2017 CENTURY DINNER SPEECHES

1 Aug 201831 Aug 2018

PLLDF is pleased to announce that Bioethics Defense Fund Co-Founders, and 2017 Thomas More Award recipients, Nikolas Nikas and Dorinda Bordlee, have consented to have their presentations posted on PLLDF…

2017 CENTURY DINNER

1 Aug 201814 Jan 2019

PLLDF held its annual Century Dinner on Friday, April 28th at the Boston-Newton Marriott.  It was a huge success!   Co-directors of the nationally renowned Bioethics Defense Fund, Attorneys Dorinda Bordlee…

BIOETHICS DEFENSE FUND LECTURE

1 Aug 201831 Aug 2018

Co-founders Dorinda Bordlee and Nikolas Nikas of the nationally renowned Bioethics Defense Fund (BDF) gave a free presentation prior to the 2017 PLLDF Century Dinner.  PLLDF is happy to report…

PLLDF REACHES OUT TO DIVERSE GROUPS OF ATTORNEYS

1 Aug 201815 Jan 2019

Regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religion or creed, many attorneys are concerned about the protection of liberty from conception through natural death. For over 40 years PLLDF’s pro bono…

A SHOWING OF HUSH AT HARVARD LAW SCHOOL

1 Aug 201814 Jan 2019

In 2017, PLLDF joined representatives of the Harvard Law Students for Life and the (undergraduate) Harvard Right to Life organizations for a showing of HUSH at Harvard University. Here's what some of…

RADIO COR MARIAE HOST CATHERINE JENKINS INTERVIEWS PLLDF PRESIDENT BOB JOYCE

1 Aug 201831 Aug 2018

This 2017 unedited 36-minute interview includes an overview of PLLDF, together with a description of some of its past accomplishments and current projects. We hope you will find it informative…

THE HUMAN LIFE REVIEW BLOG ARTICLE ON PHYSICIAN-PRESCRIBED SUICIDE IN MA.

1 Aug 201831 Aug 2018

A 2017 article titled Battling Phyisican-prescribed Suicide in Massachusetts, co-authored by Lori Brannigan Kelly and PLLDF Board Member Robert W. Joyce, was published on the Human Life Review Blog. Read more…

CLONING, CHIMERAS, AND THE BRAVE NEW WORLD

1 Aug 201821 Aug 2018

In 2016, PLLDF provided several opportunities for lawyers, law students, undergraduates, and the general pubic to hear Bioethics Defense Fund (BDF) Co-Founder and President, Attorney Nikolas Nikas, deliver enlightening presentations related to…

PLLDF DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER ROY SCARPATO GIVES INTERVIEW ON LIFE MATTERS

1 Aug 201831 Aug 2018

PLLDF Director and Founder Roy Scarpato was interviewed by Brendan O'Connell on the cable television show titled Life Matters. For an interesting review of the history of the pro-life movement in Massachusetts from Roe v. Wade onward, we invite you to…

PLLDF FILES U.S. SUPREME COURT AMICI CURIAE BRIEF IN LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR CASE

1 Aug 201831 Aug 2018

On January 11, 2016 PLLDF board members Dwight Duncan and Colbe Mazzarella filed a brief at the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) on behalf of Amici Curiae residents…