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.

President, Speaker For Life

Dr. Marc Newman is a demanding communication trainer, incisive pro-life apologist, president of Speaker for Life, and author of, Contenders: A Church-Wide Strategy to Unmask Abortion, Defeat Its Advocates, Empower Christians, and Change the World. He has spoken at every major pro-life conference in the country.

Marc is the former Director of Speech and Debate at the University of California at Irvine and is retired from teaching in the doctoral program in the School of Communication and the Arts at Regent University.

He has trained speakers in the public and private sectors for over thirty years.

Marc is also a cultural analyst and has appeared on Fox News and in Time magazine.

He is from North San Diego County in California but relocated to beautiful Eastern Tennessee with his wife, Sharon, and their youngest son, Joel.

International Pro-Life Speaker, Attorney, Conceived in Rape

Rebecca Kiessling has been an international pro-life speaker and adoption speaker since 1995, speaking for various pro-life organizations, including right to life groups, crisis pregnancy center fundraisers, 40 Days for Life events, rallies, churches, high schools, universities, Students for Life, women’s conferences, attorney conferences, adoption events, etc., throughout North America, Europe, and Latin America about 50 – 75 times/year. Politically influential, she changed the heart of Gov. Rick Perry during his presidential campaign, as well as Newt Gingrich, and many legislators across the U.S., Canada, Europe and Latin America. She’s helped pregnant rape victims all around the world to choose life for their children. She’s also an attorney and raised 5 children (two oldest were adopted and passed away on July 29, 2020 from fentanyl poisoning.) She also lost 2 additional babies to miscarriage, and her 33 day old adopted daughter Cassie, who was born with special needs.

Director of Medical Services for Prestonwood Pregnancy Center

Whitney Freeman is the Director of Medical Services for Prestonwood Pregnancy Center, a ministry dedicated to empowering and equipping women in unplanned pregnancies to make life-affirming choices. A gifted and accomplished nurse, Whitney worked at Children’s Health for 14 years in both the Trauma Neurosurgery ICU and on the Vascular Access team. During this season, she had the honor of serving on the medical team that cared for the Egyptian conjoined twins. She graduated from Oklahoma Baptist University in 2002 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.

Whitney began as a volunteer at Prestonwood Pregnancy Center in 2016 and joined as full-time staff shortly after. Over the past decade, she has been a source of strength and knowledge to countless women, offering compassionate care with a unique ability to connect with her clients. Today, Whitney leads the medical team with expertise, fulfilling her life calling with excellence.   Whitney has been married to her husband Hugh for 18 years and they have two daughters, Ava and Sophia, who light up their lives and keep them busy!

Director of Education for Natural Womanhood

Jackie Aguilar is the Director of Education for Natural Womanhood. Jackie is a trained FertilityCare Practitioner instructing women and couples in the Creighton model, and a certified Sympto-thermal method instructor with the Couple to Couple League. Jackie also holds a degree in Marketing from Texas A&M University.  As a former Zumba instructor, she enjoys salsa dancing with her husband, with whom she has 5 children.

Legislative Director for Texas right to Life

Ashley Leenerts joined the Texas Right to Life legislative team in 2020 and has since been advocating for Life through grassroots activism and helping to pass impactful, life-saving legislation, such as the Texas Heartbeat Act. In the summer of 2024, she also stepped into the role of TRL’s Legislative Director. Before this, she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish with a minor in Psychology from Angelo State University, drawing inspiration from a year-long internship with a church in Sucre, Bolivia. While there and upon returning to the States Ashley volunteered with an orphanage, aiding with young infants, and assisted in transitional foster care. Ashley grew up believing that all Life is sacred, but the pivotal moment came when her younger sister unexpectedly became pregnant as a teenager and received crucial assistance from their local pregnancy resource center. After this experience, Ashley began volunteering at the center and felt called to make advocating for innocent human Life her mission. With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, she recognizes that the fight for Life has only intensified, as abortion pills have become the most common method of abortion. Ashley continues to work towards promoting a culture of Life for both born and preborn Texans. Alongside thousands of others, she advocates for human dignity from conception until natural death.

40 Days for Life, Former Abortionist

Dr. Haywood Robinson, was born in Los Angeles, California. He attended college and medical school in Southern California and received specialty training in family medicine at Martin Luther King/Charles R. Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles. While there, he met Dr. Noreen Johnson, who was completing her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Johnson was one of his many instructors that taught him the abortion procedure. Shortly thereafter, the couple became romantically involved and they began moonlighting together as abortionists in Southern California. After completion of their respective residency programs, the couple married and moved to Texas to begin a thirty-eight-year journey in their joint private practice until Dr. Robinson retired in 2019. Dr. Johnson passed away in August 2021.

Since his salvation in 1986, pro-life work has been not only a passion, but a calling for Dr. Robinson. He now serves as the Director of Medical Affairs and Education for 40 Days for Life. As a former abortionist, he understands the realities of abortion and demonstrates heroic compassion for both mother and child. His encouraging and principled approach points the way to a culture of life. The Scalpel and the Soul: Our Radical Transformation as Husband and Wife Abortion Doctors, the book coauthored by Drs. Robinson and Johnson, was released in June 2023.

Dr. Robinson has found his true love and life partner. He and his now wife, the formerly Daphne Harris Nicely, serve together in family, life, pregnancy care, and reconciliation ministries and missions across the globe. Collectively, Dr. and Mrs. Robinson have four living children, thirteen children that have preceded them in death, five bonus children, their seventh grandchild is due in June 2025, and they have one great grandchild.

Convention EMCEE

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