23 years once a month. I am so grateful to heritage were hosting this with us. I also want to introduce bridget weisberg are from heritage who is cohosting this event with us today. She is associate director of coalition relations. We had three grades hers today for our prolife panel. Matter Kathryn Glynn foster and Alexander Desantis and they have been leaders in the fight for the fight for wife. First malory will be speaking on the shift in the Prolife Movement post overturning roe and how it is sure that we keep moving the country in a prolife direction. Valerie serves as Vice President of communications of the susan b. Anthony prolife America Group group. Responsible for managing the groups communication and the Organization Strategy in corresponding with the media and public rest groups. Malorys profile stories about susan b. Anthony prolife america have been in the New York Times, the washington post, msnbc, the new york, and many more. She also serves as a top spokeswoman for the organization. Featured on fox news aired many publications and many to broadcast. She is a graduate of university of maryland. And joined the sba prolife American Team in 2009 after teaching english in france. Next, Kathryn Glynn foster will speak about jobs and the future to fruit prolife advocacy. The ceo on americans united for life and has litigated on so many issues. As well as Supreme Court many u. S. Courts of appeals and u. S. District courts for the Eastern District of virginia. She is author and tensed if id numerous domestic foreign and International Legislation initiatives and has appeared before the u. S. Senate, the u. S. House of representatives and other enteral and state bodies on multiple occasions. Before coming to americans united for life, kathryn spent seven years with lives defending freedom. Then she found it and manage the law practice that focused on respecting this entity of human life. And supporting likeminded organizations. She earned her doctorate and law degree at Georgetown University law center. Her masters in french from the university of south florida and a ba in history and french from mary college. Our third speaker alexandria desantis will be speaking on her new book you have it here to hold it up . I do not. Ok. She coauthored the book called tearing us apart how abortion harms everything and solves nothing. She will discuss how the Prolife Movement can make the best case against abortion by explaining it is hard that it has harmed every aspect of our site society. Commentary for this National Review online. She has hosted many National Review podcasts and speaks often on campus Colleges College campuses and conferences. Yesterday she spoke at a Foundation HighSchool Conference along with carolyn from our staff. In many conservative events across the country. Her work has been published in the New York Times, wall street journal, the atlantic, washington post, washington salmon, and the human life view. She is a 2016 graduate of the university of notre dame area following todays speakers and q a after that, we hope you will join us in the foyer outside for lunch. So, please join me in welcoming todays prolife panel. [applause] thank you so much. Good afternoon everyone it is such a pleasure to be here and join you. Especially to be on a panel with man women i so much admire. Cap and i did not realize we had a French Connection going. This is also a special audience for me because i know that you are interns in the prolife conservative movement in d. C. I started exactly where you are. In 2009 at the what was called the susan b. Anthony list i was doing your most basic intern things. Answering the phones, making fresh cups of coffee, this is before k cups and espresso, i was writing blog posts and also cold calling the New York Times eventually. Is anybody doing that that this summer . No. Well i had to talk to them about our life political campaigns and how and why we believe that prolife is a winning issue and how we were intending to engage voters on this in key elections in order to impact the bottom life bottom line and impact champions once they were in office to instate policy. It is profound, as i was thinking about what to say to you guys as i reflected on that time as an intern. Seeing how much has changed. In the 13 years ive and an advocate for life in washington dc. It is decades old. Hundreds of thousands of americans have been working in various ways across the movement to get us to this point. One key contribution that i believe that susan b. Anthony has made and something i encourage all of you to continue in the future is to engage politically to keep engaging politically in the postop era. For 50 years we marched, we prayed, we began Crisis Pregnancy Centers to serve women in their communities. All of that is vital and we would not be here without it. But like every other successful human rights battle, there had to be a change in law and policy. And that was what we set out to do at the susan b. Anthony prolife america was and for the last 10 years very specifically being focused on electing a prolife president , a senate, all for the purposes of effecting the Supreme Court. Two see through the nomination and confirmation of justices touches those who are signed on to Justice Alitos doherty opinion official. And that is what we set out to do using the tools of democracy and that actually happen. I think its incredible. So many in the life we we are still reeling from the dobbs decision. I know in my part, every time i see roe v. Wade overturned on television i still catch my breath and i am thinking that really happened. But we absolutely cannot sit back at this point, a lot of my colleagues and leaders in the Prolife Movement have been quoting Winston Churchill recently. I love this quote. This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is perhaps the end of the beginning. And i think that is very profound. It is more important than ever to stay engaged in the Prolife Movement and in politics in particular. Because by overturning roe. The court to its thumb off the scale and we the people through our elected representatives we can set policy that protects women and children. So since dobbs 12 states with another six soon to join them have taken action to protect more children throughout the duration of pregnancy or route the duration of pregnancy impacting an estimated 150,000 abortions every year. Potential lives saved. That is incredible. But this is a democratic republic of states. Some states are going in the opposite direction. To create socalled sanctuaries for abortion that are not just places where women can travel from to obtain abortions but where women can be brought to by pimps and traffickers where they are also enjoying these election safe havens. And we have a few blocks away democrats in congress pushing for a fourth vote on the failed, but very beautifully named Womens Health protection act. We cannot let our fellow americans fall for this life that the law is about protecting Womens Health. It is very deceptively name. More than 56 of abortions are occurring and will continue to occur. So, in order to reach the majority of the babies that are suffering and dying from abortion we need federal action. And back to the prolife states, not only are the prolife laws in the prolife lawmakers who are championing them going to need to be supported your after your election after election but we will need ongoing support for moms and babies who are now welcoming unplanned and unexpected children especially in the states the 16 that i mentioned for the 18 that i mentioned that are being most aggressive and ambitious to protect life. Here is an area where prolife governors are taking incredible steps forward creatively finding new ways to ensure that moms and families have the resources that they need to choose life. In the best circumstance. This is sam be mississippi governor is a great example hill here. He has signed into new bills that supports prolife Pregnancy Centers that is a tax credit for donations to Pregnancy Centers. Encouraging support from the community to assist moms and families in need. 14 states have offered alternatives to abortion programs including taxes. This went completely unreported. Maybe not by alexandra but texas when they pass their heartbeat protection act they also had a hundred Million Dollars of funding for children in texas. Many of those dollars have been authorized to Pregnancy Centers which as we know they have been offering free care to moms and families and material and financial assistance, medical care, sometimes housing and maternity homes, parenting classes, job training, everything is struggling mom or dad might to make that situation easier when they are taking care of life. And that is all provided by members of the local community. So, we know the centers on a cultural level and financial level and political policy lies as well, they need our support more than ever. Since the leak draft opinion theres been more than 40 incidents of violence against these nonpolitical places. Everything from firebombing to windows being smashed. You name it. Vandalism. And we need a elected officials speaking out at every level speaking out against that violence. In closing, i want to hear from these other ladies, the road ahead is going to be bumpy and winding. Let what i want you to take away from this is that there is a road. It did not end june 24, outside the court. There is so much work more work to be done. In United States and the congress in our communities but it is going to be worth it to have americas future and americas children walk protected under the law. Thank thank you and i look forward to q later. I am so excited to be here with all of you today. And q for having us here and i am delighted to be speaking with this crowd of so many young people. Because, as you said, the road is just beginning, our workload is just we are trying to on the webinar earlier this morning we were trying to figure out what the term is do you have triple or quadruple or quintuple that can get up to nine or 50 times i have no idea but whatever that number is or how ever you say it that is what it is just happen. In a lot of ways, it is going to be your generation it carries the ball forward. When it comes to voting and getting the right people in office. I am a lawyer, my organization is the one that writes all these laws that get past. And when it comes to going and testifying for the laws and ending that good policy advanced, when it comes to sharing the truth about abortion and abortion law, which the Mainstream Media does not always do spectacularly well and that is why we really rely upon you. And people like you who have such clarity of vision. But also, because i think when you look across the spectrum of a life, there are certain moments that stand out. There is just times when the american story truly changes over the courses of our lives. For most of us, it is just a couple few times in our life. Berlin wall, 1989, i was not really old enough to remember that. A lot of you were not even here yet, but that would be one of those times berlin loss of two per 11. The covid pen to make over the last two years we will all remember that. For a long time to come. But on june 24, we had another one of those moments and he was nash and it was the day that roe finally fell, the day roe finally relegated, tossed out on the ash heap of history. After nearly 50 years shoring up this regime of constitutionalize abortion and after 50 years the unspeakably tragic loss of 60 million human lives. Justice samuel alito wrote, we hold that roe must be overruled. The constitution makes no reference to abortion and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision. Abortion, the court declared, is critically different from any other right this court has held the 14th amendment protection of liberty because it destroys what roe and casey call fetal life and what the law now before us describes as an unborn human being. That crowed that quote is critical. And he repeats that idea five times and that opinion, just emphasizing abortion is different from other Due Process Rights you may have heard about new media recently that people are saying may be at risk, abortion is different because it takes a life. Theres been a lot of misconceptions, both before and after the dobbs decision. Hopefully we can get into some of those during q a. Im sure you will always remember where you were when you heard about the outcome in dobbs. We heard the news the court is finally submitted its resignation as a National Abortion control board and returned the right to value and protect life to the American People, where it always belonged. I was in my kitchen making breakfast for my three kids. I was planning a busy day at the office here in d. C. When i saw the courts announcement, i instantly flashed back to the child i lost to abortion many years ago in the lives the abortion business told me to persuade me to make that awful decision. Then i said a prayer of deep gratitude for my coworkers, my colaborers, for life. On the staffs of american for life and my coat laborers here on the stage. And everyone throughout the Prolife Movement. The millions upon millions upon millions of people who for decades have lived a culture of life in whatever way, maybe they are lawyers or communicators or reporters, maybe they are doctors, maybe they pray, maybe they sidewalk council. No matter what you do, even being there for that young woman or young man in your life you find out is facing an unexpected pregnancy, it is critical. Every single piece of the puzzle is critical in building a culture of life. There are untold numbers of deeply devoted lawmakers, policy advocates, and supporters who for 50 years refused to accept the verdict of those small number of black robed justices that women must have the right to destroy the child in the womb in order to achieve equality. What our own Supreme Court told us in planned parenthood v, casey and im sure people here in the room no better than that. We do not have to have that to be equal in our society. But we do have millions of americans who are incredibly are incredulously asking, what just happened . The downfall of roe didnt just happen. Because many years ago, the late Supreme CourtJustice Antonin Scalia a limited the edifice of scalia, he lamented that the edifice of abortions the court had erupted seemingly overnight may have to be torn down doorjamb by doorjamb. He worried maybe never toppled over. The Prolife Movement, we took his words as a moral challenge. We won hardfought battles in the court over and over. That reduced roe to that facade that the Court Finally pushed over just a couple weeks ago, that abortion right that was claimed fundamental in roe and narrowly escaped being overruled in 19 in be casey. Planned parenthood be casey. Emerging as a liberty interest. Regulated like any other medical procedure. These last 50 years, a case on abortion before the case on average every two years or so and each of those cases, the court could have overturned roe, they did revisit the abortion issue directly. Not talking about First Amendment rights, free speech rights relating to abortion, Pregnancy Centers like the case out of california, direct abortion cases and over and over for 50 years, we have scholars, legal scholars prolife and , prochoice, even the ones who supported abortion rights, they told us the 49 years of roe, for 49 years they said this is not constitutionally sound. This is not based in our nations history and traditions and not based in our constitution. It was wrongly decided and it needs to return to the people. Along the way, we secured victory after victory the victory in the Supreme Court for the lives of women and children. Ensuring states could outlaw unlicensed back alley abortionists, that states could refrain from paying elected abortions with text. I was come that states could insist on the reporting of abortion data that documents just how risky the procedure is, and the states could mandate abortion doctors provide basic informed consent to their patients on what abortion really does to a vulnerable human being in utero. As roe was being torn down, the Prolife Movement was rebuilding strong legal and Community Protections for women facing abortion. The Supreme Court had just nullified in one fell swoop. After casey in 1992, more victories came, most notably, a a ringing reaffirmation from the court that some abortion procedures were too barbaric to barbaric, that is their word, to permit. Criticism of roe mounted from the courts on justices and many appeal court judges. Meanwhile, the abortion rate dropped precipitously year after year to the point where today a woman is only as likely to make that desperate choice as she was in 1972, the year before roe v. Wade struck d