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MERIDEN – Holy Angels Pro-Life Outreach Ministry will sponsor its 11th annual Respect Life Conference from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 30 at Holy Angels Parish Center, 585 Main St., South Meriden. Very Rev. Douglas L. Mosey, president-rector of Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell, will celebrate a pro-life Mass at noon. Speakers will be Dr. Judith M. Mascolo, a West Hartford family physician; Bill O'Brien, president of the Connecticut Right to Life Corp.; Dr. Marie T. Hilliard, director of bioethics and public policy for the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia; Dominican Father Brian Mullady of Portland, Ore.; and Leticia Velasquez, a Culture of Life speaker and writer. Tickets are $15. Information is available at (203) 235-3822.