As we draw closer to another presidential election, and amid a new Gallup poll indicating a decline in American’s who consider themselves pro-life, the so called “abortion war” is heating up. The pro-choice side has taken to social media, and opinion columns responding to the nations tightening restrictions on abortion, by claiming that being pro-choice […]
I recently came across a pro-choice organization called 4000 Years for Choice. This group seeks to make abortion appear to be something innately human, by highlighting how long women have sought out abortions and abortion inducing concoctions. I couldn’t help but be completely perplexed by images such as this: The first thing that comes to […]
I can’t count the number of times that I’ve seen suggestions that people should be open-minded responded to with the cliché “don’t be so open-minded that your brain falls out”. In this article I want to accomplish three things: first, clarify what I mean by open-mindedness, second, respond to this cliché and third, give an […]
Students for Life of America recently announced their new initiative called Pro-Life Future. This is a very exciting new division of the organization, which seeks to help continue the work, of what they have coined “The Pro-Life Generation”, beyond the reach of college campuses, and out into the rest of the world. SFLA boasts an […]
I recently had the unique opportunity to spend time with Elizabeth, who is a volunteer with Exhale. Exhale is known as one of the only post-abortion support groups in existence that is not affiliated with the pro-life movement. Its website includes links to the National Abortion Federation and Planned Parenthood, but no abortion alternatives/pregnancy care […]
A while ago, I started an audience participation post entitled “Working It Out”, the first in a series of posts putting forth basic questions to both sides of the abortion debate. And we certainly got audience participation! We received over 700 comments on our blog page alone, and the question was discussed in various other […]
Taken from woodleywonderworks I am a newer writer for Secular Pro-Life. I have been writing blog posts about logical fallacies (and will continue to do so occasionally), but now I’d like to move to another phase of blog posts that I’m really excited to start. I hope to hear perspectives from both sides of the […]
From xkcd.com [Today’s guest post by Nate Sheets is the fifth of a series. The next post in the series will arrive sometime next week.] Slippery slope arguments allow a person to ignore the issue being presented, and to speculate about potential consequences that will arise if their opponents win or are correct. The supposed possibilities […]
[Today’s guest post by Nate Sheets is the fourth of a series. The next post in the series will arrive sometime next week.] When we would rather trust another person’s opinion over any evidence presented, we may very well be appealing to authority. Again, remember that with logical fallacies, we are focusing on nothing more than […]
[Today’s guest post by Nate Sheets in the third of a series. The next post in the series will arrive sometime next week.] Like the Straw Man last week, this week’s logical fallacy is one of the more commonly-known logical fallacies: the ad hominem. An ad hominem fallacy occurs when we attack our opponent for their […]