Suppose that while you’re driving home from work, you get into a car accident, and the other person is severely injured. He’ll die unless you give him a kidney. It would be morally admirable of you to donate your kidney to him, but many people find it doubtful that you … 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
What Pastors Need to Know about Abortion
Estimated reading time: 13 minutes Pastors very often, I think, would rather not speak publicly about abortion, even if they personally support the pro-life cause. This isn’t usually because they want to hide from the issue or because they don’t think it’s a truth worth defending, but because they are afraid … 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
The Chronicles of Abortion Dialogue on TikTok, the Weirdest App I’ve Ever Seen
I love my colleagues at ERI. We pride ourselves on innovation and flexibility, so you’ve probably noticed that we’re constantly experimenting with new arguments, formats, video styles, designs, etc. But here’s the thing: we’re a really small team, so when we determine we need a new strategy, a new program, … 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
Managing Anger as a Pro-life Advocate
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes I don’t think it’s controversial to say each person is more inclined to certain errors based on his or her personality and temperament. For example, an anxious person would likely be more inclined to passivity or inaction, while a more gregarious person might be less likely … Read More
But You’re a Privileged White Woman!
“No uterus, no opinion.” Yeah, we’ve all heard that one before. I spent years training my male pro-life club members how to respond to the charge that men shouldn’t have an opinion about abortion. It came up in every single outreach we did; I’d overhear my co-president Joshua or male … Read More
I Don’t Care What You Call Me: Responding to “Anti-Choice”
Name-calling isn’t new. It’s been a classic bullying and teasing tactic amongst children for centuries, and while our education system tries to eradicate such childish behavior before adulthood, we’ve clearly failed on this one. If you’ve sneaked a peek at any social media website, you’ve certainly noticed that adults show … Read More