Hey everyone, it's Kristen with explicitly pro-life. And guess what? In this episode, we're going to show you a report that exposes the abortion industry's secret agenda.

Hi, everyone, and welcome to this new edition of explicitly pro-life. I'm Kristen Hawkins, and I have a special

guest with me today in the studio. David B. Right, the founder of 40 Days for Life. Hey, David.

Hey, Kristen. I'm excited to do this. I've been looking forward to it. Yes, David, David lives

actually close to our Students for Life headquarters. So I asked him to come and meet me today,

so we record this special episode. He knows a lot more about podcasting than I do, so he'll probably tell me what I'm doing wrong somewhere. You're doing a lot of things right. You're doing a lot of things right. And also a lot of things wrong. But David, just to give everyone an intro of who you are, tell everyone kind of your story in a minute or so. I don't like to get too mushy. Like, you know, back down details. So I was born in a hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Just a quick story. I got involved in the pro-life movement very reluctantly. I did not want to be involved in this work, but an abortion clinic opened in the town where I used to live in College Station, Texas, and my wife dragged me kicking and screaming to go out and pray on the site where it was being built. And I began to feel convicted that if children were going to die in that town, if women were going to be wounded, that I needed to do something. So I began to volunteer with the local pro-life group that was formed in response to that construction of that

Planned Parenthood. A young woman named Lauren Gouldy started that group, the Coalition for Life,

and I got more and more involved. I ended up serving on the board there. And in 2001, I was working as a

drug dealer, a pharmaceutical sales rep. I have to clarify, all legal, all legal. And I got a call that

the Planned Parenthood, which by then had opened, had aborted 10 children that day. And I just had this break in my heart where I realized I need to do more. And so I went home and I quit my job. And two weeks later, I was asked to take over the helm of that small pro-life organization. And we did everything wrong a few times to make sure it was wrong but

eventually figured things out and then that was where we started the first 40 Days for Life campaign

led that campaign it exceeded all of our expectations brought a thousand people into our local

pro-life efforts and brought abortions down by 28 percent and then from there it began to expand

originally organically,

and then by 2007. And that's a story that we can talk about at some point, in large part,

influenced by my relationship with you. 40 Days for Life became a national, eventually international

effort. And so for its first decade as an independent effort, I led that effort and watched it grow into the largest

grassroots pro-life mobilization around the world and had an incredible season, traveling to 550

countries and seeing the best of the pro-life movement all across America and around the world

and seeing more than 16,000 lives saved from abortion and 100 abortion clinics closing

and many abortion workers,

including Abby Johnson, having conversions. It was an incredible ride. But that's a little bit that got me up to

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