.html. A general email address is also given as directors@healthpartners.com. Executive officers for HealthPartners with short individualized biographies and responsibilities are also on a web page at http://www.healthpartners.com/portal/27.html. And contact information for HealthPartners Member Services is listed as https://www.healthpartners.com/member/contact/controller.

Let Us Know What You Are Doing

Please send us feedback on contact made with HealthPartners.

Make a Donation

Your financial help for this ministry is always and gratefully appreciated. Please consider helping with the costs of this campaign as well as our regular ongoing expenses. Secure online donations can be made at https://www.merchantamerica.com/prolifeaction/echopay/.

Get Really Involved

For more direct involvement with our strategies, or simply for more information, contact savehealthpartners@plam.org