Bioethics Babe

Four years after Roe v. Wade was overturned, did Dobbs actually save babies?

Many headlines claim abortions have increased, pro-life laws have failed, maternal deaths have risen, and women are receiving worse medical care. But does the data support those claims?

In this evidence-driven conversation, Dr. Michael New, assistant professor at The Catholic University of America, Senior Associate Scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, ...

When your child is born with a severe brain injury, how do you grieve the future you imagined while fully embracing the child in front of you? Where do you find hope when doctors, therapies, uncertainty, and endless medical decisions become your new normal?

In this powerful episode of Bioethics Babe podcast, Arina Grossu Agnew sits down with Anja Baker—pro-life advocate, wife, mother of four, and disability parent—to sha...

Artificial intelligence is transforming medicine, health care, education, scientific research, and nearly every aspect of modern life. But as AI becomes more powerful, one question rises above all the others: What does it mean to be human?

In this episode of Bioethics Babe, Arina Grossu Agnew explores Pope Leo XIV's groundbreaking encyclical Magnifica Humanitas ("Magnificent Humanity") and examines how Catholics, and everyone concer...

She took the abortion pill... then changed her mind just hours later. Is there anything that can be done?

Thousands of women have found themselves in this heartbreaking situation, believing there was no hope. But according to family physician and abortion pill reversal pioneer Dr. George Delgado, that isn't always the end of the story.

In this in-depth conversation, Dr. Delgado explains the science behind abortion pill reversal, how ...

Millions of couples struggle with infertility, yet few realize that not every fertility treatment is ethically the same.

Is IVF the only option? Is IUI morally acceptable? Why does the Catholic Church oppose some reproductive technologies while embracing others? And what happens to the millions of frozen embryos already in storage?

In this episode of Bioethics Babe, I sit down with Joe Zalot, PhD, Director of Education at the Nationa...

Happy Independence Day!

As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States, we remember the enduring truth proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence: that all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

At Bioethics Babe, our mission is to defend the inherent dignity of every human person from conception to natural death. Th...

What happens to a society when it starts killing its elderly?

What happens when a doctor offers death to a lonely senior before offering treatment? When a grandchild loses a grandparent not to disease, but to euthanasia? When aging parents begin to wonder whether they're a burden rather than a gift?

In Canada, euthanasia now accounts for approximately 1 in 20 deaths, and the program continues to expand. What began as a narrowly defin...

Donor conception is often celebrated as a gift, a miracle, and a pathway to parenthood.

But what if your missing parent was missing by design? What if the person who created you intentionally planned for one or both of your biological parents to never be part of your life?

What does it mean to intentionally separate a child from one or both of his or her biological parents before birth? Do children have a right to know their biologic...

Seven miscarriages. Two living children. Countless questions.

What does it actually feel like to lose a child through miscarriage?

What happens when the pregnancy test line starts fading and you realize you're about to lose another baby?

Why do so many women feel completely unprepared for the physical, emotional, and spiritual reality of miscarriage, despite the fact that roughly 1 in 4 pregnancies ends in miscarriage?

In this deeply p...

Did the women's movement get hijacked?

Former Cosmopolitan writer and Subverted author Sue Ellen Browder says yes, and she says she helped do it.

In this eye-opening conversation, Sue shares what she witnessed inside Cosmopolitan during the height of the sexual revolution, how media narratives helped reshape American views on sex, marriage, motherhood, and abortion, and why she believes the women's movement became fused with abortion...

Egg freezing is sold as empowerment. A way to “pause” fertility, focus on career and relationships, and have children later on your own timeline.

But what if that promise isn’t as secure as women are being told?

In this explosive episode of Bioethics Babe, Jennifer Lahl, founder of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network and director of the documentary Eggsploitation, exposes the risks, realities, and ethical q...

What happens when science gains the power not only to heal human life, but to redesign it?

Scientists are now creating lab-made embryos from stem cells, experimenting with three-parent embryos, pursuing gene editing technologies like CRISPR, and exploring ways to grow human life outside the womb. What once sounded like science fiction is rapidly becoming reality.

In this episode of Bioethics Babe, internationally recognized stem cell...

What do you do when doctors tell you there’s “no hope”?

When former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Rick Santorum and his wife Karen received a Trisomy 18 diagnosis for their daughter Bella, they were told she had a condition “incompatible with life.” They were encouraged to prepare for her death.

But Bella lived.

Now she’s turning 18 years old, something many doctors never expected she woul...

What do you do when the questions never go away?

Suicide doesn’t just leave grief in its wake. It leaves silence, confusion, and questions that don’t have clear answers.

Could I have done something? Did I miss something? Where was God?

In this deeply personal conversation, Dr. Brick Lantz, orthopedic surgeon, bioethicist, and author of Raw Musings: Journaling Following My Son’s Suicide, shares what it was like to los...

What happens when parents hear the words, “Something may be wrong with your baby”?

In this episode of Bioethics Babe, we sit down with board-certified neonatologist and pediatrician Dr. Robin Pierucci to unpack what really happens after a prenatal diagnosis. From life expectancy predictions and medical uncertainty to the emotional shock families experience, this conversation exposes the hidden pressures shaping decisions...

Did feminism actually leave women more vulnerable in birth?

Modern medicine says birth has never been safer. So why are more women walking away feeling traumatized, disempowered, and unheard?

After a delivery that almost wasn’t a live birth, Leah Jacobson says the biggest lesson wasn’t about control. It was about surrender.

In this episode, we ask a deeper question: Did something break in the system or did something shift ...

What if we have been getting death wrong? For decades, modern medicine has relied on the concept of brain death, the idea that when the brain irreversibly stops functioning, the person has died. But what if that is not true?

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Paul Byrne, neonatologist, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, past president of the Catholic Medical Association, and one of the leading critics of brain death, for a conversa...

If we’re just matter, why do we matter? Modern bioethics is built on a question most people never stop to ask: What is a human being?

Because the answer to that question isn’t abstract, it determines how we treat the most vulnerable people among us. From IVF and embryo selection, to assisted suicide and end-of-life care, to gene editing and transhumanism. We are already making decisions about who counts and who doesn&rsq...

Did birth control give women freedom or did it fundamentally change feminism itself?

Before the 1960s sexual revolution, before the Pill became mainstream, Margaret Sanger was already advancing a radical idea: that women could not be free unless their fertility was controlled. She didn’t just promote contraception, she reframed it as essential to freedom, autonomy, and progress.

But what if that idea didn’t actually expan...