join us for our annual

legislative briefing breakfast

Friday, February 23
Breakfast & Event 7:00-9:00 A.M.
Hilton Garden Inn
6165 Levis Commons Blvd.
​Perrysburg, Ohio 43551

Event details

Our 2024 Legislative Briefing Breakfast (LBB) is our first after the passage of Issue 1; now more than ever, we will need to work with our elected officials to safeguard the right to life in law.

Your presence lets our elected representative know how committed we are to doing everything possible to safeguard the right to life. Join us Friday, February 23, 2024, to be a strong, clear voice for the voiceless in the public square. Become a Greater Toledo Right to Life MVP! So, what's an MVP? It is Membership, a willingness to make your Voice heard, and a commitment to Pray.

​We are honored to have Ohio's Treasure Robert Sprague and Candidate for US Senate, Bernie Moreno, speak at this year's breakfast with several other local elected officials.

Thank you for joining us and listening to the positions and views of these five candidates for the US Senate.  We pray you heard some things that will help you discern who might best represent you in Washington. 
​Legislative advocacy work can take years to mature and come to fruition but protecting life through law is the formula for long lasting change.  It is the foundation to the daily work of sidewalk advocates, education forums, prayer rallies; the other side of the equation to safeguarding the right to life and Greater Toledo Right to Life (GTRTL) has been actively pursuing life matters locally and in Columbus.  Here is a legislative update.  Please put these bills on your prayer list and consider calling your state representative and senator to let them know you want to see them support LIFE with their vote.
  1.  Life at Conception bill recognizes the preborn boys and girls as a person, regardless of the age of the preborn human.  It prohibits all from killing these persons regardless of age by outlawing elective abortion in the State of Ohio.  Furthermore, it holds abortionists criminally responsible for purposefully performing abortions and protects women who are forces into having abortions.  This bill is in the beginning stages of working on sponsors.
  2. Ambulatory Surgical Facilities Regulations will update Ohio’s las to treat independent (non-hospital associated) ambulatory surgical facilities like other professional practices, with ownership transparency and having a medical professional be the responsible parties for the business.  This legislation has been approved by legislative committee.  GTRTL is communicating with the Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers.  This is in need to finalize sponsor and will be introduced soon.
  3. Woman’s Right to Know bill requires abortion providers to give information during the informed consent period prior to an abortion relative to the possibility of breast cancer related to abortion, and to the possibility of experiencing post-traumatic stress symptoms associated with abortion, and to require abortion facility employees to be trained in the most recent medically accurate information relative to these consequences of abortion.  The final version of this bill’s language is being drafted by the Legislative Service Committee.
  4. Public Funding of Abortion bill will prohibit public facilities or private institutions of higher education from receiving state money if they perform or induce nontherapeutic abortions or employ or affiliate with a physician who does so.  In process.
  5. Sustain Life is legislation that would re-write statute to ensure that hydration and nutrition of a patient will be identified as basic care rather than as a medical intervention which can be withdrawn from a patient by a provider.  It also re-structures the law regarding the diagnosis of ‘persistent vegetive state’.    This bill’s language needs to be finalized then it will circulate to the team for review before providing education to politicians and grassroots.  Then it will move to finalize a sponsor to be introduced.
  6. Humanity of the Unborn Education Act would direct teaching of fetal development from conception through birth to students in Ohio’s high-school Health curriculum.  It may be reintroduced by Senator Antani this session.
Please actively engage in praying for these bills to successfully move through the process to the point of enactment where they can save and change lives!  Also, praise God and thank your legislators for two successes in the past year despite the many limitations Covid19 presented.  First, the Humane Disposition of Fetal Remains bill passed both the House and Senate and was signed by Governor DeWine.  It recently was challenged and will be going through the courts.  Secondly, the Telemed Abortion Ban passed and has been enacted which prohibits prescribing the abortion pill over the phone, requiring an in-person doctor visit for any woman seeking this type of abortion.    
 Thank you to Marsh and Marsh Attorneys and others for sponsoring the Student Tables at the breakfast and including the 'future of pro-life' in these key forums.  Take a moment and introduce yourself to a student and ask about their pro-life views!  Student groups represented from:  Notre Dame Academy, Monclova Christian Academy, the University of Toledo and others.  Call 419-535-5800 to ask about remaining seats at a student table seat or for your student group.

Photos from PAST Breakfasts