Toni Pophum did everything she could to keep her baby. She’s one of several former residents to appear in “Liberty Lost,” a new podcast.
24.07.2025 18:23 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0@tjraphael.bsky.social
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Toni Pophum did everything she could to keep her baby. She’s one of several former residents to appear in “Liberty Lost,” a new podcast.
24.07.2025 18:23 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0The "Maternity Home" attached to the evangelical Liberty University has a disturbing past and present, all propped up by huge amounts of money.
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Tucked away on the campus of Liberty University is Liberty Godparent Home, where young, unwed mothers go for support. Instead, it's a place where vulnerable teens feel pressured to surrender their babies in exchange for full-ride scholarships to Liberty University.
A new podcast series by journalist T.J. Raphael delves into the Liberty Godparent Home and terrifying tales of former residents.
18.07.2025 18:32 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Former residents say Liberty’s Godparent Home used shame and faith to force adoptions.
14.07.2025 15:07 — 👍 17 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1Apparently the US has their own version of the Magdalene Laundries podcastingtoday.co.uk/liberty-lost...
14.07.2025 12:36 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Check out my series on radical feminists trying to bring the abortion pill to America, Cover Up: The Pill Plot -- check that out here - you'll have to navigate to season 2 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
23.07.2025 18:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Worth a listen.
13.07.2025 04:12 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I just listened to the first four episodes of this powerful podcast. If you thought you hated Jerry Falwell just the right amount, listen to this and you’ll realize you didn’t hate him nearly enough.
13.07.2025 04:00 — 👍 402 🔁 122 💬 11 📌 3Thank you for listening and sharing Seth.
21.07.2025 20:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Grateful for the chance to work on this @msmagazine.com piece about @tjraphael.bsky.social and @wonderymedia.bsky.social's podcast Liberty Lost, which covers the terrifying history of maternity homes in the U.S.
11.07.2025 23:24 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0You all should take a listen to this podcast. So well done.
01.07.2025 22:05 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I listened to episode four of this last night and it was all I could do not to wake the baby up to hold him. It’s harrowing, harrowing listening. The cruelty of every adult involved in this story is simple horrific.
01.07.2025 22:54 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0Adoption isn’t always a choice. Dive into the @tjraphael.bsky.social investigation into how faith‑based maternity homes shape reproductive options in a post‑Roe landscape:
reprorights.substack.com/p/how-matern...
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02.07.2025 12:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 03 years post-Roe, #MaternityHomes are rising—places where pregnant people are pushed toward adoption. In her podcast Liberty Lost, T.J. Raphael reveals how religious agendas drive this troubling trend, with 500 maternity homes across the U.S. including more than a dozen in Illinois. bit.ly/4ltAGjb
25.06.2025 18:30 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0In a new podcast, I expose LIBERTY UNIVERSITY'S best kept secret — a maternity home where pregnant teens (some just 13) say they are kept in isolation and face coercion & religious manipulation until they place their babies for adoption to Christian couples.🎧 linktr.ee/tjraphael #reproductivejustice
09.06.2025 12:15 — 👍 84 🔁 27 💬 3 📌 10💊The research suggests that ulipristal acetate, the active ingredient in the morning after pill, could be used to replace mifepristone, one of the two drugs used in a common type of abortion.
24.01.2025 13:33 — 👍 85 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 2This is the correct take. Character is besides the point. The dude is unqualified for the job for a whole host of other reasons. #Hegspeth
25.01.2025 14:30 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Started rewatching Handmaid’s Tale. This stands out:
Commander: “We only wanted to make the world better.”
June: “Better?”
Commander: “Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse for some.”
Let’s not forget that in the coming years.
Have you seen this show called The Last of Us or
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