PROMINENT US legislator Bette Grande will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Right to Life Australia Conference in Melbourne.
Mrs Grande, mother of three and Republican state legislator from North Dakota, has sponsored two anti-abortion bills which were both passed by that state’s legislature and take effect this month.
The bills ban abortions when a heartbeat is detected which can be as early as six weeks into a pregnancy and also when an unborn child has a genetic defect such as Down syndrome.
Right to Life Australia president Margaret Tighe said “We decided to invite Bette Grande as our 2013 keynote speaker as we were impressed to read of her achievements in the Sunday Age recently in an story aptly named Killing legal abortion in the US.
Among other speakers at the Right to Life Australia Conference are Senator John Madigan on the topic Turning a Blind Eye to prenatal gendercide, Dr Toni Turnbull on The push to legalise euthanasia in South Australia and Emeritus Professor Ted Watt will speak on Abortion – why are we losing?
The Right to Life Conference will run from August 24 to 25 with a pre-conference dinner on August 23.
