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
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
Your Dialogue Partner Might Know Less than You Expect
Want to hear one of the more unbelievable things I’ve ever heard at an outreach? No, it has nothing to do with a super-extremist pro-choice position or some high-octane philosophical argument. It wasn’t even an “open mouth, insert foot” moment by another pro-life activist. Instead, it was a display of … Read More
Compassion works. Bullhorns don’t.
As an officer of Titans for Life at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (one of our wonderful Affiliate Groups across the country), Sally Windler knows ERI apologetics forward, backward, and inside out. Recently, on the way out of a pro-choice panel discussion on her college campus, Sally stumbled upon an … Read More
I Got Coffee with My Pro-Choice U.S. Congresswoman
I just sat down for coffee with my pro-choice US congresswoman and had the best abortion dialogue of my life. Read that again. Having productive dialogues with your representatives about abortion is possible. Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Guest Author