In 1999, Dr. Bill Lile, OB/GYN, bought a Pensacola building that housed the Florida panhandle’s largest abortion facility. He immediately turned it into his new obstetrics practice and retired all of its deadly equipment, beginning a new era of serving both moms and babies. However, the ProLife Doc, as he is now called, could not have imagined that nearly 30 years later he would be traveling the country saving babies and teaching science to the next generation.
Early years
Bill Lile grew up in a loving pro-life family in New Jersey and attended Rutgers University for his undergraduate studies and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey for medical school. He completed his internship at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden, New Jersey, and later did his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Florida. He originally wanted to be an ER doc or trauma surgeon, but when another doctor saw him reading a textbook about obstetrics during an orthopedic surgery rotation, he suggested that since he was spending his time reading that book, he would be well suited for obstetrics. This changed his career trajectory, and now more 5,000 babies later, he says “it was the best advice” he ever received.
In a phone conversation, Dr. Lile explained how that dialogue changed his life and “led [him] to the journey of starting a ministry to educate and defend the preborn in the womb.” He shared, “The moms are my patients, but these babies are really my patients too.”
You might think that a doctor taking over such a heinous facility, with all the abortion equipment still present, would toss each piece into a dumpster and think good riddance, but Dr. Lile had a better idea. In an attempt to help people understand the reality of abortion, he used those pieces of equipment in chilling videos to show exactly how first trimester, second trimester, and third trimester abortions are committed. He rightly understood that seeing the machines, the suction tubes, the forceps, and other equipment would make a profound impact not only on medical students, but on all who watched the videos. He explained that he now uses those tools to “educate people on what abortion is and how it’s an attack on the image of God.”
Not long after he opened his practice, he began speaking at pro-life events, at pregnancy centers, and to teens about the reality of abortion. People started calling him the ProLife Doc, and the name stuck. Today, his “mission is to equip churches, schools, and pregnancy resource centers with biblical truth and medical evidence to confidently defend the sanctity of life and advocate for the preborn.”
In 2025, after many years of speaking and traveling while also practicing medicine, Dr. Lile gave his nine-month notice to the hospital and to his patients and shifted to full-time ministry; he now spends his time speaking throughout the country about abortion. His “Abortion Is Not Healthcare Tour” is “a powerful, interactive presentation challenging students, churches, and communities to rethink abortion through the lens of science, medicine, and patient rights.”
And who better to teach about the science of the preborn baby than an OB/GYN?
The science of the developing baby
Dr. Lile explained that “true science will always defend God’s preborn because all true science was created by God.” Thus, in an effort to educate audiences throughout the country, he speaks in depth about moral versus immoral uses of science and technology, and in our conversation he expounded on some of the medical procedures and issues he discusses in his talks.
For instance, when speaking about embryonic stem cells—stem cells taken from an aborted baby or an embryo donated through the IVF procedure—he will explain that their use is “evil in and of itself” and that “you can’t justify helping one person by taking the life of another.” Yet, he said, there are ethical uses of some types of stem cells, such as the spina bifida research currently being done at the University of California Davis through the CuRe Trial, where doctors seed stem cells harvested from placentas onto a tiny patch, about the size of a fingernail, and apply that patch to the affected part of the baby’s spine during a fetal surgery. He explained that these totipotential cells can become anything and “actually start to generate into normal spinal cord tissue.” He said that the results have been “very encouraging” and researchers “are seeing babies who are moving their legs inside of the womb who have not been.”
Dr. Lile also referenced the panorama blood test that is done at seven weeks gestation to collect tiny fragments of the baby’s DNA. This test provides vital health information about the baby, but it can also have dire and immoral consequences, as it allows the parents to choose to abort any baby with unwanted characteristics, including having the “wrong” sex, or a condition such as Down syndrome. He explained, “That is eugenics, plain and simple. . . . And that is just demonic.”
Dr. Lile said he also discusses the many amazing surgeries doctors can perform on a baby still in the womb, which prove the baby is a separate and unique person. He explained, “If we can do blood transfusions to babies in the womb, we can give cardiac medications to correct heart arrhythmias, if we can do open heart surgery on babies in the womb where they actually receive their own IV and anesthesia team, and they’re getting narcotics and they’re getting a paralytical Norcuron [a neuromuscular block] so they don’t move around during the surgery, then that’s a patient.”
He shares these groundbreaking advancements in medicine with his audiences to show the humanity of the preborn baby. But, he warned, not all medical “breakthroughs” are positive. In fact, some are deadly.
The dangers of the abortion pill
Dr. Lile also speaks about the dangers of the abortion pill—a two-drug regimen made up of mifepristone and misoprostol. The mifepristone starves the baby to death, and the misoprostol expels the dead baby. He explains to audiences that not only is this deadly for the baby, but it’s often harmful to the moms, and he referenced a 2025 study from the Ethics and Public Policy Center that found that complications from the abortion pill were approximately 22 times higher than originally stated. He shared, “Women deserve better than the abortion pill. The abortion pill is not healthcare. This is killing one of my patients in the womb.”
When he talks about the abortion pill, he also discusses the abortion pill reversal process, through which a woman who has only taken the mifepristone can take high doses of progesterone within the first 72 hours in an attempt to reverse the mifepristone’s effects and stop the death of her baby. This process has a 64-68% success rate, and Dr. Lile said he has personally been successful 20 of the 27 times he has prescribed it. He explained, “I’ve delivered over 5,000 babies and every one was special and cool. But you never forget the babies who had a 98% chance of dying by the abortion pill.”
These amazing medical practices are just one reason that Dr. Lile believes it’s so important to teach scientific facts. And while he hopes that people understand the science of the developing baby, he wants them to recognize that abortion is first and foremost a spiritual battle.
Teaching from the pulpit
Dr. Lile shared that “the Church needs to be engaged in the greatest spiritual battle this nation has ever faced, which is the battle of abortion. . . . True science would never attack God’s preborn.” That is why he speaks to priests and pastors and explains that this spiritual battle should be led by them “from the pulpits,” as their voices can make a significant impact.
He explained that many church-going people are ignorant of the facts about abortion and attributed that ignorance, in part, to the silence of clergy. Dr. Lile shared the story of a man he once met who told him that, many years ago, he had taken his pregnant 17-year-old daughter for an abortion. He told Dr. Lile that he attended services weekly, but he had never heard of the horrors of abortion in church and was unprepared for how to deal with this unplanned pregnancy. Filled with grief, the man said he “didn’t know better.” Dr. Lile stated that the man shared that “everything changed” after his daughter had the abortion. She stopped going to church and began having behavioral problems. To this day, father and daughter have a strained relationship. The man told Dr. Lile, “I have sat with that darkness since. I did not do my manly, fatherly duty of protecting my daughter and my grandchild.”
This is just one of the many horrors of abortion that Dr. Lile seeks to combat in his ministry, and he hopes that by sharing the reality of abortion and by giving priests and pastors the tools they need to educate their flocks that they can change hearts and minds, but he stated that their sermons also need to address forgiveness. He explained, “We need to be saying from the pulpit that abortion is a sin. This is an attack on the image of God. But we have so many people who are hurting. We want them to know that there is healing available.” He referenced healing ministries such as Project Rachel that help post-abortive moms and dads find peace and forgiveness.
Protecting moms and saving babies has become the ProLife Doc’s life work, and he encourages everyone to use their talents and treasures to join in this fight, whether through supporting local pregnancy resource centers, talking to their priests and pastors about abortion, or becoming knowledgeable enough about abortion to share these facts courageously with friends and family.
The impact that he has made after nearly 30 years in the ministry is immeasurable. Dr. Lile explained that it brings him “true joy” to travel and share the gospel, and this joy and the love that he has for moms and babies are evident in every speech he gives and in every conversation he holds. The ProLife Doc truly cares about them both, and his ministry reflects this love while bringing light and hope to a world that sometimes feels lost.
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