Session Sneak Peek
Audrey Stout, RN, RDMS
Dotsy Davis, BS, RDMS
Byron Calhoun, MD
Anne OâConnor, JD
Ectopic Pregnancy: The Greatest Medical and Legal Risk for Clinics
Ectopic pregnancy is known to be notoriously difficult to diagnose yet poses the greatest risk of morbidity and mortality for pregnant women worldwide. Since 2022, NIFLA has received more ectopic reports from member clinics than in previous years. The Intensive will educate clinic personnel on the various aspects of ectopic pregnancy, from its incidence, causes, locations, ultrasound images, management, and outcomes. Medical personnel wonât want to miss this critical educational opportunity taught by NIFLA medical team members Byron Calhoun, MD, Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist; Dotsy Davis, BSRT, RDMS (OB/GYN), RVT; Audrey Stout, RN, RDMS (OB/GYN); and Anne OâConnor, JD.
Karen Poehailos, MD
Beyond the Negative Pregnancy Test:Bringing Fertility Awareness into Your Pregnancy Medical Clinic
The session will provide an overview of fertility awareness methods, including hormonal events of the menstrual cycle, hormonal biomarkers, and how to bring instruction into your centers to serve patients.
Mischa Long, RN BSN
How to Move from a Resource Center to a Sexual Health Clinic
Over the last 20 years, Ultrasound and STI services, as well as LifeChoices Human Trafficking Victim Services, have allowed our clinic to reach more abortion-minded women and their partners. This workshop will discuss the vision behind adding STI testing to current pregnancy services and provide tangible ways to implement this in your clinic - allowing you to reach more abortion-minded women.
Susan Bane, MD, PhD
The Prodigal Profession of Obstetrics and Gynecology:
What Has Been Lost Can Be Found
We will explore the role of induced abortion in medicine â answering the question, âIs induced abortion a component of comprehensive reproductive health care?
Tricia Lewis, PhD
Helpers with Heavy Hearts
This discussion provides thoughtful considerations from a Biblical perspective for all helpers working with those who have clients experiencing fetal demise, including abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth. Medical personnel offering ultrasounds or Abortion Pill Reversal are especially susceptible to distressing grief, shocking visuals, and exhaustion due to the extensive nature of care.
Tanya Flores
Helpers with Heavy Hearts
This discussion provides thoughtful considerations from a Biblical perspective for all helpers working with those who have clients experiencing fetal demise, including abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth. Medical personnel offering ultrasounds or Abortion Pill Reversal are especially susceptible to distressing grief, shocking visuals, and exhaustion due to the extensive nature of care.
Anne OâConnor, JD
Legal Issues and Best Practices for Pregnancy Medical Service Provider
A panel of legal experts from NIFLA will discuss major risk management issues for pregnancy centers and review recent legal claims made against centers. Topics will include best practices for medical clinic operations, review of new policies such as scans after abortion pills, and HIPAA and related issues.
Angie Thomas, JD
Legal Issues and Best Practices for Pregnancy Medical Service Providers
A panel of legal experts from NIFLA will discuss major risk management issues for pregnancy centers and review recent legal claims made against centers. Topics will include best practices for medical clinic operations, review of new policies such as scans after abortion pills, and HIPAA and related issues.
Pregnancy Center Collaboration with State Family Policy Councils
Participants will learn the importance of partnering with like-minded and experienced state Family Policy Council (FPC) leaders. We will also hear about successful examples of pregnancy centers and FPCs working together to safeguard vulnerable mothers and unborn lives.
Lynne Marie Kohm, JD, Regent School of Law
The Deadly Duo of EMTALA and the FDA
In the wake of Dobbs, federal officials seem to be using national policy regulations to dictate abortion law and reproductive health care to the states. This seminar will present the challenges raised by some of those regulations, particularly focusing on the Food and Drug Administrationâs (FDA) changes to chemical abortion distribution and the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) effectively requiring hospital abortions in every state. Considering the agency regs and recent federal jurisprudence, this presentation examines the combined deadly effects of EMTALA and the FDA on the stateâs regulation of abortion and how that may affect the work of pregnancy resource centers.
Dr. Christina Francis, MD, CEO AAPLOG
The Rise and Fall of the Hippocratic Oath in Medicine
For the past 2,000 years, the Hippocratic Oath has been the worldwide foundation of medical ethics in the Western world. The oath assumes the virtue ethic paradigm and defines the unique "doctor-patient relationship" characterized by the physician's sacred vow to protect their patients and not do them harm. However, this philosophical paradigm has been largely replaced in Western medicine by the utilitarian hedonist paradigm, which has given way to patient-controlled and state-controlled healthcare systems. We will examine these two paradigms and discuss their consequences in our current healthcare system.
Medical Panel: Matthew Werner, MD, Sandy Christianse, MD, CareNet, and Audrey Stout, RN, RDMS
Steven Aden, JD, Americans United for Life
Out of the Wilderness: A Vision for Equal Protection of All Human Lives
Americaâs post-Roe landscape looks radically different from what many of us expected. Over a dozen States protect human life from its earliest stages. Still, the Pro-Life Movement struggles to expand State protections for Life, and the threat of federal intervention to impose Roe-like mandates always looms. How do we take stock of current efforts to enact respect for human persons into law, and what are the most effective means of advancing the cause of equal protection over the long run?
Thomas Glessner, JD
Standing on the Firm Foundation for the Challenges Ahead
The post-roe era brings many challenges and opportunities to the pc movement. The opening address will outline the challenges ahead and clearly set forth a vision for a future nation where abortion is no more.To accomplish this, our foundation must be rooted in the solid rock of Christ; our mission must proclaim the gospel of life, and our vision is to achieve an abortion-free America.
Joseph Kohm III, JD, Family Policy Alliance
Pregnancy Center Collaboration with State Family Policy Councils
Participants will learn the importance of partnering with like-minded and experienced state Family Policy Council (FPC) leaders. We will also hear about successful examples of pregnancy centers and FPCs working together to safeguard vulnerable mothers and unborn lives.
Kevin Theriot, JD, Alliance Defending Freedom
Advancing the Pro-Life Cause: Abortion Litigation Update
The legal battle for unborn life and those who protect it has never been hotter. This session will provide an update on state and federal litigation protecting pregnancy centers, defending pro-life laws, and advancing healthcare professionalsâ right of conscience.
Kristine Hernandez, Media Specialist
Best Practices for Media Engagement
In the session, you will learn how to tactfully engage with the media, vet media opportunities, and handle interviews in an increasingly hostile environment.
Tom Brejcha, JD, Thomas More Society
The Legacy of NOW v. Scheidler and its Lessons for Today
In this talk, Tom Brejcha will give an in-depth account of the marathon 28-year legal battle, NOW v. Scheidlerâwhich was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court an unprecedented three times, with victories in 2003 and 2006. This landmark case is âthickâ with lessons for understanding the abortion industryâs strategy to opposing pro-life advocacy and activism inside and outside the courtroom, both in the past and present. In light of the past, Tom will further discuss a host of recent cases, as well as earlier efforts launched and prosecuted against pro-life pregnancy help organizations, as part of an evolving strategy to allege commercial and scientific misrepresentation against pro-life ministriesâand how pro-life organizations now are going on the offense to protect their rights.
Allan Parker, JD, The Justice Foundation
Preventing Coerced and Unnecessary Abortions: Using Your Legal and Educational Tools and the Safe Haven âAdoptionâ Option