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Conference

MARCH
FOR LIFE
CONFERENCE

THURSDay, January 23, 2020

  • 9:00 a.m. Keynote Address – Erika Bachiochi, Author and legal scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center 
  • 10:00 a.m. Panel Discussion
    • Sue Ellen Browder, Auther of  Sex and the Catholic Feminist and  Subverted: How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movement 
    • Christina Francis, M.D., Chairman, AAPLOG
    • Mary McClusky, Assistant Director for Projects Rachel Ministry Development, USCCB
    • Brandi Swindell, Founder and CEO of Stanton Healthcare
    • Moderated by Katie Yoder, Web and Video Producer, National Review
  • 11:00 a.m. Capitol Hill 101 – a session designed to equip marchers to meet with their Members of Congress during their March for Life trip to advocate for the sanctity of life.

Renaissance D.C. Downtown Hotel – Grand Ballroom
999 9th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001

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March for Life Conference

SPEAKERS

Erika Bachiochi

Keynote Speaker

Sue Ellen Browder

Panelist

Christina M. Francis, M.D.

Chairman of the Board of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Mary McClusky

Assistant Director for Project Rachel Ministry Development at USCCB

Brandi Swindell

Founder and CEO of Stanton Healthcare

Katie Yoder

Web and video producer for National Review and a columnist for Townhall and CatholicVote.org

Registration is now CLOSED

The March for Life Conference is designed to provide marchers with in-depth education on the yearly theme. The speakers and training sessions will provide information and training tools for marchers to go back to their communities equipped to make a difference for life.

Registration for the March for Life Conferecne is now closed. Tickets are sold out, and there is no waiting list for this event. Tickets are not avaiable on a walk-in basis.

We hope to see you next year!

Please reach out to Mary Lembke if you have any questions. Your conference ticket includes a continental breakfast! 

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Katie Yoder

Moderator

Katie Yoder is the content manager for National Review Online and a columnist for Townhall and CatholicVote.org.

Brandi Swindell

Panelist

Brandi Swindell is a powerful and well-known advocate for human rights, equality, and justice in America and across the globe, Whether traveling to Tiananmen Square during the Beijing Olympics to lead public demonstrations for students killed during the 1989 Massacre (and speaking out for religious freedom and calling for an end to forced abortion) or organizing events to secure the freedom of kidnapped Nigerian girls, Brandi has been a passionate voice for building a worldwide “Culture of Life.”

As a woman from the post-Roe generation, she carries a particularly important and relevant message. She represents the new face of the pro-life movement… a fearless, articulate, revolutionary, and passionate female leader.

Brandi has now launched her most ambitious project: Stanton International. Stanton is a women’s health and advocacy movement, dedicated to establishing life-affirming Stanton Healthcare clinics worldwide and advocating for human rights and justice through the Stanton Public Policy Center.

Mary McClusky

Panelist

Mary McClusky is the Assistant Director for Project Rachel Ministry Development at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities. Mary assists Catholic dioceses with developing their abortion healing ministries to offer and integrate spiritual and psychological healing. Her work also includes pastoral assistance to pregnant women facing unexpected pregnancies and collaboration with those who address domestic and sexual violence, marriage and family issues. She regularly speaks to audiences and the media about the Church’s outreach to bring hope to those suffering from participation in abortion. Mrs. McClusky earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications (Radio/TV) and a Human Life Studies Minor from Franciscan University of Steubenville and a Master of Arts degree in moral theology at Holy Apostles College & Seminary. She has worked at several pro-life and public interest groups in grassroots development, media, event planning, fundraising, and public education and advertising campaigns. She resides in Virginia with her husband Tom and a dog named Drexel.

Christina M. Francis, M.D.

Panelist

Dr. Christina Francis is a board-certified OB/GYN who currently works in Fort Wayne, IN as an OB/GYN Hospitalist.  Dr. Francis completed medical school at Indiana University in 2005 and completed her OB/GYN residency at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana in 2009. She is Chair of the Board of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists. As a pro-life speaker, Dr. Francis offers her medical expertise, knowledge of bioethics, and pro-life reasoning both here in the U.S and around the globe.  She has always had a passion for human rights, spending a significant portion of the past 10 years in various countries working tirelessly on behalf of women and children.  Dr. Francis returned to the U.S. from Kenya in 2014 to work on behalf of women and children, who are often victims of the abortion industry, and to educate people on the greatest social injustice of our time.

Sue Ellen Browder

Panelist

Award-winning journalist Sue Ellen Browder has addressed members of the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women and has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows, including the Today Show, Oprah, EWTN News Nightly, and Fox News. She has published more than 700 articles in many national magazines and newspapers, including Reader’s Digest, Woman’s Day, the National Catholic Register and (mea culpa) Cosmopolitan. As the author of Subverted: How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movement (Ignatius), Sue Ellen has spoken at many pro-life conferences around the country. A widow and mother of two, she now lives in Lander, Wyoming, home of Wyoming Catholic College. Her latest book, to be co-published in January by the Augustine Institute and Ignatius Press, is Sex and the Catholic Feminist.

Erika Bachiochi

Keynote

Erika Bachiochi is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a Research Fellow at the Abigail Adams Institute in Cambridge, MA. A legal scholar specializing in equal protection jurisprudence, she was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School in 2018 and a Research Scholar at the Terrence J. Murphy Institute at the University of St. Thomas in 2016.

Ms. Bachiochi’s essays have appeared in publications such as the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Christian Bioethics (Oxford University), First Things, CNN.com, National Review Online, Claremont Review of Books, SCOTUS blog, and Public Discourse. She is the editor of two books, Women, Sex & the Church: A Case for Catholic Teaching (Pauline Books & Media, 2010) and The Cost of “Choice”: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion (Encounter Books, 2004). Ms. Bachiochi’s next book, an intellectual history of the cause of women’s rights, is under review at Notre Dame University Press.

Ms. Bachiochi received her BA from Middlebury College, her MA as a Bradley Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Politics and Religion at Boston College, and her law degree from Boston University School of Law. She was a co-founder of St. Benedict Classical Academy in Natick, Massachusetts and serves on the Advisory Council of the Catholic Women’s Forum and the Advisory Board of the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum.