After the Midterms What’s Next for the Pro Life Movement with Alex Newman
Vicki Cherry: Welcome to another edition of Pro-Life Radio on a Sunday night.
Bruce Cherry: I’m Bruce Cherry, and across from me is my lovely wife, Vicki Cherry.
Vicki Cherry: Thank you, sir. I have to tell you, my heart is heavy. I just didn’t expect what happened this past Tuesday. I’m still having a hard time believing it—and everybody everywhere is talking about it. People are saying things all over the place. No, I did not switch! So, we’ll have to see.
Bruce Cherry: Before we get into all of that, we have a great guest for you tonight, as always—an amazing one. We have someone who has been a longtime friend of liberty and of the Christian faith: a great family man, a great Floridian, journalist, author, speaker, and broadcaster. I’ve had the honor of being on his podcast, and I’m proud to say we can return the favor. He’s actually been on our show a couple of times now—Alex Newman, president of Liberty Sentinel and journalist. Alex, how are you, sir?
Alex Newman: I’m doing wonderful. Thank you guys for having me. I definitely sympathize with the heavy heart. The midterms were a pretty big blow to all of us who care about the unborn, liberty, and the future of our country. But God is still on the throne, so praise the Lord. Again, thank you both for having me—it’s an honor and a pleasure to be with you again.
Bruce Cherry: Well, thank you for being with us. Let’s get started. Of course, we always start out with Jeremiah 1:5 and prayer:
Bruce Cherry: “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Bruce Cherry: Dear and gracious Heavenly Father, we come to You once again and ask for Your blessing upon this show, upon this ministry, upon our guest, and upon all who hear this show tonight. We pray that we can change just one heart—if we can change just one heart and save just one life, let that be. God, thank You for this opportunity to serve and to share truth—truth that many people don’t want us sharing. Truth for someone out there hurting who may be in the throes of making a decision to have an abortion, or someone who has had an abortion. We pray for Your peace to be placed upon them, and we pray that we can save the unborn. Let us wipe this blight from our land and once again be a nation blessed by You. God, we ask this in the name of Your precious Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.
Vicki Cherry: Amen.
SEGMENT 2: MIDTERM FALLOUT & REPUBLICAN ACCOUNTABILITY
Vicki Cherry: So, of course, the question that is the elephant in the room: What do the midterm results mean for the pro-life movement in this country?
Alex Newman: That’s a very good question, and a lot of Republicans get mad at me when I point this out, but I think we need to talk about it. Republicans have, as we speak, the House of Representatives, the Senate, the White House, and arguably the Supreme Court—and a lot of Republicans don’t realize that we are continuing to fund Planned Parenthood with our federal tax dollars. That is an outrage. You would think that would be the absolute floor of what Republican voters have a right to expect from our elected representatives.
Alex Newman: Unfortunately, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and President Donald Trump—I appreciate a lot of what they have done, but they were not able to deliver something that simple: stopping the funding of Planned Parenthood. That’s a major disappointment. In fact, I think that’s one of the reasons so many Republicans, and especially hardcore pro-life Republicans, were demoralized with the party.
Alex Newman: Unfortunately, the reality is that these midterm results are going to throw jet fuel on the dumpster fire. We are undoubtedly going to see Democrats in Congress try to pass ever more radical bills. The next time funding bills come up, they’re going to try to stuff them full of money for the abortion industry, for the abortion lobby, and for radical transgender procedures on children. President Trump will say, ‘I’m going to veto that,’ and it’ll become a big showdown. Then the legacy media will try to put all the blame on Donald Trump for shutting down the government, starving children, and not paying the troops. So, unfortunately, I think the catastrophic situation we already had—where we’re not only allowing the mass murder of our unborn, but funding it with our tax dollars—is about to go into overdrive, and it breaks my heart.
Vicki Cherry: That is a big one. I was so hoping that defunding would happen, and it did for a short time, but I don’t understand why it came back on.
Alex Newman: Because they didn’t end the funding permanently—they only suspended it for one year. It came back automatically by default because they didn’t act to end it permanently when they had the chance.
Vicki Cherry: It’s just so unbelievable that we can’t get anything passed. What you said, Alex, is the exact same thing I’ve heard all over the place in the Republican conservative movement: ‘Why didn’t we do anything? We had the House, we had the Senate, we had the White House, and nothing changed.’
Bruce Cherry: From the time I spent in the party, you find that there are a lot of Republicans who are concerned with one thing and one thing only, and that is getting reelected. They feel that if they take a firm stance on something as controversial as abortion and outlaw it, they won’t get reelected. Well, guess what? Many of them didn’t get reelected this time anyway, and they did nothing.
Vicki Cherry: Besides that, most conservatives also claim to be Christians. As Christians, our faith is in God, not elections, and we should be able to say, ‘Hey, this is my stance—like it or not, don’t reelect me.’ That is what happened to Bruce. Basically, in Seminole County, there were too many conservatives who agreed with abortion, and Seminole County would have passed the abortion amendment—Amendment 4.
Bruce Cherry: Right, Amendment 4. Amendment 3 was marijuana at the time. We would have failed on both of them statewide if it hadn’t been for the 60% threshold. In Seminole County, it was over 60%. Just like with this election, Seminole has been having some issues in its party, and I don’t know what could have been done.
Alex Newman: Part of this is that the Republican establishment just takes pro-lifers for granted. It’s assumed that all pro-lifers everywhere and forever are simply going to vote for Republicans because there’s no other option. The other party openly celebrates abortion, so you have those two choices, and the establishment assumes Republican pro-lifers have nowhere else to go.
Alex Newman: In a way, they’re right, but the reality is that this is a moral issue. Even if it were politically costly—which I don’t believe it is—it would still be the right thing to do. If I lose an election for saving the unborn, I’ll lose elections all day. The reality is that many strong pro-life voters are at the point where they say, ‘Why should I get off the couch and reward you with my vote when you can’t even stop funding Planned Parenthood?’ I think that cost Republicans a lot. You can’t take a large segment of your base for granted indefinitely and expect them to continue knocking on doors, donating, and making phone calls. They simply lose the motivation to do it.
Alex Newman: I’m grateful for what we’ve done here in Florida, and I’m very grateful for our Attorney General, who is now looking at executive actions to help rein in abortion in Florida. At the federal level, there are a lot of great members of Congress—I don’t want to sound like I’m writing off all Republicans, because I’m not. I’ve spoken with several Republican members of Congress and asked them, ‘Why aren’t we dealing with this?’ The answer is always the same: ‘Well, we have some moderates and RINOs who think it’s going to hurt them, and when you have a narrow majority, it’s hard to get things done.’ I think it’s unacceptable to take pro-lifers for granted. Beyond that, it’s a moral issue of right and wrong. Even if it were politically harmful, standing for life is absolutely essential.
Bruce Cherry: Amen. Totally agree. Where do you think we go from here? Is it doom and gloom for this country with the ‘blue wave’ that just went through, or is this a cycle that we just have to get through?
SEGMENT 3: CULTURE, EDUCATION & THE LONG GAME
Alex Newman: It really pains me to say this, and I know it’s not what anybody wants to hear right now. Everybody wants to hear a comforting speech: ‘Don’t worry, two years from now we’re going to retake power and do all the things we promised in 2016, 2020, and 2024.’ But I’ve been warning for years that this is the inevitable future we’re headed into if we don’t do things differently.
Alex Newman: As wrong as the other side is on the issues, they do have some things right in terms of strategy. Yes, they’re focused on the short term, working hard in elections, pouring huge amounts of money behind radical candidates, and pushing every boundary they can get away with. But they are also focused on the long game, and they are everywhere when it comes to the long game.
Alex Newman: I want to go back to Andrew Breitbart. He was a very wise man who died under strange circumstances, and he used to say frequently that ‘politics is downstream from culture.’ When I heard that, I thought, that’s a really smart observation because it’s true. If they control the culture, they’re going to dominate the politics almost inevitably. I take it a step further: culture is actually downstream from education.
Alex Newman: The left has understood this for at least 150 years. When Karl Marx wrote out the Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto, right there near the top, what do you see? That the government ought to be educating all children in government schools. Why did he think that? Was it because he wanted a well-educated population that would understand the wisdom of socialism? Of course not. He understood that if you capture the hearts and minds of the next generation, you own the future. Adolf Hitler understood that. Chairman Mao understood that. Vladimir Lenin understood that. And the radical Democrats and the abortion lobby of today understand that.
Alex Newman: That’s why they are so active in the indoctrination and sexualization of our children. Look at the demographics and the polling data—it should be obvious to everybody: 73% of 18- to 29-year-old voters voted for the Democrats, and the generation behind them is trending even further left. Until Republicans and conservatives start saying, ‘Look, you can’t brainwash and sexualize our kids anymore,’ things are going to get worse and worse.
Bruce Cherry: It’s time for us to take a break. We have Alex Newman on with us tonight on Pro-Life Radio, coming to you from the John Barrows Studios. Alongside my lovely wife, Vicki Cherry, I’m Bruce Cherry, and we will be right back with more Pro-Life Radio on AM 950 and FM 94.9, The Answer.
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SEGMENT 4: GLOBAL & DOMESTIC INDOCTRINATION
Vicki Cherry: Welcome back to Pro-Life Radio on a Sunday evening. I’m Vicki Cherry, and across from me is my very handsome husband, Bruce.
Bruce Cherry: This is the only reason he lets me talk—we know! No, that is not true. I am good-looking, though, and that’s okay.
Vicki Cherry: I can’t even believe I said that—that’s a joke! Maybe we’d better cut that.
Bruce Cherry: No, we’d better keep that in. Nothing wrong with acknowledging the facts! Now, the left would have you believe that was toxic masculinity.
Vicki Cherry: Oh, that’s what they would say! Anyway, he has been such a good husband. It was recently my birthday, and almost every day for a week, I found a card hidden in different places—under my pillow, in the medicine cabinet, everywhere. It was very romantic.
Bruce Cherry: And don’t forget the gifts!
Vicki Cherry: And the gifts, too, though the cards were pretty sweet. When the cards quit coming, he said, ‘Maybe you just didn’t find them.’ That was pretty nice and exciting. Anyway, moving on—we were in the middle of a strong discussion before we went to break with Alex Newman. We so appreciate you being with us, Alex. Let’s continue down that path regarding education and what is going on with our children, and expand on that a little bit.
Alex Newman: Thank you, and I appreciate the opportunity to come on. I’m so grateful for the work you guys do, especially on behalf of our unborn neighbors. It’s such a critical issue, and I think it’s one of the biggest stains on this country that we have now allowed the murder of roughly 70 million of our unborn children. It’s so monstrous. In a sense, you look at the election results and wonder: Was that God showing us a sneak preview of the judgment coming upon us for the wickedness we’ve allowed?
Alex Newman: When it comes to the education of our children, the abortion lobby is far more active than the Republican Party, far more active than 99% of churches in this country, and far more active than the conservative movement. I can say that unequivocally because I study this issue, and I’ll give you a few examples—domestically and at the international level.
Alex Newman: Let’s start at the international level. In 2018, the UN—through UNESCO, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization—put out an abomination of a document called International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education. If you have a barf bag handy and don’t mind being horrified, I encourage you to read this document briefly. Some of it is so disturbing it will literally make you sick. The things they insist five-year-olds need to learn are things that would not be appropriate to share in a men’s locker room. It’s absolutely horrific.
Vicki Cherry: What was the name of that document again?
Alex Newman: It’s called International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education. It’s basically the global version of Common Core for sex ed. The UN insists that every child in every school in every country needs to learn this material about sex, sexuality, and gender. Over and over again, in the introduction and foreword, they claim this is ‘evidence-based’ information—saying your nine-year-old needs to understand things I can’t even mention on air, and that abortion is fine and good, framed as women’s rights and healthcare.
Alex Newman: When you say, ‘Hmm, this is evidence-based—where did you get the evidence?’ and open up the back of the document where the citations are listed, 22 times you will find Planned Parenthood and their studies cited as the alleged evidence requiring us to teach children about abortion and promiscuity.
Alex Newman: They’re doing it domestically, too. Look at the Southern Poverty Law Center and some of the documents they’ve injected into our schools through their ‘Teaching Tolerance’ program. These materials are appalling, teaching children that promiscuity, alternative sexual lifestyles, and abortion are all good. As you dig into this, you see there is no end to the depravity.
Alex Newman: I want people to understand that those pushing abortion—whether for profit, convenience, or deeper spiritual reasons—are active in the education realm not just in Florida, and not just across the United States, but around the world. That’s one of the reasons they have been so successful, why they’re gaining more and more power, why we saw this crushing defeat in 2026, and why future elections will be even worse if we don’t get a handle on this.
Bruce Cherry: I’m looking at what you’re talking about here: the International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education is UN-endorsed—yet another reason not to like the UN. The World Health Organization is involved in it, UNICEF is involved, UNESCO, UNAIDS—all of these organizations are pushing and supporting it.
Alex Newman: Yes, and they’re now insisting that international law requires this material to be taught. In fact, last year UNESCO released a report arguing that even homeschoolers need to be subjected to this—a report titled Homeschooling Through a Human Rights Perspective, in which they argue that religious homeschoolers don’t offer their children enough sexuality education and claim international law mandates it. There’s a reason they’re so obsessed with teaching our children.
SEGMENT 5: SPIRITUAL WARFARE & THE ANTI-FAMILY AGENDA
Vicki Cherry: That’s exactly what I was just going to ask you: What is behind it? What is pushing it? Is it entitlement? Is it money? What is it, Alex?
Alex Newman: Once you get past all the superficial motivations—and there are many different motivations for the individuals involved, including the profit motive, because abortion is a very profitable industry—we all saw the undercover videos of abortionists laughing about buying Lamborghinis with money from selling fetal tissue, which makes you sick. Ultimately, though, we have to understand that this is a satanic agenda.
Alex Newman: It’s not a policy disagreement—it’s not like debating a 12.3% tax rate versus a 14.2% tax rate. We are talking about the destruction of innocent human life. Who has an interest in destroying innocent human life? Satan. These babies are made in the image of God; God is knitting them together in their mother’s womb, and Satan despises that. Go back to the Old Testament and you see endless child sacrifice—in Canaan, people sacrificing their children to Molech and Baal. You see it in pagan societies around the world, from the Aztecs to the Vikings before Christianity arrived.
Alex Newman: The Bible says Satan is the god of this world, so those taken captive to do his will have an interest in destroying human life—especially the most innocent among us. I think this can only really be understood as part of a spiritual battle, a satanic war against God, His Church, His people, and all that He has created. There’s no other real way for a Christian to understand what’s happening.
Vicki Cherry: Somebody once said to me, ‘Well, it’s not about left and right—everybody’s kind of good, and it’s really about good and evil.’ I said, ‘Okay, I don’t think abortion is good,’ and they said, ‘No, I don’t either.’ Then I pointed out, ‘Well, the DNC had a mobile unit outside their convention performing abortions.’ That kind of shows it isn’t just abstract good and evil—it maps onto left and right when one side embraces that evil.
Alex Newman: 100%. The left has embraced that evil and made a deal with the devil for power and prestige.
Bruce Cherry: The problem with the Republican Party is that you have several Republicans who are Republicans in Name Only (RINOs), and they want to keep abortion around because either (A) they don’t have the guts—or the spine—to fight it, or (B) they want to keep their options open in case a teenage daughter gets pregnant or someone close to them wants one. It’s just like how some people treat the Bible: they want to pick and choose what they believe in and what they want to follow. Alex, when you were talking earlier about everything they want to force on kids, most of those behaviors are warned against in the Bible.
Alex Newman: Oh, yeah, that’s right—and they all go together. You mentioned something really important here, Bruce. One of the reasons the left loves abortion so much is because it facilitates the destruction of the family. You cannot sustain a culture of consequence-free promiscuity if young women have to live with the natural consequence of pregnancy and carrying a child to term. They’re going to be far less likely to engage in casual sex—and young men too, because if you can’t just take a girl to an abortion clinic to end a pregnancy, you’re going to be much more careful.
Alex Newman: This entire anti-family agenda depends on abortion and sexual permissiveness to perpetuate itself. Karl Marx and his followers understood that destroying the family is one of the critical weapons in dismantling Christian civilization and God’s moral order. So all of this goes together—the moral decay, the abortion, the policies we’re seeing—they’re all intermingled and work together to advance an evil agenda spreading across our country and destroying our people.
Vicki Cherry: That’s right—destroying our country, destroying our people, and destroying the world, because abortion is not a problem exclusive to the United States.
Alex Newman: No, and even if we eliminate it in Florida, people simply travel to other states. Passing a state-level restriction puts up a roadblock and saves some unborn children, but people can still hop on a plane or drive across state lines to get it done elsewhere. Just like South America and Mexico have become medical tourism destinations for dental work or bariatric surgery, when Florida enacted its six-week ban, it initially became an abortion tourism destination for people living in states where abortion had already been outlawed—they’d hurry up and fly here before their six weeks were up to abort their child.
Bruce Cherry: We are talking with Alex Newman, and it’s time for us to take another break on Pro-Life Radio. If you love this ministry and are pro-life—and we pray that you are—we ask that you help us keep this ministry on the air. Details are coming up on how you can do just that. This ministry exists through your donations, and we truly appreciate your support. We’re streaming at theanswerorlando.com, and you’re listening to us on AM 950 and FM 94.9, The Answer. We’ll be right back.
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SEGMENT 6: MASSACHUSETTS, HISTORICAL PARALLELS & DEHUMANIZATION
Bruce Cherry: Welcome back on a Sunday night to Pro-Life Radio, coming to you from the John Barrows Studios. Vicki Cherry is across from me, I’m Bruce Cherry, and we’re joined by Alex Newman, an incredible journalist and faithful Christian father. Alex, how many kids do you guys have now?
Alex Newman: So far, we have six, and we’ve lost three in miscarriages—so three are waiting for us in heaven.
Bruce Cherry: There you go. Well, thank you for being the man you are and for the family you have. We’ve seen your kids when they’ve visited us at Liberty Church—just a beautiful family.
Alex Newman: Oh, thank you, you’re very kind.
Bruce Cherry: We’re talking about what the midterm results mean for the pro-life movement, though some states didn’t even wait for the midterms. Take Massachusetts, which is a wildly liberal state—and that blows my mind because they were one of the first states in the United States to outlaw slavery and were very faith-driven at one point, yet now they’re on the opposite end of the spectrum. Their governor, Maura Healey, has signed legislation expanding abortion access right up until birth in Massachusetts, and people were clapping and cheering. I just don’t understand that.
Bruce Cherry: We were talking about this during the break. I have a theory that when we stand before God and are judged—since He invented all technology—there will be a video playback of our lives, and those people are going to have to stand there and justify that behavior before God, and there is no justification for it.
Vicki Cherry: You mentioned slavery in Massachusetts—they were indeed the first state to end it. Bruce and I were looking up something last night: have you ever heard of the Ocoee Massacre?
Alex Newman: I have heard of it. I don’t know all the details, though—that happened down here in Florida, right?
Vicki Cherry: Yes, right outside of Orlando. Hundreds of Black residents were killed. It started when a Black man—a Republican—went to try to vote in Ocoee, and they wouldn’t let him. When he was turned away, a fight broke out, leading to a massacre. What makes me so angry is when you look it up online, many summaries leave out those political details. We want the full truth, good or bad—not just part of it.
Alex Newman: It’s really a different manifestation of the exact same phenomenon. Back then, they were dehumanizing Black people, just like the Nazis dehumanized their victims. Today, they’re simply dehumanizing a different category of people—those who haven’t been born yet. It’s the same thing…
Bruce Cherry: [Technical Interruption] Dave, pause—Alex, are you there? Alex, we’re losing you. Can you hear me?
Alex Newman: I can hear you now. Sorry about that—I’m driving on I-95 and hit a dead zone.
Bruce Cherry: There’s a little pocket there. Dave, can you take us back to where he started his point so we can hear it clearly and pick up from there?
Producer Dave: Absolutely. Here we go.
Alex Newman: So that’s just a different manifestation of the exact same phenomenon we’re dealing with today regarding abortion. Back then, Democrats were dehumanizing Black people and claiming they weren’t fully human and didn’t deserve the same rights as everyone else. Today, they simply have new victims: the non-humans who supposedly don’t deserve rights or protection just happen to be unborn children. And as we’re seeing in places like Massachusetts and Virginia, they’ve already hinted at where this leads next.
Alex Newman: We heard the former governor of Virginia not long ago talking about a baby being born and the mother and doctor ‘having a conversation’ afterward. It’s the exact same pattern we saw with the Nazis: you dehumanize your victims, act like they’re less than human, and claim they aren’t entitled to the same rights and protections as everyone else. It’s a thoroughly anti-Christian and anti-biblical idea, yet unfortunately, it’s something we’ve seen from Democrats and others for a very long time.
Bruce Cherry: Absolutely. You’d think we’d learn, but we don’t. It never ceases to amaze me how cruel human beings can be to their fellow human beings, and abortion is one of the cruelest things that exists. To me, as a Black man in America, abortion and slavery are almost a toss-up as to which was more cruel—perhaps abortion even more so, because tens of millions of lives have been lost to abortion. Slavery ended, while abortion still exists.
Vicki Cherry: And what makes it even worse—like Alex was saying earlier about the family being the nucleus of everything—is when mothers and fathers end the lives of their own children. It just breaks your heart.
Alex Newman: Deep down inside, I think these people know it’s wrong, which is why they twist themselves into pretzels trying to dehumanize their victims—calling an unborn child ‘just a clump of cells’ or ‘a parasite.’ We’ve all seen the activists on college campuses trying to argue that unborn babies aren’t human beings. Of course we know they’re human beings: they have human DNA; they’re not a frog. People say, ‘My body, my choice’—well, if you want to chop off your own finger, that’s foolish, go ahead—but an unborn baby is a unique human being, knitted together in his mother’s womb. Deep down, they know it’s wrong, so they invent crazy arguments claiming a baby isn’t really a person until some arbitrary point.