Right to Life Radio

Josh, Liz and Gabi react to a leaked Planned Parenthood document that trains their volunteers to purposefully have bad dialogues with pro-life people. A stark contrast is made between the kind of dialogue that Planned Parenthood wants us to have, and the kind of dialogue we've been training people to have on this show. There are also some insights that can be made on the way Planned Parenthood directors think based on things that are said in this document.

Direct download: LifeReport153.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:47pm PDT

Josh explains a relatively new app we're using on our facebook fan page to reward our most active fans. In the past we've been rewarding with free pro-life books. Future rewards to include pro-life clothing and exclusive Life Report audio.

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Category:general -- posted at: 11:02am PDT

Josh responds to a listener mail question about a pregnant Chinese immigrant Bei Bei Shuai who attempted suicide and in the process, her baby died. She is now being charged with feticide, and pro-choice advocates are talking about this story all over the country. Josh clears up a common misconception among pro-lifers about Roe vs. Wade and the Laci Peterson Law, and offers a thought experiment to defend why perhaps this woman should be charged with something.

Josh claimed that most 26-week premies survive. This is based on a premie survival rate based on stats from March of Dimes. According to MOD, 80-90% of 26-week premies ultimately survive. Bei Bei Shuai's baby at 33 weeks almost certainly would have lived.

Direct download: ListenerMail-SuicideAndFeticide.mp3
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Josh responds to a listener who believes she found a flaw in Trent Horn's definition of personhood. Luckily, she just misunderstood Trent's definition, and strongly oversimplified it. Josh explains why and recommends some good books on the substance view of persons.

Direct download: ListenerMail-TrentOnPersonhood.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 11:20am PDT

Josh Brahm responds to a listener who disagrees with a recent Life Report episode on voting principles, featuring Scott Klusendorf and Jonathan Keller. The listener thinks we need to use long-term strategy when voting, like chess.

Direct download: LifeReport-LM-VotingPrinciples.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:16pm PDT

Josh, Liz and Life Report's newest co-host, Gabi Vehrs, discusses that "after-birth abortion" article, including how many pro-life people responded to it, as well as a refutation of the underlying premise in the article.

Direct download: LifeReport152.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:29am PDT

Trent Horn is back in studio for one more episode, to discuss logical fallacies that both pro-life and pro-choice advocates make.

  1. What is logic?
  2. How do arguments work?
  3. What are fallacies?
  4. What are the most common fallacies that pro-choice advocates make?
  5. What are the most common fallacies that pro-life advocates make?
  6. Most people know that an ad hominem is a fallacy, but they aren’t sure how to describe it or refute it. How do you refute ad hominems?
  7. What are some fallacies that people may not recognize but are very common?
  8. How can we graciously explain to someone that they are relying on a logical fallacy?
  9. Isn't it more important to focus on emotional relationships and not just on who has the best argument?
  10. Are there any books you recommend on how to argue and spot fallacies?

Trent talked about a few faulty pro-life arguments in this episode. This is actually a common topic on our show. Click here for more faulty pro-life arguments: http://prolifepodcast.net/tag/faulty-pro-life-arguments/

Watch other Life Report episodes with him at prolifepodcast.net/tag/trent-horn.

Direct download: LifeReport151.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:42pm PDT

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