Ralph Rivera

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  Published on: 1/25/2006    Last Visited: 3/22/2007  

  Lawmakers were joined by Reverend Bob Vandenbosch from Concerned Christian Americans, Ralph Rivera of the Illinois Family Coalition, and Illinois Church Action on Alcohol and Addiction Problems (ICAAP) Executive Director Anita Bedell to express their opposition to the governor's plan.

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  Published on: 1/24/2006    Last Visited: 3/22/2007  

  The lawmakers were joined by Reverend Bob Vandenbosch from Concerned Christian Americans, Ralph Rivera of the Illinois Family Coalition, and Illinois Church Action on Alcohol and Addiction Problems (ICAAP) Executive Director Anita Bedell.

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  Published on: 2/26/2009    Last Visited: 2/26/2009  

  Ralph Rivera, legislative chairman of Illinois Citizens for Life, said it is important to pass the resolution before Congress acts on any "freedom of choice" legislation this year.
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  I don't think any such legislation has been introduced in the current session of Congress, but there have been several bills introduced in years past, and it is important to send members of Congress a strong message now," Rivera said.

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  Published on: 5/14/2008    Last Visited: 5/14/2008  

  "This is not a dirty word, prayer," said Ralph Rivera, an IFI lobbyist.

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  Published on: 7/1/2009    Last Visited: 8/15/2009  

  Pro-life lobbyist Ralph Rivera of Illinois Citizens for Life was stunned by this turn of events. He was certain the pro-aborts did not have the votes in the House to pass the bill, which typically would mean it would be deliberately stalled in committee.
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  We began with an overview of the legislation by Ralph Rivera, with help from fellow pro-life lobbyist Bob Vandenbosch and Zach Wichmann, legislative liaison for the Catholic Conference of Illinois.

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  Published on: 11/1/2008    Last Visited: 11/20/2008  

  Ralph Rivera, a lobbyist for the Illinois Family Institute, said Wednesday getting the required number of signatures would send a message to lawmakers about their constituents' values.
  
  "There's a real threat, and it's because you have activist courts that find things in the constitution that don't exist," Rivera said of judges' rulings in other states that have legalized gay marriage.

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  Published on: 9/21/2004    Last Visited: 9/22/2004  

  Ralph Rivera, chairman of the Illinois Citizens for Life Political Action Committee, said his group did not consider party affiliations in its endorsements.
  
  "It's simple for us," Rivera said.

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  Published on: 6/1/2003    Last Visited: 12/12/2004  

  Though the deadline for passage of the bill was extended until the end of the year, pro-life lobbyist Ralph Rivera of Illinois Citizens for Life said that keeping it from being brought for a vote was a real pro-life victory: "The pro-abortion side really thought they were going to get Illinois FACE this year.This was a real defeat for them."The fight against the bill will resume in the fall, Rivera said.

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  Published on: 10/11/2004    Last Visited: 10/11/2006  

  Ralph Rivera, legislative chairperson for Illinois Citizens for Life, said he intends to highlight the fact that no study exists on the consequences of misuse of the morning after pill, especially in teens.Furthermore, there is nowhere in the proposal that specifies that the recipient must be the patientâ€""it could be the male or even another woman" picking up the medication, he said.
  
  He believes the political mechanism in Springfield is set on making abortions as easy as taking a pill."They basically want it sold over-the-counter," according to Rivera.

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  Choose Life - Prolife - Pregnant - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/26/2004    Last Visited: 3/11/2006  

  Testimony offered by Gilligan along with comments from the Illinois Medical Society and Ralph Rivera, legislative chair of Illinois Citizens for Life, were virtually of no consequence.
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  Rivera said in his testimony that he feared grants and loans made by the institute would go "almost exclusively" to research facilities and individuals that specialized in human embryonic stem-cell research over those who would focus on adult stem-cell research. He said he sees the potential for "preferential treatment to the morally objectionable practice of cloning human embryos and destroying them in order to harvest their stem cells."

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