when
MARCH 1, 2025
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
where
ROLLING HILLS
COMMUNITY CHURCH
TUALATIN, OR
2025 FEATURED SPEAKERS
Melissa Ohden is the Founder and Director of The Abortion Survivors Network, the only advocacy organization for abortion survivors and their families worldwide.
She is a Master’s level prepared Social Worker and the author of the award winning book featuring her life story, You Carried Me: A Daughter’s Memoir and most recently, the co-author of Abortion Survivors Break Their Silence.
Melissa is a frequent contributor to pro-life and conservative news outlets and a regular guest on radio and television programs around the world. Although Melissa has a heart for providing help and hope to all impacted by abortion, she also strives to humanize the unborn and abortion survivors through activism. She has testified before Congressional committees numerous times.
Melissa and her family reside in Kansas City, Missouri.
Kathi Aultman, M.D., is a retired Board-Certified OB/GYN and an Associate Scholar with the Charlotte Lozier Institute. She is a member of the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Christian Medical and Dental Associations, the Florida Medical Association, and is a Life-Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. She practiced medicine from 1981 to 2014 in Orange Park, Florida.
She obtained her B.A. at Drew University in 1972, earned her medical degree at the University of Florida College of Medicine in 1977, and completed her OB/GYN Residency at the University of Florida affiliated Jacksonville Health Education Program in 1981.
Dr. Aultman was the co-founder and co-director of the first Rape Treatment Center in Jacksonville, Florida and performed sexual assault exams on women and children as a medical examiner for Duval and Clay Counties. She performed 1st trimester D&C with suction abortions and 2nd-trimester D&Es. She also served as the Medical Director for Planned Parenthood of Northeast Florida, Inc. from 1981 to 1983.
Her experiences doing abortions and those in her OB/GYN practice led her to a pro-life position. She has spoken nationally and internationally and has testified extensively on a variety of pro-life issues before state and congressional bodies, state courts, and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. She has assisted various state attorneys and the Justice Department. She spoke at the 2019 Washington D.C. March for Life Rally and was the keynote speaker at the 2019 March for Life Rose Dinner following the special speaker, Vice President Pence. She was interviewed by CBN, Live Action News, and Focus on the Family and spoke to students at the 2020 and 2024 Cardinal O’Connor Conference for Life at Georgetown University and spoke at Princeton and University of Chicago in 2024. In 2022, she appeared on Dr. Ben Carson’s podcast, Common Sense.
She is the lead author of “Deaths and Severe Adverse Events after the use of Mifepristone as an Abortifacient from September 2000 to February 2019.” She is a co-author of “Mifepristone Adverse Events Identified by Planned Parenthood in 2009-2010 compared to those in the FAERS and FOIA.” Dr. Aultman received the Clay County Medical Society’s “Award of Excellence,” the Florida Medical Association’s Distinguished Physician Certificate, “A Physician Who Cares,” and their “Harold Strasser, MD Good Samaritan Award.”
She served on the Ethics Commission of the Christian Medical and Dental Associations, the Quality Assurance Committee for NF OB/GYN Associates, the Governing Board (Chair for many years), Medical Executive Committee, and Quality Assurance Committee of the Orange Park Surgery Center and the Board of Community Health Outreach, which provides medical and dental care as well as food and other services to the needy.
She participated in Clay County’s We Care program and the Healing Hands Clinic in Jacksonville to provide free care for uninsured patients. She cared for the female crew members of Mercy Ships in and out of the country and participated in their medical outreaches overseas.
Monica Snyder is the Executive Director of Secular Pro-Life, an anti-abortion organization led by atheists. Secular Pro-Life seeks to advance secular arguments against abortion, create space for non-religious people to do anti-abortion work, and build interfaith coalitions of people interested in the first two goals.
Monica is herself an atheist and pays particular attention to how we can diversify and expand the pro-life movement along non-traditional demographics.