{"id":2454,"date":"2016-12-23T07:04:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T07:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2021-02-19T02:21:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T02:21:18","slug":"georgetown-conference-names-reggie-littlejohn-keynote-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/blog\/georgetown-conference-names-reggie-littlejohn-keynote-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgetown Conference Names Reggie Littlejohn Keynote Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Student leaders at a Georgetown University conference have selected <\/span>Women’s Rights Without Frontiers<\/span><\/a><\/span> president Reggie Littlejohn as keynote speaker based on her work against forced abortion in China – a mission they hailed as unifying the divide between left and right.<\/span><\/p>\n

Littlejohn is scheduled to give the main address for the 17th Annual <\/span>Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life<\/span><\/a><\/span> in Washington, D.C. on January 28.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe chose Reggie Littlejohn to keynote this Conference because we believe her international, human rights mission to address China’s Two-Child Policy transcends the entrenched and divisive rhetoric often used when life and death issues are addressed in politics on the national stage,\u201d stated Conference Co-Director Jeannette Joly. \u201cThrough her own powerful political engagement, Reggie Littlejohn has successfully received recognition for Women’s Rights Without Frontiers<\/a> from both the left and right sides of the aisle. Undoubtedly, these unifying efforts to save women from forced abortion and baby girls from sex-selective abortion will move, inspire, and motivate the attendees of the 2017 Conference.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Named after Georgetown alumnus John Cardinal O’Connor of New York, the Conference promotes discourse on the sanctity of human life and is the largest conference of its kind in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

Joly praised Littlejohn’s “impressive experience” defending human rights in China, and said her message is especially important following China\u2019s switch this year from the infamous One Child Policy to a \u201cTwo Child Policy.\u201d Littlejohn has affirmed in <\/span>Congressional testimony<\/a> that the new policy hasn\u2019t stopped China\u2019s system of coercive population control, including forced abortions and involuntary sterilizations.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I am honored to have been selected as keynote speaker at Georgetown’s Cardinal O’Connor Conference,” said WRWF president Reggie Littlejohn. “I am grateful that the conference has the vision to embrace international issues and attempt to bridge the ideological divide between pro-life and pro-choice by promoting discourse about coercive population control in China.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMeanwhile, under extreme cultural pressure, women in China abort or abandon their baby girls,\u201d Littlejohn continued.\u00a0 \u201cIs gendercide truly a choice, or is there a connection between gendercide and forced abortion?\u00a0 WRWF is offering practical assistance to mothers in China and has saved 200 baby girls from sex-selective abortion or abandonment through our \u2018Save a Girl\u2019 campaign.<\/a><\/p>\n

Previous keynote speakers include Se\u00e1n Cardinal O\u2019Malley, Dr. Robert George, and Helen Alvar\u00e9.<\/p>\n

For more information on the 17th Annual Cardinal O’Connor Conference and to register to attend:
\nhttp:\/\/www.oconnorconference.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

To learn more about WRWF’s Save a Girl Campaign: http:\/\/womensrightswithoutfrontiers.org\/index.php?nav=end-gendercide-and-forced-abortion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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