What is the Magee Project?

Please note! Legal disclaimer – The Magee Project is not related in any way to Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC!

The Magee Project is a pro-life campaign to encourage the restoration of a culture of life to
Magee-Womens Hospital. The greatest step we can take toward accomplishing this mission is
to encourage Magee to stop committing abortions.

We know that abortion has been practiced at Magee since before the decriminalization of
abortion in 1973. Associate professors at Pitt perform abortions at Magee and the University of
Pittsburgh offers abortion training to medical students. In 2022, according to reports submitted
to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Health, 500 abortions were performed at
Magee including 171 second trimester abortions. Abortions are performed at Magee to 24
weeks.

Many families report pressure to abort when complications arise in pregnancy.

We began this project in April of 2016 with a foundation of prayer, asking volunteers to commit
to praying at Magee for one hour, one day a month. When covid changed everything, we asked
people to pray from anywhere and more than doubled the number of prayer volunteers! We now
offer the opportunity to pray at Magee or from anywhere. We offer a Prayer Guide that lists the
names of local abortionists to pray for by name.

Covid restrictions inspired us to create an outdoor event where we could safely gather to meet
and prayer walk around the hospital. We call it the Church at Magee, meeting on the fourth
Sunday of the month at 4pm. During the warm months, May through September, we gather in a
nearby park to worship and hear messages from local pastors and pro-life groups, followed by a
prayer walk around the hospital. All are welcome!

In April of 2024 we held a Stations of the Cross Prayer Walk which we plan to do again as our
regular April gathering.

In October, we speak to the Board of Directors of Magee at their annual public meeting, held
virtually since covid. We hold a rally and prayer walk the same day.

November through March we meet on the same fourth Sunday of the month, at 4pm for the
prayer walk only.

With the help of Pennsylvania Pro-life Coalition we produced a brochure about Dark Deeds
coordinated by Magee and the University of Pittsburgh to procure aborted baby bodies and
baby parts for Pitt’s tissue bank. Questions remain about the probability that babies were alive
when their parts were taken for macabre research. You can read an extended version here:
UPMC Hidden History  (paprolifecoalition.org)
or request a shorter print version. 

For more information about The Magee Project, or The Church at Magee, contact: Meredith:
Th*************@gm***.com