May 08

Citizens Launch E-mail Blitz and Picket Protesting Tax Funding for Planned Parenthood

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Did you know that if you live in St Lucie County that your tax dollars are going to fund Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider? What’s more, most of the programs funded teach Planned Parenthood’s version of safe sex. As you may know, Planned Parenthood views sex as a right of passage for all teenagers and believes that teens are the only ones who know when they are ready to have sex. This month, we are asking you to take two steps to defund Planned Parenthood in our community.

Taxpayers picket Children's Services Council for Giving Tax Dollars to Planned Parenthood

STOP Funding Planned Parenthood!

First: We hope to see you next week on Thursday, May 12, at 7:30-8:30 a.m. This month  we will be picketing in front of the Children’s Service Council, 546 NW University Blvd, Suite 201, You will see our cars in the grass near the entrance to West Park Plaza (lt. blue  office building near the south entrance to Mets Stadium in St. Lucie West. We will be picketing on University Blvd. from one corner to the other, California to Peacock.

We have a few extra signs – if you want to make your own, sign ideas listed below.

The Council meeting begins at 8:30 a.m. Please  stay for the meeting if you can. If you have any questions about speaking at the meeting (3 minute limit) please contact me at 489-7745 or cell 579-9091.

Second: We recently made a request of letters to be written to the Director of Children’s Service Council. We need to letters to be mailed this week so they will be in the CSC office by Thursday, May 12. If you haven’t written your letter, please do so. This will only take a few minutes and will be a very valuable action.

You can write something like:

  • “As a St. Lucie County taxpayer, I want you to know that I strongly oppose using tax  dollars to fund Planned Parenthood for services to the Children’s Services Council.”
  • “Planned Parenthood is a morally corruptible organization with a money trail I do not want my tax dollars going to.”
  • “Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the United States and the organization has been linked to many controversial activities including covering up statutory rape, and child sex trafficking. I appreciate most of the programs that the CSC funds. However, as a St. Lucie County taxpayer, I  am strongly opposed to your giving money to Planned Parenthood.”

Make sure the home address is below your name on the letter so you are identified as a St. Lucie County taxpayer.

Please ask your friends to send similar emails. You may also print out a few letters with envelopes addressed, and give them to friends to sign and send in.

Email your letter to:
sboyle@cscslc.org
Sean Boyle, CSC Executive Director.

Or if you prefer to write a letter in long-hand, mail to:
Sean Boyle, CSC Executive Director.
Children’s Services Council
546 NW University Blvd. Ste. 201
Port St. Lucie, FL 34986
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Ideas for signs – I suggest getting the science display foam boards at Walmart

  • Children’s Services Council – stop funding Planned Parenthood
  • Your local tax dollars go to Planned Parenthood
  • Martin Co. to PP – $000     St. Lucie Co.  to PP   $ 500,000 each year
  • Planned Parenthood largest abortion provider in the U.S.
  • Go to ExposePlannedParenthood.com to see videos (on my sign I put expose in red so it show up better)
  • SL Co. taxpayers giving Planned Parenthood $500,000 each year
  • No more of our taxpayer money going to Planned Parenthood
  • No more tax funding for Planned Parenthood
  • $1/2 million of our local taxes go to Planned Parenthood each year
  • Planned Parenthood sex trafficking videos on  liveaction.org
  • We need fiscal responsibility not duplication of services

We are making progress!

Urge the Saint Lucie County Children’s Services Council to STOP funding Planned Parenthood!

Watch CBS News 12 for coverage of Thursday’s picket.

Citizens Launch E-mail Blitz and Picket Protesting Tax Funding for Planned Parenthood

May 06

Will You Stand4LIFE Tomorrow, Silent Prayer at Abortion Clinic

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There are some amazing things happening in Florida! Did you know that state legislators are presenting in this legislative session an unprecedented number of pro-life bills? We can’t mention any names, but more legislators and officials in Florida are wearing life bands than anywhere else in the United States (About 21 of them). Momentum is building and the stakes could not be higher!  Which is why we are excited to call the saints to action once again with our 2nd Stand4LIFE this year on Saturday, May 7th from 10am-12noon at the abortion chamber in Fort Pierce (a Woman’s World Medical Center on the corner of 12th and Delaware).

Just to recap, last year, 1,800 people stood shoulder to shoulder in front of every abortion center in Florida for the first ever Stand4LIFE event; 1,600 were first-time life activists. Many Christian denominations came together to pray for the ending of abortion in our day.  It was amazing! Pastors brought their churches, and God spoke. Out of that one-day stand, eight babies were saved across Florida, and the church of Florida began to find her voice. New Bound4LIFE chapters were launched, and the pro-life movement in all her many parts was strengthened.

Not only do we expect 10,000 to stand across Florida this year, but we just got news the Rio Grande Valley will join us at every abortion mill in South Texas!  Maybe you want to stand with us, and even better, maybe you feel the Lord leading you to rally your church or community. God’s heart burns with justice, and so ours does too. We pray God would raise you up in this hour to influence your entire region. Why not? If not now, when? If not you, who?

Thank you for your time and all you do to uphold and defend the precious value of LIFE!

United4LIFE,
David and Jackie Lugo
Regional Directors
772-834-8172

Apr 29

Pregnancy Care Center Informational Meeting

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The Pregnancy Care Center is pleased to announce the expansion of its mission into Indian River County.  Our new satellite center is located at 1986 31st Avenue in Vero Beach, on the corner of Route 60.  Our free services include: pregnancy testing, counseling, ultrasound, and material support.  If you think you may be called into volunteer ministry with us, please join us at one of the following meetings to get to know us and learn about the volunteer opportunities available with our center.
Meetings will be conducted by Anne Lotierzo, Executive Director, and will be held in the South Room of the Christian Living Center of St. Helen’s Catholic Church.
Thursday, June 9th: 10:00 am -11:30 am
Thursday, June 9th: 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
RSVP is not required.  For questions, please call –  772.489.9702.

Apr 13

Taxpayers to Picket Children’s Services Council Over Planned Parenthood Funding

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What: 100 Taxpayers to Picket Childrens Services Council Over Planned Parenthood Funding
When: Thursday morning, 4/14
Time: 7:30 – 8:30 a.m.
Why:  The public remains uninformed about St. Lucie County tax waste, lack of accountability and morally objectionable use of funds by the St. Lucie Children’s Service Council. The purpose of the planned protest is to bring attention to their objectionable practices.
Contact: Peggy Steffel, 772-579-9091
Website: http://sohltc.com/2011/04/13/taxpayers-to-picket-childrens-services-council-over-planned-parenthood-funding/

One hundred protesters with signs will line St Lucie West Blvd, Peacock Boulevard, and University Avenue, in St. Lucie West, as members of the St. Lucie Children’s Service Council arrive for the regularly scheduled April 14 meeting.  Individuals from throughout the county are protesting the $500,000 tax money the Council is giving Planned Parenthood each year for programs that can be provided by other county organizations.

Only 9 of 67 counties in Florida have Children’s Service Councils. It is troublesome to many of us that this council is a separate taxing entity – which we look at as taxation without representation. None of the members of the CSC are elected – all appointed. So we have little recourse as to the makeup of the council and they can pretty much do as they please, without accountability.

Taxpayers picket Children's Services Council for Giving Tax Dollars to Planned Parenthood

STOP Funding Planned Parenthood!

Photo from March protest – we will have new photos for the April protest as many more people  have committed to coming.

Following the protest, citizen taxpayers will speak at the council meeting, stressing fiscal responsibility during this time of budget deficits. There is also a concern about duplication of services, since these programs can be provided by other local public and private agencies which do not promote exploitation of minors, sex trafficking, and abortion.

The matter has heated up locally, as undercover videos of Planned Parenthood were made public on national television, which showed Planned Parenthood’s willingness to aid and abet the sexual exploitation of minors. During a four-year investigation in ten different states Planned Parenthood was found to intentionally misrepresent and ignore reporting laws for sexual abuse. Planned Parenthood is supposedly a non-profit organization, yet in their last annual report they showed $63 million in profits.

For several years local citizens have appeared at the September St. Lucie Children’s Service Council budget meeting to protest the huge allocation of tax money to Planned Parenthood, but have had no success, as each year Planned Parenthood receives $500,000. The citizen group plans to thoroughly check all history, facts and statistics from both Planned Parenthood and the Children’s Service Council, as the battle is taken directly to the streets and to the tax payers.

The movement is gaining momentum. We have protested at the St. Lucie school board meeting two weeks ago and nine of us spoke at the School Board meeting last week. Both Kathryn Hensley (school board) and Paula Lewis (County Commissioner) have voted to give  Planned Parenthood over $3 million the past few years. Both are up for reelection in 2012.

Taxpayers to Picket Children’s Services Council Over Planned Parenthood Funding

Apr 02

Special Announcement from Pregnancy Care Center

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Pregnancy Care Center announced plans to open another satellite office expanding its mission into Indian River County.  The office is located across the street from a Planned Parenthood facility and now puts Pregnancy Care Center on the front-lines in three counties across the Treasure Coast.  Pregnancy Care Center offers free pregnancy testing, counseling and ultrasounds to women facing unplanned pregnancies and contemplating abortion.

The new satellite office of Pregnancy Care Center

Mar 25

Day of the Unborn Rosary Service

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Many thanks to the five different Knights of Columbus councils who united in prayer today across the street from the only operating abortion clinic on the Treasure Coast.  Pregnancy Care Center was proud to host the annual event that included representation from nine different parishes from the Diocese of Palm Beach.

Day of the Unborn Rosary

Mar 21

TeaParty, ProLife Picket of St Lucie County School Board

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CALL TO ACTION
SLC School Board Meeting
Picket 4:15pm  Meeting 5pm
Tuesday March 22, 2011, School Board Offices (Old Orange Blossom Mall)
Okeechobee Road, Fort Pierce

This is a chance to show up at the School Board Meeting and let them know that we are keeping tabs on School Board policy/policymakers.  Just look at some of the current issues:

  1. They are proposing a NEW tax for School Resource Deputies (“the first of its kind in Florida”)
  2. School Board Member Kathryn Hensley and Superintendent Lannon continue to sit on the   Children’s Services Council Taxing Authority and voted to give $500,000 in tax dollars to Planned  Parenthood
  3. The School Board continues to resist to a new proposed Charter High School (the College Prep. Academy of the TC) thereby limiting parental choice.

Feel free to speak during public forum as well.  See you there.

For more info on this and other prolife efforts, visit: http://bryanlongworth.com/2011/03/21/teaparty-prolife-picket-of-st-lucie-county-school-board/

TeaParty, ProLife Picket of St Lucie County School Board

Mar 16

Pregnancy Care Center Welcomes Author Brian Gail to Annual Dinner

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Pregnancy Care Center is proud to announce that Mr. Brian Gail, author of “Fatherless”, and “Motherless” will be a special guest at our Annual Dinner and Silent Auction.  Mr. Gail has generously donated two autographed copies of “Motherless” to our Silent Auction, and 30 special copies of “Fatherless” for sale.  He will remain after the dinner to sign any copies of “Fatherless” that are purchased that evening.  For more information on the dinner with guest speaker Mr. David Bereit, or to RSVP, please visit www.pccdinner.com.

Mar 13

Pregnancy Care Center Dinner Sponsorship Opportunities

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PREGNANCY CARE CENTER is still in need of sponsors for our April 1st Dinner and Silent Auction. Opportunities are open for Individuals, churches, businesses, organizations etc. Sponsorship enables us to offer the dinner to our guests at no cost, and allows us to direct all proceeds of the event directly to our mission. All sponsors are listed in the dinner program under the following three levels of sponsorship:

Bronze: $250.00

Silver: $500.00

Gold: $1,000.00

If interested, please contact Anne Lotierzo at AnneLotierzo@gmail.com

To learn more about our Annual Dinner and Silent Auction, visit www.pccdinner.com

Mar 13

Celebration of Life Fundraising Concert

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Participate in “40 Days For Life” on Sunday, April 3 at 2:00 p.m. by attending “A Celebration of Life”,  featuring the vocal stylings of “SANTIARI”. The group’s leaders, Santi and Ari Reyes, are multi-talented award-winning professional vocalists and instrumentalists whose vast repertoire includes classical and pop standards. They have starred in musicals such as The Fantasticks, Oliver Twist, Aladdin,  The Wizard of Oz, South Pacific, Bye Bye Birdie and  The King and I. Proceeds will help raise funds for the Pregnancy Care Center in Ft. Pierce and Stuart. The concert will be held in the Parish Hall at Holy Family Catholic Church, 2330 Mariposa Ave.  Port St. Lucie. Tickets will be available  in advance at the Holy Family Church Office  for a suggested donation of $15, or at the door for $20. For more information, please call 772-335-2385.