Embryo Advocates

Racheal Holloway knew from a young age that she wanted to help women facing unplanned pregnancies. Eventually, she helped run a pregnancy center, and later went on to write her own curriculum and facilitate a support group for ladies who had become unexpectedly pregnant. This ministry initiative, which she did in partnership with her local church, impacted many women and children and provided a co...

The legacy media tends to take a pro-abortion slant in its reporting, but the unborn deserve better representation in journalistic reporting than this erasure and dehumanization. That's why people like Leah Savas and organizations like WORLD News are so important. Prenatal human beings must be fairly represented, and a light must be shone on the enormous ways they suffer in abortion. In today&...

When we consider history, we can see that abortion was not always around like some kind of “women’s secret” as the pro-choice side in the Roe v. Wade case argued. Since the medical establishment did not know about the importance of hand washing to prevent the transmission of diseases until 1847, women who attempted to have abortions before this discovery typically died right alongside their unborn...

How are feminism and the sexual revolution connected to each other? Dr. Carrie Gress makes a case from documented historical facts that feminism and the sexual revolution are one and the same. Dr. Gress has written three books on the history of feminism — focusing much of her study on early feminists and feminism's first wave. Her work looks at the fruit of the ideology by examining the questi...

Do you know the story of how our nation adopted legal abortion? It all started with the sexual revolution. Today's guest, activist and author Jonathon Van Maren, joins the show to discuss the historic events that took place in the 1960s-1970s and beyond that transformed our culture by degrading sexual morals. The pathway to creating a world free from the violence of abortion requires that we help...

Today, we are joined by Abby Gillmore, an expert in fundraising for pro-life organizations. In today's episode, Abby shares about her journey of being influenced from a young age to protect the unborn, and how that initial passion led her to study philanthropy in college, participate in a rescue, and run a community engagement department for a nonprofit. Abby also shares about transitioning fr...

Kim Smeenk is an ER nurse with a passion to serve her patients with the love of Christ. Along her medical journey, she began to examine the issue of abortion — if it could be justified to prevent medical complications that might otherwise result from illegal abortion attempts. Kim discovered the book, "Unexpected Choice: An Abortion Doctor's Journey to Pro-Life," by Patti Giebink, an...

Women need to know about the help that is available to them when facing a crisis pregnancy. One way to share these resources with them is by offering pro-life help outside your local abortion clinic through sidewalk counseling. Today, we are joined by Edna May, a wife, mom, and grandmother who devoted nearly ten years to sidewalk counseling in Grand Rapids and saw many lives saved.

Abortion causes a profound psychological impact on many men and women. Join Embryo Advocates for a discussion on how to support people in our communities who have been harmed by abortion with the Executive Director of Michigan's chapter of Deeper Still, who also serves with Justice for All — Kaitlyn Donahue. Read our blog post summarizing some of Kaitlyn's recommendations for engaging with...

What would you do if a respected colleague asked you to participate in an act that could destroy a human life? Leta Gerber found herself in this situation when a renowned OBGYN asked for her help performing a saline infusion abortion in the hospital unit where she was employed. A day later, she saw the body of a fully-formed little boy in a bucket with a burned body in a hospital closet. It was th...