Breanne Houston had an abortion at eighteen. Today she sits on the other side of the room, helping women in the exact moment she once lived. And she holds a view most people don't expect from someone with her story. She believes women who get abortions should be held liable.

In Part 2 of our equal protection series, Breanne joins Marcie and Scott to make her case, from the terminology people get wrong, to the line between pressure and coercion, to what it would actually mean to treat abortion the way we treat any other taking of life. It's an honest, uncomfortable, real-world conversation about one of the most divisive questions inside the pro-life movement, told by someone who has lived both sides of it.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Breanne Houston helps lead Alliance Family Services and is launching a new pro-life clinic in Lenoir City, Tennessee, serving women facing unexpected pregnancies with free ultrasounds, abortion pill reversal, and long-term support. https://www.alliancefamilyservices.org/

WHAT WE GET INTO

What "equal protection" really means, and why the words matter

The difference between pressure and coercion

How prosecuting women would affect pregnancy centers and abortion pill reversal.

Whether it would drive abortion further into the dark, or stop it

The committee room moment that crystallized all of it for Breanne

She's been through it herself and she doesn't believe women should be prosecuted for abortion. In this episode of Dear Jane, post-abortive advocate Victoria Robinson sits down with Scott and Marcie to debate why she believes criminalizing women misses the deeper realities behind abortion decisions.

Drawing from her own story and years of working with post-abortive women, Victoria unpacks the role of coercion, shame, guilt, and accountability in the abortion debate.

In this episode:

-Why Victoria opposes criminalizing women for abortion

-What coercion really looks like behind abortion decisions

-How guilt shapes the experience of post-abortive women

-Whether criminalization would actually protect preborn children

🎙️ Guest: Victoria Robinson — post-abortive advocate and spokesperson for women navigating life after abortion

📌 This is Part 1 of 2. Next week, hear the other side: post-abortive leader Breanne Houston explains why she now believes criminalization IS necessary to protect preborn children. Subscribe so you don't miss it.

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What happens to infants who survive abortions? Is infanticide happening in America — and why is nobody talking about it?

Olivia Summer, Senior Litigation Counsel with the ACLJ, exposes the legal loopholes, redefined language, and blocked investigations that critics argue allow born-alive infants to die without consequence.

⚠️ To be clear: Infanticide is illegal in all 50 states. This episode examines whether legal changes are creating dangerous gaps that allow born-alive infants to die without investigation or consequence.

In this episode:

• What "infanticide" actually means and what it doesn't

• The difference between "comfort care" and lifesaving medical care for abortion survivors

• How legal language around "perinatal" death is being rewritten

• Why investigations into infant deaths are being blocked

• The rise of unsupervised abortion pill use and its deadly consequences

• What happens to babies who are born alive after failed abortions

👇 Resources

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