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Conversations on the human right to life, brought to you by Americans United for Life and hosted by Tom Shakely.

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Conversations on the human right to life, brought to you by Americans United for Life and hosted by Tom Shakely.

    Prudence Robertson on pro-life reporting, EWTN Pro-Life Weekly, and the dawning of a post-Roe America

    Prudence Robertson on pro-life reporting, EWTN Pro-Life Weekly, and the dawning of a post-Roe America

    Where can we go for truthful reporting in a time when so much of our news media has returned to the age of sensationalism, dubious tabloid-style journalism, and blinkered partisanship? If we're searching for truthful and reliable news on the pro-life cause, we need look no further than EWTN Pro-Life Weekly.

    Today we speak with Prudence Robertson, host of EWTN Pro-Life Weekly, the leading national media coverage source dedicated exclusively to pro-life news. As Robertson stated in an interview with NCR, her pro-life convictions have been "strengthened by seeing the beauty of adoption, attending a faithful Catholic college, and witnessing the fruits of how reasoned, charitable dialogue can persuade people to become pro-life.”

    EWTN Pro-Life Weekly
    https://www.ewtn.com/tv/shows/ewtn-pro-life-weekly

    Prudence Robertson on Twitter
    https://twitter.com/pruspulse

    • 56 min
    Samuel D. Green on Reason for Life and sharing the pro-life message through Christian communities

    Samuel D. Green on Reason for Life and sharing the pro-life message through Christian communities

    We speak today with Samuel D. Green, President & General Counsel of Reason for Life. Reason for Life encourages, equips, and educates Christian leaders who are hesitant to address abortion, helping them see that sharing the truth about this subject is both essential and loving.

    Before founding Reason for Life, Samuel spent five years at Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), where he engaged in litigation to defend the sanctity of life, freedom of speech, and religious liberty. Samuel has also worked as a litigation associate at a large law firm (Jenner & Block), as a member of a presidential campaign’s legal team, and as a law clerk to the Honorable Raymond W. Gruender of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. 

    Samuel finished first in his class at Pepperdine University School of Law, where he earned a Juris Doctor degree in 2011. He also studied political science at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he graduated, summa cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2008.

    Samuel has provided legislative testimony, preached sermons about the sanctity of life, and given presentations across the country to various groups or their chapters (including Students for Life of America, 40 Days for Life, Summit Ministries, Teen Pact Leadership Schools, the Federalist Society, and the St. Thomas More Society). Samuel has also participated in media interviews and published articles with various outlets, including Newsweek, The Seattle Times, The Hill, Washington Examiner, The Federalist, and The Daily Signal. Additionally, Samuel authored a legal brief in the historic Supreme Court case that overturned Roe v. Wade.

    Reason for Life: Changing Hearts, Saving Lives
    https://reasonforlife.org

    • 55 min
    Dr. John Bruchalski on Tepeyac OB/GYN and his conversion from abortionist to pro-life advocate

    Dr. John Bruchalski on Tepeyac OB/GYN and his conversion from abortionist to pro-life advocate

    We speak today with Dr. John Bruchalski, a physician who has committed himself to the practice of holistic and life-affirming medicine.. Nearly 30 years ago, Dr. Bruchalski and his wife founded the Tepeyac Family Center, a pro-life obstetrics and gynecology medical practice. Tepeyac’s mission? To provide affordable care to all women, especially those in most need and those experiencing unexpected pregnancies. Dr. Bruchalski also started the Divine Mercy Care network, an umbrella organization, to support Tepeyac.

    Prior to starting Tepeyac, Dr. Bruchalski was a physician who performed abortions and specialized in advanced fertility treatments. After several alarming and heart-gripping experiences, he began rethinking his career and found a new, life-affirming vocation in medicine. Dr. Bruchalski is a doctor, husband, speaker, teacher, and we speak with him about what it means to be a pro-life physician and the culture-shaping vision and mission of Tepeyac and missions like it.

    Tepeyac OB/GYN: Something More Than Medicine
    https://tepeyacobgyn.com

    Divine Mercy Care: Transforming Hearts Through Healthcare
    https://divinemercycare.org

    • 1 hr 11 min
    Amb. Sam Brownback on American identity, serving as Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, and the human right to life

    Amb. Sam Brownback on American identity, serving as Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, and the human right to life

    We speak today about the relationship between the human right to life and the right to religious freedom. 

    Our freedoms of thought, conscience, and religion are natural and interdependent rights, and when rightly understood, they serve to elevate our conception of the meaning and purpose of human life—the goods we recognize that are a part of the created order, and what this created order suggests about our origins and our destiny.

    The human right to life is the first and more fundamental of all human rights, but the human right to religious freedom matters, too, because to be human is to pursue the truth.

    Today we speak with Amb. Sam Brownback, who served most recently as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom and continues to work with coalitions around the globe to promote and protect the right to religious liberty.  He is currently serving as a fellow at the Center for Religous Studies at The Catholic University of America.

    Before his appointment as U.S. Ambassador, Brownback previously served as a U.S. Senator and the 26th Governor of Kansas. Amb. Brownback is a prolific attorney, politician and diplomat and we speak with him about the importance of religous liberty, the human right to life, and what faith means to him personally.

    Amb. Sam Brownback on Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Brownback

    National Committee for Religious Freedom
    https://thencrf.org/

    International Religious Freedom Summit (IRF)
    https://irfsummit.org/

    • 49 min
    Melissa Ohden on the Abortion Survivors Network and public witness to the dignity of every human person

    Melissa Ohden on the Abortion Survivors Network and public witness to the dignity of every human person

    We speak today with Melissa Ohden, a survivor of a failed salient infusion abortion and the founder and director of the Abortion Survivors Network, which seeks to educate the public about failed abortions and provide emotional, mental, and spiritual support to the abortion survivors. Melissa is the author of “You Carried Me: A Daughter’s Memoir” and a frequent contributor in various pro-life and conservative media outlets such as Focus on the Family, Alliance Defending Freedom, and Fox News.

    Abortion Survivors Network
    https://abortionsurvivors.org

    You Carried Me: A Daughter's Memoir
    https://www.amazon.com/You-Carried-Me-Daughters-Memoir-ebook/dp/B01N9SV4PJ/

    • 48 min
    Dr. Charles Camosy on lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and preserving human dignity in a secular age

    Dr. Charles Camosy on lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and preserving human dignity in a secular age

    We listen in today to a lecture by Dr. Charles Camosy delivered to the Americans United for Life 2022 Summer Fellows cohort. Dr. Camosy speaks on how COVID-19 has impacted our sense of human dignity and what human persons are owed both in medicine and the culture broadly.

    Dr. Camosy is a Professor of Medical Humanities at the Creighton University School of Medicine and is the Msgr. Michael J. Curran Fellow of Moral Theology at Saint Joseph’s Seminary and College. He is author most recently of Losing Our Dignity: How Secularized Medicine is Undermining Fundamental Human Equality (New City Press, 2021) and the forthcoming Bioethics for Nurses: A Christian Moral Vision.

    Dr. Charles Camosy
    https://www.charlescamosy.com/

    Bioethics for Nurses: A Christian Moral Vision
    https://www.amazon.com/Bioethics-Nurses-Christian-Moral-Vision/dp/080287892X/

    Losing Our Dignity: How Secularized Medicine is Undermining Fundamental Human Equality
    https://www.amazon.com/Losing-Our-Dignity-Secularized-Undermining/dp/B098XSJ8CC/

    • 54 min

Customer Reviews

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70 Ratings

A Justice Runner ,

Great insights!

Great expert insights, and in-depth analysis defending human life.

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Now that Roe is ‘gone,’ crickets from AUL….

I guess that’s what happens when you’re in bed with a political party that enthusiastically dislikes poor people.

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