People Concerned for the Unborn Child
The Magee Project is a campaign to encourage the restoration of a culture of life to MageeWomens Hospital with a first step of asking Magee to cease committing abortions.
Did you know abortions were committed at Magee Womens Hospital even before the 1973 Roe V Wade decision?
Magee does between 500 and 700 abortions every year
University of Pittsburgh offers abortion training to medical students and associate professors at Pitt preform abortions at Magee.
IMPORTANT! The Magee Project is not related in any way to Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC!!! Our outreaches to promote an end to abortion happen in the area of Magee in Oakland and elsewhere.
What is the Magee Project? The Magee Project is a pro-life campaign to promote the restoration of a culture of life at Magee-Womens Hospital. The greatest step we can take toward accomplishing this mission is to encourage Magee to stop committing abortions.
We know that abortion has been practiced at Magee since before the decriminalization of abortion in 1973. Associate professors at Pitt perform abortions at Magee and the University of Pittsburgh offers abortion training to medical students. In 2015, according to reports submitted to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Health, 544 abortions were performed at Magee including 251 second trimester abortions. In 2014, 701 abortions were reported at Magee. Abortions are performed at Magee to 24 weeks.
We began this project with a foundation of prayer, asking volunteers to commit to praying at Magee Hospital for one hour, one day a month. We began doing this April 1, 2016 and will continue to do so for as long as the Lord leads. While we aim to begin a conversation with Magee leadership pursuing the goal of seeing an end to abortion and a restoration of a culture of life, we recognize that we may be speaking to hard hearts. We are currently working on demonstrating to Magee leadership that they have broad community support for discontinuing the practice of abortion at Magee by asking influential Pittsburghers to join us in communicating our desires to Magee. Because we recognize that our requests may be denied, we have plans to increase positive pressure on Magee to encourage them to cease practicing abortion.
Presently it comes as a surprise, even to employees, to find out that Magee does abortions. So much of what we plan to do involves exposing the fact that abortions are committed there. Writing letters to the leadership, then the board and to the media are part of the plan. Prayer volunteers may begin to distribute literature and inform the public with simple signs to attract attention. (There are no plans at this time to use large graphic abortion photos.) If necessary, we will have informational pickets at Magee satellite locations as well as at the hospital in Oakland. We believe that the idea to begin this campaign came from God and we will continue to pursue Him for clear direction. We believe that what we are asking is perfectly logical and is a reasonable response to the fact that the public is increasingly uncomfortable with abortion as technology has opened windows to the womb allowing us to see with our own eyes the humanity of preborn children.
UPDATE ON MAGEE PROJECT: The Magee Project had a wonderful breakthrough. We were able to address the Board of Magee-Womens Hospital. Seventeen representatives of The Magee Project were warmly welcomed by Board Chair William Pietragallo, ll, Esq, to an almost full house of Board members. We were able to express our care for the members of the Board, explaining that we have been praying for them for 3-1/2 years. We secured a commitment to continue the conversation begun that night to discuss ending the practice of abortion at Magee. Praise God!!! For more information about The Magee Project, contact: Meredith Th*************@gm***.com