Equal Rights Institute trains pro-life advocates to think clearly, reason honestly, and argue persuasively.
We use speaking, writing, campus outreach, and an online course to emphasize practical dialogue tips, relational apologetics, and rigorous philosophy.
We believe that the pro-life movement becoming more loving and thoughtful is a necessary (although not sufficient) condition to change our culture enough to end legal abortion.
Land of the free, yall love freedom until other people's business hurts your feelings, you're free to voice your opinions, see how no one is trying to censor you because they disagree with you.
medically necessary abortions? why allow a mother and child to pass when the mother can be saved. this I don't understand. why would you want abortion *as a whole* - banned?
8:23 what about having a human mind im pro life but this one troubles me I can't actually say it's impossible that fetuses aren't people, but the mind is hard to qualify idea (you might just be a philosophical zombie, who knows?) and that we wouldnt know when "mind" comes into view. I think the a mind is not the self the self is not measurable with science while the mind is just chemical interactions described with a category. If you come into being as a mind, you still gotta explain why u arent a self at the first brain cell.
Another way to put it is that God has control over when and how we die, but we have no right to kill each other: this is the right to life. Similarly, our bodies are not our own in the Christian sense that we are the temples of God and purchased at a great price, but at the same time, we do not have the right to control one another and just use one another as property for selfish ends, and this is the true right to bodily autonomy, which condemns evils like slavery, rape, etc...
It’s rather laughable when pro-choicers make up their own definitions and criteria for things and then qualify them as being scientific or medical facts, as if it wasn’t possible to look up the real scientific and medical definitions and call them out on it.
The vet used Digoxin to euthanize my dog. When she said that word as she was putting it in the catheter it made me even more sick knowing this is the drug used in abortions 😩😥
Also, argument… Fetus is not legally a human… I don’t know what science has to say. I don’t know if it’s viability or whatever but… Not a human so therefore not murder, but not murder. To be clear, I don’t like abortion but we are stuck in a system that requires it. We need to fix the system first.
If y’all can come up with one good argument about what we are going to do with all of those kids with mothers who didn’t want them and have serious problems most of the time I’ll listen, and “it’s not problem” is not an answer because it actually is, you are making it your problem
Why is pain the criteria for compassion? How many people who are experiencing depression say i cant feel emotions, i cant cry, i cant laugh? Is it disabilities maybe that are disrespected? Do we over value pain? Were not all the same, and pain is besides the point. How ridiculous to say if your foot is numb i can amputate it, because it gets in my way every time you cant feel that you step on my toes. No, you need to make an adjustment, a caring one, respecting the persons right to their foot! ❤
I had the most beautiful 11th grade biology teacher. By the end of the school year she was pregnant. Every morning she stood at the black board and filled it completely with her beautiful handwriting and drawings/diagrams. The most awesome lesson to me were the stages of development of the growing baby from the first cell division on. Everything she taught us had her aura surrounding it, it seems. I have had a lifelong love, respect and passion for biology ever since. It goes without saying that when I became pregnant with my first baby, I was overcome with the awesome wonder and beauty of it all. It was a true miracle and answer to my hearts desire. Unfortunately I had to endure being asked if I would like an abortion. This question from a Christian ob/gyn I chose expecting to be pro life. To top it off she told me she also was pregnant, and her due date the same as mine. This caused me emotional pain. Even if you could completely avoid any pain to the baby, no matter what stage, by administering a painmed , I believe it has a consciousness or sentience, and rejection is very painful too...😢❤
When I was in nursing school I loved every class…. From anatomy and physiology to microbiology and then the OB classes every class showed me how intricately we were are designed…. Even the nutrition, human growth and development was just really exhilarating to learn about and all confirmed to me that we all have been fearfully and wonderfully made…. Love your response…. We must be a voice for these little ones that have no voice. See you on the other side!🙏🩷🙏
Also you're usually replying TO a comment or tweet by somebody else and show it on the screen at the beginning, so these are clearly not strawman arguments, even if you use the single-person format.
I think this conversation is equating being an active agent of death/ killing. To letting something die This is a tricky subject since the outcome is typically similar but the intent is not
I’m genuinely still waiting for someone to explain to me why the unborn are not worthy of thr same rights as any other human being I’m not trying to be combative or rude. I genuinely don’t get it
If it’s not alive than explain how it dies when a miscarriage takes place? No I didn’t think so, man pro choice people are so dumb, and don’t have any slight common sense.
i think i see what you mean. A mother being required to raise their child SHOULD be required because they are what caused the child to be born. But person with a vital organ being required to donate the organ to a person in need SHOULD NOT be required because that person did not cause the other person to loose their vital organ.
The "child in the water" example in this video assumes that pregnancy carries zero risk, which is NOT TRUE. At all. A more accurate hypothetical would be this: is a person is expected/required to jump into shark infested water to save the child. The answer is obviously NO because there is no expectation for anybody to put themselves into danger to save another.
This seems to me to be one of the most dangerous attempts to categorise genuine conversation as disingenuous and malicious. Asking for evidence should be encouraged, civility should be encouraged. No evidence shouldn't be demanded immediately, but that seems unlikely in a written online discussion anyway. And if evidence or argument has already been given then it can simply be referred back to. This term is far more dangerous for its encouraging intellectually lazy attempts to shut down conversation.
This navel gazing philosophy is so divorced from practical reality. Pro lifers push for laws that punish people for having abortions (doctors or patients) which always makes it harder for people who need abortions the most, like women with life threatening pregnancies or nonviable pregnancies, whether the law intends it or not. This is because even legal abortions need to PROVE themselves to be legal and open up providers to prosecution. If you want people to have fewer abortions, support politicians who actually want to make life EASIER for parents through programs like publicly funded childcare and paid family leave, even if they are pro choice.
