Mon, 29 August 2011
Josh & Liz respond to questions from the audience.
Caller:
1: "Are you pro-life activists because of your belief in God, or because of something else?"
Listener Mail:
1: "I think pro-choice bodily rights arguments are all strawmen arguments."
2: "How would you respond to a consistent death ethic, where the person responds that it would even be okay to kill toddlers for that reason?"
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Fri, 26 August 2011
Special guests Steve Wagner and Becca Haschke from Justice For All join Josh for a discussion on how pro-lifers can best interact with post-abortive people. We don’t want to make them feel unnecessarily guilty, but we also don’t want to overcompensate and act as if abortion is no big deal.
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Fri, 19 August 2011
This is the first of a series of recorded conversations between Josh Brahm and abortion advocates we're going to publish exclusively on this website. It's not an attempt to make pro-choice people look dumb, but an attempt to understand them better, as well as let you hear the arguments and methods we talk about on Life Report used in real time, with real people.
Primary Dialogue Topics:
1: Summary of Crystal and Josh's positions on abortion
2: Are the unborn constructed or developed?
3: Is the current capacity for conscious thought necessary for personhood?
4: Is the zygote comparable to bodily cells?
5: What about rape?
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Fri, 12 August 2011
Special guests Steve Wagner and Becca Haschke from Justice For All join Josh for a discussion on how to respond to "impossible" pro-choice people.
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Fri, 5 August 2011
Josh Brahm interviews Jen Roth, a pro-life philosopher who’s also an atheist and co-founder of All Our Lives. Jen explains how she communicates and defends her pro-life position. Jen also responded to questions from both pro-life and pro-choice live listeners, and closes the show by asking Josh how he grounds his view that humans are valuable.
Josh’s Questions for Jen:
1: How would you communicate your pro-life position?
2: How do you respond when a pro-choice person says the unborn are not persons as you and I are?
3: Do you distinguish between humans and all other animals?
4: How would you respond to someone who bites the bullet and concedes that newborns are not valuable people?
5: What about rape?
6: Assuming the unborn are valuable people, how do you respond to the objection that making abortion illegal would you would be violating womens’ bodily autonomy, or bodily integrity?
7: By basic needs, do you mean universal or something else?
8: As an atheist, would the argument that the uterus is designed for pregnancy hold weight?
9: How would you respond if a pro-choicer moves from bodily rights to rape? Does parental responsibility hold up in that case?
10: Some say that not allowing abortions is inherently discriminatory because she could not walk away from the pregnancy in the same way a jerky man could. What do you say to that?
11: And what do you think of the counter that a law prohibiting abortion would not be inherently discriminatory unless it stated that only women could not have abortions (as men could, theoretically, one day become pregnant despite the extreme risk of danger)?
12: Would you consider yourself a moral relativist?
13: How would you respond to the pro-choicer who thinks that we should be able to abort babies that have physical or mental defects?
14: How do you think the way you ground your pro-life argument differs from pro-life theists?
Questions from Live Listeners:
1: Would the thought that birth gives us full human rights not be consistent?
2: Even if we concede there is an intrusion going on in the woman’s body, in the case of rape, to remain pregnant against her will, the intrusion against the child’s body in the case of abortion outweighs the intrusion in the case of rape. Is that a good pro-life argument or a bad one?
3: As an atheist, what do you believe makes humans so valuable that all humans, even the unborn, should be protected?
4: As an atheist, from a pro-choicer who believes abortion is permissible from a moral relativist position, how would you answer that objection and say that abortion is never morally permissible?
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Thu, 4 August 2011
Josh describes an abortion debate he's having online with someone, who's using philosopher Eileen McDonagh's argument that the fetus is comparable to a rapist, implanting itself in the mother's body without consent, and that the mother has the right to refuse consent and repel the fetus like she would a rapist. How should pro-lifers respond to this fringe version of the bodily rights argument?
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Wed, 3 August 2011
Includes caller questions and listener mail on heading off relativism at the start of a conversation, responding to pro-choice questions and Josh takes back something he said in an earlier podcast about ineffective biblical arguments!
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Tue, 2 August 2011
1: How Josh's pro-life story started
2: How pro-lifers should use social networking (and how they shouldn't)
3: How can we activate pastors that are afraid of preaching clearly on abortion?
4: How did Life Report get started?
5: Is the pro-life battle a winnable war?
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