Thank you for following along with us for 2024. What follows are the four (4) most viewed blog posts for Care Net’s Abundant Life Blog in 2024. Take a look back with us, as we share the most popular blog posts of the year. And, as we look forward to 2025, may we look for more ways to give compassion, help, and hope to those facing pregnancy decisions.
#4 CareCast: A Conversation about Defending Life with Dr. William Lile
“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.
“If they’re a patient, they’re a person, and if they’re a person they deserve our respect and our protection.” —Dr. William Lile, The ProLife Doc
Using the tools that abortionists left behind at a clinic he helped to shut down, Dr. Lile created a series of educational videos about the grim reality of abortion.
Read more and listen to the full podcast at CareCast: A Conversation about Defending Life.
#3 CareCast: What Does Dred Scott Have to do with Abortion?
Does your birth determine your worth? In this episode of CareCast, Roland Warren, Care Net’s President and CEO, and Vincent DiCaro, Care Net’s Chief Outreach Officer, review a recent abortion law in Montana. They discuss the new law and draw similarities from the Dred Scott Supreme Court case.
Does your birth determine your worth?
It seems, even though both cases happened in different eras and different circumstances, it’s the same old sin rearing its ugly head.
Read more and listen to the full podcast at CareCast: What Does Dred Scott Have to do with Abortion?
#2 CareCast: When a Child’s Circumstances at Birth Determine its Worth
The circumstances you’re born in should not determine your worth. Shouldn’t this be common sense? Apparently not. The recent case of the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine Versus the United States Food and Drug Administration is the topic of conversation for our newest CareCast.
The circumstances you’re born in should not determine your worth.
We invite you to sit down and listen to Roland and Vincent as they dig deeper into the latest court case surrounding the abortion debate and more importantly, what’s behind this quest for death, all on the latest episode of CareCast.
Read more and listen to the full podcast at CareCast: When a Child’s Circumstances at Birth Determine its Worth
#1 Is a 15-Week Abortion Ban Actually Pro-Choice? And if so, how should pro-life Christians respond?
Roland Warren writes: In 2012, when I became the president and CEO of Care Net, the Republicans and Democrats supported very different national policy positions on abortion. The Democrats’ policy position has remained largely unchanged: abortion on demand at any time during the pregnancy, for any reason, no exceptions. In fact, supporting abortion is now a litmus test for the party. However, the Republican national policy position has changed dramatically. Indeed, the implications of this change should transform the national dialogue around the issue of abortion. Whether it will remains to be seen. In 2012, when Mitt Romney was the Republican nominee for President, he and the Republican party opposed all abortions, except in cases of rape, incest, and the life of the mother. This exceptions-based position would make nearly 98% of abortions illegal. Furthermore, even the exceptions were evaluated through a moral lens that aimed to balance compassion for the vulnerable woman impacted during conception or childbirth with the vulnerable baby affected by the abortion procedure.
Is a 15-Week Abortion Ban Actually Pro-Choice?
Today, the national Republican policy position is in disarray. Presidential candidate Donald Trump recently announced that, essentially, the Republican party does not have a national position on abortion, but that the issue should be left to “the will of the people” at the state level. Other major Republican figures have publicly supported anything from a 6-week ban to a 15-week ban, which would include the 2012 exceptions. The most recent CDC abortion statistics indicate that a 15-week ban, plus the exceptions, would allow nearly 98% of abortions.
Read the full post, the most popular post of 2024, Is a 15-Week Abortion Ban Actually Pro-Choice? And if so, how should pro-life Christians respond?