Estimated reading time: 3 minutes. Helping someone change their mind about something often comes down to presenting them with a choice: change your mind or bite a bullet. In other words, demonstrate that their position requires them to accept a conclusion they really don’t want to accept. This is why … Read More
When Is Abortion Fetal Euthanasia In Disguise?
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes. Bioethics is a broad and expanding field of ethical inquiry into questions concerning human life, its beginning and end, and its interaction with medicine and other technologies. When I began my formal study of bioethics, I noticed that many issues were interrelated, and the issue … Read More
Why Viability Is the Least Plausible Definition of Personhood
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes. When we make the Equal Rights Argument, pro-choice people tend to respond with an alternative definition of personhood, usually an attribute that they believe humans must have in order to be considered valuable persons, such as sentience, brain activity, self-awareness, or the ability to feel … Read More
Am I a Father?
What does it mean to be a father? What does the tragedy of miscarriage tell us about the unborn? And does this give us insight about abortion? Estimated reading time: 7 minutes. This question — am I a father? — is one whose answer matters a great deal to me, … Read More
Thanos Would Be Pro-Choice
My wife and I love the Marvel movies. They’re always charming and fun, even if they aren’t profound. But the latest one, Avengers: Infinity War, was an exception. Don’t get me wrong, it was charming and fun. But it was also profound. It was possibly the most effective anti-utilitarian movie … Read More
Matt Walsh and Bodily Autonomy Arguments
If pro-life advocates want to help pro-choice people change their minds about abortion, then they must understand arguments about bodily autonomy and how to respond to them in a persuasive way. In his recent video, How To Destroy The “Best” Reproductive Rights Argument, Matt Walsh draws attention to these types … Read More
What If Abortion Weren’t a Possible Choice?
Imagine a world without abortion. Estimated reading time: 5 minutes. I don’t mean just a world where abortion has become illegal or unthinkable. I want you to imagine a world where abortion doesn’t exist at all, because it’s not possible. In this alternate universe of Fantasia, the uterus is different … Read More
Stop Using “Trust Women” as an Abortion Trump Card
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. Imagine you were talking to someone about child abuse, and they said, “You know, I understand that you’re personally against it, but I think we should trust parents to make the right decisions for their families.” Would you feel like their comment about trust was … Read More
Fellow Pro-Lifers: Please Stop Sharing This Straw Man Meme
Editor’s Note (4/17/24): There are two major problems with the meme this article uses as an example. First, it straw mans the pro-choice view; this is the logic problem explained in the article. Second, it’s derisive toward the pro-choice view it fails to understand; this is a tone problem. Some … Read More
Pro-Lifers Aren’t “Forcing” Women to Stay Pregnant
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. Pro-choice advocates constantly describe the intentions of pro-lifers with the word “force.” “Pro-lifers want to force women to stay pregnant, force them to have babies, force them to go through pregnancy, force them to be a parent.” All of these statements are common, and all … Read More