The Best of Strong Women: Radical Redemption After Abortion With Toni McFadden
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
We’re taking a small break this summer to gear up for season six of the Strong Women podcast. During this break, we’ll be re-airing episodes we think you’ll enjoy!
Sometimes we forget how radical and powerful God’s grace is. This week’s guest, Toni McFadden, has not forgotten. Toni travels the country to speak about abortion, promote healthy sexuality and relationships, and advocate for the unborn. After Toni had an abortion in high school, God transformed her life through radical salvation, healing, and a new calling. Her life testifies to how Jesus forgives our sin and redeems our stories.
Redeemed: My Journey After Abortion by Toni McFadden or at https://tonimcfadden.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever had the thought, if people only knew this one thing about me, it would take me out. |
| 0:06.4 | Nobody would want to be around me. |
| 0:08.5 | I am so ashamed of this one thing in my life. |
| 0:12.0 | And have you ever also found that that's the very thing that God uses to build his kingdom in some way? |
| 0:19.9 | I mean, the stories on the Strong Women podcast are full of those moments where someone has done something or something's been done to them. |
| 0:28.1 | And they think that their life is over or their ministry is over only to find out in God's great kindness. |
| 0:36.0 | He actually uses those things to invite us into a deeper |
| 0:39.9 | relationship with him. Well, the story today is about that exact thing. My guest is Tony McFadden, |
| 0:48.1 | and Tony grew up in a family that wasn't unfamiliar with church, but it wasn't a central part of the family life. |
| 0:55.5 | And she didn't really take her faith very seriously until college. |
| 1:00.1 | But her junior year of high school, she became unexpectedly pregnant. |
| 1:05.9 | She didn't tell anybody. |
| 1:07.3 | Only her boyfriend and her best friend knew. |
| 1:09.6 | And both of them said, |
| 1:10.9 | the only option is you have to abort this child. |
| 1:15.1 | And that's what she did. |
| 1:17.8 | As you can imagine, there's way more to the story, and you're going to want to hear the whole thing. |
| 1:23.8 | You're all going to enjoy this conversation about how God used a hard, difficult, tragic circumstance |
| 1:31.3 | to not only invite Tony into a relationship with him, but then just flip this whole thing on its |
| 1:38.5 | head. |
| 1:38.9 | And now Tony is a huge advocate in the pro-life movement. |
| 1:43.0 | She speaks all over the place about it. She has a ministry |
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