Hi everyone, welcome to this new episode of explicitly pro-life podcast. I'm Kristen Hawkins. And as you all know, we are in a brand new season, season two, and our series topic for this season is ProLife 101. So I wanted to invite one of my good friends, Dr. Michael New. He's a professor over at Catholic University of America,

Associate Scholar Charlotte Lozier Institute. He's also the expert sidewalk counselor at the DC

mega plan parenthood facility and kind of leads the sidewalk advocates team there. But I want to invite

Dr. New on today for us to talk about abortion laws and abortion statistics what you know what the laws

and stats were before roversus wade and now after and also talk about how state legislation

how laws that may not completely abolish abortion, but restrict abortion have significant consequences

and effect in saving lives.

This is something that I've heard debated in the pro-life movement before, of whether or not

it's worth it for the pro-life movement to work towards legislation that might ban a specific

type abortion or make it more

on an abortion facility operate.

And when you look at the numbers and the research that Dr. New has done, you can definitely see

that these laws matter.

Not only do they help change public opinion about the issue of abortion, as we definitely

saw with the partial birth abortion debate in the 90s but they also save lives so welcome dr new thanks for coming on today oh thanks for having me

Kristen this is great.

And I'm so glad we pulled you away from grading all your papers there at your office.

This is a lot more fun than grading exams.

I'll be the first one to say that.

There you go.

So I wanted to start kind of taking a deeper look at what the abortion laws were in the United States before Roe versus Wade.

So Roe comes along January 1973 and seven men of Supreme Court say, oh, abortion should be

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