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The Kristan Hawkins Show

The Abortion DEBATE Showdown Revisited! | Ep. 49

The Kristan Hawkins Show

Savannah Slattery

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.1705 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to The Kristan Hawkins Show!

 

This year at the National Pro-Life Summit we added a new special session to the lineup, The Abortion Debate Showdown. This week on the podcast Lydia Taylor Davis and I revisit some of the most outrageous moments from our debate with self-proclaimed pro-choice Rev. Dr. Caleb J. Lines and pro-choice advocate and social media influencer currently running for the U.S. House of Representatives in California's 48th Congressional District, Whitney Shanahan.

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Kristen Hawkins Show. Now, if you miss the National

0:03.7

Pro Life Summit this year, you miss something pretty big in Washington, D.C. We added a new

0:08.4

component to our summit. The night of the National Public March, the night before the summit,

0:13.6

we hosted the abortion debate showdown. And it was wild. You've probably seen some of the

0:20.4

Instagram clips.

0:22.0

They're crazy.

0:23.3

The debate featured myself, our spokesperson, Lydia Taylor Davis,

0:28.1

and we squared off against, and I don't know how she found these people,

0:32.6

Reverend Dr. Caleb Lines, a pro-abortion Christian pastor, an author, as well as Whitney Shanahan,

0:40.4

a pro-choice advocate and social media influencer mainly on TikTok, who's also, I think,

0:45.6

running for Congress, which makes me extremely concerned, even more than I already have been

0:50.8

for the future of our country. The event, though, was such a huge success.

0:55.3

I wanted to sit down with Lydia separately out of the craziness of the debate night

1:00.1

and replay some of the most standout moments for the debate for you

1:04.2

and maybe we can have a longer conversation about what happened.

1:19.5

Before we get started, I want to give a shout out to Lydia who arranged this debate.

1:20.9

This was her brain child.

1:26.5

She spent countless hours having to come through stupid TikToks, working behind the scenes,

1:29.4

inviting a number of TikTok and social media influencers to come and debate us, which if you know anything about trying to organize pro-life

1:33.8

events is not an easy task.

1:36.1

In fact, it's very common that as a pro-life advocate, if you set up a debate like on your

1:41.6

campus or your community that they'll like cancel at the last

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