What happens when influence is exercised without restraint and conspiracy replaces evidence?

In today’s episode of Bioethics Babe, I’m joined by Simone Rizkalla, Catholic educator, speaker, writer, and host of the Beyond Rome podcast to examine the controversy surrounding Candace Owens and Erika Kirk, not as internet drama, but as a serious ethical case study.

This conversation explores the cost of conspiracy thinking, the moral responsibilities that come with large platforms, and how misinformation, reputational harm, and reckless speculation threaten human dignity, truth, and community trust in the digital age.

We ask hard questions:

• Are influencers ethically obligated to verify claims before amplifying them?
• When does “just asking questions” cross into moral harm?
• How does conspiracy thinking damage individuals, communities, and our shared ability to reason?
• What does Christian moral theology say about truth-telling, scandal, and bearing false witness online?
• Can influence itself become unethical when it’s used carelessly or abusively?

This episode goes beyond the culture war to examine the bioethics of influence, the psychology of conspiracy narratives, and what justice, accountability, and repentance look like when harm is done publicly.

If you care about truth, integrity, and ethical leadership in media, this conversation matters.

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What’s really happening to women and girls in China?

In this episode, I sit down with Reggie Littlejohn, Yale-trained attorney and founder of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, to expose what many experts call the greatest crime against women in the world. Women’s Rights Without Frontiers is a global coalition fighting to end forced abortion, gendercide, and sexual slavery in China. Reggie is widely recognized as an international expert on China’s One-Child Policy—now the Three-Child Policy.

Reggie is also the founder and president of the Anti-Globalist Alliance, an international counterforce to the Great Reset, and the co-founder of the Sovereignty Coalition, a non-partisan movement dedicated to defending U.S. national sovereignty and personal medical freedom against threats both foreign and domestic.

For decades, the Chinese Communist Party has enforced population control through forced abortion, gendercide, coercive sterilization, and relentless surveillance. Reggie Littlejohn has spent years documenting these abuses, testifying before U.S. Congress eight times, briefing parliaments around the world, building a secret rescue network inside China to help women and baby girls survive, and becoming one of the Chinese Communist Party’s most hated and outspoken critics.

In this conversation, Reggie reveals:

• How her childhood shaped her sense of justice
• How China’s One-Child Policy — now the Two- and Three-Child Policy — is still enforced through coercion
• The hidden reality of sex-selective abortion and China’s “missing girls”
• How she helped build a secret rescue network inside China
• How women are monitored through AI, surveillance, and social-credit systems
• Why China’s demographic collapse is fueling human trafficking and instability
• How the same surveillance tools perfected in China by the CCP are now being discussed globally

This is not just a story about China. It’s a warning about what happens when governments dictate who gets to live and who gets to die.

If you care about human rights, women’s dignity, medical freedom, and the future of liberty, this is a conversation you need to hear.

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In this episode, pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Quentin Van Meter reveals the truth behind one of the most controversial practices in modern medicine: the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones on children with sexual identity confusion. He also outlines the disturbing legacy of John Money, the man whose unethical experiments helped launch today’s gender ideology.

With over four decades of clinical experience, including training at Johns Hopkins and service in the U.S. Navy, Dr. Van Meter explains how chemical and surgical interventions on children with sexual identity disorder swept through pediatrics despite a lack of scientific evidence, how clinics rapidly adopted irreversible interventions, and why so many doctors feel pressured to “affirm” rather than question.

Dr. Van Meter shares:

• Why puberty blockers were never designed for interventions on children with sexual identity disorder
• How blocking healthy puberty is not a harmless “pause button”, but disrupts brain development, bone density, and fertility
• The irreversible harms caused by cross-sex hormones
• The tragic story of the Reimer twins and John Money’s abusive and unethical experiments
• Why Money’s disproven theories still influence today’s gender clinics
• The medical, ethical, and psychological fallout he has seen firsthand
• Why so many children presenting with distress about their sexual identity have underlying trauma
• What true compassion looks like in treating kids with sexual identity distress

He also recounts personal stories from his medical career, including the moment he realized John Money’s practices were deeply unethical, the pressure physicians face inside academic institutions, and why he believes history will judge this moment like other dark chapters of medical experimentation. Dr. Van Meter also shares what he believes parents and clinicians urgently need to know before making irreversible medical decisions for children.

If you want to understand how unproven theories take over mainstream medicine, and what it takes for courage, ethics, and science to prevail, don’t miss this episode.

Trigger Warning: This episode includes discussion of medical trauma, unethical human experiments, child sexual abuse, and irreversible medical interventions that may be difficult for some listeners. Please use discretion and take care while listening.

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When you hear the word feminism, what comes to mind?

This episode launches a multi-part series digging into the real history of feminism — what the early feminists actually believed, how modern feminism drifted, and the bioethical fallout in the realms of sex, contraception, abortion, and women’s place in society.

In this powerful conversation, legal scholar, mother of seven, and one of the most compelling voices speaking into women’s rights Erika Bachiochi uncovers the forgotten roots of the early feminist movement. These women understood something our culture has lost: that equality is something deeper than sameness, and freedom isn’t about escaping responsibility. They believed in a moral vision rooted in human dignity, virtue, and the profound responsibilities that emerge from sex, motherhood, and family life.

Erika explains why the early feminists rejected abortion, saw motherhood as both a privilege and a gift that deserved protection, responsibility as empowerment, and insisted that both men and women be held to high moral standards — not that women imitate male detachment. She exposes the sexual asymmetry our culture denies: the vulnerability women uniquely shoulder, and men’s unique ability to walk away. And she shows how modern feminism flipped the script, freeing men from responsibility while placing the cost — physical, emotional, and ethical — squarely on women.

We dive into:

• The original feminist vision that valued both dignity and responsibility
• Why early feminists saw no moral difference between abortion and infanticide
• How the sexual revolution created false promises and real harm
• The wounds of hookup culture and the abandonment of virtue
• Why “modern equality” often leaves women more vulnerable, not less
• What true flourishing looks like today for men and women

A false feminism has shaped everything around us. This episode challenges the assumptions behind modern feminism and asks deeper questions about autonomy, embodiment, sexuality, and what women truly deserve.

If you want to understand the moral and historical reality of feminism, this conversation is essential.

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In China, they’re killing people for their organs. China’s secret, state-run forced organ-harvesting genocide is bigger, darker, and more gruesome than anyone could imagine.

In this explosive interview, Dr. Torsten Trey, Founder and Executive Director of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH), exposes how Falun Gong practitioners became the CCP’s largest pool of victims with millions detained since 1999. They’re blood-tested in custody not for their health, but to match their organs to waiting buyers.

Dr. Trey reveals how China built an on-demand transplant system, where organs — even hearts — appear within days. The only way that’s possible is if living prisoners are being killed to order.

He walks us through the massive surge in transplants after 1999: internal Chinese data showing a 300% jump and up to 20,000 transplants per year in the early 2000s, far beyond any voluntary donor pool.

Independent researchers estimate 20,000–30,000 prisoners of conscience are killed each year for their organs. The 2020 China Tribunal says the real number is 60,000–90,000 transplants annually. And Congressman Neal Dunn reports that U.S. intelligence believes it may be closer to 100,000 a year.

We also expose the West’s silence and complicity:

• the United Nation’s inaction

• medical conferences blocking DAFOH from presenting

• media outlets avoiding the topic to protect Chinese ad revenue

• academics secretly trying to shut down discussion

Dr. Trey explains the CCP’s greatest fear: truth spreading beyond its control. And how raising awareness in Congress, in medicine, and in public can shake the regime and force global accountability.

This is a story of courage, conscience, and the battle for humanity itself.

Every person has a role. We are not powerless in exposing this atrocity. Contact your U.S. Senators and demand they pass the Falun Gong Protection Act — unanimously approved by the House but stalled in the Senate as S. 817.

And please, share this information and sign the petition at fohpetition.org.

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In this powerful episode of Bioethics Babe, Emma Waters, a policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation's Center for Technology and the Human Person, joins Arina Grossu Agnew to unpack the hidden costs of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and the ethical questions surrounding the fertility industry.

While IVF is often hailed as a miracle solution for infertility, few people stop to ask what’s lost when life begins in a lab instead of the womb. Emma explains why IVF bypasses the real causes of infertility, the moral and physical risks it poses, and how Restorative Reproductive Medicine (RRM) offers a healthier, more human-centered alternative that heals the body rather than replacing it.

We discuss:

• The physical and emotional risks of IVF
• What really happens in the IVF process
• The hidden ethical costs of embryo creation, selection, and destruction
• Why restorative reproductive medicine treats infertility at its root
• How technology is reshaping our understanding of family and human life
• Why fertility care should serve both science and human dignity

If you’ve ever wondered what IVF means for medicine, parenthood, and the value of human life, this conversation will challenge you to think deeper.

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We’re told that changing a child’s name, pronouns, and identity is an act of love, but what if that so-called "affirmation" is actually the start of a dangerous medical experiment?

Pediatrician, researcher, former Executive Director of the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), and the current Chair of the ACPeds Adolescent Sexuality Committee, Dr. Michelle Cretella says social transition isn’t harmless—it can confuse children when they are not being told the truth about their identity as male or female, disrupt their normal development, and lead them down the path of chemical and surgical interventions.

On this episode of the Bioethics Babe podcast, we’re identifying the hidden risks of social transition in children—and asking the hard questions no one else will. Are we trading science for ideology and having children pay the price?

From pronoun changes to school policies that exclude parents, Dr. Cretella argues that today’s “affirmation” model is not compassionate care—it’s ideological coercion.

Drawing on years of pediatric experience, she breaks down how social transition impacts child development, why medical organizations have gone silent, and what parents can do to push back against the growing influence of gender ideology in medicine and education.

We discuss:

• What social transition really means—and why it’s harmful
• The psychological and developmental fallout of early affirmation
• How schools are bypassing parents when it comes to children with sexual identity disorder
• Why social transition is a dangerous experiment on kids
• The medical and ethical crisis inside pediatric medicine

Dr. Cretella is known for challenging the medical establishment on issues of sexual identity disorder, and she will share with us why she believes this growing trend deserves urgent ethical, medical, and parental scrutiny.

This episode is part of the Sexual Identity Disorder Series. Part 1 is Episode 4

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Did you know that a woman can only get pregnant a few days each month — and that her body gives her clear signs of when those days are?

In this episode of The Bioethics Babe Podcast, Dr. Marguerite Duane, board-certified family physician and co-founder of FACTS About Fertility, reveals the science behind fertility awareness and restorative reproductive medicine.

Dr. Duane shares how a night hospital shift changed her entire understanding of women’s health, why fertility awareness is not the old ‘rhythm or calendar method,’ and how tracking a woman's natural biomarkers — like cervical fluid, basal body temperature, and hormone levels — can help women and couples understand their fertility, address root causes of reproductive health issues, and move beyond the era of unhealthy hormonal contraception. Dr. Duane has become a national leader in fertility awareness education.

Whether a woman is trying to conceive, manage her health naturally, or simply wants to understand her body better, this conversation will change how you think about women’s health and couples’ fertility.

We discuss:

• How Dr. Duane discovered fertility awareness during residency
• The truth about fertility awareness-based methods (FABMs) vs. the rhythm method
• How cervical fluid, hormones, and temperature reveal fertility
• The medical science behind FABMs
• What apps and tools actually work — and which ones to avoid
• The mission of FACTS and how it’s transforming medical education
• Why fertility awareness is for every woman and for couples

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