Hi everyone and welcome to this new episode of the explicitly pro-life podcast. I'm your host, Kristen Hawkins.

And this is season two, and we're doing something different this season, as you all know. We are going to be talking about pro-life 101.

So we have a series of episodes coming out that's going to kind of, we're starting from the very beginning of what is abortion

human development how the pre-born child develops what our laws and statistics are right now on

abortion and and then we're going to get even further talking about how abortion harms women the

history of the pro-life movement the history of the pro-abortion movement and then we're going to finally end the season talking about how you can get involved right

now in ending abortion on your campus, in your community, in your church, and your parish.

So today we have a very special guest.

My good friend, Georgette Forney, is joining me.

She is the co-founder of Silent No More Awareness campaign.

And we are going to be talking

about how abortion harms women.

Yes, we, we just invited for joining me. Great to be with you and your listeners and your viewers.

Yes, we just informed Georgiaette, though.

We are videotaping because we like to make sure you all have access to the podcast, whether it's YouTube or whether you do this on Stitcher or iTunes or wherever you get your

podcast.

So sorry, Georgia Appa you look

wonderful so okay so today I wanted to kind of go through how abortion harms women because when we

when we talk about abortion a lot on college campuses with I'm like you know I've got some protesters

who come up to me and often they'll pick apart and I'll see them like typing, you know, furiously on their laptop while I'm speaking. Anytime I mention any side effect, negative side effect to abortion. And then they'll kind of march up to the microphone and say, that's wrong. You know, either they'll use a personal antidote of, I had an abortion, I've never regretted my abortion, I don't have any mental health problems, or they'll kind of go back to one of the like the, like the turnaway study that UCSF published last year saying that like the vast majority of women don't regret their abortions.

And there were major flaws of that study.

And so it gets like it gets into this, I think he said, she said type of thing where then you're

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