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In today’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Alessandra Bocchi, who is currently in Rome, joins Van Maren to discuss what is actually happening on the ground in Rome and across Italy.
Bocchi is from Lombardy, the hardest hit region of Italy, but is ‘stuck’ in Rome due to the government’s requests that people not leave their current locations in order to stop the spread of the virus. The scene she shares is quite surreal.
Read more:
35% of ICU patients in Italy are below the age of 65
https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2020/03/10/anche-i-giovani-sono-finiti-nelle-terapie-intensive/5731221/
The virus can survive on a surface for up to 9 days
https://news.trust.org/item/20200228215640-n07fz
Virus can travel several meters
https://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/news/2020/03/sec-200309-globaltimes02.htm
The majority of cases in China being spread through family
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/05/812570693/how-coronavirus-spreads-a-cough-in-your-face-or-a-kiss-on-your-cheek?t=1584461380601
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In today’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon Van Maren speaks with John Bockmann, one of the authors of a new study who discovered that a fetus can feel pain much earlier than people think. This is a must watch episode for any pro-life activist.
In delving into the topic of fetal pain, Bockmann realized the previous understanding about fetal pain was based on a false presumption. Check-out his interview with Jonathon to learn more about how he debunked the myth and when unborn babies actually start to feel pain.
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We live in a largely godless society. Compared to ages past, belief in a god is plummeting and moral degradation seems to reach increasingly new lows every day. What caused the shift?
In today’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Mary Eberstadt joins Jonathon Van Maren to discuss the decline in religious belief in western civilization and what we can learn from this decline to help save society.
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Imagine living in constant fear of your child or children being taken from you. This is a constant reality now in Norway. Child removals have increased by 70% in the last few years with 4 to 5 children being removed from their homes EVERY DAY.
Today, we’re taking an inside look into this serious issue affecting Norwegian families. In this episode of The Van Maren Show, Bjorn Korf an activist trying to fight these injustices joins Jonathon Van Maren to discuss what is happening inside Norway. The nightmarish stories he shares are heartbreaking, but can't be ignored.
Stay tuned for part 2 coming on Friday. Hear from an American mother whose 3 kids have been held by the Norwegian government for almost a year without explanation.
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Imagine the shock of learning your birth mother had tried to abort you, but the procedure failed. Now try to imagine the heartbreak of learning your twin wasn’t so fortunate and was killed by the abortion. That is what Claire Culwell learned the second time she talked with her birth mother.
In today’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon Van Maren sits down with abortion survivor Claire Culwell to discuss her experiences and her pro-life activism. Culwell is an outspoken pro-life advocate and brings a face to the millions of babies lost to abortion. Culwell was featured in the Faces of Choice Ad, asking choice advocates if they can look the survivors in the eyes and tell them they are better off dead.
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, is a renowned Russian novelist, political prisoner, historian, and philosopher. Jonathon Van Maren calls him one of the greatest authors of the 20th century. Solzhenitsyn is well known for his work detailing his time as a political prisoner and exposing the inner workings of the Russian political machine, the Secret Police, and much more.
Solzhenitsyn passed away in 2008, but his wisdom and experience can provide guidance to all of us as we navigate the morphing of governments around the world into governing bodies that increasingly resemble communism.
In today’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon Van Maren speaks with Joseph Pearce, a man who became quite close to Solzhenitsyn as he wrote his biography. Pearce shares his stories of Solzhenitsyn and his wisdom that may help save society.
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Dr. Christopher Yuan, a former drug addict who lived a promiscuous gay lifestyle, joins Jonathon Van Maren on this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show. Dr. Yuan is now a professor at Moody Bible Institute and today, he discusses his powerful journey and conversion and what the LGBT agenda is to the US.
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Brian Fisher of Human Coalition talks with Jonathon Van Maren on today’s episode of The Van Maren Show. Fisher was actually working in Christian radio when he was first introduced to the pro-life movement. He became involved with a pregnancy resource center as a donor and volunteer over 20 years ago. Quickly, Fischer began using his business experience and way of looking at everything to evaluate the pro-life movement. He began to use tools and data to evaluate opportunities, risks, and performance within the pro-life movement.
Thanks to the innovative methods of Fisher and his team, Human Coalition has saved over 14,500 babies from abortion!
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In today’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon Van Maren speaks with Dr. Charles Murray about why America has fallen apart and what we need to do about it. Dr. Murray first became well known in 1984 with the publication of Losing Ground a piece which is credited with being the intellectual foundation for the Welfare Reform Act. Murray is a New York Times bestseller, political researcher and scholar, and the F.A. Hayek Emeritus Chair in Culture Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
Murray joins Van Maren to discuss the conclusions of his new book about the state of America and what we as Americans can do to save our country. The outlook is quite bleak, but all hope isn’t lost just yet. Murray discusses the degradation of society, specifically the growing divide in what he calls the new upper and lower classes.
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Terry Schilling is the Executive Director of the American Principles Project, and organization dedicated to supporting family values and their expression in politics. They have been at the center of the debate on and important family issue: pornography. This debate has surprisingly divided even the conservative movement recently. Libertarians oppose government regulation and intervention and then you have other conservatives who advocate for age verification measures and some that want pornography banned all together.
In today’s episode of The Van Maren Show, Jonathon Van Maren and Terry Schilling delve into the debate surrounding governmental regulations on pornography, the arguments from various sides, today’s laws, and what we can do to protect our children and save our culture.
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