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December 2022

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When People Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them

By Jay Watts|2022-12-12T23:25:55+00:00December 12th, 2022|Categories: Persuasion, Podcast, PRO LIFE|Tags: Merely Human Minute, questions|

A young college student recently told me a story. She is in a program filled with classmates who aggressively support abortion. They attack and mock the few peers who dare to voice their opposition to unrestricted legal access to abortion. Last week, they turned their attention to this young woman...

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Chapter 4 Cain and Abel

By Jay Watts|2022-12-16T15:10:40+00:00December 9th, 2022|Categories: PRO LIFE, The Bible|Tags: Genesis|

Blogging Through the Bible with an Eye Toward Life Chapter 4 begins with the first pregnancy, the first birth, the first-born man. Adam and Eve exist as special creations, but the first product of procreation is Cain. The first man born of a woman, the first child, the first family, the first brothers, and [...]

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GA Election Runoff and Limiting Evil

By Jay Watts|2022-12-12T23:03:26+00:00December 7th, 2022|Categories: Humanity, Persuasion, PRO LIFE|Tags: Herschel Walker, Politics, Raphael Warnock|

Last night Senator Raphael Warnock won reelection in a runoff against Republican candidate and UGA football legend Herschel Walker. The results give the Democratic Party a 51 to 49 majority in the United States Senate and alters the terrain for the next Congressional session on important issues like federal judge appointments and Senate committee seats. It is a major victory for the Democratic party handed to them by a once reliably conservative state. Georgia voters gave the Democratic party power to pursue their agenda.

August 2022

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Forcing Religious Claims Part 2: Rejecting Autonomy Arguments Doesn’t Require Religion

By Jay Watts|2022-08-16T19:22:03+00:00August 16th, 2022|Categories: Critique, Humanity, PRO LIFE|Tags: Bad Arguments, intrinsic value, Kate Greasley|

In the last post we discussed just who in the abortion argument is forcing odd views of human value on whom. Pro-life claims enjoy at least two obvious advantages over views supporting abortion which dehumanize the embryo and fetus; they are more simple claims and more inclusive claims. Neither of these advantages is dependent [...]

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Forcing Religious Claims

By Jay Watts|2022-08-05T15:13:55+00:00August 5th, 2022|Categories: Critique, PRO LIFE, Questions|Tags: Dobbs v Jackson|

A repeated claim since Dobbs v Jackson upended the Roe v Wade regime over abortion law in the United States is that the pro-life movement is attempting to foist their religious convictions on other people. This, as the claim goes, violates the religious freedom of other Americans by creating an environment where the beliefs [...]