Mary Hallan Fiorito https://illinoisfamilyaction.org Wed, 24 Mar 2021 02:54:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-download-32x32.jpg Mary Hallan Fiorito https://illinoisfamilyaction.org 32 32 76203252 SPOTLIGHT: In Defense of Parental Notice of Abortion https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/03/spotlight-in-defense-of-parental-notice-of-abortion/ Wed, 24 Mar 2021 09:00:44 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=17106 Written by David E. Smith

Parents for the Protection of Girls – a grassroots movement to uphold and defend parental notice – recently hosted an online news conference in defense of Illinois’s Parental Notice of Abortion Act. This edition of Spotlight provides especially timely information from the event and highlights numerous reasons why the Parental Notice of Abortion Act must be upheld. Following is a list of conference participants:

Mary Hallan FioRito, a fellow at the Ethics & Public Policy Center and moderator of the forum.… Continue Reading

]]> 17106 SPOTLIGHT: Mary Hallan FioRito on Pro-Life Politics and Culture https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/08/spotlight-mary-hallan-fiorito-on-pro-life-politics-and-culture/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 09:00:43 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=9657 This week’s Spotlight conversation between Monte Larrick and Mary Hallan FioRito took place at the annual Lake County Right to Life Banquet, which was held July 27th in Mundelein, Illinois.

Ms. FioRito received her Juris Doctor from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 1993. Upon conferral of her degree, she was chosen by the late Joseph Cardinal Bernardin to serve as Director of Pro-life Activities for the Archdiocese of Chicago. She subsequently served the Archdiocese as its first female Vice-Chancellor and then as Executive Assistant to the late Francis Cardinal George, until his death in 2015.… Continue Reading

]]> 9657 “Roe v. Wade Out the Door?”(Illinois Family Spotlight #107) https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/roe-v-wade-out-the-doorillinois-family-spotlight-107/ Tue, 14 Aug 2018 07:00:14 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?post_type=podcast&p=9623 Monte is joined by Mary Hallan Fiorito, a Visiting Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington D.C., Ms. Fiorito is also a representative of WomenSpeakForThemselves.com. Mary is an attorney, public speaker, and commentator on issues involving women’s leadership in the Catholic Church, work/life balance for mothers, and Catholic Church administration.

They discuss the current debate about abortion; the midterm elections in terms of pro-lifers and pro-choicers; Donald Trump’s lifetime fluctuation on the Sanctity of Life; a current Illinois law similar to the California mandate struck down by the U.… Continue Reading

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