Posted by lynne | Mar 16th, 2011

An Overview of Abortion in Five Minutes

I recently discovered a new video produced by abort73.org, which is an excellent pro-life website geared toward high school and college students.  I think this video is going to be a really useful tool for pro-lifer’s like us because it is a more balanced approach to abortion graphics than some of its predecessors (i.e. “Harder Truth”, etc.). It  contains some of the beautiful images of fetal...

Posted by lynne | Apr 13th, 2010

Men shouldn’t have a say about abortion…What?

“Men shouldn’t have anything to say about abortion – it’s a woman’s issue.” This ad hominem attack ignores the issue of abortion and attacks the gender of the pro-lifer.  This attack is hardly relevant, since arguments and ideas don’t have sexual organs. Gender has nothing to do with the validity of an argument. This reply, usually heard from the most militant and out of touch...

Posted by lynne | Mar 29th, 2010

It is only a potential life

Pro-abortionists commonly dehumanize the unborn in order to justify abortion by referring to the unborn as a “potential life.” But calling an unborn child a “potential life” is just a clever rhetorical trick. There is no such thing as a “potential life.” There are two options. First, we can potentially create life, that is, create a potential for life. When a man and a woman get married and have sex,...

Posted by lynne | Mar 18th, 2010

Abortion is Not Health Care

Women in the US can terminate their pregnancy at any time during the usual nine months of fetal development–for any reason–or no reason at all. Often, pro-choice proponents say that abortion must be kept legal because of all the cases where the mother’s life is in danger. But did you know, according to Planned Parenthood’s own statistics, only 6% of the 1.37 million abortions occurring annually in...

Posted by lynne | Mar 14th, 2010

Video with powerful pro-life message: please vote

I’ve been thinking about developing some pro-life videos for lifeminded.org and just came across this one done in Spanish with English subtitles. I think the message is clear and powerful and am considering making one like it in English and using iconic Americans to tell the same story. But before I do, I’d like to get some feedback from others. Please tell me how effective/ineffective you think this...

Posted by lynne | Feb 24th, 2010

If you don’t like abortion…then don’t have one

Ever heard this from pro-choice advocates? It seems like abortion advocates assume that right and wrong is different for different people. This assumption manifests itself in statements like, “You have your truth; I have my truth. Therefore, we should be tolerant of all views. Maybe abortion is wrong for you, but it might be right for others.” This flaw turns the pro-life moral claim about abortion (“Abortion...

Posted by lynne | Feb 11th, 2010

Abortion: the Antidote for Child Abuse

I was recently talking to a pro-choice friend of mine about the Tim Tebow ad. After expressing how hypocritical I thought it was of the so-called women’s advocacy groups to be so negative about Pam’s “choice” to not have an abortion (see my post “Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad = Free Speech”), and after graciously listening to me for a little while, my friend responded by saying,...

Posted by lynne | Jan 25th, 2010

Just the Facts

“I’m personally opposed to abortion, but I don’t want to impose my view on others” Just the facts please This relativistic response is known as the “modified pro-choice” position. Though this view may seem difficult to oppose, it’s actually very easy to help the person who holds it to see the problem, if you ask the right question. If you aks them, “Why do you personally oppose...