TGC 625 – Defending Life in the Courtroom
Pastor Paul Schultz talks with Martin Cannon, an Omaha attorney who has spent 38 years in state and federal courts defending unborn children, pro-life advocates, religious liberty, and free speech. Much of that work was done pro bono, including years of partnership with the Thomas More Society.
Cannon tells how he left the faith as a college student, came back to Christ with his late wife Deborah, and took up the pro-life cause. He walks through some of his notable cases: dozens of defenses at LeRoy Carhart's late-term abortion clinic in Bellevue, Nebraska; the Baby Tabitha case on parental rights and life support; the federal acquittal of Father Westland; a month-and-a-half trial against the New York Attorney General that ended in a 103-page ruling for the Church at the Rock; and the Lauren Handy case, which led to presidential pardons for 23 pro-lifers.
The conversation then turns to the present. Cannon explains why the FACE Act should be repealed and why a handwritten letter to your congressman still matters. He argues that after Dobbs the pro-life movement must aim for personhood from conception, and that the new front line is the abortion pill sent by mail. He explains why Louisiana v. FDA could be the biggest pro-life case since Roe, what the industry knows and will not say about abortion pill reversal, and why time on the sidewalk is never wasted.
He closes where the battle truly lies. This is not a political contest with spiritual overtones. It is a spiritual war, and prayer is the chief weapon.
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Host: Fr. Paul Schultz
Regular Guest: Mr. Martin Cannon
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