I want you to greet Ashley Batcher, like she is my sister! Yehow! Ashley!
The reason why I am up here with Ashley is for you to understand that you are going to
see some other videos and information about what Life Without Limbs has been doing over the last
16 years, us moving from California to Dallas, and with COVID restricting, you know,
travel because I refused to put hand sanitizer on! [laughter]
We are not going anywhere, and so I am anti-hand sanitizer. I am blessed to be
here up on the stage with Ashley Bratcher. Ashley has an incredible heart, not just for the Lord,
but for the unborn as well. Has anyone see the Unplanned movie? Wow! Wow! That was amazing.
Ashley, for the next couple of minutes, I want to give a showcase to Life Without Limbs. Karla,
right here. As you walked in, did you see those words as you walked in? Each
month we are going to be having a topic, and one of them is for the unborn, so each month,
we are going to be having a topic, and I am going to look into the camera and preach the
Gospel in a frame of, let us say, the theme of the unborn, to a woman who either has PTSD of
an abortion or a man that has an affiliation of an abortion, and really speaking to those people
who are struggling with that as well. And there is no one else that I can highly endorse
than Ashley Bratcher right here from Georgia Atlanta. Her husband David is here. Her right hand
Shelby's here. Their son, Ashley and David's son is COVID. And he is here Coen. You're, 11 years
old. Thank you for coming. God bless you. And, Ashley, I want us to just give a flavor of what
the Never Chained Talk Show is going to be about where we talk about a topic, obviously unborn.
I want to just ask you three questions here tonight as a showcase, and so you
all know that laughing that Life Without Limbs does not want to just talk about
topics. We want to showcase inspiring people like Ashley, stories like Ashley, but also the
connections of the nonprofit organizations. Can you imagine the Hope Center? I mean,
62 ministries all under one roof. That's where the body of Christ becomes one. So,
under the banner of the unborn, can we now welcome Ashley Batcher to the stage, Never Chained!
--Speaker changes>>Love you, my friend
--Speaker changes>>Ashley, how are you?
--Speaker changes>>Doing? Wonderful.
--Speaker changes>>I want to tell you, we love you. God bless you. Tell us about Unplaned and
what it meant for you, and your personal story. We would love for people to get to know you.
--Speaker changes>>Unplanned was a really life-changing experience in so many different
ways. The short of it is when I was offered the role, they called me up and they said, “Ashley,
we're so happy to offer you the role to play Abby Johnson. Can you get on a plane in four hours?”
That is a normal. Yeah, but you know, God had really prepared my heart. He had prepared my
husband's heart, we'd had a conversation with our son, that if this was going to happen,
it was going to happen fast. And so I said, “Well, I guess nothing's impossible.”
I got on the plane. I landed in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and I was set to be there for seven
weeks. For the next four days, I was working so hard to learn the lines. I had never met
Abby Johnson before. I was reading her book, talking to her on the phone, changing outfits.
And on the fourth day, my mom called me and she had no idea where I was. And I thought, “Okay,
Mom, by the way, I am in Oklahoma making a movie.” And I hesitated when I got ready to tell her what
the movie was about because I knew when she was 16, she had had an abortion. So, I didn't want
her to think that this was a movie about judgment or condemnation. And it's just such an incredible
story of redemption and grace. As I started to tell her Abby's testimony, my mom just completely
broke down. And she was sobbing to the point that I could hardly understand what she was saying.
She said, “Ashley, I need to tell you something that I've never told you before.
What you don't know is when I was 19 years old, I was in the clinic for the second time, I was on
the table to have an abortion. A very pregnant nurse walked in. And I got sick to my stomach.
And I knew that I couldn't go through with it. And I got up, I walked out, and I chose to have you.”
[clapping]
Gosh, you think it would get easier to tell that story after we told it 1000 times.
And I am not sad. I always clarify that I am not mad. I just feel so loved.
I feel that God is so real. And it just felt so personal and intimate, right?
Because it was evidence to me that God had really planned my life from the moment of conception,
that he had taken my story where I was, I was a baby born to a high schooler by the standards of
society, I should have been aborted low income, alcohol use domestic violence, I should have been
aborted. And He used that. And I lived to tell one of the greatest prolife stories of our time.
All the way from there to this is where God led me. And I remember
calling my dad afterwards and I just said, “Dad, you know, how come nobody told me?”
And he said, “How do you tell your daughter that you intended to abort her?”
But what's even crazier is that because they didn't have the money for the abortion,
they pawned a family heirloom, and that heirloom happened to be
a used shotgun. And what is so significant about that to me, is that was $700. So if I asked you
are you are you what the price tag is on your life, would you ever say $700? Are you shotgun?
That's how cheap life has become. And it really
opened my eyes and I had this incredible revelation on set
that just showed me how precious life is to God, and how every single life has purpose.
And I knew from that point on, from that moment on, I want to be a part of this fight forever.
[clapping]
--Speaker changes>>Well thank you for sharing your story. We praise God for your courage.
You are very well versed with the pulse of the country. I am very novice in that.
I did a fast track of education exactly where America is. Troy and Tracy Doohan. They backed up
Roe v Wade film, and that's where I met them on the red carpet through our Advisory Board member
Bill Noble. Seth Gruber's in the house here. He's got a podcast that's unapologetically bold,
called Unaborted. We have Betsy Gray, cofounder of Prolife Bank and Trust here. We found out that
banks give to the Planned Parenthood. There are a lot of things that we've learned about America,
on the legislation level as well. I don't know if you've heard of Mississippi coming up first of
December right now. We're actually in touch with Tom Smith, who was the organizer with Mike Bickle
and Lou Engle through Brian Barcelona as well, where 3 million men in the 1990s gathered at the
mall to ask God to forgive us of our sins, to heal our land, starting with abortion.
I don't know if you know, but California—I was there for 17 years—and California does not even
count the surgical abortions. So, 77 million, it is not 2363,
it is 3600 a day, 3600 per day. And so, this is been the forefront of my heart.
One of our board members at Life Without Limbs, Paul Saber
said, “Nick where is your voice for prolife? So, I really caught up to knowing that where does God
want us to be? And do? Can I just say right now before I ask Ashley the next question.
It seems as though God's going to through Tom Smith. This is confidential,
but it's not confidential. It's certain, but it's not certain. But it certainly
it seems as though that I'll be testifying in front of Congress in the next 30 days for life.
[clapping]
And we are not at this point where we are even trying to
wait for Roe v Wade blah, blah, blah. When you understand 1973 when that was done,
they sidestepped the Ninth Amendment. The Ninth Amendment is actually the constitutional right
for God-given basic rights, which is life itself. And Tom Smith, who was with Mike Bickle, Justice
House of Prayer, we are going to be with them in DC, because they really want abortion ended.
I was just, lastly, also with Dr. Sherwood who was running for governor. his mother at 20 years old,
was drunk. She got raped, pregnant with him, was going to go into an abortion destination state,
chose to have him as the baby, and now he is running for governor.
And he says even under rape and incest, there will be no abortions in Oklahoma.
There is this point of happening right now, and you pray for Allen West. You are in Texas. Pray
for Allen West, and we back him up. But I just want you to know that this is huge!
This is a pivotal, pivotal, pivotal point. Actually, if I just threw the ball to you
and said, “Hit this out of the park, as God leads you.” Ashley, prolife, America,
your films, Big Pharma, as well, whatever the Lord leads, you don't know how powerful she
is in the media space. This is a giant. This is the Giant Woman Godly voice in the media
influence mountain for America and the world.
I am honored to call her my friends, and we are doing some projects together. But as you
lead now, this end part of this interview.
As God leads prolife, America personally endeavors, hopes dreams wishes as God leads.
--Speaker changes>>I just want to continue to bring awareness because that was what
Unplanned did. It exposed injustice. It gave a face to the millions of lives that had been lost.
Because prior to that most people had no idea what happened in an abortion procedure.
And beyond Unplanned, I wanted to continue to work on projects that continue to expose injustice,
and tell the truth, because that is what we are called to do. Whether it's hard or not,
we are called to tell the truth, no matter what that looks like. In addition to doing that, I am
using my platform to reach women. A lot of people do not know that I had my own unplanned pregnancy.
He was the best thing that ever happened to me.
And so, I can relate a lot to women in crisis. I was young,
single, we had not been married yet. But he did the right thing. And it was hard. I was on WIC
and Medicaid, and our bank account was in the red a lot of times. So it's important to me to bring
people up with me. And I started a scholarship program for young women. It's called the Unplanned
Movie Scholarship. And we help women who have chosen life for their babies go back to school.
--Speaker changes>>Amazing. Amazing. Let us give God some honor for that.
At the end of each segment on the TV talk show there's going to be roughly 20 to 30 minutes,
where is Amy Smathers, would you please stand up Chad Smithers? Her husband was Chad,
we probably didn't put you on the same table. This is Chad. That's Amy. They just got married,
what, four weeks ago? Five weeks ago. Can we first of all, congratulate them?
[clapping]
They are our husband-wife team full time. Chad is the director of creative design
in what we are doing on the video front with these stories.
And then Amy is putting all these things together. Our first one that we're doing is being recorded
on the 12th of November, this Friday with Joseph Bondarenko, who was kidnapped by the KGB
back in 80s 90s. And he was used as the example on national television by the KGB to tell them
what they going to do to every single Christian if they don't renounce their faith in Jesus Christ,
he went through extraordinary torture. It is a miracle that he is alive.
We're interviewing him on the show for persecuted
to encourage this December, the Christians to get ready for persecution and to stand their ground.
And then January kicks off, and I'll talk about that later, that each month is going to be a
topic. And then at that point, at the end of that show, I am going to look straight into the camera.
I am going to preach the Gospel to that woman or man who, together are thinking
of aborting. And the bottom line is no child, even in rape should pay the crime
for their biological father. And God can use any broken pieces to turn into good for His glory.
Can I hear an amen in the house?
[clapping]
And we the church, we the church where position, I am not a pastor, and I do not have fingerprint,
so you can't find me. And I get away with a lot. And we are going to use that uniquely
in the church to be the voice to say, “Hey,
when was the last time your youth pastor told your students at church to keep your pants on?”
Do you want to see 900 less abortions a day in America? Tell your church members
to keep their pants on. 900 say they go to church.
Hello. Now that's not in a denomination of denominations. But let's just start there.
Can I hear an amen? So Life Without Limbs is uniquely situated there and therein and
we will talk about later the broadcast, but actually it is an honor to call your friend.
We love you. God bless you. Simple Jane Films. You're a producer, executive producer. You are
a media company owner. You do amazing things down the line. We love you. We support you and
thank you for tonight and even hosting tonight. It's our privilege to have you, Ashley Bratcher.
[clapping]