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Ginna Cross, an RN and pregnancy-center leader with Alliance Family Services , says her organization has been banned from pregnancy-center coalitions in Wisconsin and Tennessee because of one conviction: preborn children should receive the same legal protection as everyone else. That position has put her at odds with parts of the movement she serves. Ginna joins Scott and Marcie to argue that resc...

When the cameras were off, Lori Kehoe asked an assisted-suicide advocate a disturbing question, "Could society ever have an interest in the death of someone who doesn't want to die?" According to Lori, his answer was immediate: of course. It's a chilling exchange that raises a much larger question: when does the right to die become the duty to die? In this episode of Dear Jane, Lori Kehoe of New Y...

Pro-life voters are frustrated. And with another election approaching, that frustration could have consequences. Add gas prices, wars, and the cost of living, and it’s easy to see why some are tired. Scott and Marcie feel that frustration too. But the other side may be counting on it. This November, abortion-related measures are on the ballot in Idaho, Missouri, Nevada, and Virginia, with campaign...

What happens when a major constitutional amendment is approaching a vote, but even some of the people most engaged with the issue don't know it's happening? Thomas Hill, co-founder of Virginia for Preborn Justice , joins Scott and Marcie to discuss Virginia's proposed abortion amendment and the challenges facing those organizing against it. Thomas says he's encountered sidewalk counselors, pregnan...

Change your position on abortion if you want to win. That’s the pressure Kristen Day says pro-life candidates face inside the Democratic Party. The Democrats for Life leader joins Scott and Marcie to discuss candidates advised to publicly support abortion, the difficulty of finding campaign support, and a local party chair removed from her position after others learned she was pro-life. What happe...

William Lile, known as the Pro-Life Doc, joins Scott and Marcie to pull back the curtain on what modern fetal medicine can already do inside the womb. Botox. Open-heart surgery. Spina bifida repair. A dangerously fast heartbeat stopped for five seconds and reset. Even identical twins born 87 days apart. These are not abstract possibilities. They raise a more fundamental question: If medicine can d...

Infographic: WHAT TOOK 51 YEARS? WHY NAME THE BABY? CAN A NAME HEAL? WHAT STAYED BURIED? WHAT FINALLY SURFACED? Description: What if abortion grief does not surface until years later? Matt Freeman of Rachel’s Vineyard joins Scott and Marcie to talk about abortion healing and the buried, unresolved emotions that can remain long after abortion. Most people do not come to a retreat for four or five y...

What happens when empathy starts protecting the person who caused the harm? Marcie and Scott confront two stories where sympathy for the adult threatens to overshadow the child at the center. While following the Lindsay Clancy case, Marcie realized something unsettling: she knew Clancy’s name. She could not name her three children. That absence matters. The conversation explores toxic empathy, leg...

What if the freedom abortion promises does not feel like freedom afterward? Shaun Freeborn of Tradies for Babies joins Scott and Marcie to talk about what he calls one of the biggest lies young couples are told: that abortion will let them keep living the life they want. For Shaun, that belief is personal. He and his wife had an abortion when they were 17. Years later, they still carry lasting reg...

Why would anyone oppose giving a woman a second chance? George Delgado, M.D., one of the pioneers behind abortion pill reversal and author of Abortion Pill Reversal: A Second Chance at Choice, joins Marcie to tell how APR began with a woman in El Paso who had taken the first abortion drug and changed her mind. Today, more than 8,000 babies are estimated to be alive following abortion pill reversal...

An abortion pill can be ordered online and mailed across state lines. But what happens when the person ordering it isn’t the woman who takes it? Andrea Trudden, Vice President of Communications and Marketing at Heartbeat International, joins Scott and Marcie to discuss what the organization calls abortion pill poisoning: documented cases in which women have allegedly been given abortion drugs thro...

Gen Z has grown up surrounded by abortion messaging. So why are more young people beginning to question it? And why now? Lydia Taylor Davis, a spokesperson and Social Media Coordinator for Students for Life of America who once identified as pro-choice herself, joins Scott and Marcie to talk about what she is seeing firsthand on college campuses: young men becoming more engaged, young women proving...

A waiting period. An ultrasound. A requirement that a physician perform the abortion. A new study grouped measures like these under one category: abortion restrictions and linked states with more restrictions to higher maternal mortality. That sounds alarming. But Dr. Christina Francis, a board-certified OB-GYN and CEO of AAPLOG, raises a basic question: how do these policies actually cause matern...

What begins with the abortion pill does not necessarily end when the abortion is over. Once taken, the abortion drug and biological remnants from the abortion enter a toilet, a sewer system, and eventually a wastewater treatment facility that was never designed to remove every pharmaceutical compound. The chemical is only part of what enters the system. Liberty Counsel Action estimates that 30 to...

The pro-life movement is not having one conversation right now. It has several, and they do not always agree with each other. Scott and Marcie discuss the Massachusetts bill that would allow abortion up to birth and the question it raises about messaging: As the movement has shifted its focus toward the mother, has it made a strategic mistake by stepping back from talking about the baby? They disc...

The redefinition of the family is not happening all at once. It is happening one sentence at a time, buried inside 80-page bills that most lawmakers never fully read, drafted by legal bodies most people have never heard of, and framed as routine updates to reflect the modern reality of family life. Patience Sunne, Engagement Director at Them Before Us, has been reading those bills. She joins Dear...

She was a nurse. She believed she was providing care and helping women. She had no idea what she was walking into. Naomi Padilla spent four years inside a Tampa abortion clinic where, she says, surgical suites were wiped down with a household cleaner, women were processed like cattle, and the words baby and God weren't allowed to be spoken. A woman who said she wasn't sure was still ushered throug...

The New Jersey attorney general created a strike force to investigate pro-life pregnancy centers. One of those centers received a subpoena demanding ten years of private donor records. No complaints had been filed. No fraud had been alleged. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled unanimously in the pregnancy center's favor. Twenty-four hours later, the state found a way to kee...

What happens to the human embryos that are never chosen? Emma Waters has spent years asking that question. A researcher at the Heritage Foundation and the author of the forthcoming book, Rethinking Fertility , she joins Dear Jane to talk about the 1.5 million frozen embryos currently in storage across the United States, human beings suspended in time, some for decades, and the fertility industry t...

What happens when you stop waiting for Washington to fix things and start building the solution yourself? Anton Krecic left political fundraising convinced that policy alone wasn't enough to end abortion. So he started Seven Weeks Coffee, named after a question his wife asked: When is a baby the size of a coffee bean? The answer is at seven weeks, the same point when a heartbeat can often be detec...

What if the reason most women choose abortion isn't because they want one, but because they don't feel like they have any other options? Emily Berning of Let Them Live has seen it firsthand: when you remove the financial pressure, the isolation, and the panic, 98% of abortion-minded women choose life. Not because they were lectured or given platitudes, but because someone actually met their needs....

Jesse Ridgway, known online as "McJuggerNuggets", recently shared that he and his wife aborted their unborn son after he was diagnosed with Trisomy 21, also known as Down syndrome. The Ridgway's viral announcement sparked a much bigger conversation about abortion, disability, and the sinister role of eugenics in abortion decisions. In this episode, we talk about why a Down syndrome diagnosis so of...

Some commenters said unborn children have no more value than sperm. Others claimed no one is truly pro-abortion, abortion regret does not matter, and the abortion pill is safer than Tylenol. This video dives into a candid and often intense abortion debate, exploring differing views on the value of unborn life and the concept of abortion as health care. We respond to some of the most revealing, fru...

Breanne Houston had an abortion at eighteen. Today she sits on the other side of the room, helping women in the exact moment she once lived. And she holds a view most people don't expect from someone with her story. She believes women who get abortions should be held liable. In Part 2 of our equal protection series, Breanne joins Marcie and Scott to make her case, from the terminology people get w...

She's been through it herself and she doesn't believe women should be prosecuted for abortion. In this episode of Dear Jane, post-abortive advocate Victoria Robinson sits down with Scott and Marcie to debate why she believes criminalizing women misses the deeper realities behind abortion decisions. Drawing from her own story and years of working with post-abortive women, Victoria unpacks the role...