[Today’s guest post by Clinton Wilcox is part of our paid blogging program.] A few years ago, Bob Seidensticker, a Patheos blogger, wrote about an argument he called the Spectrum Argument. I wrote an article in response. Seidensticker just updated a response to me a few days ago, which you can read here. I’d like […]
One of the most frustrating assertions from abortion-choice advocates are that pro-life advocates are “anti-science” or “don’t understand science,” which is why they are pro-life. The problem, apart from the fact that science is decidedly on the side of the pro-life advocate, is that abortion-choice arguments usually incorporate bad science. For a recent example, see […]
[Today’s guest post by Clinton Wilcox is part of our paid blogging program.] I do not intend this article to examine the morality of euthanasia. Instead, this article has been inspired by a recent event in England in which Charlotte Fitzmaurice fought in court for the right to kill her severely disabled child, Nancy — […]
Cognitive dissonance is a term that I often see misused, especially as I read (and engage in) online discussions. Cognitive dissonance is defined as “the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time; performs an action that is contradictory to one […]
Much has been written on rhetoric. Rhetoric is essentially the art of effective or persuasive conversation, using certain language techniques to make your position believable to an audience. To use rhetoric, you use figures of speech and compositional techniques to make believe what you are saying, even if your arguments are devoid of any substance. […]
There’s a pro-life argument that’s been going around for some time, and it goes something like this: If you abort a child, you are, essentially, aborting all the generations that would have come after him or her. It’s summed up in the following image: This argument has always struck me as bizarre, and it’s even […]
[Today’s guest post by Clinton Wilcox is part of our paid blogging program.] Truth matters. I hope that I don’t come off as pretentious or pedantic with this post, because that’s not my intention. But the reality is that there are many arguments going around Facebook that are really, really bad arguments but are shared […]
Some tools typically used in a D & C [Today’s guest post by Clinton Wilcox is part of our paid blogging program.] Something I’ve noticed for quite a while is that well-meaning pro-life people tend to ignore any sense of nuance in the abortion discussion. This can lead to the appearance that the pro-life person […]
Baruch Brody, in an essay titled “Against an Absolute Right to Abortion”, [1] defends what he calls the brain, heart, and lung theory of death, adapted from a theory put forth by ethicist Paul Ramsey. Brody is, himself, pro-life, but only after the first trimester. The view he supports essentially states in order to determine […]
Scott Klusendorf, president of Life Training Institute, developed a tool to help us keep the conversation focused on what the unborn is. That tool is called Trot Out the Toddler. Essentially, if someone is talking about circumstances, such as poverty, while these circumstances are important to discuss, they are not the issues that affect the […]