CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE v. CANNON

No. 74-277-Appeal.

363 A.2d 215 (1976)

The CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE et al. v. Joseph E. CANNON, Director of Health, et al.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

August 18, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Moore, Virgadamo, Boyle & Lynch, Ltd., Francis J. Boyle, Joseph R. Palumbo, Jr., Newport, for plaintiffs.

Julius C. Michaelson, Atty. Gen., R. Daniel Prentiss, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendants.


OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

This declaratory judgment action was heard by a justice of the Superior Court. One of the plaintiffs,1 The Constitutional Right to Life Committee, is a nonbusiness corporation organized under the laws of Rhode Island. Two of its corporate goals are to resist "all attempts at liberalizing the existing abortion law" and to develop "a community education program on abortion and its adverse effects on society...

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