My pro-life apologetics speech from the 2017 Students for Life of America conference in D.C. has been posted! This talk includes a few ideas that we’ve never spoken publicly about before. [youtube id=”rZP3eF1NjCE”] The speech includes these topics: Why I avoid accusing people of committing logical fallacies, and what I do … Read More
Bodily Rights Arguments Necessitate Extremism
Bodily rights arguments for abortion are always extremist arguments, at least in the way people present them. No bodily rights argument that I have ever seen (or even heard of any pro-choice advocate making) leaves room for abortion exceptions. Estimated reading time: 14 minutes. Not all pro-choice people are extremists. … Read More
Why Pro-Life Advocates Are Not Responsible for the Planned Parenthood Shooting
Many pro-choice people have responded to the recent shooting by blaming pro-life advocates. In this article I show why such claims are completely unjustified by analyzing culpability and what it means to incite violence. Estimated reading time: 14 minutes. Last Friday a 57-year old armed man named Robert Lewis Dear walked … Read More
Why Even Thomson’s Violinist Condemns Planned Parenthood’s Selling Baby Parts
The silence from pro-choice people in response to the recent Planned Parenthood videos is deafening. In this post I explain why they should be furious with Planned Parenthood too. Estimated reading time: 14 minutes. My dad Rich is currently receiving treatment for a type of cancer called Mantle Cell Lymphoma, so he … Read More
Avoiding an Embarrassingly Common Pro-Life Mistake
Don’t you hate it when your honest clarification question is mistaken for the start of a fallacious argument? Estimated reading time: 6 minutes. Almost every time in the last year I’ve talked with pro-choice students at a pro-life outreach, I’ve had an exchange that goes something like this: Pro-Choice Student: … Read More
Autumn in the Sovereign Zone: Why “It’s My Body, I Can Do What I Want” Won’t Do
Estimated reading time:18 minutes. This post was first published at EvangelicalOutpost.com. I wrote it while on staff with Justice For All, and it wouldn’t have been possible without JFA’s excellent staff and generous supporters. Autumn in the Sovereign Zone[1] Anyone who has ever heard a conversation about abortion has heard … Read More
Understanding What Richard Dawkins Actually Believes About Abortion and Down Syndrome
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes. Richard Dawkins created a firestorm last week when he responded to one of his regular followers on Twitter who said she didn’t know what she would do if she found out she was pregnant with a child who had Down Syndrome. Pro-life people as well … Read More
Why it Would Be Wrong for Pro-Lifers to Drive Abortion Clinic Vans Under False Pretenses
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes. Abolish Human Abortion (AHA) has been accused of encouraging pro-lifers to kidnap abortion-vulnerable women. I’m going to explain why this is a false accusation against AHA and argue that it would be morally wrong to kidnap people, even if it resulted in saving lives. If … Read More
The Most Undervalued Argument in the Prolife Movement
Editor’s Note 12/15/20: We’ve now published an in-depth explanation of how to make the Equal Rights Argument, entitled “Arguing from Equality: The Personhood of Human Embryos.” It has a few important revisions based on how we’ve updated the argument over the years, but it also does a better job of … Read More
Refuting Those “After-Birth Abortion” Philosophers
Estimated reading time: 11 minutes. Bioethicists Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva have caused a firestorm by publishing an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics stating that fetuses and newborns “do not have the same moral status as actual persons.” I’m personally surprised, but happy that this article is getting so … Read More