For more information on 40 Days and to sign up for personal prayer hours:  40daysforlife.org
 

The John Paul II Medical Research Institute (JP2MRI) focuses on the most ethical and cost-effective way of conducting medical research to help develop therapies and cures for a variety of diseases. Most diseases share a common technical requirement to create therapies. The Institute’s research focuses on these common technical requirements by recruiting patients to procure tissue to develop stem cells and cancer cells for medical research.

The Institute differentiates itself from other research organizations in the following manner:

1. We do NOT support embryonic stem cell research. We support research that is pro-life driven.

2. We devote more than half of our budget towards medical research, which is far greater than most established foundations.

Useful links:

• Visit the website here
• A Letter to Sponsors from Dr. Alan Moy
• JP II MRI Moves Ball Forward in CAR-T therapy and Creating Neural Stem Cells
• This One Abortion Story Changed Medicine Forever - An article by Dr Moy about taking action against fetal stem cell research

Legislators assume that for every postcard/letter/email they receive, there are 10 more constituents that feel the same way but never bothered to write. For this reason, handwritten postcards can be a very impactful way to affect legislators – even those who would typically disagree with your politics. You may write postcards to legislators that are not your own. You may write postcards to the same legislators repeatedly. Personally, I like to send postcards once a week as I feel that repetition can make a message more impactful.

Currently there is 1 bill at the federal level that is of concern.

1. We want to SUPPORT the Care For Her Act H.R 5163.

This bill supports crisis pregnancy centers, which help pregnant women choose life by providing resources to pregnant and struggling mothers. It also provides incentives to improve maternal health, job training for mothers, and extends the child tax credit to unborn children (available retroactively after they are born). The Denver Catholic wrote a summary of the bill:https://denvercatholic.org/care-for-her-act-a-common-sense-approach-to-caring-for-women-and-their-babies/

A list of legislators to whom we are sending postcards as well as suggested text can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uo9eSus8bpmTTyASHFTz85l-YPdNxTZq8yUKV-fwLXg/edit?usp=sharing