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What Attorney Mary Ziegler Gets Wrong About Pro-Life Tactics (Postmodern Realities Podcast)

By Jay Watts|2022-04-21T18:05:07+00:00April 21st, 2022|Categories: Interview, NEWS, PRO LIFE|Tags: Abortion, Bad Arguments|

The New York Times recently published an opinion essay from Mary Zigler, Florida State University law professor and author of “Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present" titled, “Anti-Abortion Groups Once Portrayed Women as Victims. That’s Changing.” Ziegler claims that opponents of legal abortion have gravitated away from offering legislation grounded in arguments framing women as additional victims of abortion.

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Love Humans or Love Humanity Plus

By Jay Watts|2021-02-15T20:28:52+00:00February 15th, 2021|Categories: Dignity in Culture, Humanity, NEWS, PRO LIFE|Tags: Cancel Culture, John Stonestreet, LA Times, Virginia Heffernan|

Things go bad fast. In his book Intellectuals, historian Paul Johnson offered a pejorative definition of intellectuals. He said a certain type of intellectual is a person who loves their ideas more than people.

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Answering Vulgarity with Grace

By Jay Watts|2019-06-07T15:58:55+00:00June 6th, 2019|Categories: NEWS, Podcast, PRO LIFE|Tags: Bad Arguments, Jim Carrey, Kay Ivey, Miley Cyrus|

Transcript Miley Cyrus blew up social media with a picture of her licking a cake with “Abortion is Healthcare” written in icing. It’s exactly the kind of vulgar over the top provocations that are so popular with celebrities and social media warriors these days. Jim Carrey recently posted a drawing of a fetal Alabama Governor [...]

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Worst Imaginable Scenarios

By Jay Watts|2019-05-29T19:10:20+00:00May 20th, 2019|Categories: NEWS, Podcast, PRO LIFE|

Transcript In the wake of new laws restricting abortion, social media exploded with stories about child rape victims potentially being forced to carry their children to term, women facing terrible unnamed illnesses being put at risk as the lives of their unborn offspring are prioritized, and women being forced to carry a child suffering tortuous [...]

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No Social Security Number Needed, Just Don’t Kill Them

By Jay Watts|2019-05-29T19:10:43+00:00May 14th, 2019|Categories: Humanity, NEWS, Podcast|

Transcript Recently a friend texted a meme to me that read: If a fetus is a person at 6 weeks pregnant, is that when child support starts? Is that also when you can’t deport the mother because she’s carrying a U.S. citizen? Can I insure a 6-week fetus and collect if I miscarry? Just figuring [...]