Josh Brahm and Monica Snyder wrap up their series of recent discussions by addressing denial-of-care stories. In this episode, Monica and Josh define what a denial-of-care story is, explain why abortion bans are often blamed for causing pregnancy-related deaths, identify the actual problems behind the most sensationalized stories, empathize with tragic outcomes and legitimate pro-choice concerns, and propose courses of action that pro-life people can take to help prevent similar tragic stories from happening in the future.

Related Links:

California's progress with decreasing maternal mortality

Secular Pro-Life's entire blog category of debunking content:
https://secularprolife.org/category/debunking/

Adriana Smith and laws about pregnant patients on life support

Does Texas require doctors to wait until there's no heartbeat to intervene in emergencies? (Josseli Barnica)

Kaitlyn Kash

Yeni Alvarez - New Yorker article

ProPublica can't see malpractice, only abortion bans (Neveah Crain)

ProPublica identifies their medical experts a little too subtly

Are OBGYNs fleeing Idaho because of abortion laws?

ERI Blog Post on Adriana Smith's case: Is It Okay to Find Edge Cases Challenging?

Equipped for Life Podcast #96: Survey Review: How Pro-Life & Pro-Choice People Define Abortion (with Monica Snyder)

Equal Rights Institute Website

Equal Rights Institute Blog

Equipped for Life Academy

Equipped for Life Course

Sidewalk Counseling Masterclass

Chapters:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:03:09 Defining "denial of care" stories

00:05:49 Theory posited by many media outlets

00:07:26 How to go about testing this theory

00:12:32 Adriana Smith

00:22:28 Josseli Barnica

00:25:51 Categorizing the cases

00:37:10 What is the most charitable interpretation of pro-choice reactions to these stories?

00:39:01 Malpractice and the in-between cases

00:41:43 Idaho case

00:44:28 Nevaeh Crain

00:49:54 What can pro-lifers do about this?

Host: Josh Brahm

Guest: Monica Snyder

Audio/Video Editors: Joshua Head, Josh Brahm

Publisher: Ellen Campbell