Life After Dobbs

Life After Dobbs

In Life After Dobbs, a new podcast series from the Ethics and Public Policy Center, hosts Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis explore how the pro-life movement arrived, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, at the cusp of overturning Roe v. Wade—and what happens next. Anderson and DeSanctis, the coauthors of the new book Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing, sit down with experts and activists to talk about the future of the pro-life movement, how to continue building a culture that welcomes babies and supports mothers and families, the future of feminism, the politics of abortion in 2022 and beyond, and much more.

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August 11, 2022 47 mins

On the twelfth episode of Life After Dobbs, Catherine Glenn Foster joins Ryan and Alexandra to discuss her work with Americans United for Life. Foster and her organization are committed to bringing compassion and support to women suffering from social and economic pressures toward abortion by empowering women in the legal and political spheres. Ryan, Alexandra, and Catherine also discussed exceptions for rape, incest, and ectopic p...

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On the eleventh episode of Life After Dobbs, Leah’s Libresco Sargent’s New York Times essay about her painful experience with ectopic pregnancy serves as the beginning of a broad conversation with Ryan and Alexandra about the place of career and familial obligation in one’s life, how our culture overlooks and ignores human dependence and need, and what different answers to the abortion question say about the human person.

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On the tenth episode of the Life After Dobbs podcast, Ryan and Alexandra host EPPC Fellow Carl R. Trueman to examine the anthropological and philosophical questions underlying the abortion debate. In his book The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, Carl explains the history of the ideas which led to this rhetorical chasm and shows the connection between long-dead thinkers and contemporary politics. The Christian worldview, charac...

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On the ninth episode of the Life After Dobbs podcast, Ryan and Alexandra hear from EPPC Fellow Patrick Brown and Senior Fellow Henry Olsen. Patrick uses his expertise in family economics to discuss the factors affecting the demand for abortion. He suggests policies that will shield struggling moms from poverty and support a society centered on healthy family life. Henry Olsen draws on his experience in American electoral politics t...

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On the eighth episode of EPPC’s Life After Dobbs podcast, SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser joins hosts Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis to discuss the awakening of her pro-life convictions, how her organization holds politicians accountable to their promises, and the future of pro-life policy at the state level.

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Marjorie Dannenfelser, President of SBA Pro-Life America

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The seventh episode of EPPC’s Life After Dobbs podcast features exclusive audio of Father Richard John Neuhaus’s legendary speech at the close of the 2008 convention of the National Right to Life Committee, which Robert P. George has called “the greatest pro-life speech ever given.” This is the first time that audio of this speech has been published in full.

Life After Dobbs co-host Ryan T. Anderson begins the episode with some per...

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In the sixth episode of EPPC's Life After Dobbs podcast, recorded on the eve of the Supreme Court’s historic decision overturning Roe v. Wade, Live Action founder and president Lila Rose joins hosts Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis to discuss her experience as a pro-life activist, how to combat the lies of the abortion industry, the importance of telling the truth about gender ideology, and much more.

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Lila Rose

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In the fifth episode of EPPC's Life After Dobbs podcast, recorded just hours after the release of the Supreme Court’s historic decision overturning Roe v. Wade, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow Ed Whelan joined hosts Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis to offer instant analysis of the ruling and its implications.

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Ed Whelan

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In the fourth episode of EPPC's Life After Dobbs podcast, hosts Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis talk with O. Carter Snead about the meaning of embodiment and vulnerability, why pro-abortion arguments that pit mothers against their children are fundamentally misguided, how abortion corrupts the practice of medicine, and more.

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O. Carter Snead

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In the third episode of EPPC's Life After Dobbs podcast, hosts Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis talk with Erika Bachiochi about why so many early feminists were pro-life, the unique ways that abortion harms women and men, how to have difficult conversations across profound disagreements, and more.

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Erika Bachiochi

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In the second episode of EPPC's Life After Dobbs podcast, hosts Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis talk with Dr. Aaron Kheriaty about when human life begins and how we define personhood, the profound moral and bioethical questions surrounding abortion, and why abortion is so harmful not only to the unborn but to women and to the doctors who are involved.

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Dr. Aaron Kheriaty

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In the first episode of EPPC's Life After Dobbs podcast, hosts Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis talk with March for Life President Jeanne Mancini about building a culture of life, how to care for moms and their babies, and the future of the pro-life movement at the federal and state levels.

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Jeanne Mancini, President of the March for Life

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May 26, 2022 2 mins
In the new podcast series Life After Dobbs, brought to you by the Ethics and Public Policy Center, hosts Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis explore how the pro-life movement arrived at the cusp of overturning Roe v. Wade—and what happens next.    Anderson and DeSanctis, the coauthors of the new book Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing, sit down with experts and activists to talk about the future...
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