Media Center

 

Speakers include diverse group of pro-life leaders serving as testament to this year’s theme, “Love Saves Lives”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

12/20/17

Contact: Kate Bryan; kbryan@crcpublicrelations.com 703-683- 5004 x1136
Mari Buttarazzi; mbuttarazzi@crcpublicrelations.com 703-683-5004 x1120
Matille Thebolt; mthebolt@crcpublicrelations.com 571-501-4067

WASHINGTON, D.C. – March for Life, the world’s largest annual pro-life demonstration, is proud to announce their initial list of speakers for the 45^th annual March for Life held in Washington, D.C. on January 19^th, 2018. This year’s impressive lineup will include NFL/MLB star Tim Tebow’s mother Pam Tebow, former NFL player Matt Birk and his wife Adrianna, U.S. Representatives Dan Lipinski (D-IL) and Chris Smith (R-NJ), and Sisters of Life’s Sr. Bethany Madonna. Additionally, best-selling Christian music artist Plumb is set to perform. More speakers and guests to be announced soon.

“We are thrilled to have such an outstanding group of speakers with such inspirational stories join us this year at the 45^th annual March for Life,” said Jeanne Mancini, President of March for Life. “Each of these speakers bear witness to this year’s theme ‘Love Saves Lives’ in a unique and powerful way that is sure to resonate with the hundreds of thousands of pro-life Americans from across the country who will be coming to march in defense of life this year. We look forward to hearing how love has empowered each speaker to create a culture of life within their individual communities and platforms.”

In less than a month, hundreds of thousands of Americans are set to travel from across the nation to D.C. for this year’s March for Life, which seeks to promote the dignity of every human life and to stand against the greatest human rights violation of our time – abortion-on-demand.

Learn more about March for Life 2018 here: https://marchforlife.org/mfl-2018/ and follow March for Life on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook for updates on the event.

FOR PRESS CREDENTIALS AND/OR INQUIRIES please contact: Kate Bryan – kbryan@crcpublicrelations.com; 703-683- 5004 x1136,  Mari Buttarazzi – mbuttarazzi@crcpublicrelations.com 703-683-5004 x1120 or Matille Thebolt – mthebolt@crcpublicrelations.com; 571-501-4067

###

 

“Plumb’s music embodies an unparalleled message of hope and love that exemplifies this year’s theme: Love Saves Lives.” – Jeanne Mancini, President of March for Life

WASHINGTON, D.C. – March for Life is thrilled to announce that best-selling artist Plumb will be performing at the 45^th annual March for Life rally on January 19^th, 2018.

“We are delighted to have such an inspirational artist like Plumb join us this year. Plumb’s music embodies an unparalleled message of hope and love that exemplifies this year’s March for Life theme – Love Saves Lives,” said Jeanne Mancini, President of March for Life.

WATCH Plumb’s announcement here:

Throughout her decade-plus career as a songwriter, recording artist and author, Plumb has found success in a myriad of genres, selling over a half a million albums and millions of singles sold and streamed worldwide.  Her career achieved an incredible milestone with her prophetic, best-selling 2012 album NEED YOU NOW and corresponding memoir that chronicled the miraculous restoration of her marriage titled “Need You Now: A Story of Hope”.

These projects were followed by the 2015 breakout album EXHALE, a worshipful album of thanksgiving. Plumb released a 5 song EP “GOD HELP ME” on November 3, to be followed by a full-length album, new book and national headlining tour scheduled for early 2018. Plumb’s newly released single, “God Help Me” is currently climbing the radio charts, proclaiming that God is always with us, and he always listens.

The March for Life released the following statement cheering today’s passage of a pro-life tax plan in the House.

“March for Life applauds the House of Representatives for passing a pro-life tax plan that takes key steps towards recognizing the dignity of all human life. We are heartened to see this bill promote the personhood of an unborn child via an education savings plan that begins prior to birth, and see this as a huge stride toward expanding the child tax credit to recognize life beginning at conception. Additionally, we are pleased that the adoption tax credit, an integral aspect of pro-life policy, has been retained for the heroic families whose love saves lives when they choose to adopt.” – Tom McClusky, Vice President of Government Affairs for March for Life

 

ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM COMMENT
October 6, 2017 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT ADF MEDIA RELATIONS: (480) 444-0020 or www.adfmedia.org/home/contact

 

The following quotes may be attributed respectively to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Gregory S. Baylor and March for Life President Jeanne Mancini regarding a new rule that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued Friday that expands protections in the Obama-era abortion-pill mandate for organizations with pro-life religious or moral convictions. That mandate had forced many employers, regardless of those beliefs, to provide abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization, and contraception under threat of heavy penalties by the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies if the mandate’s requirements weren’t met:

“The beliefs that inspire Christian colleges and universities and the Little Sisters of the Poor to serve their communities should be protected,” said Baylor. “During his campaign, President Trump promised that protecting religious liberty would be a top priority and people of faith would not be bullied on his watch. We are pleased that this rule is a major step forward in keeping that promise and restoring back to people of faith their constitutionally protected freedom. We are also pleased the rule protects the conscience convictions of organizations like March for Life, an organization that bases its pro-life beliefs on science and philosophy, and hosts the largest pro-life gathering in the world every year in Washington, D.C.

“Although organizations that filed civil rights lawsuits will still need final relief from the courts, it is encouraging to see the Trump Administration affirm the principle that all Americans should be free to peacefully live and work according to their faith and conscience without threat of government punishment. Access to contraception and other drugs and devices will continue to be as widely and readily available as it always has been for those who want these items. We commend the president for his commitment to freedom and restoring the choice of religious and pro-life employers and their female employees to work at organizations consistent with their convictions. We expect that the Department of Justice will work with us to quickly resolve these cases in a manner that fully and permanently protects the freedom of conscience of our clients.

“The March For Life Education and Defense Fund exists to protect and defend life from conception. When we were forced by the Obama administration to carry drugs and devices that destroy life in its early stages we were appalled and ultimately needed to seek legal protection. It is un-American to force non profit organizations to defy their very reason for being on something as important as life. We are grateful to the Trump Administration for this rule which will allow pro-life organizations to freely operate according to their beliefs on something as important as the protection of life and look forward to final resolution of our case in court that is consistent with this rule,” said Mancini, a litigant against the mandate. “Our nation has a rich history of protecting conscientious objectors and pro-life organizations must be free to operate according to their beliefs.” 

Alliance Defending Freedom is an alliance-building, non-profit legal organization that advocates for the right of people to freely live out their faith.

# # #