“If they’re a patient, they’re a person, and if they’re a person they deserve our respect and our protection.”, says Dr. William Lile in a special episode of CareCast, Care Net’s podcast on family, faith, and life, with Roland Warren, Care Net’s president and CEO.
This special episode of CareCast was recorded live at Care Net’s 2023 National Conference in Mobile, Alabama. One of our keynote speakers was Dr. William Lile, known as the ProLife Doc. Using the tools and abortionists that left behind at a clinic he helped to shut down, Dr. Lile created a series of educational videos about the grim reality of abortion. Listen in on the conversation between Roland and Dr. Lile about defending life.
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Dr. William Lile is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist, as well as the former OB-GYN department chair at Sacred Heart Hospital. He taught at the University of Florida and the Florida State Medical School OB-GYN residency programs. He is also a medical advisor of the Florida Human Life Protection Amendment while serving as a member of Focus on the Family’s Physicians Research Council. Dr. Lile is a frequent guest on both television and syndicated radio shows. Dr. Lile sat down with Dr. Lile during the conference to chat about his work and his keynote address to our attendees.
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RW: Well Dr. Lile, it’s a pleasure to have you at the 2023 Care Net Conference right here in Mobile, Alabama, not far from where you are in Pensacola. So it’s a godsend that you were able to find time out of your schedule to spend time with us. Thank you.
WL: It’s an honor to be here. Just be able to share the way that we can serve the Kingdom together and defend God’s preborn in the womb. So we appreciate the honor.
RW: Yes, so talk a little bit about just what you shared with the attendees. We have about 1600 people here, one of our biggest, I guess our biggest conference ever and got a standing ovation, not surprised there. Just an amazing presentation. Why don’t you talk about what you shared with folks from Care Net?
WL: Well, the real key is that these are pre-born babies and there’s a difference between the unborn and the pre-born. Unborn just means at this moment in time the baby is unborn. Pre-born implies that the baby will be born, kind of like you watch a pregame show, you don’t watch an un-game show, you watch the pregame show because the next thing is that you’re going to watch the game. These are my patients and my patients are dying. My patients are in the womb. We treat the pre-born as patients and we really took everybody to medical school today to really give them new tools that they can use to defend the pre-born.
We are now routinely, not just doing ultrasounds and diagnosing conditions, we are treating these conditions to save the baby’s life. We are routinely doing blood transfusions directly to babies as early as 18-weeks gestation. You speak about how we need to treat our neighbors as ourselves. Donating blood is a way to respect and treat your neighbor as yourself. We are now taking donated blood, giving it directly into the blood supply of the baby to save a baby’s life. That is treating the pre-born as patients.
But we’re also doing spina bifida corrective surgery, open heart surgery, laser vascular surgery, and even recently at Children’s Hospital in Boston, brain surgery for a condition called a Galen malformation. If they’re a patient, they’re a person, and if they’re a person they deserve our respect and our protection.
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