The Overpopulation Podcast is produced by Population Balance and features enlightening conversations between Population Balance executive director Nandita Bajaj, researcher Alan Ware, and expert guests to discuss this often misunderstood subject. We cover a broad variety of topics that explore the impacts of our expanding human footprint on human rights, animal protection, and environmental sustainability, as well as individual and collective solutions.
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en(gender)ed features stories that explore the systems, practices, and policies that enable gender-based violence and oppression and the solutions to end it. We teach feminism and decolonize hearts and minds, one story at a time.
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Tune in every week for a new episode of Explicitly Pro-Life. The only podcast that focuses on how we can change the tide in America to overturn Roe v. Wade and shift the political playing field in America. This podcast is brought to you by Kristan Hawkins, the President of Students for Life of America, mother of four, and a fierce fighter for the preborn. Subscribe wherever you find your podcasts.
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Join award winning author, speaker, sex educator and media maker Tristan Taormino as she explores the world of sexuality from every angle. Tristan interviews leading authors, educators, artists and icons about sexual pleasure, sexual wellness, identity, relationships, community, and social justice. Get an inside look at alternative sexual practices, communities, and relationships—like LGBTQIA folx, BDSM, polyamory, sex work, and disability—from both leading and underrepresented voices. Trist ...
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Clive Spash | Social Ecological Economics: Radical Transformation towards Social and Ecological Justice
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In this episode we speak with Dr. Clive Spash, an ecological economist who is fundamentally challenging conventional economic paradigms through his development of social ecological economics. His work addresses the intersections of human behavior, environmental values, and economic systems - advocating for a radical transformation towards a more so…
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Riane Eisler | Confronting the Population Taboo: Moving from Dominator to Partnership Societies
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In this episode we speak with Riane Eisler, a social systems scientist, futurist, cultural historian, attorney, consultant, speaker, and author of many books, including The Chalice and the Blade and The Real Wealth of Nations, about how to construct a more equitable, sustainable and less violent world based on partnership rather than domination. Hi…
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Jo-Anne McArthur | Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene
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In this episode we speak with Jo-Anne McArthur, acclaimed animal photojournalist and founder and president of We Animals Media, an organization whose photographers document the lives of unseen and ignored animals caught within human systems of exploitation and oppression. HIghlights of this episode include: How, motivated by the power of photograph…
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Émile P. Torres | Highway to Hell: The Dystopian Fantasies of Tech Billionaires
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In this episode, we chat with philosopher and historian Dr. Émile P. Torres about the dystopian fantasies of ecologically-blind tech billionaires – transhumanists, longtermists, and effective altruists – of defying nature, transcending humanity, and colonizing the universe. Highlights of our conversation include: how transhumanism is built on the i…
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Alan Weisman | Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
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In this episode with award-winning author and journalist Alan Weisman, we discuss his 2013 book Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? capturing his journey to over 20 countries over five continents to ask what experts agreed were probably the most important questions on Earth, and also the hardest. ‘How many humans can the planet ho…
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Jennifer Watling Neal and Zachary Neal | Getting the Numbers Right: The Childfree Choice More Prevalent than Reported
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In this episode with Dr. Zachary Neal and Dr. Jennifer Watling Neal, we explore their research about the prevalence and characteristics of childfree adults in the US and globally. Despite the fact that people without children make up a significant portion of the population, both nationally in the US (20-25%) and globally, this group remains largely…
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Travis Rieder | Catastrophe Ethics: How to Choose Well in a World of Tough Choices
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In this episode with bioethicist and moral philosopher Dr. Travis N. Rieder, we discuss his latest book Catastrophe Ethics, in which he explores how individuals can make morally decent choices in a world of confusing and often terrifying problems. We explore the morally exhausting and puzzling nature of modern life in which individual actions can o…
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Laura Carroll | Breaking Out of the Baby Matrix: Busting Common Pronatalist Myths
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To celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8th, we interviewed Laura Carroll, internationally recognized expert on pronatalism and the childfree choice, who starts by sharing highlights from her latest book A Special Sisterhood: 100 Fascinating Women From History Who Never had Children. We also unpack her book The Baby Matrix: Why Freeing Our …
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Do The GREAT Thing | The 2024 National Pro-Life Summit Speech
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While the Explicitly Pro-Life Podcast is on a quick hiatus, we are pulling from the archives of some of Kristan Hawkins' greatest moments. This week, we chose her 2024 National Pro-Life Summit speech, which is full of inspiration, passion, and the spirit that drives that pro-life movement. Listen in!…
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Christopher Ketcham | The Megamachine and Green Growth Delusions
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In this interview with freelance writer Christopher Ketcham, we unpack the techno-industrial extractivism that plagues modern societies and the media’s complicity in failing to challenge the growth model on which it is based. We discuss Chris’ book This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American West in which he outlines…
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Did you know Students for Life is more than just students? While our name might be deceiving, we have various different projects and initiatives for pro-life advocates of all ages. Which is why we recently decided to announce our umbrella brand, "The Pro-Life Generation," lead by CEO, Kristan Hawkins. The umbrella brand encompasses Students for Lif…
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Angela Saini | The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
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In this interview with award-winning science journalist Angela Saini, based on her bold and radical book The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule, we explore the roots and complex history of how patriarchy first became embedded in societies and spread across the globe from prehistory into the present. Angela discusses how gendered roles, pronatalism, a…
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Diana Coole | The Toxification of Population Discourse: How Population Became a Dirty Word
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When and why did population become a dirty word? And why are so many people shamed for advocating for population reduction? Despite innumerable scientific studies showing the impact of human overpopulation and overconsumption on mounting social and ecological catastrophes, including climate change, biodiversity destruction, ocean acidification, res…
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Will Witt on WHY He's Pro-Life, The 2024 Election, & The Moral Decline in America
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Will Witt, former PragerU Host, National Bestselling Author, and Founder of The Florida Standard News, joins this week's episode of Explicitly Pro-Life! Will discusses what shaped his beliefs, and how he became conservative, pro-life, and Christian. Tune in to hear his thoughts on the 2024 election, and how to win more young people over on the issu…
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Asher Miller & Rob Dietz | Navigating the Great Unraveling with Resilience
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In this episode, we chat with Asher Miller and Rob Dietz of the Post Carbon Institute about their latest report "Welcome to the Great Unraveling", which explores ways to navigate the environmental and social breakdown resulting from multiple intersecting crises. Recognizing human supremacy and overshoot as the drivers of the polycrisis, we discuss …
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Social Media Videos Saved This Baby From Being Aborted
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Meet baby Hudson! His mother, Morgan, chose LIFE after discovering pro-life videos by Students For Life's President, Kristan Hawkins. In this week's episode of Explicitly Pro-Life, Morgan courageously tells her story: Why she chose Life and gave up a full-ride scholarship, and how having her baby Hudson became a blessing. Like, Subscribe, and SHARE…
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As 2023 comes to a close, Kristan Hawkins sits down with Kristi Hamrick, Students for Life's Vice President of Media & Policy, to go through some of the top stories in the pro-life movement this year, starting from the March for Life in January, to learning that 32,000 babies have been saved after the overturning of Roe v. Wade! Listen in as they w…
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Abortion Survivor Tells Her Story of Being “Accidentally Born Alive”
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Most people do not realize that sometimes abortion procedures fail, are stopped, or reversed (abortion pill), and survivors EXIST. In fact, it was found that there were 1,734 abortion survivors in the U.S. alone in 2020 (and probably more). On today’s episode, we are joined by Melissa Ohden, the founder of The Abortion Survivors Network, who has sp…
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Hope Ferdowsian | Phoenix Rising: Pathways toward Animal and Human Liberation
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Dr. Hope Ferdowsian, president of Phoenix Zones Initiatives (PZI) and a public health physician, discusses how she and her colleagues are working to dismantle the roots of oppression, exploitation, and domination harming humans and non-humans. She highlights the physical and psychological suffering and harm that animals face in food production and …
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Fighting For The Preborn in Europe’s LAST Pro-Life Country
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Malta, an island country in the Mediterranean near Italy, remains one of the LAST countries in Europe that still protects preborn life. It is ILLEGAL to kill a child in the womb, AND they’ve had NO maternal mortalities for the past dozen years, which is the lowest maternal mortality ratio in the world despite its protective pro-life laws. Dr. Miria…
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Everything You Need to Know About Foster Care & Adoption
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When faced with an unexpected pregnancy, the pro-life movement encourages women and families to seek life-affirming resources that don’t include abortion. Some life-affirming resources for parents that are unable to raise their child include Safe Havens, foster care, and adoption. While reforms are needed to better the foster care and adoption syst…
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William Rees | Confronting Overshoot: Changing the Story of Human Exceptionalism
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We chat with population ecologist, co-creator of the ecological footprint analysis, and one of the world’s best big-picture ecological thinkers, Dr. Bill Rees. Bill explains how our blind faith in human exceptionalism, technological optimism, and neoliberal economics fooled us into disregarding ecological limits and brought us into a state of extre…
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Moving Forward AFTER The Ohio Election | Kristan Hawkins & Staff
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Recently, voters in Ohio approved a ballot referendum, Issue 1, which will enshrine the “right to abortion” through all nine months for any reason in their state constitution. Ohio is now another state that has fallen victim to well-funded misinformation campaigns. Passing with a 57% majority, this result should signal two things for the Pro-Life M…
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The Pro-Life Movement's Future in Politics | The Federalist Radio Hour
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On this AUDIO-ONLY episode of Explicitly Pro-Life, Kristan Hawkins joins the Federalist Radio Hour with Emily Jashinsky (Federalist Culture Editor) to analyze Ohioans' decision to enshrine unlimited abortion in a state's constitution and discuss how Republicans should support the pro-life movement as it works to fortify states against the radical a…
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Kevin Bales | Population Growth, Modern Slavery, and Ecocide
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Dr. Kevin Bales, world-renowned expert on contemporary global slavery, shines a light on the human rights violations and ecocidal impacts of modern day slavery, which tragically still exists in much of the world today. Dr. Bales discusses the history of slavery, from ancient civilizations to modern times, highlighting how it has evolved over time, …
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Adoption for Unplanned Pregnancies | Heather Mellott of Adoption Finder
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One of the most sobering sentiments in politics in recent years is something Vice President Mike Pence pointed out during his tenure – that the number of families choosing abortion is roughly the same as the number of families hoping to adopt. It’s a tragedy that adoption still has a stigma and that the process is often very complicated and very ex…
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Pro-Lifers & Christians TARGETED In The UK
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What is it like being pro-life in the United Kingdom? It might not be what you think. Free speech is a HUGE issue in the UK, and because of that, abortion is more of a social issue than a political issue. Not only are they having to fight for the lives of unborn babies, but also the RIGHT to FIGHT for them, without being stopped or arrested. Lois M…
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Seth Dillon on Elon Musk, Dylan Mulvaney, Hamas Terrorists & More
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Has our reality turned fully into satire? Seth Dillon, CEO of The Babylon Bee, joins Kristan Hawkins on this week's episode of Explicitly Pro-Life to discuss current events happening across the world: Dylan Mulvaney wins Babylon Bee's "Man of the Year" award, his relationship with Elon Musk and the new "X" rebrand, as well as the war happening in I…
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Isabel Fassbender | Neoliberalism in the Womb: Japan’s Answer to its Baby-Shortage Panic
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Japan-based feminist scholar, Dr. Isabel Fassbender, discusses her new book, Active Pursuit of Pregnancy: Neoliberalism, Postfeminism and the Politics of Reproduction in Contemporary Japan, and how a toxic mix of patriarchy, biomedical capitalism, and nationalism has emerged in response to Japan’s slightly declining population. As a country whose e…
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The Abortion Movement is LYING About Mexico
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To no one's surprise, the mainstream media is spreading lies again— this time about abortion in Mexico. Recently, there were headlines coming out talking about how the Mexican Supreme Court had DECRIMINALIZED abortion. In the US, we saw those headlines and assumed this story was real and the Mexican pro-life movement has suffered a huge setback. We…
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Abortion has to be fought on every single front - Philosophically, spiritually, politically, personally… You name it. Marjorie Dannenfelser joins Kristan Hawkins on “Explicitly Pro-Life” to discuss the political aspect of fighting to END abortion. Marjorie is the president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. At the helm of America’s largest grass…
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A Crisis Pregnancy Doesn't Have To End In Abortion | Mary's Shelter
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In this episode of "Explicitly Pro-Life," Kristan Hawkins sits down with Executive Director of Mary's Shelter, Kathleen Wilson, who is making a dramatic difference in the pro-life community: Helping women and families in crisis. Mary’s Shelter provides an expectant mother, and any additional children she may have, with housing for up to three years…
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Kristan Hawkins Reacts to Radical, Pro-Abortionist Comments
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We are switching things up a bit for this week's episode of Explicitly Pro-Life! You'll hear Kristan react to everything from "pro-life socialism," 2A, and even the Taliban. She is joined by Anna Lulis (SFLA's Digital Engagement Strategist) as they go through the craziest comments seen on her viral videos. Prepare to get a laugh, and a lesson. Avai…
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Camilo Mora | Population: A Threat Multiplier for Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, & Pandemics
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In this interview with Dr. Camilo Mora, widely acclaimed professor and award-winning researcher, we discuss the impacts of human activity on climate change, biodiversity loss, resource scarcity, and pandemics, and how to move past population denial to grapple with our compounding crises. Dr. Mora shares his firsthand experience of the direct impact…
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