This is a guest post by my formerly pro-choice friend Deanna Unyk. Read more about how she became pro-life here. Read about our upcoming event in Portland here. Estimated reading time: 5 minutes. “After Tiller” is a documentary that follows the lives of the remaining four late-term abortion providers in the … Read More
6 Tactics That Helped Me Have a Productive Conversation with Three Mormon Missionaries
These six tactics not only helped me navigate a 90-minute debate with three Mormons when I didn’t know anything about Mormonism, they can also help you have better conversations with pro-choice people. Estimated reading time: 11 minutes. I’ve never really spoken with missionaries from the Church of Latter-Day Saints before. … Read More
The Biology Professor Who Hated Our Outreach Exhibit
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes. The highlights from my debate with a college professor who thought we were a bunch of religious extremists with a deceptive fetal development display. This last weekend I led a Right to Life of Central CA sponsored Justice For All seminar and outreach at Fresno … Read More
Don’t Say Things You Wouldn’t Say to the Person if They Were in Front of You
Josh BrahmJosh worked in the pro-life movement starting at age 18. After 12 years of full-time pro-life work he launched Equal Rights Institute to maximize his impact on the movement. A sought-after speaker, Josh has spoken for more than 29,000 people in six countries and in 25 of the 50 … Read More
Two Bad Pro-Life Responses to Bodily Rights Arguments
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes. There are some good pro-life responses to bodily rights arguments for abortion. These two rejoinders don’t belong on that list. I am convinced that most pro-abortion-choice advocates who go beyond basic rhetoric and slogans are partially grounding their position in some form of bodily autonomy … Read More
It Doesn’t Get Worse Than This
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes. Trigger warning: This article may contain difficult content for those who have experienced sexual trauma. A gruesome report on human rights abuses in North Korea was recently released. There are some things that pro-life people may be tempted to say about it that I think … Read More
7 Tips for Talking to Someone Who Has Post-Abortive Friends
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes. Some people will agree with many of your pro-life facts, but they won’t want to become fully pro-life because that would mean condemning their post-abortive friends. How can you dialogue with them? I recently lead a conference call with Steve Wagner from Justice For All, … Read More
“Do You Listen, Or Do You Just Wait to Talk?”
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. A lesson I learned about listening from “Pulp Fiction” and my marriage. In a deleted scene from Pulp Fiction, Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) meets Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and the first thing she asks him is, “When in conversation, do you listen, or do you … Read More
My Speech at the 2014 Students for Life Conference: “I’m Pro-Life, But…”
I was asked to give an apologetics speech at the Students for Life of America 2014 West Coast National Conference. I was given a title, “I’m Pro-Life, But…” that I was allowed to do anything I wanted with, so I chose to respond to these four common statements and questions: “I’m pro-life, but … Read More
Responding to More Questions About My “Fetus Tunnel Vision” Piece
Last week I posted an article that pro-lifers either loved or hated. I wrote about something I’m calling “Fetus Tunnel Vision,” the inability to see and/or acknowledge human rights injustices without equating or comparing them to abortion. I responded to a few concerns people had about it a few days ago, … Read More