Each morning, as I drive in, I listen to Mike Slater. A hard-core pro-lifer, he sensed this morning that he hadn’t talked about abortion in depth for some time. Probably it was yesterday’s White House ceremony for Charlie Kirk that snapped him to attention.
Like many of us, Slater was drawn to the solemnity but also the beauty of October 14, 2025, as the day President Donald Trump posthumously awarded pro-life champion Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I watched in awe as Erika, Charlie Kirk’s wife, delivered remarks at what would have been Charlie’s 32nd birthday.
Mike turned to someone I was not familiar with, someone who, like Kirk, was a master of discussing abortion in front of hostile audiences. In the clips he played, Allie Beth Stuckey was heard taking on “liberal” Christians.
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She was patiently impatient. Stuckey refused to allow her opponents to smuggle in erroneous assumptions which would have tilted the discussion in their favor and, more importantly, away from the core truth that abortion takes the life of an innocent member of the human family whose only “crime” is to be “unwanted,” “unplanned,” or a “burden.”
That prompted me to look up coverage of Stuckey’s second annual “Share the Arrows,” conference where Stuckey spoke to a crowd of 6,700 Christian women in Dallas.
To give her a gigantic benefit of the doubt, Kathryn Post, of the uber-liberal Religious News Service, was an unsympathetic reporter. She began her story with “Welcome to the fight,” which she clearly thought was Stuckey’s over-the-top characterization of “The fight for truth, the fight for our Christian faith, the fight for our children, the fight for the nation.”
Why was Post there? Primarily to trash the attendees and to rebut and/or trivialize every statement.
You can’t miss where Post is coming from. For example, according to Post, who was Charlie Kirk?
Not a Christian, or a husband, or a father of two, or “a giant of his generation,” or a man who was assassinated for defending his beliefs and for engaging those who disagreed with him but a “far-right political activist” and an “evangelist turned martyr.” You could sense that Post could barely contain a sneer.
Naturally, Post couldn’t help but make fun of the speakers’ “aesthetic.” Pardon?
“Most attendees, too, were white women who seemed to embrace an unspoken uniform of jeans or long skirt and casual top, with hair worn down.”
One commentator noted
Regardless of where you stand on supporting this event or the messaging, I doubt any writer covering a conference for men would focus on what they were wearing or describe their hair. That’s both offensive and outrageous.
[The 86 comments in the “Conversation” section were overwhelming hostile to Stuckey.]
For a different view, there is this blog from Alisa Childers:
Allie Beth Stuckey has just executed an incredibly impactful women’s conference that inspired close to 7,000 women to be courageous for Jesus. The next day, a video in which she debated 20 progressive Christians dropped (which she executed with breathtaking biblical clarity, genuine kindness, and uncompromising precision.) That video has over a million views in 2 days.
Thank you Mike Slater and Allie Beth Stuckey for all you are doing to stand up for truth and for the littlest Americans.
LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. He frequently writes Today’s News and Views — an online opinion column on pro-life issues.
