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SPECIAL ENDORSEMENT EDITION

STATEWIDE GENERAL ELECTIONS
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4

RIRTLs mission is to advocate for a

state, nation, and world in which
the innocent lives of the unborn,
the disabled, the elderly, and the ill
are respected by the citizenry and
protected by civil law.

Compare the Candidates on

This day I set before you life and death...
Choose Life, then, that you and your
descendents may live. (Deut. 30:19)

4 Allan Fung opposes using

your tax dollars to pay for

abortion-on-demand.

Gina Raimondo pledged to

seek repeal of a 1997 RI law
banning partial-birth abortions,
(Providence Journal 9/25/14).

Gina Raimondo pledged to

appoint cabinet-level staff who will
promote access to reproductive
health services, i.e., abortion
(Providence Journal 9/24/14).

4 Allan Fung opposes late-term

abortions.

4 Allan Fung supports our

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efforts to make pro-life

options available through
HealthSource RI.

Allan Fung supports sensible limits and measures

such as the Womens Right to Know Act.

Allan Fung
The Pro-Life Choice
On Tuesday, November 4

Abortion
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Gina Raimondo pledged to veto legislation that would roll

back, restrict or limit abortion access, i.e., the entire RI Right
to Life legislative package (Providence Journal 9/24/14).

Gina Raimondo has pledged to continue Governor Chafees

exclusion from HealthSource RI of insurance plans that do not
cover abortion-on-demand, thus subjecting all participants
to a mandatory abortion fee even if in violation of their
conscience and religious beliefs (Providence Journal 9/24/14).

Gina Raimondo has been endorsed by Planned Parenthood,

the nations largest abortion provider, and by Emilys List, the
nations premeire abortion advocacy PAC.

Treasurer Raimondo has taken the most extreme position possible on abortion, promising Planned Parenthood that she will move
forward with Governor Chafees extreme abortion agenda. The pro-life movement needs Mayor Allan Fung as Governor!

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Not authorized by any candidate or candidates committee.

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October 2014 Special Edition

To hasten the day

Since 1970, Rhode Island Right to Life has been working for the day when we will no longer be necessary; working for the day when the innocent lives of the unborn, the
elderly, and the infirm are respected by the citizenry and
protected by civil law.
Because that day is not yet today, RIRTL provides
friendship and material support to ease the burdens of
mothers with young children and mothers struggling to
carry their children to term rather than succumbing to
various pressures to abort. While the works of charity
are always important, there is an urgent imperative to
help women choose life over abortion, which has already
claimed the lives of more than 55 million precious, innocent, and irreplaceable babies in America!
Because that day is not yet today, RIRTL educates
the people of our State about the pressing life issues of
our age. A conscientious vote presupposes a well-formed
conscience, which, in turn, presupposes knowledge of the
truth. Our common commitment to this great nation,
founded upon the belief that each of us has been endowed
by our Creator with an unalienable right to life, must be
matched by our efforts to admonish our compatriots that
the deliberate taking of innocent human life, at any stage
or in any condition, is an attack against the dignity of all
human life, and is grievously injurious to our common
good and patrimony.
Because that day is not yet today, RIRTL advances legislation at the State House to protect innocent human life
to the fullest extent allowable under federal law. Laws can
be passed right here in the Rhode Island General Assembly
that could cut the number of abortions in Rhode Island by
500 or more each year -- 500 or more each year!
To hasten the day for which we work and pray,
it is precisely in the rough and tumble world of elections
that we are most in need of your cooperation. Please take
the time to review and share this newsletter. After learning which candidates are committed to supporting our
life-saving legislative agenda, please use your vote on
November 4 to save lives!

2014 General Elections

Services Update
With the arrival of the cold
weather, we have been distributing
many articles of winter coats, hats,
mittens, boots, and warm clothing.
In addition to our ongoing need for
diapers, we need to replenish these
items to meet the continuing demand, especially as it is still very
early in the season. We are grateful
to the churches presently conducting Baby Bottle Boomerangs, and to
those conducting clothing drives,
Please contact Peg at 521-1860 if you
can help.

Attention Students, Parents,

Educators, Pastors

Rhode Island Pro-Life

Essay Contest 2014
Senior Division - Grades 10 - 12
Junior Division - Grades 7 9

1st Place $150 - 2nd Place $100 - 3rd Place $50

prizes awarded in each division
The winning entries will be entered into the
2015 National Right to Life Essay Contest.

Essays should address the topic:

Why should everyone respect life?
Contact info@rirtl.org for contest guidelines.

ENDORSEMENTS INSIDE

The biennial struggle for a pro-life legislative

majority is a battle of inches. States achieving
major pro-life breakthroughs spent years and
decades building majorities. Rhode Island is
much closer than many people think. And we
have a better feeling about this election than we
have had in years. But it all depends on whether
you and other pro-lifers act upon our enclosed
endorsements on Tuesday, November 4.

VOTE PROLIFE RHODE ISLAND

Pro-Life Endorsements
for Tuesday, November 4

For pro-life voter information

To find your polling place and hours

www.rirtl.org/action
or call 521-1860

www.sec.state.ri.us/vic
or call 222-2340

ALLAN FUNG for Governor of Rhode Island

Paid for by R.I. Right to Life Federal PAC. Not authorized by any candidate or candidates committee.

Founded in 1970, the Rhode Island State Right

to Life Committee, Inc., is the only state-wide,
non-profit, non-partisan, non-denominational
pro-life organization in Rhode Island. We
champion the cause of the most vulnerable
members of our society by fighting euthanasia,
abortion, and embryo-destroying stem cell
experimentation. We are the state affiliate
of the National Right to Life Committee, and
seek to work together with all who believe in
the sanctity of human life.

Board Members
Diane Manning
Chairperson

Jack Parquette
Vice-Chairperson

Rita Parquette, R.N.

Secretary

Joseph Clossick
Treasurer

Rev. Diane Caracciolo

PAC Chairperson

Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D.

Education Chairperson

Paul J. Maloney, MBA, CPA, CFP

Finance Chairperson

Robert J. Sullivan
Rev. James Turnipseed
Rev. Fr. Robert Marciano
Kevin L. McDevitt

Advisors
Rev. Fr. Nicanor PG Austriaco, OP, PhD, STL
Deacon Eduardo Birbuet
Robert Duffy, Esq.
Chad Lamendola, MD
Pilar Tasca

Staff
Barth E. Bracy,
Executive Director

Lani Candelora, J.D.

Special Advisor for Policy & Legislative Affairs

Anne I. McDonald, Ph.D. (cand)

Educational Outreach Coordinator

Margaret (Peg) Lavallee,

Services Coordinator

Alison Corcoran,
Executive Assistant / Events Coordinator

Contact
266 Smith St.
P.O. Box 28285
Providence, RI 02908
T: 401.521.1860
F: 401.521.1876
E-mail: info@rirtl.org
Web: www.rirtl.org

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Pro-Life Endorsements for Senator in General Assembly

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MARYELLEN GOODWIN - Providence

DOMINICK J RUGGERIO - North Providence, Providence
PAUL V JABOUR - Providence
HAROLD M METTS - Providence
FRANK A CICCONE III - Providence, North Providence
JAMES E DOYLE II - Pawtucket
MICHAEL J PINGA - West Warwick
WALTER S FELAG JR - Bristol, Tiverton, Warren
CHRISTOPHER SCOTT OTTIANO - Bristol, Portsmouth
LOUIS P DIPALMA - Little Compton, Middletown, Newport, Tiverton
M TERESA PAIVA-WEED - Jamestown, Newport
Challenger MICHAEL W SMITH is also acceptable on the life issues.

DANIEL DAPONTE - East Providence, Pawtucket

STEPHEN R LEMOIS - Pawtucket
ELIZABETH A CROWLEY - Central Falls, Pawtucket, Cumberland
EDWARD J ONEILL - Lincoln, North Providence, Pawtucket
Challenger KEVEN A MCKENNA is also acceptable on the life issues.

WILLIAM J CONLEY JR - East Providence

ROGER A PICARD - Woonsocket, Cumberland
NICHOLAS D KETTLE - Coventry, Foster, Scituate
PAUL W FOGARTY - Smithfield, North Smithfield
MARC A COTE - Woonsocket, North Smithfield
FRANK LOMBARDO III - Johnston
FRANK LOMBARDI - Cranston
HANNA M GALLO - Cranston
MICHAEL J MCCAFFREY - Warwick
WILLIAM A WALASKA - Warwick
Challenger STEVEN ARCHER is also acceptable on the life issues.

LEONIDAS P RAPTAKIS - Coventry, East Greenwich, West Greenwich

ELAINE J MORGAN - Charlestown, Exeter, Hopkinton, Richmond, West Greenwich
JAMES C SHEEHAN - Narragansett, North Kingstown
DENNIS L ALGIERE - Westerly, Charlestown

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Not authorized by any candidate or candidates committee.
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5 JOHN J- DESIMONE - Providence
6 RAYMOND A HULL - Providence, North Providence
7 DANIEL P MCKIERNAN - Providence
8 JOHN JOSEPH LOMBARDI - Providence
9 ANA ALJEIMY SANTANA-SANCHEZ - Providence

This day I set before you life and death...

Choose Life, then, that you and your
descendents may live. (Deut. 30:19)

10 SCOTT A SLATER - Providence

12 LUIS A VARGAS RIVERA - Providence
13 JOHN M CARNEVALE - Providence, Johnston
15 NICHOLAS A MATTIELLO - Cranston

16 PETER G PALUMBO - Cranston

Challenger ROBERT B LANCIA is also acceptable on the life issues.

18 DONALD R GENDRON - Cranston

23 K JOSEPH SHEKARCHI - Warwick
24 JOSEPH A TRILLO - Warwick
25 JARED R NUNES - Coventry, West Warwick

26 PATRICIA L MORGAN - Coventry, Warwick, West Warwick

Challengers PAUL P CAIANIELLO JR & NICHOLAS A DENICE are also acceptable on the life issues.

27 PATRICIA A SERPA - Coventry, Warwick, West Warwick

28 ROBERT A NARDOLILLO - Coventry
29 SHERRY ROBERTS - Coventry, West Greenwich
30 ANTONIO GIARRUSSO - East Greenwich, West Greenwich

To find your polling place and hours

www.sec.state.ri.us/vic
or call 222-2340

31 DOREEN MARIE COSTA - Exeter, North Kingstown

32 SHARON L GAMBA - North Kingstown
37 SAMUEL A AZZINARO - Westerly
39 JUSTIN PRICE - Charlestown, Exeter, Richmond

40 MICHAEL W CHIPPENDALE - Foster, Coventry, Glocester

Challenger JOSEPH D CARDILLO is also acceptable on the life issues.

41 LILLIAN JEAN DELMONICO - Scituate, Cranston

42 STEPHEN R UCCI - Cranston, Johnston

43 DEBORAH A FELLELA - Johnston

Challenger KARIN N GORMAN is also acceptable on the life issues.

44 GREGORY J COSTANTINO - Johnston, Lincoln, Smithfield

Challenger PHILIP G HIRONS JR is also acceptable on the life issues.

46 MATTHEW A GUERRA - Lincoln, Pawtucket

48 BRIAN C NEWBERRY - North Smithfield, Burrillville

Vote Pro-Life

50 STEPHEN M CASEY - Woonsocket

51 ROBERT D PHILLIPS - Woonsocket

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4

52 KAREN L MACBETH - Cumberland

53 THOMAS J WINFIELD - Smithfield, Glocester
54 WILLIAM W OBRIEN - North Providence
55 ARTHUR J CORVESE - North Providence
57 JAMES N MCLAUGHLIN - Cumberland, Central Falls
64 HELIO MELO - East Providence
67 JAN P MALIK - Barrington, Warren
69 RAYMOND E GALLISON JR - Bristol, Portsmouth
70 JOHN G EDWARDS - Portsmouth, Tiverton
71 NORBERT J RATTAY - Portsmouth, Little Compton, Tiverton
72 DANIEL PATRICK REILLY - Middletown, Newport, Portsmouth

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Not authorized by any candidate or candidates committee.
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