2010 Conference Speakers
- Phill Kline
- Phill Kline served as Attorney General of the State of Kansas from 2002-2006. He was the first and only prosecutor ever to succeed in obtaining abortion records from Planned Parenthood and late term abortionist George Tiller. Prior to his term as Attorney General, Kline served eight years in the Kansas House of Representatives. There he helped to write and enact into law one of the strictest late term abortion laws in the United States.
- Phill Kline was defeated in his bid for re-election as Attorney General in 2006, but was elected as Johnson County District Attorney, which allowed him to retain jurisdiction over the Planned Parenthood investigation. As a result, a district judge found probable cause that crimes were committed at Planned Parenthood. In October 2007 Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri was charged with 107 criminal charges, including 23 felonies.
- Kline is currently a visiting professor at Liberty University School of Law in Lynchburg, VA. He and his wife Deborah live in Amherst, VA with their daughter Hillary.
- Austin Ruse
- Austin Ruse is president of Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM). He has participated in every major UN social policy negotiation since 1997. He has briefed members of the U.S. House and Senate on U.N. matters, as well as briefing White House and National Security Council staff.
- He has appeared on a number of national cable network programs discussing UN and Catholic issues, including news programs on CNN, CBS News, MSNBC, and Fox News. Ruse has been published in First Things, The Washington Times, National Review Online, The Weekly Standard, Human Events, Touchstone and other newspapers around the world.
- He is a biweekly columnist for TheCatholicThing.org and he lectures widely on U.N. matters, appearing throughout the U.S., Canada and Latin America, the Far East and Europe. Ruse is a founder of the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast.
- Lila Rose
- Lila Rose is a student activist at UCLA who has dedicated herself to building a culture of life and ending abortion. At age 15, Lila founded Live Action, which is now a growing nonprofit with several chapters in California.
- In May 2007, Lila released her first investigation of Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider, posing undercover in two of their Los Angeles clinics as a 15-year-old girl impregnated by her 23-year-old boyfriend. Neither clinic reported the clear case of sexual abuse, and one counselor coached Lila to lie about her age so the clinic would not have to report the incident.
- Lila's most recent undercover work, Live Action's multi-state investigation "The Mona Lisa Project," vividly illustrates how Planned Parenthood's 'abortion-first mentality' leads it to disregard state laws meant to protect young girls, instead sending them back into the arms of their sexual abusers. "The Mona Lisa Project" has prompted officials in several states to take action against Planned Parenthood.
- Lila is a much sought after pro-life speaker, and is a frequent guest on national radio and television programs.
Updated 10/13/09