Have you read Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hears a Who? If you’re pro-life, you might have quoted its most famous line: “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” But the story as a whole is…kind of intense. Horton the elephant is in the middle of a relaxing swim, when he … Read More
Does Your Image Need a Face-Lift?
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes. “Ben Shapiro DESTROYS Socialism” “Don’t Apologize to the Mob” Do titles like this sound familiar? Sure, the content inside might be entertaining to those who agree, but if you spoke like that in a conversation, would you convince anyone? It’s really easy to forget the … Read More
Pro-Choice Doesn’t Have to Mean Pro-Roe
American abortion laws are among the most radical in the world. Unfortunately, though almost everyone knows that Roe v. Wade made abortion legal at the federal level, few people understand exactly how the case changed the country’s abortion laws. This gives me the opportunity to educate people when dialoguing about … 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
What’s Wrong with Saying “Fetus”
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes. Discrimination? Microaggression? Propaganda? These are common labels against pro-lifers. Anyone arguing for the rights of the unborn can expect to be characterized as enemies of women, of liberty, and of human rights. Sometimes we can learn from these accusations and pick better terms or listen … Read More
Four Practical Tips for Responding to the Burning Fertility Clinic
A pro-choice argument in the form of a series of arrogant tweets recently went viral. You would think that with all that bravado, there would have been something new or interesting, but, no, it was just the same argument that has been around for decades. Disappointing as the argument was, … Read More
Disagree With a Pro-Lifer’s Strategy? Don’t Compare Them to Planned Parenthood
Editor’s Note 2/9/21: Just a reminder that this article was written in 2013, when the makeup of the Supreme Court was quite different than it is in 2021. The point of this article is about pro-lifers comparing each other to Planned Parenthood, and it doesn’t rely on whether or not … Read More
Why I Think Pro-Life Groups are Wrong to Fight the 20-Week Abortion Ban
A lot of people have asked me about Georgia Right to Life’s response to the 20-week abortion ban. In case you didn’t know, they made national news by asking the pro-life legislators of Georgia to vote against the pro-life bill when a rape and incest exception was added, a necessary … Read More