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Dear JaneAuthor: Scott Baker & Marcie Little
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! Language: en Genres: News, News Commentary, Philosophy, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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If We Can Treat Babies in the Womb, When Do Their Rights Begin?
Thursday, 1 October, 2026
When Dr. William Lile has a pregnant patient, he says he doesn’t have one patient; he has two: the mother and her baby. And modern medicine is increasingly treating them that way.Doctors can perform open-heart surgery before birth. Repair spina bifida. Correct dangerous heart rhythms. Perform blood transfusions. Even operate on babies inside the womb and allow them to continue developing until birth.So Dr. Lile asks a much harder question: if we can diagnose, anesthetize, operate on, and heal a baby before birth, when do that baby’s rights begin?That question drives a wide-ranging conversation about fetal medicine, abortion, and the changing meaning of viability. Dr. Lile explains how medical advances have pushed the boundaries of what doctors can do before birth and why he sees a profound contradiction between treating a baby as a patient in one room and ending that baby’s life in another.He also discusses what physicians learn in complex family planning fellowships, including late-term abortion and selective reduction; the growing use of the abortion pill; cases in which women have been given abortion drugs without their knowledge; and his work with abortion pill reversal.And for Dr. Lile, the conversation ultimately goes beyond medicine. He explains why he believes the church must be equipped to speak about abortion while also offering healing and forgiveness to women and men carrying abortion in their past.If medicine already recognizes the baby as a patient, what should follow from that?Watch the full conversation on Dear Jane.— 0:20 — Why He Fights for Life 1:19 — When One Patient Becomes Two 3:11 — Botox in the Womb 6:09 — Open Heart Surgery Before Birth 7:19 — When Twins Compete for a Placenta 10:30 — Correcting a Baby’s Heart Rhythm 12:35 — Stopping a Baby’s Heart to Save It 13:00 — Repairing Spina Bifida Before Birth 15:00 — Why Are We Still Debating Late-Term Abortion?16:36 — Medical Assistance in Dying 20:05 — What Scripture Calls the Preborn 22:47 — Is Your Worldview Set by 13?24:06 — Showing Ultrasounds to Third Graders 25:40 — Is Abortion a Sin?26:30 — Three Pastors Out of 120 27:56 — What Happens When an OB-GYN Speaks Out?29:14 — What Complex Family Planning Teaches 31:28 — Does Viability Mean Anything Anymore?33:31 — 87 Days Between Identical Twins 35:16 — Abortion Pills: All They’ve Ever Known 36:28 — The Father Who Gave Her the Abortion Pill 37:38 — Nearly 1,000 Clinicians Trained in Reversal 39:59 — The $109 Reversal Prescription 42:35 — Judges 3 and the Cost of Sacrifice 43:59 — 64 Million Since 1973 44:34 — Who Is Sitting in the Pews
