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RSVP NOW! KRLA 2017 CONFERENCE November 11, Crowne Plaza Hotel, 9 AM-2:30 PM Featuring Extraordinary Writer/Speakers!

Renowned Patients-rights Advocate to Speak Wesley J. Smith, J.D., is an award-winning author whose books include Culture of Death: The Age of "Do Harm" Medicine (2016) and A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement (2010). A Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism, and a consultant to the Patients' Rights Council, Wesley is a sought-after speaker on TV and radio programs, and a prolific writer in influential publications such as National Review.

Author, Journalist, Film Producer, Director from Ireland Ann McElhinney is an author, journalist, film producer and director. She and her husband, journalist Phelim McAleer, wrote the best-seller Gosnell – The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer. The couple, working with Magdalena Seieda, produced the Gosnell movie, which they financed with a massive crowdfunding campaign that raised $2.25 million in just the first 45 days. Find out more about the Conference!

Wrap up on recent legal challenges shared At the Louisville Annual Meeting Attorney Vince Heuser shared his perspective on the recent legal challenges to pro-life law. He noted that there are three pending cases involving abortion in Louisville: (1) EMW v. Beshear -- the ACLU convinced Judge David Hale to declare Ky's Ultrasound law unconstitutional. Governor Bevin has appealed. (2) EMW and Planned Parenthood vs. Glisson -- EWM and PP sued to stop enforcement of Ky's medical regulations that require surgical centers to have an agreement with an ambulance service and a hospital to take patients in case of emergency complications, and (3) US v. Rusty Thomas - the civil suit under FACE against the 10 people who engaged in a sit-in protest at EMW in May 2017. On the ultrasound bill, the issue was whether the recently added requirements of explanation are medically necessary. The judge thinks not enough to compel the doctor to speak. Vince is not optimistic that the appeal will succeed. We hope to report more on some of the trial testimony in the future. On the transfer agreements, Vince believes that Judge Greg Stivers will decline to enter an injunction on behalf of EMW, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU. The law requiring Transfer agreements between abortion clinics and hospitals is common

Josette Goulet, above left, Louisville board member, with Debbie Brown, a new Louisville RTL volunteer. Youth for Life president Evan McCarthy with Teresa Knight, member of RTL of Louisville. across the country and it would be surprising if a safety measure that has been enforced since 1998 were scratched. The 6th Circuit has already upheld a similar law in Ohio. On the FACE case, the matter will go to trial in January 2019. In the meantime the parties will be conducting depositions and trial preparation.

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