Buyer: That 11.6 [week fetus] was pretty good. There was three or four samples we could have taken out of the 11.6. Dr. Ginde (of Planned Parenthood): Excellent. Buyer: If we were doing like $50 to $75 per specimen, that’d be like $200 to $300 [total], and we’d be comfortable … Read More
Why Even Thomson’s Violinist Condemns Planned Parenthood’s Selling Baby Parts
The silence from pro-choice people in response to the recent Planned Parenthood videos is deafening. In this post I explain why they should be furious with Planned Parenthood too. Estimated reading time: 14 minutes. My dad Rich is currently receiving treatment for a type of cancer called Mantle Cell Lymphoma, so he … Read More
Outrage, Disgust, and Grief are Proper Emotional Responses
Josh Brahm and I have been working on a blog post in response to the recent Planned Parenthood videos (we’re going to publish it on Monday). Working on this piece has been unbelievably draining. I have never written something that has so deeply emotionally affected me before. The alternating grief … Read More
Memorized and Meaningless? A Fresh Look at 1 Corinthians 13
This post was first published as a newsletter while I was on staff with Justice For All, and then appeared as a blog post at EvangelicalOutpost.com. Estimated reading time: 3 minutes. Something is rotten in the state of the pro-life movement. We are fighting so hard to save unborn babies from abortion … Read More
A Response to My Facebook Newsfeed Today
If you’re unhappy about the supreme court decision, be a gracious loser, no need to be over the top and hassle people who disagree with you. If you’re happy about the supreme court decision, be a gracious winner, no need to be over the top and hassle people who disagree … Read More
Avoiding an Embarrassingly Common Pro-Life Mistake
Don’t you hate it when your honest clarification question is mistaken for the start of a fallacious argument? Estimated reading time: 6 minutes. Almost every time in the last year I’ve talked with pro-choice students at a pro-life outreach, I’ve had an exchange that goes something like this: Pro-Choice Student: … Read More
Autumn in the Sovereign Zone: Why “It’s My Body, I Can Do What I Want” Won’t Do
Estimated reading time:18 minutes. This post was first published at EvangelicalOutpost.com. I wrote it while on staff with Justice For All, and it wouldn’t have been possible without JFA’s excellent staff and generous supporters. Autumn in the Sovereign Zone[1] Anyone who has ever heard a conversation about abortion has heard … Read More
Two Simple Tips to Help You Master the Art of Clarity
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes. Have you ever had a really ugly fight with someone close to you, only to realize after the fact that it was all based on a simple misunderstanding? It’s very frustrating, especially because all of the pain of that fight could have been avoided if … Read More
Relating to Relativists
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes. Since I started working as a pro-life advocate in 2011, I have deeply struggled with how to have productive conversations with moral relativists. I could “win a debate” with them, but I have a loftier goal of actually changing their minds, and I was nowhere … Read More
Are We Afraid of the Truth?
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. Lately at Equal Rights Institute we have been emphasizing the importance of showing compassion to people, listening to them, and loving them. Several of our followers have responded to this emphasis by asking, “Are you guys wimpy about the truth? Do you just go … Read More