Pro-life vs. abolition: Which way will the church go?



While pro-lifers and abolitionists claim to have the exact same goal, there are clear differences. Jeff Durbin of the Apologia Church calls himself the latter — and for good reason.

“There’s a difference, and this is what everyone who identifies as pro-life needs to hear. When you see, hear, the terminology ‘pro-life,’ it’s just ‘for life.’ ‘I’m for life, not for choice, not pro-abortion, I’m for life,’” Durbin explains. “So there’s nothing bad about the terminology, and we’re not decrying like the typical person who’s a Christian in the pew saying, ‘I’m pro-life.’”

“They just think, ‘We’re trying to abolish abortion, we’re trying to end this thing at this injustice.’ They don’t know what’s going on. Many of them in the background, many pastors are ignorant of this as well. There’s a difference between the pro-life establishment, the pro-life industry, and the average Christian who says ‘I’m pro-life,’” he continues.

Durbin tells Deace that the pro-life establishment and the pro-life industry are “the greatest [enemies] to the abolition of abortion right now in our nation.”


“Those in the establishment are proud. They brag on the fact that they are not approaching this issue from a Christian standpoint,” he explains.

“They’re approaching it from a biological standpoint. In other words, they’ll say things like, ‘If we could just prove to the world that what’s in the womb is human from fertilization, we could just show these mothers the baby and the heartbeat and the baby moving around, then they won’t want to kill these babies anymore.’”

“If we assume their motivations are good, they are thinking this is a question of a critical mass of evidence, and you guys would say this is actually a question of authority,” Deace comments.

“It’s a question of authority, it’s a question of worldview, and ultimately, I would say, it’s a sin issue,” Durbin responds. “We are in a place as a nation where people love the idea of a mother being able to execute her child in the womb at will, that she has the freedom to do that, that it’s a moral right; it is a noble thing; it is a good thing.”

“So the problem ultimately with abortion in our nation, according to the Christian worldview, according to the word of God, it’s a problem of sin; it’s not a problem of a lack of evidence or a lack of light,” he continues.

While Durbin acknowledges that the coercion of women to get abortions is of course a massive problem, he believes the pro-life establishment’s position on abortion is keeping that alive “by not giving equal protection to the child.”

“So the issue is sin. The issue is rebellion. Child sacrifice is a very serious sin that’s existed throughout the history of humanity. I mean, at times, people were taking their children and throwing them into the fire so they would have blessings and financial prosperity,” he explains, adding, “it’s as old as the hills.”

“The establishment says, ‘We can’t approach this issue with the word of God, with the authority of Christ. We can’t call people to repentance and faith. We can’t make this about the gospel,’” he continues. “So, the abolitionists say, ‘The Christian message here is that first and foremost this is sin against God. God demands justice for these children.’ God’s standards are very clear here.”

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The brutal truth: Why women ditched Democrats for Trump



Americans are tired of being told their intellect is limited by race or sex — especially women. Like other groups, women have long been taken for granted by the Democratic Party, as if pro-choice talking points alone are enough to secure their blind loyalty to the rest of the party’s platform.

“The View”co-host Sunny Hostin certainly thinks this is the case, calling Trump’s victory a “a referendum of cultural resentment” merely because Americans overwhelmingly refused the policy platform of “a mixed-race woman married to a Jewish guy.”

No, women didn’t vote for Trump because they are 'so severe upon their own sex.'

The Sunny Hostins of the Democratic establishment refuse to engage in serious self-reflection that could explain the surge of women and other traditionally Democratic groups voting Republican in this election. Are women simply suffering from a mass self-hatred that enticed them to vote for Donald Trump? Or have Democrats made a critical mistake in assuming that abortion is the only issue women care about politically?

Kamala Harris bet on winning the women’s vote by making reproductive rights the center of her campaign. This strategy isn’t new — Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and other Democrats have used it before. However, this approach has arguably become one of the Democrats’ gravest miscalculations, and Harris paid the price.

Over the past four years, women have faced the same economic pressures as men — buying groceries, filling gas tanks, and dealing with higher interest rates. Men aren’t the only ones who care about the economy, and no matter how often politicians chant, “My body, my choice,” it can’t drown out the financial strain of Bidenomics. Women, like men, wanted economic solutions and found them with Trump. For them, Kamala Harris and “my body, my choice” were not nearly enough.

Women’s bodies seem to matter to Democrats only when it comes to abortion. After the COVID pandemic, women have led the push for greater medical autonomy, nutritional transparency, and broader access to holistic, cycle-based health care. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised to address these issues by holding Big Pharma and Big Food accountable, and women rallied around him in droves. But instead of supporting RFK Jr. and the women’s issues he represented, the Democratic Party labeled him an “anti-vax conspiracy theorist,” dismissing both him and the women he galvanized. Is it any wonder they followed Kennedy across the aisle to Trump?

Democrats also seem indifferent to women’s health care standards beyond abortion access. Women are continually overprescribed birth control as a blanket treatment for almost any ailment, wreaking havoc on their bodies. When outlets like Evie magazine highlighted how Big Pharma profits from pumping women full of synthetic estrogens, the Washington Post labeled the writers “conspiracy theorists.” But don’t worry — if birth control fails, Democrats will ensure you still have access to abortion.

Yet the “my body, my choice” mantra doesn’t seem to apply to women’s sports, bathrooms, or sororities. Kamala Harris might have played Beyoncé’s “Girls Run the World” at her rallies, but when her party cheers for an Algerian man beating elite female athletes or celebrates Lia Thomas while dismissing Riley Gaines as a “right-wing extremist,” the pretense of “women’s empowerment” becomes hard to believe.

Women are also tired of being told by the “woke elite” that they’re “fatphobic” if they don’t laud Lizzo as a health and beauty icon while Adele and Rebel Wilson are criticized for promoting “unhealthy” beauty standards through their weight loss. According to MSNBC, fitness is a sign of “right-wing extremism,” so it’s supposedly better to sit on the couch and pop birth control.

When Democrats celebrate being an overweight, unhealthy, androgynous “menstruating person” over a mom who works out, wears dresses, and drinks raw milk, they risk alienating a significant portion of their base.

The Democrats assume women have an obligatory, blind allegiance requiring them to support any woman running for office regardless of her policies. Such an assumption that a woman’s political capacities are limited to a candidate’s sex is not only an insult to women’s intelligence — it’s frankly anti-feminist.

In response to Sunny Hostin: No, women didn’t vote for Trump because they are “so severe upon their own sex.” Like birth control, your party prescribed “my body, my choice” as a cure-all for any political ailment afflicting women over the past four years of Biden and Harris’ policy failures. Trump’s platform actually listened to women. You took them for granted.

‘4B': Anti-Trump women vow to boycott men as their abortion ‘rights’ stay exactly the same



While Donald Trump’s landslide victory has a large swath of the country in glorious celebration, liberal women have never been more distraught — to the point that they’ve adopted a new movement.

Specifically, the 4B movement, which is shorthand for four Korean words that start with “Bi,” or the Korean word for “no.”

“Ladies, we need to start considering the 4B movement like the women in South Korea and give America a severely sharp birth rate decline:

  • No marriage
  • No childbirth
  • No dating men
  • No sex with men

We can’t let these men have the last laugh… we need to bite back,” one woman wrote in a now extremely viral post on X.


“I’m not really sure if that’s a major problem that some of these women are having, that men are just so all over them that they have be like, ‘No, Donald Trump won, don’t touch me,’” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable" comments, amused.

Some women have begun filming themselves shaving their heads in retaliation on TikTok, with one user telling her audience, as she chops off all her hair, to “divorce your husbands” and “leave your boyfriends.”

Stuckey, while she disagrees with Trump’s plan to leave abortion up to the states, can’t see why these women don’t understand that nothing is going to happen to their “right” to an abortion.

“If it is so important to you women to live in a place where you can have an abortion, if that is really as important as you people think that is, which I think is sick and depraved, then you can move to a state that allows it,” Stuckey explains.

“There are eight states that tragically allow abortion through all nine months,” she continues. “If you think that this is the most fundamental issue, the greatest issue, then why don’t you flee like a refugee to California or to Washington or to Oregon or to Illinois or to New York if this is so important to you?”

“I don’t believe you when you say it’s that important if you’re not even willing to move within your own country for that so-called right to choose. And so, are you just being dramatic? Really think about that. And think about the fact that those babies that you are crying and dying to kill are human beings with rights,” she adds.

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Is the abortion pill as ‘safe’ as Advil? Democrats say yes



Abortion is the biggest issue that the Democrat Party is running on, but Democrats never tell you how dangerous the procedure really is.

Which is why when young mother Amber Thurman died after taking the abortion pill, the mainstream media went after the abortion laws in Thurman’s home state of Georgia rather than the pill that killed her.

“She left Georgia, where she could not get an abortion at the time of her pregnancy that she was in, she went to another state, got abortion pills, took them, came back, was told everything is going to be fine, no big deal,” Stu Burguiere of “Stu Does America” explains.


“She took them, had a very, very big deal, and she wound up going to the hospital. They didn’t treat her for a long time, and she wound up dying. Now, she didn’t go to the hospital because of the Georgia abortion law. She went to the hospital because the pills she was told were going to be totally innocuous wound up putting her in a situation where she needed to go to the hospital,” he adds.

The babies in her womb were already dead from the abortion pill, so no abortion laws would have applied to her situation when she went to the hospital. The poor infants were not evacuated from her system, so that’s when sepsis set in.

While the Democrats jumped on this story because they felt they could mess with the truth and pin Thurman’s death on abortion laws, one story they ignored was the case of Eliana Dickson.

Dickson, a Nevada woman, also died of sepsis after taking abortion pills.

“You might note that Nevada does not have the Georgia abortion law,” Stu says, commenting that these women are sold a much different idea by doctors, politicians, and the media — so they have no idea what they could be getting themselves into.

“If you have a woman in your life that, God forbid, has gone down this road and is having these problems, please let them know, because the media is not going to do that. They’re going to do the exact opposite of that. They’re going to try to hide that information from them because they want political points. It’s disgusting,” he adds.

And they don’t just hide that information, but they lie about it.

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins even compared the abortion drug mifepristone’s “safety” to being “on par with those of common over-the-counter pain relievers like ibuprofen and acetaminophen.”

“Forget for just a moment all the stats I’m about to bring up and just, does that pass the sniff test to you? Have you ever had Tylenol? Have you ever had Advil?” Stu asks, disturbed. “Do you think that has a safety profile equal to the abortion drug? Do you think that? But no, experts are telling you it, so it must be so.”

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California's nightmare policies are creeping into Florida's votes



“We cannot go to church and pray like Christians, then vote like atheists,” Florida Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nunez told a crowd of rally-goers on Monday.

She was referring to Amendments 3 and 4 in Florida. A University of North Florida poll released this week shows that a ballot measure to legalize weed and a constitutional amendment to ratify baby killing on demand are on track to pass, even with a 60% threshold.

The once-dominant voting bloc in the Republican Party has become an ineffective presence, much like churches that fail to emphasize true discipleship.

The national implications of this are huge. We’re talking about a state that is a must-win for the presidency and that until recently was maddeningly purple. Democrats aren’t even campaigning in the Sunshine State, thanks to the dominance Republicans have built under Gov. Ron DeSantis. It’s incredible to think about. After DeSantis narrowly beat a candidate caught in a scandal involving cocaine and a male escort, who would have believed such dominance was possible?

Yet, here we are.

Remember how DeSantis embarrassed California Gov. Gavin Newsom in a debate last November, highlighting the infamous “poop maps” in San Francisco? Just 11 months later, the same Florida voters who witnessed that are now essentially supporting Newsom’s policies, even after they overwhelmingly re-elected DeSantis in 2022.

Houston, we have a problem — a people problem.

Even Disney opposes Amendment 3, a.k.a. the Stoner Amendment, aligning with DeSantis. Together, Florida’s most influential corporate brand and its most popular politician warn that turning “It’s a High World After All” into a theme park ride is a terrible idea. Despite this, the amendment might still pass with 60% of the vote or better.

If these two amendments pass, they will have massive repercussions for social conservatism. The number of politicians willing to advocate our causes will likely dwindle, and we may need to entirely rethink our approach to activism.

The once-dominant voting bloc in the Republican Party for generations has become just the type of ineffective and inconsequential presence not unlike churches that fail to emphasize true discipleship. Our influence has diminished, and making stupid excuses like “it’s all because Roe was overturned” will make things worse.

Decades of grifty, rudderless, gutless leadership in the Republican Party, the church, and the pro-life movement are coming home to roost. And I’m not sure what to do about that no matter who wins next month. We might need to redefine our role as a prophetic witness in a negative world where we no longer hold influence and GOP politicians can secure wins without us.

Trump, of all people, seems to be trying harder than many in the church to help us avoid such a fate as he called on Christians this week to lead the way in taking their country back. Meanwhile, the seeker-sensitive pastor who refuses to acknowledge the drag queen story hour molesting kids across the street won’t cut it anymore. And that also goes for the anon master of piety on X who will happily watch the world burn as he gives himself a helmet sticker for never getting his hands dirty in something called “reality.”

So many of us have sold our birthright for the cheapest of lies and comforts. Will our culture’s fate truly be no different in the end than one founded by atheists? May it not be too late to redeem the time for our children after so many opportunities were left wasted and so many idols were polished until they blinded us from who we are called to be as citizens.

Alexis de Tocqueville said America “is great because it is good.” Our forefathers held up their end of the bargain on that front in the face of great hardship and evil in the past. But is he finally wrong about us?

Pray not.

Why single women don't vote Republican (and probably never will)



While many Republicans blame Donald Trump for the lack of female support in their party, women’s blue voting patterns began far before his reign.

And Steve Deace has the receipts.

As early as 2004, John Kerry polled at 18+ points more with unmarried women than George Bush, who polled at 10+ points more with married women.

The trend continued with each election up until 2020, with the only exception being Hillary Clinton polling at 2+ points more than Trump with married women and 29+ points more with unmarried women.

“This is the spiritual condition of unmarried women because this is driven all by one particular issue: unmarried women just want to be able to kill their children whenever they want,” Deace explains, adding, “It’s not any more complicated than that.”

And he’s not hopeful it will change.

“There’s really not even much we can do to bridge this gap, frankly. Because what’s the number one most loyal issue voting base in the Republican Party?” Deace asks, “the pro-life base.”

“The more married you are, the more you tend to vote Republican, and the less married you are, the more you tend to vote Democratic,” he continues.

“It’s really the number one dividing line of voting patterns in America.”


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Gavin Newsom falls apart when questioned on abortion



If you’re going to debate Gavin Newsom on something, you might want to choose the topic of abortion — because the governor of California isn’t capable of winning.

In his debate with Ron DeSantis on Fox News, Newsom was asked about abortion.

“You have allocated in your budget $265 million for abortion last year alone. My question, very specific, do you support any restrictions at all on abortion, especially in months seven, eight, and nine?” Sean Hannity asked Newsom.

“I’m going to answer that question, but let’s talk about the issue of abortion,” Newsom answered, clearly trying to dodge the question.

He then immediately attacked DeSantis, which wasn’t his brightest idea.

“I think this is important and it bears repeating,” he began. “Ron DeSantis has signed the most extreme anti-abortion bills in America. He signed a bill banning any exceptions for rape and incest, and then he said it didn’t go far enough and decided to sign a six-week ban before women even know they’re pregnant.”

“Even Donald Trump said it was too extreme,” he added, before telling Hannity that he does in fact support late-term abortion.

“It should be up to the mother, and her doctor, and her conscience.”

Like many Americans, Pat Gray is disgusted with what he heard.

“Right up to birth,” Gray says sadly. “You talk about extreme — can you get too extreme when you’re talking about the life of a human baby? Can you be too extreme on that? I don’t know. Either you believe it’s life or you don’t. Either you believe that you're taking a life when you abort the child or you don’t. Which is it?”


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Allie Beth Stuckey: Demi Lovato needs Jesus



If Demi Lovato releasing a song celebrating abortion was on your bingo card for 2023, you can cross it off now.

Lovato’s new song “Swine” protests the one-year anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade and features vulgar lyrics like, “God forbid, I wanna suck whatever the f**k I wanna / God forbid, I wanna f**k whoever the f**k I wanna.”

Lovato has also recently changed her pronouns back to she/her, as she claims it was too exhausting having to correct people as a “they.” Allie Beth Stuckey thinks Lovato desperately needs to find Jesus.

In a tweet, Lovato explained that “Swine” was meant to “empower not only the birthing people of this country, but everyone who stands up for equality, to embrace their agency and fight for a world where every person’s right to make decisions about their own body is honored.”

“I want to empower you right now, Demi Lovato,” Stuckey responds, “you do not have to have unprotected sex. That is a choice that you can make.”

In cases of rape, which many abortion activists cling to as why abortion is necessary, Stuckey believes that “we should give the death penalty to the rapist and not the child.”

However, Lovato doesn’t quite make that argument in her song. Rather, her lyrics show a much more vain reason for not wanting to give the child a life.

Toward the end of the song, she sings, “We gotta’ grow and we gotta’ raise them / We gotta’ feed and bathe them / And if you won’t they call you a witch to burn at the stake in Salem.”

“It’s just completely – not just morally bankrupt – but intellectually bankrupt, like she doesn’t know what she’s talking about,” Stuckey says.

“In all 50 states, abortion is legal to a certain extent. In a lot of states it is legal through all nine months with very few stipulations,” she continues, “so, like, what exactly is she talking about here?”

Stuckey answers that question herself.

Lovato isn’t quite talking about any issues that she’s particularly knowledgeable on, but rather “glorifying selfishness” and a “crass, promiscuous lifestyle.”

“I think that there’s something very deep that she’s fighting, very demonic that she’s fighting,” Stuckey reasons.

While Stuckey believes the song is abhorrent, she isn’t concerned.

“It's not going to change anyone’s mind; it’s not going to turn anyone from pro-life to being pro-choice. I don’t even think it’s going to encourage anyone to, you know, abort their child. It’s just adding to the noise, and it really kind of makes me sad for her.”

“I just pray that Demi Lovato, that God works on her heart,” she adds.


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Allie Beth Stuckey called hateful for response to Obama tweet, but she REFUSES to budge



Allie Beth Stuckey says that it’s getting hot in Texas where she lives, with temperatures already climbing into the triple digits.

But that’s not the only thing that’s getting hot.

Twitter is also heating up, specifically in regard to Barack Obama’s recent tweet about the anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

On June 24, the former president tweeted:

Stuckey responded with the following:


Her response triggered several people, some of whom found her reply “hateful.”

But Allie isn’t budging. On her show, she responds to these critics:

“Yeah. Regarding as holy, sacred, hopeful – a right – the brutal killing of innocent, defenseless human beings simply because of the location in which they reside, their age, their size, their stage of development, and their inability to fight back is evil.”

“Christians should not vote for the party that celebrates dismembering children and chemically castrating preteens. It’s just, like, not really a tough one for me,” she continues.

However, Stuckey also says that “voting Democrat in itself is not an indication of someone’s salvation” because Christians “will all go to Heaven being wrong about lots and lots of things.”

Listen to her full response here:


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Senate Democrats advance nomination of pro-abortion 'zealot' to serve as federal judge ​— with the help of Republicans Collins and Murkowski



The U.S. Senate advanced the nomination of Center for Reproductive Rights lawyer Julie Rikelman to be a U.S. Court of Appeals judge for the First Circuit Thursday with a 53-45 vote invoking cloture.

Democrats were aided by pro-abortion Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who similarly voted to end the debate and preclude the possibility of filibuster as it pertains to Rikelman's nomination to the Boston-based court.

Republican Sens. Tim Scott of South Carolina and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee did not vote.

The Senate is expected to proceed to a roll-call vote on Rikelman's confirmation on June 20. Democrats are sure to have the 60 votes required, especially with Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and John Fetterman (D-Pa.) likely to be physically present.

Conservatives, such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), have expressed concerns in recent months that Rikelman, who served for nearly a decade as senior litigation director for the Center for Reproductive Rights, a pro-abortion advocacy organization, was nominated by President Joe Biden as part of a broader effort to "fundamentally change our judiciary."

Cruz told Rikelman in September 2022, one month after her nomination, that her career embodies "precisely this pattern," having spent the majority of her professional life as "an extreme zealot advocating for abortion."

TheBlaze reported that Rikelman regards abortion as a right.

Rikelman, who long worked as vice president of litigation for NBC Universal, suggested in a December 2021 Salon interview that academic, financial, and professional gains enjoyed by women were made possible by abortion, indicating that one of her biggest goals was "to make sure that the voices of women were heard at the court and were present in the courtroom ... to make sure that the impact of taking this right away, something the court hast [sic] never done ... would be felt."

Prior to the Supreme Court's 2022 Dobbs ruling, the 51-year-old Ukrainian native recommended "expanding access to abortion," stating that the "status quo is not good enough" and that she was committed to the "battle against outright bans on abortion."

Extra to celebrating abortion, Rikelman has lashed out against the pro-life movement, calling pregnancy resource centers "faux clinics."

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, noted Tuesday that "Rikelman's career of representing abortionists in court and leading a U.S. litigation team for a pro-abortion organization makes her incapable of acting as an impartial jurist and therefore, unfit for a seat on the federal bench."

Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, wrote in February, "Pro-abortion litigation makes up the singular focus of her legal experience over the last decade and renders her unfit to serve as an impartial judge on the First Circuit. Rikelman's career has been strictly centered around the radical, pro-abortion agenda for over two decades."

While Rikelman has suggested she would keep her pro-abortion advocacy and her prospective role as judge separate, leftist outfits may be under a different impression.

After all, the following are some of the radical groups that have expressed their "enthusiastic support" for her nomination: Gender Justice; NARAL Pro-Choice America; National Abortion Federation; Planned Parenthood Federation of America; Physicians for Reproductive Health; Pro-Choice North Carolina; Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice; Reproaction; Reproductive Equity Now; and another radical pro-abortion group that seeks to undermine parental rights, Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity.

If the Senate confirms the nomination, Rikelman will serve as a federal judge for life.

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