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Celeste Beal
 Pro-Life:
Today’s most pressing civil rights issue
As the great niece of Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Celeste Beal
is no stranger to the civil rights movement. Her family history
is steeped in the civil
rights activism of the 1950’s, a time when her great
grand father campaigned for the end of segregation and racial
discrimination across America. Martin Luther King was adherent
to a philosophy of non-violence through civil disobedience
which led to the March on Washington where he delivered his
famous “I Have A Dream” speech, raising public
consciousness of the civil rights movement and establishing
himself as one of the greatest orators in American history.
Celeste and her mum, Dr Alveda King, are now carrying on
this family legacy. They believe that defending the life of
the unborn is the most pressing civil rights issue for today’s
generation. As Dr Alveda King has said ‘How can the
dream survive if we murder the children?’
Celeste Beal is an Atlanta-born youth speaker and teacher
who is dedicated to stimulating young minds as they grow and
develop. Celeste has a passion for helping youth achieve their
dreams. A graduate from Georgia Southern University, Celeste
used her degree in science and languages to teach English
as a second language in Europe after college. Today, Celeste
is studying at Liberty University School of Law in Lynchburg
Virginia and is actively involved in the pro-life movement.
She combines past and current work experience to assist organizations
such as Project Reality, a national abstinence education organization,
and King for America, a faith-based life skills enrichment
organization.
Celeste lives life with a desire to help, motivate, uplift
and positively impact the world and the people she meets.
She is currently writing her first book, “I Had A Nightmare,”
which is her unique answer to where the world is today in
context of the dream of her uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King,
. Jr. Celeste explains: “Dr. King’s dream has
become true in many ways. Yet, we have so far to go. When
I look around and see the pain and struggles of today’s
young people, I realize that we can’t continue to sugarcoat
the issues. Our children are hurting, and it won’t all
go away and get better until we meet their hard core problems
with some strong solutions.”
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Pro-Life Feminism
Joan Dillon of Pro-Life Feminists International
Working from the early feminist pro-woman legacy, this session
will explore the women’s civil rights movement up to
the present day. As we trace the feminist movement and its
founding ethos it becomes apparent that abortion is a clear
subjugation and abuse of women. Early feminists were very
pro-life and campaigned for suffrage, poor and professional
women’s employment’s rights, an end to prostitution,
children’s rights and the abolition of slavery.
Joan Dillon, of Pro-life Feminists International, will show
how this movement questions the status quo and seeks to expose
abortion for what it truly is: a crime against women and their
children. It seeks to affirm and elevate authentic womanhood
so that women can be empowered and informed about the mindset
that forms the undercurrent of abortion.
As Elizabeth Cady Stanton has said ‘Where can the answer
be found ‘if not in the complete enfranchisement and
elevation of women?’ Shattering the illusions of the
pro-abortion rhetoric we can clearly see abortion as a grave
injustice to both women and children.
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Voices of Women
British Victims of Abortion (BVA) and Silent No More Campaign
This session will start with a short dramatic monologue.
There will be an anonymous voice that quotes lines representative
of the pro-abortion campaign. The woman responding to these
claims will highlight the damage done to her and many others
as a stark contrast to the misinformation and denial that
is pumped into popular culture. As one voice, she represents
the countless women whose lives will never be the same again
after their abortion experience.
A speaker from the BVA team will tell us more about their
work in post-abortive counselling. BVA are dedicated to promoting
emotional and psychological support by the provision of counselling
and supportive help to those in need. The Silent No More Campaign,
which allows women and men to tell their personal stories
of how abortion has affected them features strongly in their
work.
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 Bryan
Kemper
Bryan came to the pro-life movement through his work in the
Christian music industry. In 1993 he combined his experience
and passion for music and his commitment to pro-life issues
to found the organisation, Rock for Life.
Since then, Bryan has toured his home nation, the USA, and
internationally to speak to audiences and raise awareness
of why abortion is a denial of the right to life of the preborn
child. Described as a ‘passionate and compelling orator’,
a particular focus of his work has been encouraging pro-life
activism among American’s youth and he has spoken at
high schools and colleges across the USA, including Harvard
and Princeton.
Bryan has also used the media to great effect to take the
pro-life cause to the American public including in his own
call-in cable show in Portland, Oregon. He has also featured
on MTV, radio shows, newspapers, and magazines, a six-page
layout in Swing Generation and has even appeared on the cover
of the New York Times.
Bryan Kemper has spent years reaching out to youth and encouraging
the young generations to get involved in the pro-life movement.
He now continues this work with his Stand True Ministries,
an organisation that asks young people "Will you stand?"
for pro-life issues. His groundbreaking ideas for effective
methods of peaceful pro-life activism are an inspiration indeed.
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