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September 2019

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Forcing our Religion?

By Jay Watts|2019-09-08T17:57:27+00:00September 8th, 2019|Categories: Podcast, PRO LIFE|Tags: Abortion, AJ+, Al Jazeera, Bad Arguments, First Amendment, Francesca Fiorentini, Handmaid's Tale|

Transcript AJ+, Al Jazeera’s flashy face aimed at youth, recently produced a podcast episode of NewsBroke with Francesca Fiorentini making the claim, among others, that American evangelical Christians are attempting to force their religion on the country violating the establishment of religion clause of the First Amendment and the spirit of Jefferson’s desire for a [...]

August 2019

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Acorns and Embryos

By Jay Watts|2019-08-28T18:58:53+00:00August 28th, 2019|Categories: Humanity, Podcast, PRO LIFE|Tags: acorns, Bad Arguments, embryos, extrinsic value, intrinsic value|

TRANSCRIPT Occasionally someone confronts me after a talk with this comment, “The embryo and fetus are not human beings anymore than an acorn is an oak tree.” I even recently saw a form of this claim while studying academic pro-choice authors. The statement often accompanies a stunned disbelief that this basic fact eludes pro-life advocates. [...]

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MERELY PRO-LIFE OR MERELY PRO-BIRTH? Part 2

By Nathan Apodaca|2019-08-27T22:33:55+00:00August 27th, 2019|Categories: Humanity, PRO LIFE|Tags: Abortion, Foster Care, pro-birth, pro-life|

In part one, I addressed the claim that pro-lifers aren’t truly “pro-life” unless they care for children and adults after birth. The claim is irrelevant and simply excuses not interacting with the pro-lifer’s arguments. It is also demonstrably false.

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Merely Pro-Life or Merely Pro-Birth?

By Nathan Apodaca|2019-08-14T16:53:06+00:00August 14th, 2019|Categories: Critique, Humanity, PRO LIFE|Tags: Amelia Bonow, John Pavlovitz, pro-birth, pro-life, Shout Your Abortion|

Over the past several years as political tensions and sloganeering have escalated in the culture and on social media, a revived version of the “seamless garment” argument for abortion has been leveled at pro-life advocates. Critics will assert that pro-life advocates are hypocrites at best and deceivers at worst because of their exclusive focus on [...]

July 2019

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Overpopulation

By Jay Watts|2019-07-27T00:22:33+00:00July 26th, 2019|Categories: Humanity, Podcast, PRO LIFE, Science|Tags: Bad Arguments, overpopulation|

TRANSCRIPT During a recent Q&A, a young woman asked me, “How do you respond to the argument that the world already faces an overpopulation problem? If abortion is made illegal won’t it only get worse?” I actually hear this question a lot. At one particular high school I stayed after my presentation for two days [...]