The Van Maren Show

Operation Rescue president Troy Newman explains why the pro-life movement has to focus on shutting down abortion centers. Involved in the pro-life cause since 1991, Newman, now 53, says, “the only way we can determine whether or not we're closer to ending this holocaust of our time is the number of babies being saved and the number of abortion mills closing down." He tells Jonathon Van Maren, “I can't wait for that glorious day when every child is protected under the law.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Operation Rescue president Troy Newman explains why the pro-life movement has to focus on shutting down abortion centers. Involved in the pro-life cause since 1991, Newman, now 53, says, “the only way we can determine whether or not we're closer to ending this holocaust of our time is the number of babies being saved and the number of abortion mills closing down." He tells Jonathon Van Maren, “I can't wait for that glorious day when every child is protected under the law.”

Dr. Monica Miller, founder and director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, speaks with Jonathon Van Maren about her start in the pro-life movement in the 1970s as a graduate student under the tutelage of Joe Scheidler. She also talks about the impact taking photographs of aborted babies and showing them to the public has had on awakening people to the horrors of abortion. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Political science professor Darel Paul discusses how the upper tier of American society evolved over time to support and then push gay 'marriage.' Author of "From Tolerance to Equality: How Elites Brought America to Same-Sex Marriage," Dr. Paul argues that liberals don't have to sacrifice much to let gays and lesbians into their elite circles. It's "kind of a painless, nearly cost free way of promoting their own righteousness," he tells Jonathon Van Maren. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

World renowned author and philosopher Gabriele Kuby talks with Jonathon Van Maren about her upbringing in Germany, her conversion to the Catholic faith, and reflects on her book, "The Global Sexual Revolution: Destruction of Freedom in the Name of Freedom." Pope Benedict XVI once called her "a brave warrior against ideologies that ultimately result in the destruction of man." See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Scott Klusendorf is a veteran of the pro-life movement. In this episode, he tells Jonathon Van Maren that the “seamless garment" approach is “a threat to the survival of the pro-life movement" and that "I will fight it with everything that's in me.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ryan Bomberger, an internationally recognized pro-life speaker, shares his unique upbringing as an adopted child in a family of 15. He also discusses social justice and where the civil rights movement went wrong on abortion. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode of The Van Maren Show, Nancy Pearcey and Jonathon Van Maren discuss the deeply-rooted philosophical arguments underpinning the transgender movement, how it exploded in less than a decade, and the dangers it poses to our society. Nancy Pearcey has been called America’s "preeminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual" and she's the author of "Love Thy Body." See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Johnson says that she "essentially coerced women into making a decision for abortion that was sacrificing their children. And I knew that that was incredibly unjust. And I thought, here I am working for this organization that says we're here to fight for justice for women. But at what cost? I mean there's no justice when we're having to sacrifice the rights of someone else.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

91-year-old Joe Scheidler tells Jonathon Van Maren that it was during a speech he attended by Senator Henry Hyde in Chicago in the early 1970s that he became interested in the pro-life fight. “I listened very carefully to Henry's talk and then I started studying the whole pro-life issue of fetal development,” he says. “I thought this was going to destroy our country because we are taking protection away from the most helpless — the unborn.” See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The first 45 years of Walt Heyer’s life were destroyed by transgenderism thanks to his grandmother’s “fun” little decision to put him in a purple chiffon dress and tell him he looked cute when he was just four-years-old. Now, he speaks out against the dangers of the LGBT movement, transgenderism and sex reassignment surgery. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Speaking with host Jonathon Van Maren, veteran anti-porn activist Matt Fradd exposes the real damage porn consumption does not just to the men and especially young boys who watch it but to romantic relationships, marriages, and families. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Some politicians seem to think the only people impacted by abortion are the doctor and the woman who chooses to get one. The truth of the matter is that far more lives are affected by abortion.In a new episode of The Van Maren Show, podcast host Jonathon Van Maren speaks with Melissa Ohden, a survivor of a saline abortion in 1977 that lasted over five days.Melissa’s moving story begins when her maternal grandmother, a nurse, forced her then-19-year-old biological mom, an unmarried college student, to get a secret abortion. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Carol Everett, now one of the top pro-life activists in the United States, spent 6 years in the abortion industry before coming to Jesus Christ. Having had an abortion just 2 weeks after Roe v. Wade in 1973, because she and her second husband simply didn’t want any more children. Everett got involved in and soon revolutionized the way the abortion industry operates.Listen this week on The Van Maren Show about how God answered this abortion manager’s prayer for a sign that she was supposed to leave the industry.Check out more stories like this here: https://www.lifesitenews.com/all/today See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jessica Neely was raised in a conservative Christian home. The daughter of a pastor who spent her youth involved in a myriad of extracurricular and pro-family activities, her life took a turn for the worse when, in the early 2000s, she was raped at the age of 23. Unsure of how to deal with the trauma of her experience, Neely, an abstinence missionary at the time, was intent on getting revenge.Neely and Van Maren discuss her decade-long dive into the world of pornography and her eventual escape from it in this explicit but revealing conversation about the evils of the porn industry. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.