Reading Time: 4 minutes A popular apologist pushes back against the charge that his pro-life argument is built on religion. Is he correct? And does his pro-life argument make sense?
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What is the pro-life goal?
Reading Time: 3 minutes A provocative Christian tweet about the attack on Roe prompted a lot of reaction. Let’s conclude by looking at personal responsibility and then asking what the pro-life actions will actually deliver.
Posted inReproductive rights
Twitter chatter after Roe
Reading Time: 3 minutes A provocative Christian tweet about the attack on Roe prompted a lot of reaction, pro and con. Let’s consider the Frankenstein monster that is Christianity × conservative politics.
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Pro-life Christians as civil rights trailblazers?
Reading Time: 3 minutes In a blunt lecture, a Christian anti-abortion advocate scolds the pro-choice community about civil rights and ends with a big slice of Godwin’s Law.
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What if the pro-life argument were not religious?
Reading Time: 6 minutes How is a pro-life law driven by Christian motivation legal when it constrains Jewish practice? One Christian ministry responded to this broadside by denying that its argument was religious! Let’s see if this claim holds up.
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America is a culture of death
Reading Time: 6 minutes Americans die in huge numbers because of a minority’s cultlike obsession with guns, and because our broken political system makes reform almost impossible.
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6 pro-life flaws that pro-lifers must stop ignoring
Reading Time: 6 minutes The pro-life (anti-abortion) argument is flawed. In this article, I want to expose some of those errors. Next time, I’ll show pro-life advocates how to fix those errors and become more effective.
Posted inPsychology
What anti-abortion activists can learn from animal rights activists
Reading Time: 9 minutes I was once an animal-rights activist. How I got there taught me a lot about how to change minds—and how not to. As a 20-something college student roaming the halls after class, a particularly eye-catching pamphlet lying on a table beckoned me to read it. A steak lover all my life, I’d long wondered what […]
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I Won’t Call the “Pro-Life” Movement “Pro-Life” Anymore: They Are Anti-Choice
Reading Time: 7 minutes Why, as I look out on the sea of signs at today’s the March for Life, do I see nothing about maternity leave, much less paternity leave? Why aren’t expansive parental leave policies front and center on every pro-life website, and on the lips of every pro-life politician? Why does every speaker fail to mention […]
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Texas: “The Pro-Life Movement Is Winning”
Reading Time: 2 minutes My friend and blogger (Smilodon’s Retreat) Kevin McCarthy lives in Texas. Texas is involved in a legal sh!tshow. Things are not looking good there in terms of women’s and reproductive rights. Here, Kevin is nailing his various comments on Facebook to various GOPers. To which Kevin said: Asser (1998) examined 172 child fatalities between 1975 […]