Straight Talk on Life Issues

Love the show? Text us your feedback! We sit down with author and worship leader Steventhen Holland as he shares how learning he was adopted shaped his identity and how grief later pushed him to search for his birth family. His story leads to a first meeting with his birth mother marked by “Amazing Grace." • growing up feeling different and learning he was adopted  • carrying the “why wasn’t...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! We talk with Sierra McLeod about taking the first abortion pill at nine weeks and three days pregnant, then racing to find help when fear flips into regret. She shares how abortion pill reversal and a supportive care network helped her continue the pregnancy and why she keeps speaking out despite backlash.  • Sierra’s timeline from clinic visit to taking the f...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! Something big changed after Dobbs, and it is not the victory lap many people expected. Chemical abortion and mail-order abortion are expanding fast, and the political fights have shifted from court rulings to enforcement, funding, and whether leaders have the courage to stay on offense. We talk this week with Congressman Mark Harris about why he sees abortion...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! Abortion pills are now shipped across state lines with little to no in-person screening, and that single shift may be doing more to shape abortion access than dozens of state laws. We sit down with Gabriella McIntyre, legal counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom, to unpack Louisiana v. FDA and the fight over the FDA’s decision to allow mail-order mifepristone...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! This week we talk with Abby Johnson about why “equal protection” is splitting the pro-life movement and why she believes the law has to treat abortion like the crime we say it is. If you’ve ever wondered why some pro-lifers whisper about “equal protection,” this conversation brings it into the open. Victor and Abby talk through the debate that’s dividing the m...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! A prenatal diagnosis can hit like a tidal wave, and the next sentence too often comes fast: “You can terminate.” We slow everything down and talk about a different path, one rooted in medicine, ethics, and love. Dr. Robin Pierucci, a board-certified pediatrician and neonatologist with a master’s in bioethics, joins us to explain what perinatal hospice and peri...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! A $200,000 wrongful death settlement tied to an abortion case is not a headline you hear every day. This week on Life Defenders our guest, Mike Seibel, a plaintiff-side malpractice attorney, walks us through how informed consent failures can become the fulcrum for civil litigation against abortion providers, clinics, and even the wider abortion pill pipeline. ...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! “Late-term abortion isn’t even a thing.” That claim gets repeated so often it can start to sound like settled fact, but we don’t think the public can afford comforting myths. This week we sit down with Dr. Kathi Altman, a retired board-certified OBGYN and associate scholar with the Charlotte Lozier Institute, to sort out what people mean by “late-term,” what t...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! How do we speak truth with real compassion without losing the goal of protecting babies? This week on Life Defenders we discuss this and other tough questions with Breanne a post-abortive Christian and pregnancy help leader. Breanne shares her story with clarity and humility, from choosing abortion as a teenager to finding healing, faith, and a calling to help...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! Two high school students, Josie Bushman and Clara Gates are doing what a lot of adults only talk about: building community, taking heat for it, and still showing up with calm conviction. This week Josie and Clara share how young pro-life leaders learn to speak about abortion without losing their humanity or their friends, even when the lunch table gets tense a...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! You trust your doctor with your body, your family, and sometimes your life. So what happens when medicine starts treating “do no harm” as optional and replaces it with a customer-service mindset where the request matters more than the ethical guardrails?    This week we talk with board-certified OB/GYN Dr. Christina Francis, CEO of the American Association of...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! “It's deeply offensive to think that a child only has value if it meets a certain profile standard that not even necessarily a parent, a purchaser sometimes is trying to find,” Chelsea Painter Davis. IVF is sold as a hopeful shortcut to parenthood, but hope doesn’t erase the ethical math happening in the lab. This week we talk with Chelsea Painter Davis,...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! You get the best news of your life, a baby is on the way, and then 14 weeks into the pregnancy everything flips. A cancer diagnosis happens in the midst of the celebration. Suddenly every appointment comes with a question no family wants to answer: can we fight for mom and protect the baby at the same time?    This week Ryan Tremblay joins us to share his sist...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! A tiny number of living cells can cross the placenta and be exchanged between mothers and babies. These exchanged cells can stay for decades, sometimes for life, turning pregnancy into a lasting biological connection you can’t see with the naked eye. That phenomenon is microchimerism, and it’s one of the most fascinating pieces of pregnancy science we’ve ever...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! The hardest part of helping someone in an unexpected pregnancy is not having the perfect argument. It is being there, saying the first kind words, and building enough trust that real help can break through the chaos. We sit down with Lauren Muzyka, founder and CEO of Sidewalk Advocates for Life, and Melissa Yeomans, Senior Regional Programs Manager, to explain...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! Abortion access can be one click away, but real care is often miles away. That tension is where Dr. Hutson steps in, a board-certified OBGYN and the National Medical Director for Save the Storks, joins us this week to talk about a practical response to a staggering problem: more than 5.6 million women living in maternity healthcare deserts without a proper cli...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! The scariest ideas in bioethics are no longer science fiction: cloning for organs, embryo trait selection, and gene editing pitched as the next “upgrade” for humanity. This week we talk with Dr. David Prentice, longtime scientific researcher and president of the Science Alliance for Life and Technology (SALT), about why basic embryology points to fertilization...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! If equal protection were applied to the unborn, what would enforcement actually look like in American law? The 14th Amendment promises equal protection, but who counts as a “person” when the law is applied to the unborn? This week we sit down with Princeton’s Professor Robert P George, a leading scholar of jurisprudence and constitutional interpretation, along...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! “Don’t look in the toilet.” That warning sits at the center of one of the most intense personal stories we’ve shared. Sara Huff did look and then could never unsee it.  This week we talk with Sara Huff, who shares how trauma, homelessness, and a promise of “empowerment” pulled her into high-profile feminist activism and a push for abortion. Her chemical aborti...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! How does a man build a legacy that outlives him? It’s not through image or comfort, but through Scripture, prayer, and the kind of courage that shows up when it costs something. This week we sit down with three generations of the Benham family to talk about Father’s Day, legacy that actually lasts, and why kids follow what we embody more than what we say.    B...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! She traveled to Oklahoma with a simple gift and a handwritten card: “Thank you for choosing life for me.” What Claire Colwell heard back from her birth mother, Tanya, turned that reunion into a revelation and rewrote everything Claire thought she knew about her own beginning. Claire is an adopted woman who later learns she survived a late-term abortion attempt...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! If two million people have been helped by using Adult Stem cells, why are we still talking about embryonic cells?  How do adult stems cells work and why do embryonic stem cells not succeed? We answer these questions and more as we sit down with Dr. David Prentice, a longtime stem cell researcher and policy adviser, to separate stem cell hype from stem cell res...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! How does the abortion industry shape language and conscience over time? How does moral relativism make the unthinkable feel routine? Why is abortion often driven by fear, shame, and a sense of unwantedness? Two practicing OBGYNs once saw abortion as normal medicine. Then something happened that neither training nor politics could explain away and it changed ev...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! A 14-year-old walks into a clinic expecting a test and walks out carrying trauma, silence, and questions that no adult around her would answer. That’s the reality Sherie Marie shares with us.  This week Sherie describes the chilling lack of informed consent, the absence of basic compassion, and the way a minor can be pushed through a life-altering procedure wi...

Love the show? Text us your feedback! A single sentence from a doctor can turn a joyful ultrasound into a spiral of fear, and for many families the next sentence is even worse: abortion is presented as the “option.” Why does modern healthcare so often fast-track abortion after a prenatal diagnosis? How does disability-selective abortion echo eugenics in practice? This week we talk with Wayne Topp...