For immediate release:
Thursday, June 24, 2010
For further information:
Derrick Jones, NRLC 2010 Press Office
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WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE:
PRO-LIFE MAJORITY GATHERS IN PITTSBURGH
40th Annual National Right to Life
Convention Begins Today
PITTSBURGH,
PA – The 40th annual National Right
to Life Convention kicks off today at the Hyatt Regency
Pittsburgh International Airport. First held in 1971, at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, the annual convention brings
together pro-life leaders from across the country
and around the world. The convention launches with
a general session featuring Steven Mosher, president
of the Population Research Institute.
“Pro-life activists working at the
local and state level make up the backbone of the
pro-life movement and we are honored to bring them
together in Pittsburgh this year,”
said Wanda Franz, Ph.D.,
president of the National Right to Life Committee.
“This year’s convention
gives us a chance to reflect on the pro-life
advances made in the past year – including
groundbreaking legislation in
Nebraska and
Oklahoma. And
it gives all of us the chance to redouble our
efforts to protect life by networking and learning
from some of the leading experts in the movement.”
Author Angela Franks, Ph.D., will
speak at this evening’s general session, on Planned
Parenthood’s war against children. In her book
Margaret Sanger’s Eugenic Legacy, she discusses
Sanger’s contributions to the modern day culture of
death. There will also be a special presentation
celebrating the 25th anniversary of Teens
for Life.
On Saturday morning, House Republican
Leader John Boehner will receive the National Right
to Life Legislative Leadership Award for outstanding
pro-life leadership in Congress, as he addresses the
importance of continued pro-life activism.
In total, the convention, hosted by
the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, will feature
more than 60 workshops and 5 general sessions
addressing every issue affecting the pro-life
movement today from recent state legislative
victories, stem cell research and fetal development
to the dangers of healthcare rationing in the Obama
health care plan and the possible effects of the
DISCLOSE Act.
Celebrating its 25th year,
the National Teens for Life convention will run
concurrently with NRLC 2010, featuring sessions
aimed at training and educating young pro-life
leaders from across the country.
“Our goal is that everyone leaves
the convention with the tools they’ll need to
continue touching hearts and changing minds,”
Dr. Franz added. “Working
together at all levels, we are making a difference
in the lives of the most vulnerable members of our
society: the unborn, the elderly, and the medically
dependant and disabled.
The National Right to Life
Committee is the nation’s largest pro-life group
with affiliates in all 50 states and over 3,000
local chapters nationwide.
