The New Jersey attorney general created a strike force to investigate pro-life pregnancy centers.

One of those centers received a subpoena demanding ten years of private donor records.

No complaints had been filed. No fraud had been alleged.

The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled unanimously in the pregnancy center's favor.

Twenty-four hours later, the state found a way to keep fighting anyway.

That is just one case.

In New York and California, attorneys general are trying to silence pregnancy centers for simply telling women that abortion pill reversal exists. In Louisiana, a woman's ex-boyfriend ordered mifepristone online and coerced her to take it. And the drug whose label says one in twenty-five women will end up in the emergency room is now available to anyone with a few minutes and an internet connection.

Gabriella McIntyre is an attorney with the Alliance Defending Freedom. She joins Dear Jane to walk through all of it, the cases, the creative tactics, the real stories behind the headlines, and answer the question most people are left with at the end:

What can the rest of us actually do about any of this?

Gen Z has grown up surrounded by abortion messaging.

So why are more young people beginning to question it? And why now?

Lydia Taylor Davis, a spokesperson and Social Media Coordinator for Students for Life of America who once identified as pro-choice herself, joins Scott and Marcie to talk about what she is seeing firsthand on college campuses: young men becoming more engaged, young women proving harder to reach, and students reconsidering abortion after encountering arguments they had never heard before.

But those conversations come at a cost.

Lydia says she wears a bulletproof vest when she speaks on campuses and received threats after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Students for Life considered canceling its speaking tours.

They didn’t.

She also discusses what the pro-life movement gets wrong when speaking to women, why graphic abortion imagery can backfire, and why social media may be one of the most important battlegrounds left.

All of these facts paint a picture and also raise an important question: what actually changes a person's mind about abortion?

Watch the full conversation on Dear Jane.

Chapters:

0:44 — Campus Trends on Abortion

2:25 — What’s Changing Gen Z’s Mind?

3:40 — The Gender Divide on Abortion

6:06 — What’s Bringing Men Into the Conversation?

7:11 — “Charlie Was First. We’re Coming for You Next.”

8:44 — Why They Refused to Back Down

10:22 — Who Is Actually Changing Their Mind?

11:53 — How Do You Prepare for the Threats?

13:32 — Is the Pro-Life Argument Really Religious?

15:28 — When Becoming Pro-Life Changes Your Identity

17:59 — What Isn’t Working With Gen Z?

20:11 — Does Victim Imagery Work?

22:06 — How Social Media Shapes Gen Z on Abortion

23:42 — Why We Have to Be Online

24:42 — The Social Media Post That Helped Save a Baby

25:00 — Who Is Gen Z Listening To?

A waiting period. An ultrasound. A requirement that a physician perform the abortion.

A new study grouped measures like these under one category: abortion restrictions and linked states with more restrictions to higher maternal mortality.

That sounds alarming. But Dr. Christina Francis, a board-certified OB-GYN and CEO of AAPLOG, raises a basic question: how do these policies actually cause maternal deaths?

She joins Scott and Marcie to examine what the headline leaves out. How does requiring an ultrasound increase maternal mortality? Why is giving a woman more time before a major decision treated as a health risk? And why is physician involvement being framed as a restriction?

The conversation also turns to abortion-pill complications, including research finding that 83.5% of post-abortion-pill emergency room visits were miscoded as miscarriages and 76% of emergency room visits following the abortion pill were coded as severe.

Dr. Francis explains why those findings matter, what could happen as physician-only requirements are removed, and the challenges doctors face when they question the dominant abortion narrative within medicine.

Watch the full episode of Dear Jane to get the full conversation.

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1:15 — When Maternal-Fetal Medicine Chooses a Side

3:27 — Do Abortion Restrictions Cause Maternal Deaths?

5:08 — Is a Waiting Period Really a Health Risk?

6:12 — How Does an Ultrasound Cause Maternal Death?

9:15 — What Actually Causes Maternal Death?

10:19 — 80% of Maternal Deaths Are Preventable

12:49 — When Pregnancy Isn’t the Cause

14:23 — Should Non-Physicians Provide Abortions?

16:20 — The Reality of a D&E Abortion

19:22 — How Safe Is the Abortion Pill?

22:00 — When an Abortion Is Coded as a Miscarriage

23:05 — The Trauma No One Warns Women About

23:50 — What Pro-Life Doctors Risk by Speaking Up

24:45 — 93% of OB-GYNs Don’t Perform Abortions

25:58 — Who Stands With Pro-Life Doctors?