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Matching gifts easily increase the impact of your donation. MATCHING GIFTS Matching gift programs easily increase the impact of your donation! Many companies offer matching gift programs for their employees. Please check with the personnel office in your company to find out if it has a matching gift program. If there is a program, request a form and submit it to MCCL with your check, payable to the MCCL Education Fund. Matching gift programs easily increase the impact of your donation! Many companies offer matching gift programs for their employees. Please check with the personnel office in your company to find out if it has a matching gift program. If there is a program, request a form and submit it to MCCL with your check, payable to the MCCL Education Fund. Corporate giving programs often have considerable funds set aside for charitable giving. Taking part in the matching gift program allows employees the opportunity to decide where and how their employer spends its contributions. If your employer does not currently participate in a matching gift program, encourage the company to do so. Everybody benefits—most importantly, unborn children. If you would like to speak to a staff member about the matching gift option, please call the MCCL state office at 612-825-6831 or e-mail us at membership@mccl.org .

MCCL's many printed pro-life educational pieces and other liteature may be downloaded, or ordered by contacting MCCL. EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS MCCL produces many educational brochures, fliers, and other materials about right-to-life issues. Some of them are posted below; click on them to view and print. You may order these and other materials by contacting MCCL . For MCCL Global Outreach (GO) brochures, visit the GO website . Recent materials Minnesota's extreme abortion policy (flier) Pro-life petition Pro-life heroes coloring book Other materials The dangers of chemical abortions (flier) Planned Parenthood: Abortion. Money. Politics. Scandal. (flier, legal size) Oppose the legalization of assisted suicide (English/Spanish flier) Why pro-life? The case for inclusion (flier) Life Before Birth (flier) | Spanish version How abortion hurts women (brochure) | Spanish | French Stem cell research & human cloning (brochure) Assisted suicide and contagion: How assisted suicide advocacy and legalization threatens the lives of vulnerable people (white paper) MCCL: Who we are and what we do Kids' materials Kids' science quiz "My Mom and Me" pro-life activity book Come see me in the womb Can you guess? Crossword puzzle Pro-life origami hand game

On Donor Advised Fund Day (October 9), you can strengthen MCCL's work and help create a pro-life culture in Minnesota. Use your Donor Advised Fund (DAF) to support the Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life Education Fund. A DAF is an easy and tax-advantaged way to give and to make a difference for life! How to give: 1. Go to our secure DAF Day portal . 2. Type in Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life. 3. Click on our link and complete your gift. Prefer to give directly through your DAF? Provide the following information to your Donor Advised Fund custodian: Legal Name: Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life Education Fund EIN: 51-0164086 Address: 4249 Nicollet Avenue, Mpls, MN 55409 Questions? Call the MCCL Office at 612-825-6831.

Contact MCCL to learn more about pro-life events and programs, order resources, donate, or ask questions. CONTACT MCCL Thanks for your message! Submit Note: If you do not hear back from MCCL within a couple days, please contact us again to make sure our messages are going through. By providing your telephone number, you consent to receive calls and text messages. Messages may include requests for donations. Msg & data rates may apply. Msg frequency may vary. Reply “STOP” to opt-out & “HELP” for help. View Privacy Policy for more info. Phone: 612.825.6831 Email: mccl@mccl.org Fax: 612.825.5527 Mailing address: Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life 4249 Nicollet Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55409

2026 MCCL FAIR BOOTHS: VOLUNTEER TRAINING Sign up for a training session: JUNE DATES JULY DATES AUGUST DATES For the second straight year, MCCL will hold online training sessions for our fair booth volunteers. The goal is to prepare volunteers to have productive yet comfortable conversations with fairgoers who don’t already agree with us—compassionate conversations that touch hearts and change minds. Only through dialogue, through reaching people one conversation at a time, can we create a truly pro-life culture that protects unborn babies and their moms! Many of you received this training last summer, and we consistently received great feedback from those we trained. “I was blown away by this training! It was very thought-provoking and informative, and the time flew by,” wrote one participant afterward. Others called the sessions “informative and practical,” “very useful and thoughtfully presented,” “excellent training and encouragement for success,” and “VERY well done! Yes, exactly what we need.” This year’s training will focus not just on key dialogue principles, pro-life responses to pro-abortion arguments, and how to explain Minnesota’s extreme policies, but also on the pivotal importance of the fall election. We encourage volunteers who participated last year to do so again, and we especially encourage volunteers who have not yet received this training to do so. Each free 75-minute session will be conducted remotely through Zoom (though you may also join by phone). You can register for a session in June , July , or August . Please choose a session that takes place shortly before your fair so that the material stays fresh in your mind. Before your session you will receive an email with Zoom information; if you do not see it, check your spam folder.

Invite MCCL to give a pro-life presentation to your group. INVITE MCCL TO SPEAK MCCL's Speaker's Bureau provides powerful pro-life presentations and legislative updates to churches, schools, student clubs, and other groups across Minnesota. This program is an important way that MCCL informs Minnesotans and motivates them to engage in the work of protecting innocent human life in our state. To schedule an MCCL speaker to address your group, please complete the form below or contact the MCCL state office directly. All MCCL presentations are free of charge. Once you have submitted the form, MCCL staff will respond to set up the details of your speaking engagement. Schedule a Speaker First name Last name Email Phone Requested date and time of presentation Location of presentation (city and venue if known) Host organization (if applicable) Details about your request Submit Thanks for submitting!

Many pregnant women lack emotional and practical support and feel like abortion is their only option. This law empowers women with alternatives. POSITIVE ALTERNATIVES Note: The Positive Alternatives Act was repealed in 2023. Statistics show that women usually choose abortion for social or economic reasons. Many pregnant women lack emotional and practical support and feel like abortion is their only option. Minnesota's Positive Alternatives program exists to address these problems—so that no one feels like abortion is the only choice. The Positive Alternatives Act (2005) created a grant program within the Minnesota Department of Health for life-affirming organizations offering support to pregnant women. $3.357 million is now available annually through a competitive grant application process. The first Positive Alternatives grants were awarded in July 2006 to more than 30 organizations across the state. The grants are available to life-affirming organizations that provide direct care to pregnant women and their unborn children through counseling and supportive services. Organizations are also expected to provide continuing assistance after the child is born. Participating programs and organizations receive money to provide, either by direct care or referral, information and services to women in the following areas: Medical attention for the woman and the unborn child Nutritional services Housing assistance Adoption services Education and employment assistance Child care assistance Parenting education and support services Since the bill's signing in 2005, tens of thousands of women and families have received help and assistance through the Positive Alternatives program. More information about the Positive Alternatives grant program, including grant applications, can be found at the Minnesota Department of Health .

MCCL compiles the pro-life voting records of lawmakers on right-to-life issues that come before the Minnesota Legislature. LEGISLATIVE ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS MCCL compiles the voting records of lawmakers on right-to-life issues that come before the Minnesota Legislature. We include committee and floor votes, as well as procedural votes that could affect the outcome of the legislation. Click the chart to view the ratings of legislators for recent years. See also: How to contact your elected officials Tips for contacting elected officials Minnesota's extreme abortion policy Introduction + Key HOUSE SENATE 2023 Votes + Issues 2023 Votes + Issues 2021 Votes + Issues 2021 Votes + Issues 2019 Votes + Issues 2019 Votes + Issues 2018 Votes + Issues 2018 Votes + Issues 2017 Votes + Issues 2017 Votes + Issues 2016 Votes + Issues 2016 Votes + Issues 2015 Votes + Issues 2015 Votes + Issues 2014 Votes + Issues 2014 Votes + Issues 2013 Votes + Issues 2013 Votes + Issues 2012 Votes + Issues 2012 Votes + Issues 2011 Votes + Issues 2011 Votes + Issues 2010 Votes + Issues 2010 Votes + Issues

People who become elderly, sick, disabled, and/or dependent may be at risk of being denied lifesaving treatment, nutrition, and hydration. ADVANCE DIRECTIVES People who become elderly, sick, disabled, and/or dependent may be at risk of being denied lifesaving treatment, nutrition, and hydration due to a perceived inadequate “quality of life”—even against the express will of patients or their families. Attending physicians, for example, may decide that patients have passed the point of a meaningful and productive life and that medical care should be minimal. Caregivers may view them as consuming limited resources that could be dedicated to other patients with better long-term prospects. Insurance companies—including Medicare and Medicaid—may determine that they are not showing enough progress to warrant reimbursement for additional tests or therapy. Finally, even family members, for various reasons, may urge a hastened death. The Will to Live A measure of protection is possible with an advance directive. Advance health care directives (often called living wills) are legal documents that allow people to specify their treatment wishes in the event that they become unable to make health care decisions for themselves. Such documents express whether and under what circumstances people want life-preserving medical treatment, food, or fluids. Advance directives may also allow people to designate someone else to make medical decisions when they are unable to do so. This is called a durable power of attorney for health care. Advance directives have often been used to deny patients care, including nutrition and hydration, but they can also help protect patients from such a death—if they are properly written. MCCL and the National Right to Life Committee offer a specifically pro-life advance directive that guards against any form of euthanasia. It directs that you be given food and water, and creates a presumption for medical treatment with the opportunity to describe exceptions (such as if you are dying and wish to allow the dying process to take its course without burdensome interventions). The Minnesota version of the pro-life “Will to Live” is available online or by contacting MCCL . MCCL urges you to complete a Will to Live or other advance directive, and to discuss the specifics with a trustworthy person who will represent you if you are unable to do so. Every life is valuable Understanding that death is a part of life, MCCL does not seek to prolong the dying process. But we strongly oppose efforts to hasten death by those who base the value of life on subjective "quality of life" determinations, the cost of medical care, personal greed, or other motives that cheapen life. Every human life is valuable—from beginning to end.

At a time when Minnesota faces rising abortions and increasingly extreme pro-abortion laws, MCCL’s new Center for a Pro-Life Minnesota aims to reawaken a pro-life culture in our state. At a time when Minnesota faces rising abortions and increasingly extreme pro-abortion laws , MCCL’s new C enter for a Pro-Life Minnesota aims to reawaken a pro-life culture in our state. The Center, a special outreach arm of MCCL, will inform and persuade Minnesotans through events, presentations, traditional and social media, advertising , and more. The Center will also equip and activate pro-life Minnesotans and train them to engage in dialogue with others, make a compelling and gracious case for the unborn, and move hearts and minds toward life. Through all of this essential work—and with the dedication of pro-lifers across the state—we can and will rebuild a pro-life Minnesota. Ours can and will be a state that cherishes every hum an life, that loves mothers in need, and that rejects the violence and destruction of abortion. MORE ABOUT THE CENTER More information about MCCL's Center for a Pro-Life Minnesota will be made available soon, along with ways pro-life Minnesotans can support the Center's efforts.

Euthanasia is often masked by euphemisms such as “aid in dying” and “death with dignity.” We clarify the terms. EUTHANASIA OVERVIEW Clarifying the terms Euthanasia is the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit. Active euthanasia is euthanasia by performing an action, such as administering a lethal injection; passive euthanasia (euthanasia by omission) is euthanasia by not providing necessary and ordinary (usual and customary) care or food and water. Euthanasia can be voluntary, involuntary (against the expressed wishes of the patient), or non-voluntary (when the person who is killed makes no request and gives no consent, such as in cases when the patient is incompetent and unable to express his or her wishes). Virtually everyone opposes involuntary euthanasia as a form of murder; voluntary and non-voluntary euthanasia, however, are far more controversial. Assisted suicide is when someone provides an individual with the information, guidance, and means to take his or her own life with the intention that they will be used for this purpose. Physician-assisted suicide is when a doctor is the one who assists, such as by prescribing a lethal dose of medication. The difference between euthanasia and assisted suicide is which person performs the final act that kills the patient. If a doctor performs the final act (e.g., an injection), it is euthanasia; if the patient performs the final act himself (e.g., ingesting pills), it is assisted suicide. Euthanasia and assisted suicide are unethical because they are the intentional killing of an innocent human being. But this does not mean that a patient’s life must be sustained by all means in all circumstances. Allowing a natural death—e.g., by withholding or withdrawing burdensome treatment from a terminally ill patient—is not the same as intentional killing. The termination of life support is not the same as euthanasia or assisted suicide. Euthanasia, assisted suicide in practice Euthanasia can take different forms. Here are the ways in which it is practiced today. Assisted suicide: Assisted suicide is currently legal in a number of American states. It is also legal in the countries of Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and (more recently) Canada. Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act has now been in place since 1997 and has served as the model for other states. Under the law, a patient may request a lethal prescription from a physician as long as the patient is considered competent and has been diagnosed with a terminal condition and less than six months to live. But the law’s safeguards are substantially lacking . Active euthanasia: Active euthanasia is currently legal in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Canada. Thousands of euthanasia deaths occur in the Netherlands and Belgium each year. Dutch law requires, before active euthanasia (or assisted suicide) can be performed, that a patient make a “voluntary and carefully considered” request for death, and that the patient be experiencing “unbearable suffering with no prospect of improvement.” But these guidelines have proven very flexible. The justifications for euthanasia in Europe have broadened significantly. The Netherlands and Belgium euthanize many people who are suffering “psychologically” (rather than physically), including some patients who are depressed, mentally ill, or even “tired of life.” In both countries, voluntary euthanasia has led to the non-voluntary euthanasia of (usually) mentally incompetent patients. Dutch national surveys indicate that each year hundreds of people are euthanized without their explicit request. Involuntary denial of care by providers: Many ethicists and physicians argue that health care facilities should be able to deny lifesaving treatment, nutrition, and hydration due to patients’ perceived inadequate "quality of life"—even against the express will of patients and their families. Most states (excluding Minnesota) may allow doctors and hospitals to disregard advance directives when they call for treatment, food, or fluids. Some health care providers have created “futility guidelines” or “futility protocols” that determine when desired treatment should be withheld. Denial of food and fluids: In most states, food and fluids—at least when provided with the assistance of tubes—are regarded as "medical treatment" rather than basic, ordinary care. Such nutrition is routinely denied to those unable to make decisions for themselves by others who act as surrogate decision makers. Frequently, therefore, people with severe cognitive disabilities who have never consented to the rejection of food and fluids are starved and dehydrated to death. Rationing of health care: The rationing of health care can mean denying lifesaving treatment, food, and fluids against the will of the patient, based on degree of disability or perceived "quality of life." The threat of rationing has grown due to the increasing emphasis on providers containing health care costs and the passage in the United States of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) in 2010. Rejecting euthanasia Euthanasia or suicide should never seem like the only option. Depressed and suffering patients should be treated. Lonely and isolated patients should be cared for. No one should ever feel that his or her life is worthless or meaningless—because every person matters. The answer to disease and disability is love and compassion, not killing. Proposals to legalize assisted suicide continue to surface in states across the country, including Minnesota . These bills pose various dangers and must be rejected. Meanwhile, any person who becomes unable to speak for himself or herself due to illness or disability is in danger of being denied lifesaving medical treatment or nutrition and hydration. A measure of protection is possible by preparing an advance directive. Advance directives are legal documents that allow people to specify their treatment wishes in the event that they become unable to make health care decisions for themselves. A pro-life advance directive , which expresses a preference for life and guards against euthanasia, is available. Related articles: The case against assisted suicide Assisted suicide in Minnesota Advance directives Just as abortion takes vulnerable human life at its earliest stages, euthanasia and assisted suicide threaten elderly, sick, and disabled persons, often masked by euphemisms such as “aid in dying” and “death with dignity.”

Learn how euthanasia and assisted suicide endanger the lives of people who are sick, elderly, and disabled. EUTHANASIA + ASSISTED SUICIDE Euthanasia and assisted suicide—the killing of patients for their alleged benefit—endanger the lives of people who are sick, elderly, and disabled. Learn more about this growing threat below. Euthanasia overview : Here's what euthanasia and assisted suicide are, and where and how they are practiced. Assisted suicide in Minnesota : Court cases and proposed legislation have challenged Minnesota's law protecting against assisted suicide. Advance directives : These legal documents protect against unwanted denial of care in the event that you are unable to speak for yourself. The case against assisted suicide : Here's why assisted suicide is both unethical and dangerous.