The weDignify Podcast

Have you ever felt like you don't know enough to be able to defend life adequately? Have you ever felt like you weren't "pro-life enough"?

If so, you're not alone!

Today, we talk about how weDignify's small groups program was born out of the need to help college students become more confident and competent when defending the sanctity of life.

weDignify Campus Mentor, Sarah Earley, joins the show to share how one of her students has transformed from acting out of obligation to going above and beyond to change hearts from pro-choice to pro-life.

Download the weDignify Pro-Life Dialogue Guide: weDignify.org/dialogueguide

Today, Amy Ford from Embrace Grace joins the show to discuss how churches and Christians can better respond to unplanned pregnancy in their congregations and save lives through love. Amy and Morgan discuss:

- The biggest pitfalls churches and pastors have when it comes to serving single, pregnant women

- What Embrace Grace is doing to change church cultures and save lives

- How Christians can better serve the women in our churches to help them have a future full of hope

Show notes: https://weDignify.org/ep030

Download the weDignify Pregnancy Resource Guide: https://wedignify.org/pregnancyresourceguide

weDignify team members, Pamela and Francesca, join Morgan today to chat about the newest pro-life movie: Unplanned! What we thought, what impacted us, what we liked and didn't like, and more!

Can you be pro-life AND a feminist? Aren't all feminists pro-choice?

Today, Claire Swinarski from the Catholic Feminist Podcast joins Morgan to discuss true feminism and why being a feminist means you have to be pro-life.

Mentioned in this episode:

- Guttmacher Institute article: https://www.guttmacher.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/pubs/psrh/full/3711005.pdf

About 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage and we need to be prepared to respond to those experiencing pregnancy loss with love and compassion.

This week, birth and bereavement doula, Laura Ricketts, joins the show to share how we can best support those who've lost a baby in the womb.

Covered today:

- The worst things you can say to someone who's lost a child to miscarriage (the list may surprise you!)

- The best things you can do and say to support someone whose child has died in the womb

...and more!

Melissa Ohden joins Morgan today to share her testimony as someone who survived a failed abortion attempt. How did she find out about this monumental detail of her life story? Did she find her birth mother and do they have a relationship? What can we do to spread the word that abortion survivors do exist?

All this and more in today's episode!

Mentioned in the episode:

Melissa Ohden - https://melissaohden.com/

The Abortion Survivors Network - https://theabortionsurvivors.com/

First New York, then Virginia, Rhode Island...the list goes on. Expanding abortion laws has become a trend in 2019 and the trend has come to Illinois.

Mary Kate Knorr, Executive Director of Illinois Right to Life, joins Morgan today to discuss these bills and what they mean for Illinois.

Covered in this episode:

• Why are these bills being proposed?
• How much expansion of abortion access is being proposed?
• If the parental notification laws are repealed, is there ANY minimum age at which a parent would be notified about their child's plan for abortion?
• Can amendments to these bills be made to make them more acceptable?
• What can I do to help stop these bills?

...and more!

Zac Davis from America Magazine and the podcast "Jesuitical" joins Morgan to discuss:

- Strategies for effectively engaging young people on topics that matter

- Methods that work to get people to listen

- Diversity in the pro-life movement

...and more!

Today, Stephanie Gray joins Morgan to discuss how to overcome our fears in talking about abortion and ultimately, how to change hearts and minds!

Stephanie Gray is an international presenter and author from Canada who has given almost 1,000 talks in 9 countries. Most notably she gave a pro-life talk on abortion at Google Headquarters and has debated abortion doctors and university professors for almost 2 decades.

Resources:

Stephanie's website: loveunleasheslife.com

Stephanie's talk at Google Headquarters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzzfSq2DEc4

Today, Morgan talks with Suzanne Guy, a woman whose doctors wanted her to abort her child due to a challenging prenatal diagnosis.

This is how she responded.

Covered in this episode:

- Suzanne's eye-opening story of how doctors treated her and her sick baby.

- What are things we say that are actually really unhelpful to someone who just received a challenging prenatal diagnosis?

- How can we best support someone going through this difficult situation?