Liberty Lost - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Liberty Lost is a gripping, unflinching exposé that peels back the polished veneer of Liberty University and its affiliated maternity home, revealing a deeply disturbing intersection of religious extremism, exploitation, and profit.

This podcast doesn’t sensationalize—it documents. With careful reporting, survivor testimony, and sharp investigative focus, Liberty Lost exposes how vulnerable young women—often unwed and pregnant—are funneled into so-called “crisis pregnancy centers” tied to Liberty’s ideology. Once inside, they are subjected to religious coercion, emotional manipulation, and immense pressure to surrender their babies for adoption—all under a façade of spiritual care and moral redemption.

What emerges is not just a story of institutional abuse, but of commodification: young mothers treated as vessels in a deeply transactional system, where their pain and choices are overridden by a far-right evangelical agenda cloaked in righteousness. The scars left behind are real, lasting, and often silenced. Liberty Lost ensures those voices are finally heard.

For anyone who still believes Liberty University is simply a religious institution with conservative values, this podcast is a necessary reckoning. It is a powerful reminder that faith, when twisted into a tool of control, can become one of the most dangerous weapons of all.

This is eye opening, well narrated and seemingly well researched. The host does provide a few voices of women who wanted to place their kids or who did not have the kinds of coercive relationships with the Liberty Godparent Home that the subjects in this show did. Also, the fact that Toni, Zoey, Abbi and others were treated the way they were is enough to question the Godparent Home and their practices. They were manipulated and it some cases laws were broken. It’s heartbreaking and this is not an old timey issue in light of Dobbs. TJ - please do more reporting in this realm!

This podcast was written and delivered perfectly. It is heartbreaking and so informative to see the other side to adoption.

I rode the entire emotional roller coaster through this series - disgust, anger, sadness, happiness. I wept that last episode. Worth the listen.

The podcast felt heavily one-sided. It had the potential to be truly impactful, but unfortunately, it lacked the perspective of an adoptee with a positive adoption experience. Adoption can be a beautiful, selfless act rooted in love and the desire to give a child the best possible life. Including a broader range of viewpoints, especially from someone with a successful adoption story, would have made the discussion more balanced and meaningful. Wish it was done right.

A lot of the discourse is one-sided; specifically, from an economics perspective. The last episode is a bit unsettling from someone that suffered from infertility for 10.5 years. Of course, it’s easy for the interviewee to say, not everyone can have a child because she has 3. The statement almost has a taunting feel to it, like, I have this precious thing and you don’t, so get over it.
If you have a heart condition, and the doctor recommends a heart transplant, do you say, oh well, your heart is not good, so deal with it? Or do you get yourself on the transplant list, knowing that someone must die in order for you to live. Why is infertility any different? I doubt the interviewee would make that comment, if she did not have children and may not have experienced a birth with medical or life threatening challenges, so the hypocrisy there is upsetting. Then there is not enough conversation about the natural mother that wants adoption. In the same way that women have a right to abort, the same should be afforded for adoption.
I appreciate the injustice that could happen with adoption, but a blanket assumption that ALL adoption is inequitable is incomplete. One of the questions I ask our natural mothers is, “if you had the money and the support to parent, would you?” When I get money and support are hindrances, we don’t move forward with the adoption.