Schedule
General Sessions
Friday, June 20, 2025
| 9:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. | Opening session. Lawfare: How pro-lifers have been targeted by the government and how they are fighting back with strength and grace. Invocation by Chad McDonald and featuring Todd Starnes and additional speakers (to be announced). |
| 3:45 p.m.–5:00 p.m. | Fight against euthanasia: Countering politics and propaganda of the ever-increasing threat to life. Featuring Alex Schadenberg, Wayne Cockfield and Scott Fischbach. |
| 7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. | Making artificial intelligence work for us: Learn how AI is impacting the way the world operates and ways pro-lifers can responsibly leverage it to save lives. Featuring Cato Institute AI guru Stephen Rowe. |
Saturday, June 21, 2025
| 9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. | Winning at the ballot box: How these states overcame the odds, the abortion industry’s money and the media to defeat extreme abortion initiatives in Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota. Featuring John Sowinski, Jessica Flanagain, Speaker Jon Hansen. |
| 1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. | ESG & foreign campaign funding: Understand how both the financial industry and foreign campaign investors are impacting public policy against life. Featuring Dr. OJ Oleka and Heritage Action. |
| 3:45 p.m.–5:00 p.m. | Science and life: The latest discoveries supporting the prolife cause and new dangers to human life. Featuring the Science Alliance for Life: Dr. David Prentice, Dr. Maria Feeney, Dr. Tara Sander Lee, Dr. Kathleen Schmainda and Dr. James L. Sherley. |
Selected Breakout Sessions
While days and times are still pending for these sessions, plan now to attend as many as possible to get the most from your NRLC conference experience.
Fighting the war against chemical abortion and the ever-growing threat to women and babies. Featuring Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon, education director, National Right to Life. |
Order in chaos: How adopting the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) can help your organization operate better, accomplish its goals and save more lives. Featuring Rep. Francis Awerkamp (R-KS) and Peter Northcott, director of state strategies, National Right to Life. |
Impactful digital and social media: How to amplify the pro-life message through social and digital media platforms and podcast storytelling. Featuring Danielle Underwood and Mackenzie Ayers, director of communications and deputy communications director, Kansans for Life, respectively, and hosts/producers of the Right Side of History podcast. |
Overview of the 119th Congress: Insights into the federal government’s ongoing impact on life issues. Featuring Rebecca West of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, with Scott Fischbach, executive director, NRLC, and Madison LaClare, NRLC director of government affairs. |
Become masters of fundraising: From major events to grassroots fundraising, learn from two of the best! Featuring Dena Espenscheid of the Leadership Institute and Anne Carmichael with Cogency Strategic, a division of Choose Life Marketing. |
Abortion: From debate to convincing dialogue. A time-tested approach to changing hearts through one-on-one conversations and ongoing communication. Featuring Kaitlyn Donihue with Justice for All. |
Speaking in the square: Persuasive pro-life arguments for those who are “not US.” Featuring Dr. John Pisciotta, CEO, Pro-Life in the Public Square; Maite Salazar, member of the NRLC board of directors; and Hannah Guilliam, youth programs director, Louisiana Right to Life. |
Coast-to-coast attacks on crisis pregnancy centers: The insidious use of public dollars to attack hopeful alternatives to abortion. Featuring Myrna Maloney Flynn, president and CEO of Massachusetts Citizens for Life; Marie Tasy, executive director of New Jersey Right to Life; and Esther Ripplinger, president and CEO of Human Life of Washington. |
Taking the pro-abortion media head-on: How to approach the legacy media and ways to get around their bias. Featuring Dr. Jack Cashill, Emmy Award-winning producer, writer and media consultant. |
State alternatives to abortion funding: Useful ways your state can prioritize helping women and saving babies. Featuring John McNamara, president of TruthWorks LLC, and Ron Kelsey, president of the board of directors of Kansas City Pregnancy Care Clinic. |
Abortion recovery: Get the most up-to-date data behind the real lives impacted by abortion and pregnancy losses. Featuring Kay Lyn Carlson, LMSW, and Priscilla Coleman, Ph.D., president and science director, respectively, of the International Institute for Reproductive Loss. |