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This event is sponsored by the Diocesan Life & Family Ministry and the Human Life Guild Board with “Support of the Knights of Columbus.” Join us!

The much-anticipated film, “Unplanned,” opened in theaters across the country last weekend. Based on the best-selling book of the same title, “Unplanned” is the autobiographical story of Abby Johnson, a former director of the Planned Parenthood Clinic in Bryan, Texas.

Hard-hitting, fact-based drama adapted from a memoir by Abby Johnson. During her rise to become one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in the country,... Opens in theaters March 29th. Tickets and more at https://www.unplannedfilm.com/

For Dr. Holly Taylor Coolman, engaging with opponents in a respectful, peaceful way is an essential part of what it means to be “pro-life.”

A House Committee on Smith Hill will take up the Assisted Suicide Bill in Rhode Island this week.

Safety, Justice & Healing

Legislation that pro-life advocates warn will turn Rhode Island into “an abortion haven” is one step closer to becoming reality as the state House of Representatives approved the Reproductive Privacy Act ...

"Welcome Baby!” A sentiment shared in a greeting card to encourage immunizations and health checkups is sent to all new parents in the Ocean State on behalf of Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo...

Pro-life activists gathered at the Rhode Island State House on Jan. 26 to demonstrate their opposition to legislation that would codify Roe v. Wade into state law while doing away with...

Large majorities of Rhode Islanders oppose late-term abortions, including the procedure known as partial-birth abortion, according to a new public policy poll commissioned by the Rhode Island Right to Life Committee.

The House Judiciary Committee on Smith Hill voted 9-7 in favor of abortion legislation which will move the bill to the full House of Representatives for a vote on Thursday.

Leading Ladies is an exclusive Rhode Island Catholic series featuring local women — wonderfully pro-life — active in advocacy, peaceful and compassionate dialogue, all with a strong feminine voice in a culture that does not always speak for them.

From March 6 to April 13, our community will take part in 40 Days for Life … a groundbreaking, coordinated international mobilization. We pray that, with God’s help, this will mark the beginning of the end of abortion in our city — and beyond.

The Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing on the Senate version of the New York / Virginia style abortion bill.

Please write, call, or email your representative in the general assembly!

SAFETY, JUSTICE, & HEALING

From the RI Catholic Conference

A pair of pro-abortion bills pending in the Rhode Island General Assembly go far beyond codifying Roe v. Wade and would do away with all restrictions on the procedure, including the state’s ban on partial-birth abortion,...

Recently, there has been a lot of negative press coverage concerning...

For nearly 10 hours at the Rhode Island State House last week, pro-life activists in Rhode Island testified against legislation that would expand legal abortion in the Ocean State.