ProLife Unfiltered With Benjamin Kraft
The Pro-Life Unfiltered Podcast is where pro-life leaders speak candidly to other pro-life leaders. We go beyond safe talking points and into the hard conversations shaping strategy, unity, and the future of the movement. Expect strong opinions, honest disagreement, and voices that are actively building the cause from the inside.
"I Hate the Term Pro Life" | A PRC CEO on Branding, Money, and What Actually Works
"If I was king for a day, I would take all of these PRCs, vet them, and put them under the same brand." And Marc Burmich isn't proposing it for other people. He's told his board he'd give up the name Choices to do it.
Marc Burmich, CEO of Choices Pregnancy Centers in Arizona, joins Benjamin after a year of doubled revenue to argue that the pregnancy center model was built for a world that no longer exists. He walks through the shift from brick-and-mortar to mail-order abortion, why he thinks the movement has...
"This Is Not A Safe Injection Site" | Pam Stenzel and Chaney Gooley Answer the Care Kit Critics
Abby Johnson compared them to safe injection sites. Dr. William Lile says he won't make anyone's abortion safer. Pam Stenzel and Chaney Gooley respond on the record.
Abortion care kits are the most divisive new tool in the pregnancy center movement, and most people arguing about them have never seen one. Benjamin talks with Pam Stenzel, Founder of Enlighten Communications and Chaney Gooley, Consultant at Toward Home LLC, about what the kits are, who they're for, and every objection against them.
Pam traces how COVID-era FDA changes and mail-order...
Savannah Marten on Infighting, Pro-Life Salaries, and the $12.1 Million She Raised | Savannah Marten
"You will not ever hear me say we're all on the same team, because I don't think that we're all on the same team."
Savannah Marten, executive director of Bella Vida Network and leader of the Ohio Coalition of Pregnancy Centers, doesn't hedge. She takes on the phrase this movement uses to end arguments, names the equal protection fracture directly, and refuses to concede the word abolitionist to one faction.
She and Benjamin also get into what pregnancy center leaders usually discuss privately: whether pro-life staff should be paid...
William Lile | Are Vaccines Made From Aborted Babies? The Nuance Nobody Explains...
What happens when the pro-life movement is forced to wrestle with the issues that aren’t so black and white?
In this episode of ProLife Unfiltered, Benjamin Kraft sits down with Dr. William Lile to tackle some of the complicated ethical and medical conversations happening inside the pro-life movement today.
They dig into questions surrounding vaccines developed using historic fetal cell lines, the continued use of fetal tissue in medical research, and the realities of IVF that many Christians and pastors may not fully understand.
The conversation also turns to a growing de...
"How About Pre-Born Children Pastors?" | Pastor Scott Craig Ordains Missionaries to the Unborn
"Churches ordain youth pastors, children's pastors. Well, how about pre-born children pastors? Are they children or not?"
Pastor Scott Craig, founding pastor of Landmark Community Church and a former South Dakota state representative, runs something almost no other church does: he ordains pro-life leaders as ministers to the pre-born.
He and Benjamin get into why he was one of 33 pastors who deliberately violated the Johnson Amendment in 2008 and mailed the evidence to the IRS, why he believes most pastors stay silent and prefer it that way, and what a...
"You Have a Moral, Legal, Ethical Obligation" | 30-Year Clinic Director on What a Pregnancy Center Owes Its Donors
"They told me I was carrying an egg yolk." That's what Planned Parenthood told a 17-year-old Linda Stewart in 1973 — a week after a doctor she'd never met gave her the truth instead.
Linda Stewart has led Crossroads Clinic in Guthrie, Oklahoma for almost 30 years, converting it from a benevolence-focused crisis pregnancy center into a pregnancy medical clinic laser-focused on reaching abortion-minded women. On this episode of Pro Life Unfiltered, Linda and host Benjamin Kraft cover her own pregnancy story, the mission-drift trap of "abortion vulnerable" outreach, why the famous 80% ultrasound stat doesn't mean what mo...
Abby Johnson on Getting Cancelled, Ultrasounds Losing Their Power, and Her 98% Life Decision Rate
"The ultrasound isn't working anymore." Pregnancy center directors are telling Abby Johnson this privately, and her program's answer gets a 98% life rate with abortion-determined women.
Benjamin Kraft sits down with Abby Johnson, former Planned Parenthood director and founder of And Then There Were None and Pro Love Ministries, fresh off being "cancelled" by the pro-life establishment when the March for Life deemed her documentary Unthinkable too graphic. They cover why the states' rights strategy failed and the 14th Amendment case for equal protection, how abortion-minded women have hardened since Roe fell, the case management...
"The Biggest Compliance Threats Most Pregnancy Centers Don't See Coming" | Shawn Zierke Breaks Down HIPAA, Billing, and Legal Exposure
Should pregnancy centers take Medicaid money? A public health expert says the fear that it kills your ability to pray with patients is flatly untrue, and she's got the receipts.
In this episode, Benjamin sits down with Shawn, a public health expert (master's in public health and health finance and policy) who helps pregnancy clinics become medically and legally bulletproof, and who is also the adoptive mother of Samuel, a medically complex son born with a hypoplastic right heart and given a 22% chance of survival. Shawn walks through Samuel's adoption story in full, then shifts into operational...
"Men Are More Pro Life Than Women" | Men For Life CEO Debunks The Lie Commonly Believed By PRCs
He was 7 years into a meth addiction before anyone connected it to the abortion he never agreed to. Sean Corcoran on fatherhood, forgiveness, and war.
Sean Corcoran survived 7 years of methamphetamine addiction, homelessness, and an overdose before a counselor finally asked him about the abortion he'd never processed. In this episode, Sean sits down with Benjamin Kraft to talk about what pregnancy centers get wrong when they treat fatherhood programs as a distraction from the "core mission," why a recent Gallup poll shows more men identify as pro-life than women, and why young liberal women ranked having...
Jor-El Godsey on Division in the Pro-Life Movement: "We're Not Fragmented, We're Specialized"
Jor-El Godsey, president of Heartbeat International, on why the pregnancy help movement is facing a "Blockbuster vs. Netflix" moment — and how telecare, faster response, and smarter marketing can keep centers from being left behind.
In this episode of Pro Life Unfiltered, host Benjamin Kraft sits down with Jor-El Godsey — president of Heartbeat International, which oversees the Abortion Pill Rescue Network and Option Line — for a candid conversation about the future of pregnancy centers in the age of the mail-order abortion pill. Godsey explains why the abortion industry has "flanked" the brick-and-mortar pregnancy center model by making chemical aborti...
