ADF, Students for Life co-host world's largest pro-life youth conference Sunday
ADF attorneys will present, media welcome to attend or watch video feed
ADF attorney sound bite: David Cortman
WHAT: Available for media interviews at the Students for Life of America National Conference (call Michelle Fortin at 480-338-0331 to schedule appointment)
WHEN: Sunday, Jan. 22 (conference schedule)
WHERE: Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, 5701 Marinelli Rd., Bethesda
BETHESDA, Md. — Alliance Defense Fund attorneys will be available for media interviews Sunday during the 2012 Students for Life of America National Conference. Media may attend by special arrangement or via live video feed.
The annual SFLA conference is the largest pro-life youth conference in the world, and the expected nearly 2,000 attendees will hear from featured prominent pro-life U.S. Congressmen, attorneys, scholars, activists, authors, and leaders. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will introduce a special screening of the film “The Gift of Life,” and this year’s Defender of Life Award will be presented to Chai Ling, founder of All Girls Allowed.
“Every innocent life deserves to be protected. ADF is again proud to stand with students as they promote this truth and resist the aggressive pro-abortion agenda and censorship that exists on many campuses,” said ADF Senior Counsel David Cortman.
“This is the first student pro-life conference that focuses on what our nation will look like once Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton are overturned,” said Students for Life Executive Director Kristan Hawkins. “We’re examining this from all sides: politically, economically, financially, medically, and socially. We want to not only encourage our students to take action that will successfully end abortion in our lifetime but shine a light on how specific industries will be shaped once abortion is overturned.”
The SFLA National Conference provides a full day of education, training, and networking for students and national pro-life leaders focused on how they can make a difference on public high school, college, and university campuses across America by proclaiming the pro-life message, including the often censored realities of abortion. Pro-life students will have the opportunity to share their stories face-to-face and glean from the experience of many seasoned pro-life activists from across the country.
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ABOUT David Cortman
David A. Cortman serves as senior counsel and vice president of U.S. litigation with Alliance Defending Freedom. He has been practicing law since 1996, and currently supervises a team of over 40 attorneys and legal staff who specialize in constitutional law, focusing on religious freedom, sanctity of life, and marriage and family. Cortman has litigated hundreds of constitutional law cases including two victories at the U.S. Supreme Court. In Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer, he secured a 7-2 victory that overturned Missouri’s denial of a religious school’s participation in a state funding program. Cortman also argued Reed v. Town of Gilbert, securing a 9-0 ruling that prohibits the government from discriminating against religious speech. A member of the bar in Georgia, Florida, Arizona, and the District of Columbia, he is also admitted to practice in over two dozen federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Cortman obtained his J.D. magna cum laude from Regent University School of Law.