Pro-Life Breakfast

Lydia will be speaking at Pitt on April 15.

Our good friend from Students for Life, Lydia Taylor Davis is making an appearance at the University of Pittsburgh on April 15. The event is open to the public!

Lydia Taylor Davis Announcement

Lydia Taylor Davis is going to hold an event at the University of Pittsburgh on April 15. More information to follow.

Past Special Guest Speaker

2024 PRO-LIFE BREAKFAST SPEAKER SHERIF GIRGIS AWARDED A PhD

Princeton Professor Dr. Robert George:
Yesterday, my superstar student Sherif Girgis successfully (and indeed brilliantly) defended his PhD dissertation in the Department of Philosophy at Princeton. Sherif, who is a professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, is spending this year as a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. His wife Gabby, another of my former students, also holds a PhD from Princeton. They are now Dr. & Dr. Girgis!

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Pro-Life Breakfast Sponsors 2026 We thank our sponsors!

LYDIA TAYLOR DAVIS ENCOR APPEARANCE TONIGHT

Our 2026 Pro-Life Breakfast speaker will be on Boots on the Ground with Erie-area podcaster Brian Shank TONIGHT at 7 p.m.!

LISTEN IN ON YOUTUBE.

@BootsonthegroundwithBrianShankInEriePa. Down to earth conversation about Erie county Pa!

Our Breakfast speaker, Lydia Taylor Davis, is among these pictures.

2026 PRO-LIFE BREAKFAST ATTENDANCE 550

People for Life’s annual Pro-Life Breakfast was attended by 550 Erie-area residents this past Saturday morning, January 17. The event was held at Erie’s Bayfront Convention Center.

Lydia Taylor Davis, national spokesperson for Students for Life of America, was the special guest speaker. Lydia looked back on experiences from her own college campus, where she spoke out against abortion, worked for proper on-campus arrangements for pregnant students, and assisted fellow students in crisis pregnancy situations—all while living with an unfortunate amount of hate and harassment from students with contrasting opinions and values.

Lydia also talked about the campus tours she has been conducting over past several years, engaging students with opposing views on the topic of abortion and the value and dignity of every human life and human being.

Also speaking that morning were: Congressman Mike Kelly, state Representative Brad Roae, Slippery Rock Mayor JD Longo, Gannon University Students for Life President Clare Caulfield, and Catholic Bishop Lawrence Persico.

People for Life’s Wagner Award was presented to a young couple who recently experienced the death of a child just minutes after birth. In the wake of a diagnosis of serious fetal anomaly, the couple cherished and protected their child until his premature but natural demise. The baby's mom is a vice president of the People for Life organization.

The Wagner Award honors the memory of Joanne Wagner, who passed away, along with her unborn child, while en route to the third Washington, DC March for Life on January 22, 1976. This year marks the 50th anniversary of that tragic event.

Featured speaker Lydia Taylor Davis was awesome! She took a moment for a picture with People for Life Director Tim Broderick (left) and a whole team of pro-life government officials (left to right) state Rep. Brad Roae, Congressman Mike Kelly, state Rep. Parke Wentling, state Senator Scott Hutchinson, and Slippery Rock Mayor JD Longo.

Don't forget, State Street is closed at the Bayfront Parkway. The alternate routes to the Convention Center are shown below.