AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF OBSTETRICIANS & GYNECOLOGISTS AUGUST 2010 AAPLOG ANNUAL DUES/GIFTS LETTER (Very easy to pay on-line!) If you are an ObGyn AAPLOG Member, we need your DUES to sustain the pro-life, pro-conscience vital work we are engaged in on your behalf, and on behalf of the unborn and the pregnant women who would be victimized. If you are a doctor of any specialty, or a nurse, or any medical professional, we consider you an Associate Member. We need your GIFT of support. If you are from outside the USA, dues are not required. We welcome you as a member or an associate member. We are glad you are part of AAPLOG, and we are happy for any gift you may wish to give to our work. If you are a prolife person of any other description, we consider you a friend of Life, and we need your gift of support as well. TO PAY DUES OR GIVE GIFTS ON-LINE USING YOUR CREDIT CARD: This is a highly secure system that does NOT store your credit card number. Go to www.aaplog.org Click on DUES, or click on GIFTS This is a secure page. Fill in the information. Click on Submit The page that comes up is your tax-exempt receipt if you wish to print it out. Also, in 10 seconds, your e-mail will receive a tax-exempt receipt. TO PAY DUES BY CHECK: make check payable to AAPLOG, and mail to AAPLOG, 339 River Ave, Holland, MI 49423. Receipt will be mailed. As you know, the climate out there is getting ugly. Obamacare allows funding of abortions. The ACOG Ethics Committee Opinion #385 promotes abortion as the ethical standard of care. The US State Dept, U.N. organizations, and prominent NGO’s are all pushing legal abortion on demand as standard reproductive health care, as a fundamental human right, and as a major answer to high maternal mortality rates in underdeveloped countries. (And receiving international funding for “reproductive health care” may be contingent upon that country’s legalizing abortion on demand.) HOW DOES AAPLOG USE YOUR DUES AND GIFTS? We ran the January CME meeting/International Strategy Conference, hosting over a dozen foreign national guest attendees, several as speakers. And we gave speaker-presentations at the International Catholic Med Assn meeting in France, and at the International CMDA meeting in Uruguay. We attended the UN Millennium Development Goals Conf. We are actively supporting other countries prolife efforts to resist the increasing international pressure to legalize all abortion everywhere. We network with medical and non-medical prolife organizations internationally. We developed a new and improved website this year. We funded a DVD production on the conscience issue, supporting our right to practice Hippocratic medicine. We sponsored our exhibit booth at the following national meetings: APGO/CREOG, ACOG ACM, Korean/American Missions Conf, CMDA Conf, Cath Med Assn Conf, ACOOG Conf, Global Missionary Health Conf, Carenet Preg. Resource Center Conf. We keep you updated on current issues with a weekly email. We encourage your participation in the www.hippocraticregistry.com. And we continually monitor issues of interest to the Prolife cause. We seek to be your ProLife, Pro-Conscience voice in the culture war that is only going to become more intense. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! The AAPLOG Board AAPLOG MISSION STATEMENT: As members of AAPLOG we affirm:
- That we, as physicians, are responsible for the care and well being of both our pregnant woman patient and her unborn child.
- That the unborn child is a human being from the time of fertilization.
- That elective disruption/abortion of human life at any time from fertilization onward constitutes the willful destruction of an innocent human being, and that this procedure will have no place in our practice of the healing arts.
- That we are committed to educate abortion-vulnerable patients, the general public, pregnancy center counselors, and our medical colleagues regarding the medical and psychological complications associated with induced abortion, as evidenced in the scientific literature.
- That we are deeply concerned about the profound, adverse effects that elective abortion imposes, not just on the women, but also on the entire involved family, and on our society at large.