Staff

Executive Director:

Adelaide L. Ritt

Assistant to the Director:

Lynne M. Triplett

Senior Self Help Trainee:

Georgette Maloof

Volunteer Advisor:

Beverly Baughan

Marion McAndrews

Isabelle Middendorf

Debbie Motta

Yvonne Shireman

Newsletter Volunteer:

Mary Burke

Judy Littlefield

Boutique Volunteer:

Board of

Directors

President: Manny Rodrigues

Secretary: Jean Gillette

Fundraising Chair:

Maria Dadlez

Members:

Loretta Burke

Marshall Gillette

Mary Jean Gillette

Mark X. Lowney, M.D.

Jane Martellino

Debbie Medeiros, R.N.

Nadine A. de Melo

Colette Rodrigues

1341 West Main Road

Airport Plaza*Unit #5

Middletown, RI 02842

401--841-9211

Fax: 401-841-9211

(call first)

And

Highland OB/GYN

484 Highland Avenue

Fall River, MA 02720

508-672-3700

Fax: 508-672-3700

(call first)

1.To support women who find themselves in a crisis pregnancy situation.

2.To provide material assistance to poverty-stricken women and their children.

3.To promote chastity and abstinence.'

*I would like to thank Steve Farias for graciously donating his time and labor installing a new floor in our Fall River Boutique. Thank you. Our boutique looks so much nicer now because of it.

Another thank you goes out to Dr. Mark Lowney and Mark Tysko for donating computers to our centers. Our Fall River Boutique is already expanding and we are addingmore room to it over the summer. I encourage each of you to come by and see our wonderful center. As always, we are in need of volunteers for both centers. If you have any free time and would like to get involved, we would love to have you at the center. Many hands make light work.

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*This July is a very busy month for us. We have two major fundraisers one right after the other. We desperately need volunteers for both. If you could please call the center and add your time to our list of volunteers, it would be greatly appreciated. It can only be a success with all of your help. If you can not physically help, please come and support us by purchasing items at the Yard Sale or eating our delicious food at the 4H Fair.

*As I am sure everyone has heard by now, great strives Pro Life has made with the banning of partial birth abortion. We are making gret headway; I hope we have them on the run.

*Please keep the prayers going for the innocent. They are helpless without our help. Thank you once again for listening to me.

** ** **Adelaide R

The Texas woman known for years only as "Jane Roe" now wants to help overturn the controversial decision that legalized abortion.

*"I feel good about myself, I really do. I feel like the weight of the world has just been lifted off my shoulders," Norma McCorvey said.

*The "Jane Roe" from the court case that legalized abortion is going back to court.

*"We have filed it and what they have said in the past - you've come a long way baby. Well - we're getting our babies back. "Thank you," McCorvey said at a news conference that

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ounded a bit like a revival, women told abortion horror stories while others cried and held signs that read: "I regret my abortion."

*Peggy Sweeney of Trophy Club was one of them.

*"We need to speak up, those of us who have had abortions and know the pain and the anguish and the spiritual pain, the physical pain. We need to tell people. It's time to not be silent anymore," she said. (Continued, page 2)

McCorvey and her attorneys are

asking the court to consider 5,400 pages of new evidence that abortion hurts women, including 1,000 affidavits from women who tell of the devastating impact of abortion.

*"I felt so evil, so dirty and so ashamed, and I don't want anybody else to feel this way again," Carole Lefreniere said.

*"If I was to kill my nine-month old, do I have that choice? But I can choose to kill a baby that's inside my womb, and it's a baby. It's not a blob of tissue...and what about the baby? Let's talk about the baby - the woman says she has a choice, but what about the baby? It has no choice?" TeAndra Parker said.

*The Texas attorney general's office and the Dallas district attorney each has 20 days to respond to the motion.

RESPECT LIFE OFFICER

DIOCESE of PROVIDENCE

184 *BROAD STREET

PROVIDENCE, RI 02908

401-421-7728 EXT. 118

e-mail: rl.outreach@dioceseofprovidence.org

On June 4, the U. S. House of Representatives passed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act by an overwhelming bipartisan vote. Cardinal Anthony Bevilacuua, Chairman of the Bishop's Committee for Pro-Life Activities, hailed passage of the bill, noting, "In voting to ban this procedure, one of the most heinous acts ever perpetrated upon an unborn child, Congress is in harmony with the vast majority of Americans who find this violent act intolerable and want it stopped." Remarking on the intent of abortion advocates to challenge the bill in court, the Cardinal observed, "Nothing in our Constitution demands that unborn children must be subjected to a procedure so violent and painful...To cloak the act in the Constitution is a national disgrace." For the full statement by Cardinal Bevilacuua, see: www.usccb.org/profile/whatsnew.htm. The House passed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (H. R. 760) by the vote, 282-yes, 139-no.

*The Next Step: Conference Committee

The house bill is identical to the measure passed by the Senate earlier this year (S.3), except for an extraneous affirmation of Roe v. Wade added to the Senate bill. The matter next goes to conference committee, where the Senate addendum on Roe should be removed. The House appointed Reps. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Henry Hyde (R-IL), and Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) as House conferees. After the conference report is agreed to by House and Senate, the measure goes to President Bush, who has promised to sign the bill.

*Two Attempts to Gut H. R. 760

Prior to final passage, the House rejected two attempts to add "health" exceptions that would gut H. R. 760, voting down the Greenwood substitute amendment, 133-yes, 287-no and rejecting the Baldwin motion to recommit with instructions, 165-yes, 256-no.

For their own reasons, forty-two members voting "no" on final passage (pro-obortion) voted against the Greenwood Amendment (pro-life), and one Member voting "no" on final passage (pro-abortion) voted against the Baldwin motion to recommit (pro-life.)

*Thank Your Representative

Annual 4-H Country Fair

The Glen-Portsmouth, RI

July 19-20

Help is needed on assisting us in the kitchen or by baking goodies or making salads or lunch side dishes!

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Please call 841-9211 for

more information!!!

(right around the corner)

Annual Fall Spaghetti Dinner

October 24, 2003

AT 6:30 PM

St. Lucy's Hall

West Main Road, Middletown, RI

To the following people who

generously donated new and used

items so that we could continue to meet

the material needs of our clients.

(May & June)

Anonymous Donors

Cathy & Mike Tyska***Faith Fellowship Church

Phil & Eileen Griffin ***Peg Megan

Nadine DeMelo***Holy Ghost Church

Eva Sullivan***Roberta Settle

Lisa Lopes

Lorraine Rousseau

Kellie Ahl

Bonnie Kurtis

Meghan Jannotta

Jennifer King

Early Intervention Program

Mary Freitas

Theresa Toppa

Debbie Motta

Frank Barbarito & friends

Crumb Krunchers

Ray MacFarlane

Erin Kalil

The following items are needed by our clients. Your help is very much appreciated.

Diapers, sizes: newborn, 3, 4 and Pull-ups!!!

Wipes, Baby soaps, powders, etc.

Cribs and changing tables for babies are always in demand

NEW Car seats and Booster Seats

Playpens

(May and June)

Anonymous

Very special thanks to

Attorney Ralph Lewis

for his legal expertise

St. Thomas the Apostle Church

St. Mary of the Bay

Faith Fellowship Church

Calvary United Methodist Church

Church of the Holy Ghost

Igreja Pentecostal Luso-American de tauton

St. Theresa Church

Miscellaneous Donors

As always, a very special thanks

to our faithful monthly financial donors.

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*For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life

--John 3:16

Jesus saith unto him, "I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me.*

• - John 14: 6