2012 Pro-Choice Lobby Day - February 15, 2012

Schedule for the Day

The Issues

Resources

Lobby 101 and Break Out Sessions
Resources
Thank you for visiting our Pro-Choice Lobby Day information page!
 
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Capitol Information:
 
 
Parking:  There are on street metered and metered lots at the State Capitol.  Please be sure to bring quarters for your meter.  http://www.admin.state.mn.us/pmd/4-2_public_parking.htm#metered_lot_parking
 
Legislative Information:
 
 
Pro-Choice Lobby Day 2012 was brought to you by the following organizations and student groups:
ACLU MN: 
Founded in 1952 as the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU-MN fights to protect the civil liberties of Minnesotans through litigation, public education, and lobbying related to legislation that impacts civil liberties and civil rights. 

Law Students for Reproductive Justice:

Law Students for Reproductive Justice is a national nonprofit network of law students and lawyers. Our organization educates, organizes, and supports law students to ensure that a new generation of advocates will be prepared to protect and expand reproductive rights as basic civil and human rights.

Hamline-  hamlinelsrj@gmail.com

University of Minnesota- lsrjminn@gmail.com

Minnesota Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice:

The Minnesota Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice seeks to ensure that every woman is free to make decisions about having children according to her own conscience and religious beliefs.

info@mnrcrc.org

NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota Foundation:

The NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota Foundation is a 501 C(3) tax-deductible non-profit organization. The Foundation's mission is to support and protect, as a fundamental right and value, a woman's freedom to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive choices through education, training, organizing, legal action and public policy.

info@prochoiceminnesota.org

Nursing Students for Choice:

Nursing Students for Choice is a collaborative, nationwide organization that works to promote women's health and reproductive rights through advocacy, activism, provider education and training.  NSFC welcomes any undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral level nursing student who is interested in ensuring that nurses are fully trained to meet the reproductive health care needs of women and their families.

nsfc@prochoiceminnesota.org

Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota:

For more than 75 years, Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota has worked in our region to make sure all people have the information and the means to make free and responsible decisions about whether and when to have children.  Planned Parenthood operates 26 clinics in Minnesota and South Dakota, providing quality and affordable family planning, reproductive health care services and education to nearly 80,000 women and men each year. 

www.ppmns.org

Pro-Choice Resources:

Every year Pro-Choice Resources serves over 25,000 women and youth around the nation.  Where other organizations tread lightly, we dive deep to ensure that all people and communities have the power and resources to make sexual and reproductive health decisions with self-determination.  Our programs defend and advance sexuality, including reproductive choice, as a human right through resources and education we believe sexuality matters.

www.prochoiceresources.org

Women’s Health Center:

The Women’s Health Center (WHC) in Duluth, Minnesota is a medical reproductive health care clinic providing services to women and men from northeastern Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Ontario, Canada.

Roe32@aol.com

Women’s Student Activist Collective:

The purpose of the Women’s Student Activist Collective (WSAC) is to empower women and people of non-traditional gender identifications to make positive changes in society by eliminating interrelated inequalities that produce oppression, with a focus on gender and sexuality.

wsac@umn.edu

 
 

Pro-Choice Lobby Day is free for all who wish to attend.  Due to increased costs, we are very willing to accept donations to help cover the costs of the event.  Coming to the Capitol is the most important thing you can do, but if you are able to help out a bit with the costs we will put your donation to good use.  Thank you.

To donate, simply click here and thank you for your support.
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