We spent the last episode defining reproductive anxiety and identifying Gen Z’s top concern related to it. In this episode, Emily Geiger and Dr. Rebecca Carlson discuss other smaller concerns wrapped up in reproductive anxiety and advise pro-life people on how to respond to someone who is affected by reproductive … Read More
How To Trot Out a Toddler To Clarify Your Abortion Conversations
If you’ve ever talked with a pro-choice person about abortion (in person or online), chances are really good that at some point you wanted to yell “But it’s a baby!!” Pro-choice people often give justifications for killing prenatal children that they would never in a million years accept for killing … Read More
Equipped for Life Podcast Episode #112: Reproductive Anxiety is Influencing Your Conversations
There’s an incredibly important trend going on right now that’s influencing your conversations, and you probably haven’t even noticed! In this episode, Emily Geiger and Dr. Rebecca Carlson introduce the concept of reproductive anxiety, help define what it means, and dive into some of the research about how reproductive anxiety … Read More
Reframing What It Means To Be Pro-Life
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
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
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
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
What Should We Call Them?
Fetus. Baby. Clump of cells. Preborn. Unborn. In the abortion debate, there are a number of different ways people refer to the entity in the womb, and they all come with different baggage. It probably won’t surprise you that there are disagreements between pro-choice and pro-life advocates as far as … Read More
Genuine or Performed? Acting Skills in Honest Dialogue
MP3 Download | 1:29:48 The Equipped for Life Podcast is back! After a long hiatus due to the production of Equipped for Life Academy, we’ve begun recording new episodes. We also have some old episodes in the archives we’ll be publishing as well. We loved this episode as our first … Read More