In one of history's greatest pro-life victories, Planned Parenthood was defunded on July 4, 2025. Over the next year, dozens of abortion facilities and referral centers closed their doors.

But Congress didn't get around to extending the defunding in 2026, and the abortion giant is now eligible to receive hundreds of millions of your tax dollars in the year ahead. This is a terrible development for abortion-vulnerable moms and babies.

But in many ways, the one-year defunding of Planned Parenthood continues to bear fruit. On this episode of The 40 Days for Life Podcast, we take a look at the silver--or at least aluminum--linings of Congress's failure to defund America's leading abortion chain again.

Elections have consequences--including for those who don't get a vote. On this episode of The 40 Days for Life Podcast, we count down the five most influential elections in pro-life history.

Pro-lifers have long described abortion as a "sacrament" for the left.

Is this just a clever insult? One self-guided abortion website gives step-by-step instructions for building an altar, burning incense and praying to the baby about to be killed.

On this episode of The 40 Days for Life Podcast, we explain why abortion is an inherently religious form of human sacrifice.

Dr. Haywood Robinson moonlighted as an abortionist...until a radical conversion to Christianity led him to spend the last 40 years of his life serving in the pro-life movement.

Haywood died on July 24, 2026. We share our favorite memories of Haywood on this episode of The 40 Days for Life Podcast.

Banter about Steve's suspension from the podcast and college football talk ends at 16:26.

The last five years have been the greatest in the history of the pro-life movement.

Roe v. Wade is gone, and the backlash has receded. Countless abortion facilities have gone out of business. Planned Parenthood was defunded for a year. Lifesaving 40 Days for Life vigils have spread around the world. The LGBTQ movement and woke jumped the shark. Progressives found out that rabid support for abortion doesn't win elections anymore. The weaponization of law enforcement came to an abrupt end.

So why are so many pro-lifers and conservatives so depressed? We respond to the pro-life malaise on this episode of The 40 Days for Life Podcast.

An unplanned pregnancy can create legitimate fear amid difficult circumstances...

...but an unexpected pregnancy does not mean an unwanted child. On this episode of The 40 Days for Life Podcast, we discuss the inherent value of both mother and child and how to provide meaningful support during and after a crisis pregnancy.

As a young physician, Dr. Haywood Robinson was trained to be an abortionist by Dr. Noreen Johnson…the woman who would become his wife. But after years of "moonlighting" for the abortion industry, the couple experienced a dramatic conversion to Christianity. Haywood spent the last 40 years of his life fighting to protect unborn children and their mothers from abortion.

As one of the world's few outspoken former abortionists, a repentant sinner who never lost his sense of sin, and a black man with a passion for saving the black community from the predatory abortion industry, Haywood truly was one of a kind.

Haywood died on July 24, 2026. We honor his singular and profound impact on the pro-life movement by highlighting the best of Dr. Haywood Robinson on this special episode of The 40 Days for Life Podcast.

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Surrogacy has made a lot of headlines this summer.

First, a same-sex couple sued their child's surrogate mother for not having an abortion because the baby had a cleft lip...and then another surrogate mom fled to Texas and is being sued for not aborting a baby with heart problems. Apparently, there are limitations on "my body, my choice."

Perhaps these grotesque stories will prompt society to reevaluate the $29 billion industry that treats human life as a commodity that can be bought, sold, and destroyed.

We dig into the most shocking problems with surrogacy on this episode of The 40 Days for Life Podcast.