It’s an unwritten rule: never talk religion or politics. Is it any wonder, then, that abortion is such a hot topic?

Pope Francis has affirmed abortion as the preeminent moral issue of our time, but how are we to make headway when we can barely speak civilly with one another?

Samantha chats with Bella O’Neill, former JFA intern and prolife advocate and speaker, about her advocacy work on college campuses and how we can learn to speak the truth about abortion in love .

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Justice For All
Online JFA Training
It’s time to set the record straight.

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The prolife movement is often accused of not doing enough to help pregnant mother in crisis, and the internet is littered with articles denouncing pregnancy centers as illegitimate medical practices seeking to take choices away from women.

It’s time to set the record straight.

Samantha chats with Tiffany Farley, executive director of the Gabriel Network, about how to help pregnant women in crisis and what we can do to put our prolife convictions into action.

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Gabriel Network

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Samantha chats with Nicole LeBlanc, mother of conjoined twins, about how and why she chose life for her daughters despite mounting pressure to abort from medical professionals.

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Katy Faust, President of Them Before Us and author of Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children’s Rights Movement joins Samantha to discuss the tragic ways in which adult designs are made to reign supreme, no matter the cost to the children those decisions effect.

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Them Before Us book
Children of divorce article at The Federalist

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Catholic writer and mother Emily Stimpson Chapman shares her journey with infertility, discusses the Church’s teachings on embryo donation, and relays her family’s experiences with adoption.

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Emily’s Through a Glass Darkly Substack
Springs in the Desert
Springs of Love
Humane Vitae Endow Study

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Author and bioethicist Fiorella Nash discusses the dangers of surrogacy, from the health risks to the violation of women and children’s rights, to the dark underbelly of the world of human trafficking. God’s children are not for sale. Neither are their mothers.

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Physician and 3-time IVF mama Dr. Susan Caldwell shares her journey, how she stepped away from the world of reproductive technologies, and why women need to look elsewhere for answers about their fertility.

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Mycatholicdoctor.com

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IVF is fraught with ethical perils, but isn’t it the best we have to offer couples struggling with the pain of infertility? If there was something less costly and more effective, we would all know about it, right?

Samantha chats with Dr. Monique Ruberu about the trouble with IVF, the beauty of NaPro technology for healing underlying causes of women’s health issues, as well as what it truly means to be a pro-life physician.

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Is it okay to use abortion-tainted vaccines? What is there’s not other alternative? What about all the other treatments being developed using the body parts of aborted fetuses?

Samantha chats with Dr. Stacy Trasancos of Children of God for Life to get clarity on Catholic teaching surrounding the use of the unborn in medical research.

What she reveals in this interview about the state of embryonic and fetal tissue research in the US is harrowing, a call to all of us to take action.

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Congratulations! The line turned pink. Time to celebrate, right? In the world of prenatal testing, we aren’t so sure.

Samantha chats with Bridget More of the nonprofit Be Not Afraid about the wildly unreliable prenatal testing being used to encourage eugenic abortions, and what really happens when babies are diagnosed with so-called “lethal” conditions in utero.

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