TEXAS RIGHT TO LIFE

2024 CONVENTION FOR LIFE

June 22nd, 2024

Where

Grace Woodlands
24400 Interstate Hwy 45, The Woodlands, TX 77386

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2024 Speakers

Danielle D'Souza Gill

Keynote Speaker

Danielle D’Souza Gill is a young author and commentator who lives in New York City. A graduate from Dartmouth College, and the author of YGod: An Intelligent Discussion on the Relevance of Faith, she has also filmed videos for PragerU, has been a Turning Point USA ambassador, and been on various tv and radio networks including Fox News, One America, Newsmax, and Salem Radio.

She is the youngest Advisory Board member of Women for Trump, a coalition of Donald J. Trump’s campaign. The Choice: The Abortion Divide in America, is her second book.

 

Dr. John Seago

President – Texas Right to Life

John Seago, MA, DBE is a published Bioethicist and serves as the President for Texas Right to Life, the oldest and largest statewide Pro-Life organization in Texas. For 11 years, Dr. Seago led the research, writing, and lobbying for state Pro-Life and medical ethics policies in the Texas State Legislature. He graduated with a double major in Philosophy and Biblical Studies from Southeastern College Wake Forest, North Carolina. He studied philosophy at the University of Dallas and received a Master’s in Bioethics from Trinity International University. He received his Doctorate in Bioethics and Health Policy from Loyola University Chicago. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two children.

Lori Bova

Board Member – Legacy Pregnancy Resource Center in Hobbs, NM

Lori Bova advocates for life in rural New Mexico where she resides with her husband, Craig. Both tragedies and joys fuel her passion.

She has defended life locally, fighting for protections for vulnerable women and preborn babies through ordinances and state laws. Since 2017, Lori has been on the board of Legacy Pregnancy Resource Center, which completed a medical conversion this year. She also served on the Right to Life Committee of New Mexico board and helped start a local Right to Life chapter in her county.

Nationally, Lori recently chaired the board of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention. Last year she was thrilled to participate in a press conference on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court after the Governor of New Mexico sued her municipality and county for their anti-abortion ordinances.

When she is not standing for life, she enjoys serving the classical, Christian school she founded, cooking, and traveling with family.

Konni Burton

CEO – The Texan

In 2014 Konni was elected to represent Senate District 10 in the Texas Senate. She served two sessions down in Austin.

Her commitment to conservative principles earned her “100% ratings” from the National Federation of Independent Businesses, the National Right to Life, Texans for Fiscal Responsibility and Young Conservatives of Texas and she received the Taxpayer Champion designation from Empower Texans after both the 84th and
85th legislative sessions.

An activist at heart, Konni’s passion for limited government, individual liberties and free market principles, means a lifelong engagement in the fight to protect these values.

Konni recently founded and is the CEO of The Texan, a multi media online news organization that reports on statewide political news in Texas.

Brent Clingerman

IT Director – Texas Right to Life

Brent Clingerman joined the Texas Right to Life team in 2013 as a technology consultant, quickly turning into the Director of Technology.

He hosts the weekly Pro-Life Podcast discussing current events through the Pro-Life lens. When the HeartBeat Bill passed in 2021, Brent stood against cancel culture, keeping the Pro-Life Whistleblower site running against millions of cyber attacks. In February of 2022, Brent joined the ProLife Podcast as the host, discussing modern cultural topics through the Pro-Life view.

He has spent almost 30 years in non-profit IT, and believes technology can be a God given tool to help further our Lord’s cause.

Robin Clingerman

Co-Chair Board of Directors; The Way, Truth, and Life Outreach Waller Pregnancy Care Center and Family Way  Empowerment

Robin has served on the Board of Directors with The Way Truth and Life since 2021. Helping young families through a crisis or unplanned pregnancy is a core heart value for Robin. Living through a crisis teen pregnancy began her journey in advocacy for open adoption to teen moms in the Houston area. She stands strong with the founding concept of Pro Life is a stance, Pro Love is a movement, which she lives out daily through her Embrace Grace group leadership which supports women in these unplanned pregnancies. Robin is a Special Education Dyslexia teacher, and a proud mother of 3 Pro Love children, raised with her Pro Love, Pro-Life strong husband Brent in Hockley, Texas.

Katy Faust

Founder and President of Them Before Us

Katy Faust is Founder and President of Them Before Us, a global movement defending children’s right to their mother and father. She publishes, speaks and testifies widely on why marriage and family are matters of justice for children. Her articles have appeared in Newsweek, USA Today, The Federalist, Public Discourse, WORLD Magazine, The Daily Signal, the Washington Examiner, the American Mind, and the American Conservative. She is on the advisory board for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. Katy helped design the teen edition of CanaVox which studies sex, marriage and relationships from a natural law perspective. She detailed her philosophy of worldview transmission in her book, Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City. She and her pastor husband are raising their four children in Seattle.

Rebekah Hagan

Son saved by Abortion Reversal Procedure

Rebekah Hagan is one of today`s youngest speakers on the issues of teenage pregnancy, abortion, and abortion pill reversal.

Raised in a Christian home where abortion was never discussed, Rebekah`s life in pro-life ministry was unplanned and fueled, instead, by her firsthand experience. She became pregnant at seventeen with her son, Eli, and again with a second child while in her first year of college. 

Feeling ashamed and fearing that she would lose her family and be forced to drop out of school, Rebekah thought that raising two children alone would be impossible. At just over seven weeks pregnant, she began a medication abortion that changed her life; however, her story did not end there.

Her story has been shared by local and national media, as well as religious and secular organizations, including Vice News HBO, Focus On The Family, Students For Life, Live Action, Heartbeat International, Epoch Times, and World Magazine.

A passionate advocate for grace-centered outreach, Rebekah Hagan uses her story to unravel the mindset of women in unplanned pregnancies, and to equip and encourage others to lead with hope and compassion.

Rebekah is a graduate of William Jessup University. 

Sue Liebel

Director of State Affairs & National Pro-Life Women’s Caucus Coordinator
Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America

Sue Liebel hails from Indianapolis, IN where she has worked for over 30 years in policy development, lobbying, and political strategy.

As states grapple with policy decisions after Roe v. Wade, Sue works with pro-life lawmakers and advocates in the Midwest to advance pro-life laws and programs to help women, children and families.

Sue also coordinates SBA’s National Pro-Life Women’s Caucus and National Pro-Life Leaders Network, SBA programs that equip state elected officials across the country with policy, legal and communications tools.

For over a decade Sue was the VP of Indiana Right to Life, developing policy and lobbying strategies and serving as its media spokesperson on issues of human life.

Most importantly, Sue pledges her life’s work to her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Helen Lowery

Helen Lowery holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting and Master of Business Administration from Niagara University, Lewiston, NY. She attended Houghton College, Grace School of Leadership Development, South Houston Bible Institute, and Trinity Seminary Doctoral in Theology program.

During her successful 42-year career at DuPont/Chemours Company, working in finance, sales, and marketing roles, Helen served as Vice-Chair of DuPont Corporate Black Employees Network. She was the recipient of several performance and accomplishment awards. Through perseverance and putting her trust in the Lord, in
2017, she became the second female and first African American president of a 35-year-old global trade association. She is currently employed at The Lubrizol Corporation as a Global Corporate Account Manager.

Helen is an ordained minister through Grace International and travels extensively throughout the United States and internationally, teaching and ministering at churches and conferences. The difficult adolescence she experienced helped prepare her to minister healing to the deep hurts in people with the love of Jesus Christ. Her life story brings hope to many that you can excel, achieve, and thrive in life through God’s grace
and a good work ethic regardless of your beginning.

As a community leader, Helen has served on various non-profit boards, is a mentor to others on work/life balance and how to succeed in corporate American, and advocates and supports women in leadership and ministry. She was an adjunct professor of Accounting at Niagara County Community College and former Chairperson of Black American Biblical Conservatives.

Helen and her husband Jeffrey have been married for 40 years and blessed with four beautiful children, six grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter. Their greatest joy is seeing their children and generations love and serve Jesus Christ. Jeff founded Living Truth Ministries, a faith-based 501c3 ministry focused on pastoral care, teaching principles from the Bible to equip the body of Christ, and Christian-based counseling.
They desire to see the maturing of the body of Christ, build strong individuals, families, and marriages. They currently serve as Montgomery County Justice Court Chaplain
(under Judge Wayne L. Mack).

Sandra L Ontiveros

Senior Director of
Operations – Houston Pregnancy Resource Center

Sandra Ontiveros serves as the Senior Director of Operations of Houston Pregnancy Help Center, Inc., which
currently has three locations in Houston, Texas: The Fifth Ward Pregnancy Help Center, Downtown Pregnancy Help Center, and the Medical Mobile Van. Both centers are located in the heart of the city’s historically underserved communities, and the Medical Mobile Van travels to serve the greater Houston area. Focused on abortion determined and abortion vulnerable clients, HPHC provides free services to over 12,000 clients per year resulting in thousands of unborn babies’ lives saved since 2004. 

Mrs. Ontiveros began as a volunteer in pro-life ministry as a Freshman in High School. Her first encounter with a woman in a crisis pregnancy was, when as the only Spanish speaking volunteer available in the building, she led a woman to choose life for her baby and accept Jesus Christ as her Savior. This was the beginning of a ministry that has brought forth a passion and an extraordinary example of God’s love for women and their babies. Under the mentorship of Sylvia B. Johnson, Ms. Ontiveros has served in many capacities at HPHC which have included Center Director, Volunteer Training, Childbirth and Marriage Class Instructor, Client Services Director, and most recently, as the pilot program director for HPHC’s new Adoption Education Initiative, which saw an increase
of over 200% in women choosing adoption over abortion in only 1 year of the program’s start. In addition, Mrs. Ontiveros’ gift for reaching the Latino/Hispanic community has allowed her to enter hard to reach places such as local high schools, county hospitals and minority centers to lead women to understanding the gift of life and knowing Christ. 

Mrs. Ontiveros lives in Houston, Texas with her husband Juan Carlos and her two sons Andres and Benji. In addition to full time pro-life ministry, she is also a homeschooling mommy who enjoys spending time with her entire family and trying new places a self-proclaimed part-time foodie.

Jana Pinson

Executive Director – The Pregnancy Center of the Coastal Bend

Jana is the Executive Director for the Pregnancy Center of the Coastal Bend with 5 locations in Corpus Christi, Rockport, and Portland, Texas. The Center provides free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, STD testing, initial prenatal care, and parenting education and support with over 14,000 client visits in 2023. The Center also operates Hi Again Retail Shop which provides employment and job training in a family-friendly environment that allows participating clients to bring their babies to work. The Center’s staff and volunteers pour love into our clients daily by offering medical, emotional, spiritual, and material support to promote life and build strong families.

In 2020 she received several calls from girls on the border wanting abortions and realized the desperate need for pregnancy centers on the Texas border. As abortion pills pour across our southern border a passion to help serve these “life deserts” became a passion. Since 2022 she has been serving as the volunteer Executive Director for the Laredo Pregnancy Center on the border of Texas and Mexico.

Jana also serves as a founding board member of Life Ambassadors of Texas, a coalition of pregnancy centers in Texas.

Serving as the Executive Director of the Pregnancy Center of the Coastal Bend and Laredo has been both — one of her hardest jobs and most fulfilling joys.  Looking into the eyes of a young woman in crisis and seeing them change from crisis to hope is an extraordinary gift. 

 

Dr. Ingrid Skop, M.D., FACOG

Vice President and Director of Medical Affairs – Charlotte Lozier Institute

Ingrid Skop, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. has been a practicing board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist in San
Antonio, Texas for over 30 years. She received her Bachelor of Science in physiology from Oklahoma
State University, her medical doctorate from Washington University School of Medicine, and completed
her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San
Antonio. Dr. Skop is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a lifetime
member of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She currently practices
with OB Hospitalist Group and is also Vice President and Director of Medical Affairs for the Charlotte
Lozier Institute. She serves as medical director for AWC Centers in San Antonio, on the medical advisory
board of Save the Storks, on the board of Seton Home maternity shelter, and as a member of the Texas
Maternal Morbidity and Mortality Review Committee. She has published peer reviewed articles focusing
on abortion safety, abortion drugs and maternal mortality, and has testified to state and federal
legislatures and judicial courts. Dr. Skop is married to a physician and is the proud mother of two sons
and a daughter.

Dr. Skop has always been passionate about caring for mothers and their children in holistic ways. She
understands that many women are in crisis due to family breakdown, domestic violence, lack of emotional
and material support, and poor psychological and physical health, which place their pregnancies and
children’s lives at risk. She seeks to dig beneath the surface to understand these issues better, to focus
resources and interventions upstream to prevent these crises. When crises do occur, she hopes to
provide interventions that will truly enhance the lives and well-being of American women and their
families.

Kent Matthews

Convention EMCEE

Radio personality Kent Matthews is no stranger to the airwaves and has been with NGEN since day one! He’s the ultimate lover of Switchfoot, but no, he won’t “dare you to move.” Simply put, he loves Jesus and loves people. It’s never a dull moment with him on the dial. Be sure to catch him each weekend on NGEN radio.