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
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
Were Horton’s Friends Guilty of Attempted Murder?
Have you read Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hears a Who? If you’re pro-life, you might have quoted its most famous line: “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” But the story as a whole is…kind of intense. Horton the elephant is in the middle of a relaxing swim, when he … Read More
If You Don’t Vote For THIS CANDIDATE, You’re Not Really Pro-Life
If you don’t vote for THIS CANDIDATE, you’re not really pro-life. Just kidding. I have good friends whom I know to be thoughtful, intelligent, caring, and passionately pro-life people who have all of the following plans in November. In random order (I literally used a list randomizer): Planning to vote … Read More
Abortion and Medical Necessity: Press Talking Points
Talking about abortion with pro-choice people can already feel scary. Multiply that by a million, and that’s how it feels for most of us to talk to pro-choice press! We have so much empathy for pro-life people who’ve been caught flat-footed in interviews, especially in this post-Roe era when tensions … Read More
Abortion and Medical Necessity: Improving the Pro-Life Approach
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes Pro-life people really don’t like abortion. Shocking, right? But I don’t just mean that pro-life people believe abortion is morally wrong, which we do; pro-lifers have a strong emotional reaction—a moral aversion—to abortion which is often right and healthy. Andrew KaakeAndrew Kaake (pronounced like “cake”) is … Read More
ERI Statement: Should Women Be Prosecuted for Illegal Abortions?
We do not believe that women should be prosecuted for abortion, because the state of public thought about abortion precludes us from assuming women understand what they are doing in an abortion. Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Josh BrahmJosh worked in the pro-life movement starting at age 18. After 12 years … Read More
Emily’s Speech Got Protested
I could see them coming from a mile away. Let me rephrase that: everyone could see them coming from a mile away. They were impossible to miss, and they wanted it that way. Estimated reading time: 13 minutes Emily GeigerEmily Geiger is Director of Education & Outreach at Equal Rights Institute. She … Read More
Why I Changed My Pro-life Elevator Pitch—Repost
Editor’s note: This guest post by Muireann Lynch was originally published on the blog of The Minimise Project and can be found at this link. Photo by Kelly L on Pexels.com Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Have you ever heard of an elevator pitch? It’s where you try to condense a topic down to … Read More
Is Abortion 14 Times Safer Than Childbirth?
Editor’s Note 9/8/21: The author has added a paragraph and made minor edits under the section “Manipulated Statistics” to clarify the relationship between the CDC and RG data sets. Pregnancy and childbirth are not easy. Besides the effects on the mother’s body, her career plans, her relationships, and her identity, … Read More