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 Side3:27 — 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 Preventable12:49 — When Pregnancy Isn’t the Cause14:23 — Should Non-Physicians Provide Abortions?16:20 — The Reality of a D&E Abortion19:22 — How Safe Is the Abortion Pill?22:00 — When an Abortion Is Coded as a Miscarriage23:05 — The Trauma No One Warns Women About23:50 — What Pro-Life Doctors Risk by Speaking Up24:45 — 93% of OB-GYNs Don’t Perform Abortions25:58 — Who Stands With Pro-Life Doctors?

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?They also found that downstream levels were not appreciably lower than upstream levels in any of the three cities. In two, they were higher. The authors concluded that conventional water treatment was not consistently effective at removing the activity they detected.cking progesterone, what happens after it enters the water system?Could environmental exposure be one factor worth investigating when approximately 1 in 6 people of reproductive age worldwide experience infertility during their lifetime?Abigail Forman is a researcher and policy analyst with Liberty Counsel Action and the author of a comprehensive analysis on abortion drugs in America's water supply. She joins Dear Jane to walk through what the abortion industry and federal regulators have largely left unaddressed.Abigail Forman is a researcher and policy analyst with Liberty Counsel Action and the author of a comprehensive analysis on abortion drugs in America's water supply. She joins Dear Jane to walk through the research, explain what she believes the abortion industry and federal regulators have largely left unaddressed, and discuss why these questions deserve closer attention.She also raises a question that stops the conversation cold: if women were required to decide whether to cremate or bury what the abortion pill produces, would more of them think twice?Her argument reaches beyond the pro-life movement. You do not have to be pro-life to care about abortion drugs entering the water supply. And because chemical abortions account for roughly two-thirds of abortions in the United States, Abigail argues that water-contamination regulations could change the abortion landscape almost overnight.the abortion pill now accounts for roughly two0-thirds of abortions in the UniVisit abortioninourwater.org to learn more about the research and current efforts calling on the EPA to investigate. The comment period closes August 31, 2026.Watch the full episode of Dear Jane.

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 Birth1:49 — Have We Abandoned the Baby?3:30 — The Fetal Pain Argument4:16 — The Baby Recoils5:40 — The Problem With Subjectivism6:50 — Reorienting Around the Baby7:54 — What's Your Favorite Type of Abortion?9:34 — Equal Protection Explained11:00 — Inside the Movement's Divide13:14 — Unapologetic About the Goal14:12 — Is the Movement Making It Worse?15:00 — Abortion Is Illegal. It's Still Happening.17:10 — History Doesn't Answer 202619:30 — Showing What Abortion Actually Is20:00 — The California Lawsuit21:00 — Coercion and the Feminist Silence21:50 — The Baby Who Almost Wasn't22:40 — The Witness Who Couldn't Back It Up23:50 — Population Control on the Stand24:40 — What If We Just Called It Progesterone?26:00 — APR Is a Choice27:00 — Taking Away the Right to Change Your Mind

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.

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.

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 keep fighting anyway.That is just one case.In New York and California, attorneys general are trying to silence pregnancy centers for simply telling women that abortion pill reversal exists. In Louisiana, a woman's ex-boyfriend ordered mifepristone online and coerced her to take it. And the drug whose label says one in twenty-five women will end up in the emergency room is now available to anyone with a few minutes and an internet connection.Gabriella McIntyre is an attorney with the Alliance Defending Freedom. She joins Dear Jane to walk through all of it, the cases, the creative tactics, the real stories behind the headlines, and answer the question most people are left with at the end:What can the rest of us actually do about any of this?

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 that created them with fragmented regulatory oversight.Emma breaks down how genetic screening allows parents to test embryos for everything from Down syndrome to IQ, personality traits, and male pattern baldness, selecting which lives continue and which are destroyed. She also covers a federal class action lawsuit filed in California in 2025, where a woman destroyed her last remaining embryos based on a 98% reliability statistic that turned out to be scientifically unsupported.And she asks the harder question underneath all of it: how did a $35 billion industry with the power to make these decisions end up answering to almost no one?

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 detected on ultrasound. The mission followed naturally: give 10% of every sale to pregnancy care centers and build it unapologetically pro-life from day one.Nearly $2 million in donations later, he joins Dear Jane to talk about boldness in the marketplace, what the parable of the talents can teach entrepreneurs, and why the pro-life movement needs more Christians building businesses. He also weighs in on the difference between being humble and passivity, the importance of unifying within the pro-life movement, and how he would respond if Starbucks came calling.Timestamps:1:00 — The Idea Behind Seven Weeks: Mission, Name, and Giving Back4:50 — From Political Fundraising to Pro-Life Business7:40 — Why For-Profit Can Be a Force for Good8:40 — Christians in the Marketplace: Excellence as a Calling10:13 — The Quality Behind the Coffee: Sourcing and Standards11:30 — Advice for Mission-Driven Entrepreneurs15:00 — What Holds Christians Back from Bold Business16:30 — Prioritizing Pro-Life Partners in Business18:40 — There Is a Market for Values19:30 — Be Proud, Be Bold, Be Unapologetic23:40 — Unity Over Division: Navigating Internal Pro-Life Debates26:06 — Fake Reviews and the Overwhelming Pro-Life Response27:30 — What Is Next for Seven Weeks Coffee28:25 — What Anton Would Say to Starbucks

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. In this episode, Emily breaks down what a true funded alternative to abortion looks like: immediate support, mid-term stability, long-term independence. She makes the case that the pro-life movement can't only fight to end abortion without funding the alternative. The church, employers—and yes, even the government—all have a role to play. This isn't a theoretical solution. It's happening right now. And it works. If you're pro-life and you're serious about saving lives, this conversation will inspire and challenge how you think about what "winning" actually requires.

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 often changes how parents decide the value of their child’s life. We also expose what happens when technology is used to identify genetic conditions before birth and abortion becomes the expected next step being pushed relentlessly by doctors. Our conversation isn't just about one influencer's tragic abortion decision. It is about the growing pressure to decide who is worth welcoming into the world based on a test result.