Dear Jane

This podcast brings together pro-life leaders and individuals of all stripes to have meaningful conversations about the issue of life. How do we tackle the massive injustice of abortion while keeping the abortion-minded woman at the forefront of our considerations? How do we hold heartbreak, anger, and compassion close to our hearts to minister to everyone impacted by abortion? How do we work with others with whom we differ ideologically on every other issue except the issue of abortion to promote a culture of life? These are just some of the questions we wrestle with on our Dear Jane podcast. The other side only wants to highlight our differences, but we want to talk with people in the movement about what unites us. Dear Jane focuses on the one thing we can all agree on: the sanctity of every human life. Dear Jane will host the hard conversations, ask the tough questions, and acknowledge our differences while always keeping in mind our shared beliefs. Tune in to listen to heartfelt conversations and learn more about what your place in the pro-life movement may be!

Dear Jane is a commentary podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 122 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Are Abortion Restrictions Really Causing Maternal Deaths?

  Aug 13, 202628 min

  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 maternal deaths? She joins Scott and Marcie to examine what the headline leaves out. How does requiring an ultrasound increase maternal mortality? Why is giving a woman more time before a major decision treated as a health risk? And why is physician involvement being framed as a restriction? The conversation also turns to abortion-pill complications, including research finding that 83.5% of post-abortion-pill emergency room visits were miscoded as miscarriages and 76% of emergency room visits following the abortion pill were coded as severe. Dr. Francis explains why those findings matter, what could happen as physician-only requirements are removed, and the challenges doctors face when they question the dominant abortion narrative within medicine. Watch the full episode of Dear Jane to get the full conversation. -- 1:15 — When Maternal-Fetal Medicine Chooses a Side 3:27 — Do Abortion Restrictions Cause Maternal Deaths? 5:08 — Is a Waiting Period Really a Health Risk? 6:12 — How Does an Ultrasound Cause Maternal Death? 9:15 — What Actually Causes Maternal Death? 10:19 — 80% of Maternal Deaths Are Preventable 12:49 — When Pregnancy Isn’t the Cause 14:23 — Should Non-Physicians Provide Abortions? 16:20 — The Reality of a D&E Abortion 19:22 — How Safe Is the Abortion Pill? 22:00 — When an Abortion Is Coded as a Miscarriage 23:05 — The Trauma No One Warns Women About 23:50 — What Pro-Life Doctors Risk by Speaking Up 24:45 — 93% of OB-GYNs Don’t Perform Abortions 25:58 — Who Stands With Pro-Life Doctors?

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  Is the Abortion Pill in Our Water?

  Aug 6, 202631 min

  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 40 tons of hazardous medical waste, including human remains, are being flushed into American waterways. That makes mifepristone different from the other pharmaceuticals already raising concerns in the water supply. It was developed and FDA-approved to end a life in the womb by blocking progesterone, the hormone needed to sustain a pregnancy. But does that anti-progesterone activity disappear once the drug enters the water system? Issues in Law & Medicine ,a study reported anti-progesterone activity in environmental water samples from Austin, Texas; Blacksburg, Virginia; and Carbondale, Illinois. The study does not establish that exposure through drinking water causes infertility, nor does it determine where the anti-progesterone activity originated. But it raises a question that has received remarkably little investigation: what happens after mifepristone enters the water system?

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  Has the Pro-Life Movement Lost Its Focus?

  Jul 30, 202629 min

  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 discuss fetal pain—what it is, how it shapes the conversation, and why some in the movement have moved away from talking about it. They also examine the California lawsuit in which the state's attorney general is seeking more than $20 million and a permanent gag order against Heartbeat International and Real Options for telling women about Abortion Pill Reversal. Under oath, the state's own expert witness could not say APR is unsafe, could not say it does not work, and could not support the state's claim that the abortion pill is safer than Tylenol. These conversations are shaping the future of the pro-life movement and raising questions it can no longer avoid. Watch the full episode of Dear Jane. -- 0:23 — Abortion Up to Birth 1:49 — Have We Abandoned the Baby? 3:30 — The Fetal Pain Argument 4:16 — The Baby Recoils 5:40 — The Problem With Subjectivism 6:50 — Reorienting Around the Baby 7:54 — What's Your Favorite Type of Abortion? 9:34 — Equal Protection Explained 11:00 — Inside the Movement's Divide 13:14 — Unapologetic About the Goal 14:12 — Is the Movement Making It Worse? 15:00 — Abortion Is Illegal. It's Still Happening. 17:10 — History Doesn't Answer 2026 19:30 — Showing What Abortion Actually Is 20:00 — The California Lawsuit 21:00 — Coercion and the Feminist Silence 21:50 — The Baby Who Almost Wasn't 22:40 — The Witness Who Couldn't Back It Up 23:50 — Population Control on the Stand 24:40 — What If We Just Called It Progesterone? 26:00 — APR Is a Choice 27:00 — Taking Away the Right to Change Your Mind

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  What If Family Is Being Redefined Without You Knowing?

  Jul 23, 202635 min

  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 Jane to talk about what is actually in them: the removal of mother and father language from parentage laws, the legalization of surrogacy without a single background check, the quiet allowance of poly parenting slipped into a single line of code, and what any of it means for the child at the center of all of it. Them Before Us recently released the Children's Rights Scorecard, grading all 50 states on how well their laws protect children's rights. You can look up your state. The grades are illuminating. This is not a conversation about politics. It is a conversation about what children need and whether anyone in power is asking. Watch the full episode on Dear Jane.

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  What Finally Made an Abortion Clinic Nurse Walk Away

  Jul 16, 202646 min

  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 through the abortion process. A woman who called back, saying she was on the brink of taking her own life, received no emergency intervention. No one called 911. And the number of procedures completed determined whether the staff got pizza or “the good lunch.” When Naomi later met former abortion workers from across the country, she realized her clinic was not an isolated case. More than 700 workers have connected with And Then There Were None , many of whom have described similar experiences. Then one day, a patient offered her $50 just to hear her baby’s heartbeat. Naomi had not heard one in two years. Everything began to change. Today, Naomi is part of And Then There Were None , an organization that helps abortion workers leave the industry and begin healing. She joins Dear Jane to tell the story of what she witnessed, what finally changed her mind, and why she believes her story is only one of many.

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