‘Conceiving Crime’ Podcast Tells Horrors Of Abortion, Fertility Industries That Corporate Media Won’t
Corporate media love a good crime — especially when that crime aids their mission to advance their political agenda. When it comes to harms that counteract their preferred narratives, such as the abuse and exploitation that wrack the abortion and fertility industries, however, press outlets are indefensibly silent.
The media’s deliberate ignorance of certain victims dates back decades, such as when infamous Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell was arrested, tried, and eventually convicted for murdering born-alive babies in 2013. At the time, reporters at national publications refused to answer for their silence. It wasn’t until The Federalist’s own Mollie Hemingway began publicly pressuring the media over their Gosnell blackout that they reluctantly participated in coverage or eagerly attempted to explain why they weren’t interested in “local crime.”
Yet despite the enduring list of wrongs abortion and fertility facilities alike have committed against vulnerable women and children, the corporate media’s information void has continued. Thanks to the recently published 10-episode podcast “Conceiving Crime,” launched by Live Action and hosted by pro-life advocate Sami Parker, however, these victims’ stories aren’t completely untold.
Parker wouldn’t necessarily label herself a true crime “fan.” She has consumed her fair share of “Crime Junkie” episodes and seen “all the serial killer documentaries” though. Absent from those, both of which take up a significant amount of space in the true crime genre, are the stories like “The Baby Farm,” “Not The Daughter I Wanted,” and “The Forgotten Patient.”
“Pre-born babies, exploited children, vulnerable women, embryos — they all deserve justice too,” Parker said. “And the crimes within these industries are all totally hidden behind power, behind money, and cultural taboos.”
“Conceiving Crime” is the product of an explicitly pro-life organization, but Parker says it’s not exclusively an activist tool. According to her, the episodes exist to “ask listeners to wrestle with the deeper questions.”
“The stories that we’re telling provide the opportunity to examine bioethical and life issues and offer pro-life themes to the listeners for them to consider,” Parker continued.
Since women are not only the most likely victims of these kinds of crimes, but also the primary consumers of true crime content, they are the target audience for what Parker framed as “an invitation to both hear the truth of what’s happened and also to grieve what’s been lost.”
“It’s not just about uncovering the darkness and exposing the crimes the way that most true crime podcasts are. It’s also about reclaiming the light and encouraging the listener to take a moment to consider their worldviews and the implications of them. Because our worldviews largely are the reason that so many of these stories happen in the first place,” she explained.
One example Parker previewed is that of “The Forgotten Patient,” an episode devoted to a woman with Down syndrome named Christen Gilbert, who became pregnant after a rape. Park explained how Gilbert lost her life and the life of her baby at the hands of infamous late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart despite evidence that “she never would have chosen to kill her baby.”
“Typically, the story that the abortion industry props up and says is ‘This woman was raped and abortion saved her life and she’s like so much better for it.’ But in this case, it was the exact opposite. [Gilbert] literally lost her life because of it,” Parker explained.
Another story that touched Parker was that of Baby Seraphina, a baby whose surrogate mother gave birth to her despite her parents’ desire to abort her because of a life-ending disability diagnosis.
“If our culture had decided that, yes, babies with disabilities are obviously just as valuable as typically able babies, her story would have gone a much, a much different way. Her life would have been welcomed and celebrated just the same as a typical child,” the host continued.
Parker said the media’s refusal to amplify tragedies and “untouchable” industries’ role in them is no accident.
“They are not going to cover that story in a fair way, especially if they’re friends with the abortion industry, because it paints a target on the abortion industry’s back,” Parker said.
This lack of attention, according to Parker, signals that accountability for the politically shielded abortion business and wild, wild west fertility racket will be difficult to come by.
“I don’t necessarily know what that would look like, case by case, but I know that our justice system likely will fall short of bringing true justice to a lot of these. Because what should have happened in the first place was these things didn’t even have the opportunity to happen,” Parker said.
The lack of promised justice, however, hasn’t deterred Parker from carrying on the “Conceiving Crime” mission. Already, she said, listeners are changing their minds about the roles abortion and outsourced reproduction should play in society.
“We are receiving comments from people saying, ‘I’ve never considered it this way,’” Parker said.
With two episodes remaining in this season, Parker hopes that trend will continue.
“It goes back to stopping all of these things before they happen by reconsidering their worldview and considering the implications that may fall after it,” she concluded.
Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.
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