Web Content Article · By Tim Barnett On Jul 31, 2019 6:00 PM

A popular pro-choice meme says the Bible teaches that life begins at first breath..., but not only does the Bible not teach this, but there are...

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Mar 24, 2020 2:44 AM

abortion is inconsistent with the Christian worldview, some people point to a Bible

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM

Greg talks about how reality is never outdated, the trend to redefine pro-life away

Web Content Article · By Megan Almon On Jun 8, 2026 10:57 PM

The IVF ethical suitcase—biblical foundations, individual intents, procedures, and consequences—must be unpacked. The stakes are high, because when it comes to this technology, tiny image-bearers...

Web Content Article · By Aaron Brake On Jul 31, 2019 4:27 PM

The objection that pro-lifers are being inconsistent if they support capital punishment is sometimes raised. Here are some ideas to help you think through this.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM

Greg talks about bible verses out of context, if the pro-life movement needs a new...strategy, not believing the Bible’s...

Web Content Article · By Aaron Brake On Jun 27, 2019 10:03 PM

If you’re a pro-life man, at some point you will likely be told you’re not allowed to speak against abortion. Here’s why you shouldn’t let that silence you.

Web Content Article · By Guest Author On Jun 26, 2019 11:07 PM

Here are some basic ethical distinctions by way of background. I won’t cover all the bases in the active/passive debate (active—taking lives, passive—letting die).

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM

Alan responds to the challenge that the Bible’s silence on abortion means that it

Web Content Article · By Megan Almon On Oct 30, 2025 5:43 AM

How should we communicate the case for the pro-life view to children? There is no formulaic answer to this, but here are four guiding principles we can employ.

Web Content Article · By Aaron Brake On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM

If Lincoln were alive today and were to address the current abortion debate, he might say something like this...

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jan 18, 2022 11:31 PM

If you’ve never adopted a child, does this disqualify you from speaking out against

Web Content Article · By Guest Author On Oct 11, 2024 7:02 PM

In this clip from our Reality Student Apologetics Conference, Megan Almon uses a Polaroid photograph to illustrate how human life, though initially unseen, is valuable and fully present from the...

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 14, 2022 1:32 AM

Here are a few things Richard Dawkins got right and a few things he got wrong in his recent article about the views of pro-lifers.

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Nov 30, 2021 2:06 AM

If you’ve never adopted a child, does this disqualify you from speaking out against

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

The Torah’s teaching about accidental “miscarriage” has been hotly contested concerning the value of the unborn. Is the passage pro-life or pro-abortion? Here are the facts. You decide.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM

The Torah’s teaching about accidental “miscarriage” has been hotly contested concerning the value of the unborn. Is it pro-life or pro-abortion? Here are the facts. You decide.

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM

Slate posted an article the other week about bills that ban abortions after an embryo’s heartbeat is detected. It was a dishonest article that distorted the science and placed too great an emphasis...

Web Content Article · By Tim Barnett On Oct 16, 2020 1:58 PM

convictions is to show that the Christian’s ideas conflict with what the Bible...But for this to work, he actually has to know what the Bible teaches.

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Oct 11, 2021 9:58 PM

Is it the case that the unborn are simply a convenient group of people to advocate for and that’s why pro-lifers take on their cause?

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM

Greg talks about helping children learn to navigate the new complexities of adolescence then answers questions about the audience for the Gospels and how to discuss fetal homicide laws in class.

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 3, 2022 6:20 PM

The pro-life case against abortion involves legal, moral, scientific, and philosophical reasoning, so why do abortion-choice advocates keep insisting pro-life arguments are religious?

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM

Greg talks about the Gosnell Trial—infanticide, verses out of context, chaff in the

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Jul 31, 2019 5:18 PM

Amy shares God’s view of unborn children, how we are to supposed to treat them, and then offers encouragement to those facing unplanned pregnancies.

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:56 PM

Alan talks about the unique questions that arise when teaching Christians in a Muslim culture about abortion in the case of rape, then he answers questions about homosexuality and Mormonism.

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jan 7, 2020 10:37 PM

If “the life of the creature is in the blood,” as it says in Leviticus 17:11, then does that mean killing the embryo before implantation should not be described as killing a human life?

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM

Are anti-abortion laws merely the Christian version of Sharia law, religious beliefs imposed on the rest of society?

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM

Do people change their minds about abortion? Some say no. They believe that people are committed to one side or the other and no one ever changes their mind. This is false.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Dec 12, 2019 10:26 PM

Does the Bible teach this in Genesis 2:7, as some claim?

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM

Alan’s monthly letter for March 2010 Why would an alcoholic father, strapped for cash, sell his son and daughter for $30? Why would pediatricians at the University Medical Center of Gronigen kill...

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On May 23, 2022 6:30 PM

If two women had abortions for the sake of convenience—one at one month and one at eight months—would both abortions be equally heinous?

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM

Egyptian Christians are typically pro-life. Many, however, struggle with being consistent, especially in the case of rape. This is a vexing problem in any part of the world, but it becomes more...

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM

Social justice is trendy nowadays. Homelessness. Poverty. Human trafficking. It’s cool to care about these social ills, even among non-Christians.

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM

Alan responds to the claim that pro-lifers don’t really think abortion is murder if they don’t think women should get the death penalty for having an abortion, then he answers questions about God’s...

Web Content Article · By Tim Barnett On May 18, 2022 3:58 AM

continue their discussion about responses to popular pro-choice memes that say the Bible

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:59 PM

Given the brave new world we live in, we can’t presume that medical technologies are consistent with Christian ethics. We must do our due diligence and investigate.

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM

The unborn is not part of the mother’s body, but rather a separate body that lies within her. Scientifically, there are a number of qualities and characteristics that are different about the unborn...

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM

After more than a decade of training Oregon Right to Life students and taking them to the streets of Portland to talk to people about abortion, Alan noticed a possible new trend this year.

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Sep 1, 2021 9:40 PM

If you only had a ten-minute opening statement, a five-minute rebuttal, and a five minute closing statement, how would you defend the pro-life view? Alan shares his first debate on abortion.

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM

Alan’s monthly letter for March 2009 There’s one fact about you I’m sure of: even though you’ll live forever, someday your earthly body will die.

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM

After speaking on abortion at a recent event, a Christian man asked me why I didn’t say, “Abortion is murder...”

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 25, 2020 6:39 AM

Alan discusses whether or not the unborn is merely a part of the mother’s body.

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM

Being pro-life is not merely an attitude. It’s a behavior—it’s something you do. Here are seven steps you can take to make a difference in the lives of the unborn and their mothers.

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 13, 2023 12:15 AM

If you’re unsure whether your action might kill an innocent human being, then the proper decision is to hold off, not charge ahead.

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM

On May 1, 2009, Scott Roeder walked into Reformation Lutheran Church, pulled out a gun, and shot George Tiller in the head at point blank range.

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 30, 2022 12:19 AM

The reversal of Roe v. Wade didn’t make abortion illegal, so there’s still work to do if we want the laws against killing innocent human beings to consistently apply to every human being. Here’s a...

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jan 28, 2023 7:01 PM

How should pro-lifers respond to the objection that making abortion illegal would force women to get dangerous, back-alley abortions? Here are three steps to address this challenge.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM

Greg talks about if the Bible is absolutely true, a second grade pro-life lesson,

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM

This article is disturbing. And that’s why you should read it. The euphemism “selective reduction” will become more and more common, so let us not forget what it’s referring to.

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Apr 26, 2022 3:13 AM

Should gun buyers be subjected to the same restrictions as women seeking abortions? Some people use this analogy to argue against abortion restrictions, but here’s why the two activities aren’t...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Apr 16, 2022 7:02 PM

organization that supports abortion in order to influence the organization, whether the verse

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:44 PM

Times,” then takes call son if a zygote is a human being, if unbelievers who have never

Web Content Article · By Alan Shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM

Alan’s monthly letter for August 2011 Walking into a philosophy club at a secular college and debating the entire group on abortion wasn’t necessarily easy.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM

Here’s some good news, some bad news, and a warning regarding the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Apr 8, 2020 11:39 PM

Despite all the missing girls in India who were lost to abortion, an economist is arguing that laws against sex-selection abortion are the wrong way to go.

Web Content Article · By Tim Barnett On Nov 27, 2024 10:24 PM

Tim responds to a video that claims Christians have no right to impose their biblical views on abortion on non-Christians.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Apr 8, 2020 11:00 PM

How do advancements in science outside of a mother change the value and rights of the human being growing inside a mother?

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Dec 21, 2022 3:08 AM

Greg talks about how medical professionals should interact with transgender patients, reflects on the fact that this is the one time of year when everyone extols the virtues of Jesus in song,...

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Jun 21, 2022 11:07 PM

The topic of abortion is about to heat up dramatically with the likely overturning of Roe v. Wade. Here’s something to help you make a case against abortion in less than a minute.

Web Content Article · By Amy K. Hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM

Today is the 42nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade and a good time to report on a recent poll that tried to get beyond the “pro-life” and “pro-choice” labels people claim for themselves to determine...