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🗓️ 24 June 2025
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In Evangelical homes across the United States, sex outside of marriage is a sin against God. So, when Abbi becomes pregnant at 16, her devout parents hide her away at the Liberty Godparent Home, a little-known facility for pregnant teens on the campus of Liberty University. The Home says it helps girls decide what comes next – whether that’s parenting their babies or placing them for adoption. But inside the facility, the girls hear a different message: God wants their babies to go to more “deserving” Christian couples. Some girls will find the strength to fight back. Others will have no choice but to give in. And some, like Abbi, will turn their grief into resistance – and take a stand against the system before more mothers lose their children to adoptions they never wanted.
From Wondery, host and reporter T. J. Raphael tells a startling true story of young love, coercion, and defiance – and the dangerous resurgence of maternity homes in post-Roe America.
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0:14.8 | In evangelical homes across the United States, sex outside of marriage is a sin against God. |
0:20.2 | So when Abby becomes pregnant at just 16, |
0:23.9 | her devout parents hide her away at the Liberty Godparent home, a little-known facility for pregnant |
0:30.0 | teens on the campus of Liberty University. The home says it helps girls decide what comes next, |
0:37.1 | whether that's parenting their babies or placing them up for adoption. |
0:40.3 | But inside the facility, the girls hear a different message. |
0:44.3 | God wants their babies to go to more deserving Christian couples. |
0:50.3 | From Wondery, Liberty Lost is a new podcast about a startling true story of young love, coercion and defiance, and the dangerous resurgence of maternity homes in post-Roe America. |
1:03.4 | Some girls will find the strength to fight back, others will have no choice but to give in, and some, like Abby, will turn their grief into resistance and take |
1:13.1 | a stand against the system before more mothers lose their children to adoptions they never wanted. |
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1:24.0 | Wondry app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
1:33.3 | Okay. lost on the Wondry app or wherever you get your podcasts. Abby and Nathan are waiting for the signal. |
1:37.3 | Any moment now, the ceremony will begin. |
1:41.4 | You feel this tension, this unknown of what ifs. |
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