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• Abortion and Human Rights -- Greg convincingly describes how the issue of abortion is truly no different than the issue of slavery. The issue to be considered is the issue of human rights.
• Abortion Rhetoric -- Domestic terrorism. "A brutal, cowardly act of murder." "Mass murder." "A national conspiracy to commit domestic terrorism." These are perfect descriptions of what abortion is.
• Abortion & the Brunch -- Greg describes the "Columbo Tactic" to answer a classic pro-abortion objection.
• Are Blacks Human Beings? -- The question "Are Blacks human beings?" is so bizarre it's almost comical. Who could ask such a thing today? Yet the question is still being asked, this time with a twist.
• Are Humans Persons? -- Asking would God be a person if He didn't have these characteristics of personhood is kind of like asking if my mother-in-law had wheels would she be a trolley car.
• Babies & Begonias -- Consistency is paramount to our pro-life arguments, yet it's often hard to achieve. Use the simple argument described here to build a strong case for the defense of the unborn.
• Baby Parts for Profit -- Some have argued whenever anyone cries "Nazi" this is a good reason to reject their whole point of view because nothing could really compare. Nothing in our country could be properly characterized by that kind of comparison. Well, I don't know. You be the judge.
• Baby-Skin Lamp Shades -- If it's not wrong to kill human beings, and then use their body products for commercial purposes, how could it be wrong to kill human beings, in order to use their body parts for commercial purposes?
• Calling a Spade a Spade -- These people, Planned Parenthood, are not pro-choice. That's why they object to it. They are pro-abortion.
• Can I Destroy This? -- President Clinton claims to be taking the moral high ground in his veto of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban, but is he really?
• Does a Fetus Have a Soul? -- The argument that an acorn isn't an oak but a potential oak isn't true. How does this apply to humans?
• Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Means and Ends -- You have to have a human being before you can get human stem cells.
• Every Child A Wanted Child -- What makes an unwanted child's life necessarily unhappy? A reaction to the moral persuasion of some pro-choice advocates.
• Female Feticide -- Would you believe that there is a choice the "pro-choicers" do not want you to make?
• Fetal Personhood: It's Simple -- What makes a person a person? Does a fetus qualify?
• Jennifer & the Unborn
• He's a Liar -- Greg calls President Clinton on the carpet for his comments regarding his veto of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Bill.
• I Am Not A Freak -- The same thing that made the Elephant Man a human being makes a fetus a human being.
• I'm Pro-Choice -- The "coat hanger" argument is one of the most emotionally compelling appeals of pro-abortionists, yet the whole line of reasoning collapses because of the single element deified by pro-choicers: choice.
• Kids: Have an Abortion, But Not a Smoke -- What's wrong with saying a kid cannot smoke or buy cigarettes?
• Killing Abortionists -- Some ask "if you consider abortion murder, doesn't that incite the killing of abortionists?"
• Life Chains -- Two thoughts here: Why it's not necessary to have a "passion for the unborn" in order to do something meaningful to save them, and why "life chains" may do more harm than good.
• Morally Velocitized -- What happens when a culture's decline in values begins to pick up speed? It becomes velocitized. What was unthinkable yesterday is thinkable today, and ordinary and commonplace tomorrow, like partial-birth abortion.
• Murder is OK for the Unborn? -- Greg finds disturbing similarities between the viewpoint that abortion can be justified and reasons used to justify past genocides.
• Neonaticide -- Perhaps the shocking increase in the numbers of "trash babies" is a result of the moral confusion that comes with legal abortion.
• Nothing Hidden in D&X -- The controversy surrounding D&X is not like other abortion debates, because D&X is no ordinary abortion. One strains to be able to understand the procedure in civilized terms. Partial-birth abortion make irrefutable what has been obvious to so many for a long time.
• Partial-Birth Abortion Is Not About Abortion -- When we justify the killing of a fully human child because of severe, congenital defect, we are not making a case for abortion; we're promoting something much more chilling. Even the mothers involved know what's going on.
• Partial-Birth Abortion: Objections and Misunderstandings -- Objections to a ban on partial-birth abortion fall into three categories: the silly, the false, and the inconsequential. Here are the facts on each one.
• President Bush's Speech -- "Advances in biomedical technology must never come at the expense of human conscience."
• Pro-Life: The Epitome of Bologna -- A caller referred to Greg's views on when life begins as "the epitome of baloney." Here's Greg's response.
• Pro-lifers on the Horns of a False Dilemma -- Is it contradictory to oppose abortion as murder and still oppose the killing of abortionists? If abortion is the destruction of a helpless child's life, then why blame those who protect these children by killing their would-be executioners?
• Problem of Heaps -- Greg points out a problem with a common pro-life argument, and then gives a better one.
• Pulling the Trigger on Abortion -- On what grounds do we defend breaking the law by blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic, then turn around and condemn the act of one who shoots an abortionist?
• Rape & Abortion -- Greg wonders why pro-life candidates seem unable to articulate these clear responses when challenged on abortion in the case of rape.
• Rethinking Rescues -- There was a time for bold tactics like those of Operation Rescue. But now, those tactics are actually working against the cause.
• Sanctity of Life Sunday -- Most issues raised in the abortion debate are red herrings that drag us off the track of the pertinent questions.
• Slavery, Abortion & Inalienable Rights -- Did the Supreme Court enact a law that encourages the concept of unequal rights, contradicting the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence?
• "Society Says" Relativism -- Some would say "Legal abortion is now the law of the land--get over it." But is there a higher law? The Founding Fathers thought so.
• Stepping Over the Line -- The partial-birth abortion debate puts us at a crossroads. In many ways, we've already stepped over the line in this quiet but desperate revolution in ideas.
• New
  STR Abortion Violence Statement -- Some imply that STR condones abortion violence. Find out the truth about STR's position.
• The Moral Logic of Being Pro-Life -- If your daughter came up to you and said, I'm tired of taking care of Grandma, I'm going to kill her, would you call a family meeting and discuss it and then leave the choice up to her?
• The "Murder" of a Fetus -- If the California state statutes use the term "murder' to describe the killing of a fetus, then why can't pro-lifers use the same language?
• The Vanishing Pro-Life Apologist -- There's a growing taboo infecting crisis pregnancy centers around the country. Pro-lifers are getting tight-lipped on abortion. Here's why even CPC's are shying away from speaking frankly about the moral crime of the century.
• Trespassing In the Womb -- If this argument works, then we should release Susan Smith.
• Unstringing the Violinist -- Judith Jarvis Thompson's "Violinist" argument is one of the most compelling ever offered in favor of abortion on demand, but it's deeply flawed. Here's where it goes wrong.
• Wouldn't I Still Be Me? -- Should stronger, more capable and more intelligent people have more rights than others? Greg reflects on Baby Theresa and the personhood of the unborn.

Commentaries on Euthanasia

• I'm Not Dead Yet -- Why are human beings valuable? What is a human being? You have to answer those questions before you can say that this child isn't a human being without value.
• Life Unworthy of Life -- Things like great steps of moral depravity are not really taken in great steps; they're taken in little pieces.
• No Deposit; No Return -- No one asked the important question: Is it wrong? Why not?
• The Nazi Doctors -- We are in the process of redefining what it is that has inherent worth in our culture from human beings just simply because they are humans that have worth, to states of existence having worth.
• The Pope's Moral Courage -- The public reaction to John Paul's recent encyclical on critical moral issues reveals the new rules of political discourse.