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
Abuse of Academic Authority Regularly Inhibits Pro-Life Speech
Estimated reading time: 11 minutes. Sometimes it is tough to be a pro-life college student. Most challenges students face are found on campus during a tabling event or with the administration, but sometimes they are inside the classroom. Far too often when pro-life students dare to speak up in defense … Read More
Dialogue Story: Rachel and Chloe at Aquinas College
I want to share one more dialogue story from our outreach last month at Aquinas College. Two fantastic students from the Students for Life club at University of Michigan, Rachel Crawford and Chloe Alberta, spoke to several pro-choice girls. This is what happened. Chloe begins the story this way: Towards … Read More
My Conversation with “Mark” on Personhood and Apathy
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes. This is the story of one of the dialogues I had during our outreach at the University of Michigan. I talked to a student I’ll call “Mark” at the University of Michigan who was pro-choice. He thought personhood began in the 2nd trimester, but he wasn’t … Read More
VIDEO: Responding to Secular Views of the Human Person
Watch my speech at Fresno Pacific University’s Evidence 2014 conference. I explain the Equal Rights Argument and the three different ways you can make a positive case for fetal personhood: Imago Dei, the Rational Nature Argument, and Don Marquis’ Future of Value Argument. This includes content I’ve never taught publicly before! Josh BrahmJosh worked in the … 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
Top 5 JoshBrahm.com Posts of 2013
Yup, it’s that time of year where every blog does “top X posts of 2013,” so without further ado, here are the most visited articles I’ve published since starting this blog in July. I created this list using the Google Analytics for my own site, instead of complicating the process … Read More
Can You Explain Why You’re Pro-Life in a 30-Second Sound Bite?
I’ve recently become friends with Tim Thiesen, the President of the Fresno County Republican Assembly. He attended a function that I spoke at and we exchanged ideas and then he had me on his TV show. Last week he asked me to give him a 30-second sound bite that he can … Read More
“Ethan” is Now Pro-Life Because of the Equal Rights Argument
I spoke at both days of the Central California Diocesan Congress last weekend, and had a booth between sessions. The best moment at the booth was when I met the guy in this picture: “Ethan” recognized me and said, “Hey, I talked to you at Fresno State this year!” I … Read More
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