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TEA Meeting: A flourishing civilization protects and nurtures their unborn children
June 11, 2022 @ 8:30 am - 11:00 am

Topics: Right to Life and actions you can take
Description: Abortion destroys the most precious and valuable product of a civilization. It’s time to recognize the devastation that 50 years of this deadly practice has wrecked on America.
What to bring: A friend.
Speaker(s): Molly Smith, Cleveland Right to Life and John Ciarrone, Lorain County Right to Life
Time:
8:30 a.m. Coffee and Donuts
9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Program
Admission is free for students through college age and annual members. $5 for all others. Coffee (and tea) & donuts are included.
TEA Membership (includes free admission to monthly meetings January through November, coffee and donuts, participation in the TEA Straw Poll, opportunity to participate in leadership)
$25 Individual / $40 Family
GUEST SPEAKERS:
Molly Smith is the President of Cleveland Right to Life and the Chair of the nation’s largest prolife convention, Bringing America Back to Life. She has extensive experience in the not-for-profit world gained in Canada and the United States.
In 2011 Molly began hosting a weeknight radio program “From the Median” which is aired in Northeast Ohio, Detroit Michigan, and Richmond Virginia. Tune in to AM 1220 at 9:00 p.m. weeknights.
Molly has served on numerous and diverse national non-profit boards such as the Catholic School Board of Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada; the National Pro-Family Canadian organization REAL Women; Personhood Alliance and was an advisor during the formation of the National Lawyers Association. She spearheaded the formation of the Right to Life Action Coalition of Ohio, the newly formed statewide grassroots organization.
Molly’s vision and leadership have strengthened the rights of all human life from conception to natural death throughout Ohio and beyond. Molly lives in Bay Village, Ohio with her husband of 46 years and they have 5 married children and 20 grandchildren.
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John Ciarrone is President of Lorain County Right to Life, a not-for-profit human-life advocacy group that was first organized in 1978. John spoke previously at TEA in 2018 as a candidate for Lorain County Commissioner and again in 2019 with LCRTL.
LCRTL activities include a yearly ad and billboard campaign which raises money to sponsor 10 billboards around Lorain County and newspaper/online ads to support respect for human life in all its forms. In addition, LCRTL conducts informational and educational booths at fairs and festivals around Lorain County. We also partner with our two pregnancy care centers in Lorain County, Cornerstone Pregnancy Services and Birthright. In addition, John will give an update about the organization along with the state of pro-life legislation in Ohio.
John is the proud parent of four grown children, including two Army veterans-turned-police officers, a current US Coast Guard enlistee, an RN daughter, and a grandparent to three.