Title: Why Are Pro-Life Democrats Being Pushed Out?

Subtitle: Kristen Day on the pressure to support abortion, the cost of defending life, and the fight to bring pro-life voices back into the party.

Description:

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 happens to a party’s promise of inclusion when defending unborn children gets you pushed out?

Kristen also challenges lawmakers to see the work of pregnancy centers firsthand. She recounts roughly 18 rounds of emails with Congressman Josh Gottheimer’s staff, asking him to take “those ten steps inside” a center he had stood outside opposing.

She says he has refused so far.

Meanwhile, Democrats for Life is putting support for mothers and babies into action: delivering 60,000 diapers and wipes around Chicago during the Democratic Convention and another 40,000 diapers in Virginia.

As Kristen asks: If the party supports “choice,” why isn’t it doing more to help women choose life?

The conversation explores Planned Parenthood’s influence within the party, opportunities to support mothers and families through legislation, and state lawmakers continuing to defend unborn children despite opposition from their own party.

It also confronts the difficult question Scott raises at the ballot box: How do you vote when the candidate who shares your other priorities supports abortion?

Watch the full conversation on Dear Jane.

When Dr. William Lile has a pregnant patient, he says he doesn’t have one patient; he has two: the mother and her baby. And modern medicine is increasingly treating them that way.

Doctors can perform open-heart surgery before birth. Repair spina bifida. Correct dangerous heart rhythms. Perform blood transfusions. Even operate on babies inside the womb and allow them to continue developing until birth.

So Dr. Lile asks a much harder question: if we can diagnose, anesthetize, operate on, and heal a baby before birth, when do that baby’s rights begin?

That question drives a wide-ranging conversation about fetal medicine, abortion, and the changing meaning of viability. Dr. Lile explains how medical advances have pushed the boundaries of what doctors can do before birth and why he sees a profound contradiction between treating a baby as a patient in one room and ending that baby’s life in another.

He also discusses what physicians learn in complex family planning fellowships, including late-term abortion and selective reduction; the growing use of the abortion pill; cases in which women have been given abortion drugs without their knowledge; and his work with abortion pill reversal.

And for Dr. Lile, the conversation ultimately goes beyond medicine. He explains why he believes the church must be equipped to speak about abortion while also offering healing and forgiveness to women and men carrying abortion in their past.

If medicine already recognizes the baby as a patient, what should follow from that?

Watch the full conversation on Dear Jane.

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0:20 — Why He Fights for Life

1:19 — When One Patient Becomes Two

3:11 — Botox in the Womb

6:09 — Open Heart Surgery Before Birth

7:19 — When Twins Compete for a Placenta

10:30 — Correcting a Baby’s Heart Rhythm

12:35 — Stopping a Baby’s Heart to Save It

13:00 — Repairing Spina Bifida Before Birth

15:00 — Why Are We Still Debating Late-Term Abortion?

16:36 — Medical Assistance in Dying

20:05 — What Scripture Calls the Preborn

22:47 — Is Your Worldview Set by 13?

24:06 — Showing Ultrasounds to Third Graders

25:40 — Is Abortion a Sin?

26:30 — Three Pastors Out of 120

27:56 — What Happens When an OB-GYN Speaks Out?

29:14 — What Complex Family Planning Teaches

31:28 — Does Viability Mean Anything Anymore?

33:31 — 87 Days Between Identical Twins

35:16 — Abortion Pills: All They’ve Ever Known

36:28 — The Father Who Gave Her the Abortion Pill

37:38 — Nearly 1,000 Clinicians Trained in Reversal

39:59 — The $109 Reversal Prescription

42:35 — Judges 3 and the Cost of Sacrifice

43:59 — 64 Million Since 1973

44:34 — Who Is Sitting in the Pews

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 years. Some wait decades. The longest gap Matt has seen?

51 years.

What can stay hidden for that long? And what finally forces it into the open?

The conversation turns to raw grief, anger, self-medication, and long-carried pain that people may live with for years without ever connecting the dots.

Then there are the men.

The father who felt powerless. The partner who went along with it. The one who pressured her toward it.

What are they carrying when they finally walk into a retreat?

Matt also explains why some people may come too soon, how men grieving alongside women can change the room, and why the physical aftermath of the abortion pill can become part of the trauma itself.

And then comes one of the most intimate and profound parts of the weekend.

Each person is invited to give their child a name. For many, it is also the first time they have ever told their abortion story out loud.

Why name the baby? And what happens when years of silence finally break?

Watch the full conversation on Dear Jane.

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2:52 — Who Comes to Rachel's Vineyard?

3:49 — 51 Years Later

4:14 — When the Pain Finally Connects

5:58 — The Trauma Beneath the Abortion

7:46 — What About the Men?

10:56 — When Couples Don't Stay Together

12:08 — Did This Happen to Me, or Did I Do This?

13:28 — The Three Kinds of Men Who Come

15:06 — What Happens at a Retreat?

15:18 — The Stone

17:27 — Understanding the Context

19:17 — What Can We Handle Right Now?

20:18 — Is the Abortion Pill Trauma Different?

22:13 — When the Bleeding Becomes Part of the Memory

23:02 — What Does Bottoming Out Look Like?

25:06 — When You Never Connected the Dots

26:34 — How Do You Suggest Healing Without Pushing?

27:39 — When Help Feels Like Judgment

28:50 — Why They Name Their Children

31:50 — The Bond a Name Can Create

32:19 — Rachel's Vineyard Around the World

33:00 — How Rachel's Vineyard Began

34:49 — Why Some People Travel Far From Home

35:21 — Is This Retreat for Me?

37:35 — The First Time They Tell the Story

38:20 — Heard, Loved, and Not Judged