A frame has four corners. But after 50 years of ‘pro-life’ work, we’ve abandoned three corners of the frame—or, at best, let them deteriorate. Many are left clutching an important top corner, but the picture has become distorted, damaged, and is dangling in the wind. That remaining corner is important. … Read More
What To Do When Standard Pro-Choice Talking Points Feel Crazy
What do you do when pro-choice talking points feel so stupid or so evil that you don’t even know what to say? I talked in my last blog post about what to do when something is so far beyond the pale that even most pro-choice people would agree with you … Read More
Is Abortion Just Refusing to Donate Your Organs?
Imagine that you wake up tomorrow in a hospital bed. You have no idea how you got there. Scary, right? You look around and see that there is a tube coming out of your side and going into the side of a mysterious person lying in the bed next to … Read More
What To Do When It’s So Dumb You Don’t Know What To Say
At a speaking gig last week, someone asked me a really good question: “What do you do when a pro-choice person says something, and it’s so dumb you don’t even know how to respond?” Sometimes an argument can be hard to rebut because it’s so smart. But sometimes an argument … Read More
How to Talk to Teens about Abortion
“The youth.” How do we reach them? What are they thinking? Who is influencing them? How do we get them off their phones and actually doing something? Maybe it’s because I’m barely 5’1” and look a lot younger than I am, but the number of times I’ve been asked some … Read More
Is Empathy Toxic?
It was 2020 (that dumpster fire of a year!) and I was extolling the importance of empathy in a conversation with a friend. I was shocked when he pushed back, calling the term “woke” and “politically correct.” It was the first time I learned that some people view empathy as … Read More
Jim-Bob the Barber and Arguing for the Obvious
The tiny town of Russell is so small that it only has one barber, a man named Jim-Bob. Since Jim-Bob is the only barber around, he shaves all the men in town who don’t shave themselves. And of course it would be silly to shave a man who already shaves … Read More
Is a Fetus a Parasite? (The Answer Isn’t What You Think)
“No. The definition literally says a parasite must be a different species than its host.” When a pro-choice person in my social media comments claims that a fetus is a parasite, I watch countless pro-lifers pounce on them with the “just Google it” mic-drop. There’s two big problems with this … Read More
Critical Common Ground in Medical Tragedies
Ever since Roe was overturned, we’ve seen a number of news stories where women have tragically died due to pregnancy complications or complications from an abortion. Abortion advocacy groups and sympathetic media outlets are quick to blame these deaths on state abortion restrictions, whether or not those restrictions actually had … Read More
We Need Better Representatives
It’s our responsibility to hold politicians to a higher standard. Tomorrow, Vice President JD Vance will be headlining the March for Life rally, and I’m really concerned about what that says about our movement. You see, the March for Life isn’t like voting. I can understand a pro-life person looking … Read More