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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Dec 12, 2022 10:41 PM
The next time someone tells you the unborn aren’t human persons, try this tactic from our new Stand to Reason University course, Making Abortion Unthinkable.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Dec 20, 2022 3:29 AM
There are many laws that allow women to end the lives of their unborn children. Despite this reality, there are still some state laws in place that protect unborn children, which leads to a...
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Jan 25, 2023 10:50 PM
When we investigate the question “What is the unborn?” we find that it’s a living, unique, valuable human being...and that truth makes all the difference when it comes to abortion.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Apr 12, 2023 10:03 PM
A recent article in The Guardian displayed some misleading images of what is removed in an abortion from a 9-week pregnancy. Alan explains the problems with the article and the images.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 16, 2023 12:30 AM
Was it wrong for Florida to deny a woman an abortion when physicians knew the baby wouldn’t survive long after delivery? Here’s how you can use the “Trot out the Toddler” tactic to help someone...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 13, 2023 7:36 PM
Alan describes the inconsistency in current laws surrounding abortion and homicide and offers a simple solution.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 15, 2023 8:08 PM
The term “pro-life” does not mean “against all killing.” Tim Barnett clarifies how the same God who sent the flood can still be considered “pro-life.”
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jul 11, 2023 7:08 PM
Alan offers three steps to respond to the rhetorically powerful, yet flawed argument that women might get injured or killed through dangerous, back-alley abortions if abortion is made illegal.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan exposes an inconsistency in the abortion-choice position.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that Leviticus teaches some abortions are permissible because the life of a human being is in its blood.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to an interesting defense for abortion. People argue that since a brain dead person is not alive, an unborn human embryo can’t be alive either because it doesn’t have a brain.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that abortion is permissible in cases where the fetus doesn’t have a brain.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan explains what happened during his recent abortion presentation to medical students at USC’s Keck School of Medicine
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that early embryos aren’t individual human beings because some of them can twin and then even recombine.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
If a woman is raped and gets pregnant, is the easier choice to have a quick abortion or endure nine months of pregnancy? Find out the surprising answer in this episode.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that men shouldn’t say anything about abortion because it’s a women’s issue.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
What does the FDA and smoking have in common with the pro-life movement? Find out in this edition of “Thinking Out Loud”
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan debates the entire philosophy club at a secular college on abortion and lives to tell about it.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Alan responds to the challenge that pro-life advocates are inconsistent if they favor the death penalty.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:34 PM
Since this month marks the 38th year of legalized abortion in the United States, Alan reflects on whether abortion counts as a social justice issue.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for April 2012 Dear Friend, I was recently invited to USC to present the pro-life view and debate abortion-choice students in the prestigious Keck School of Medicine.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for January 2012 My friend, Susan, chose the easy route when she found she was pregnant.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for January 2007 Jennifer, a staunch pro-choice advocate from Atlanta, thought for a brief moment about the pastor’s question: “If it could be proven to you that the unborn...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for November 2007 Followers of Jesus Christ are killing their unborn children. Christians in your church and mine are having abortions. What is going on?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for January 2008 Emotional? Yes. Controversial? Yes. Complex? Not really. Abortion is a straightforward issue.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
What do Nancy Reagan, Michael J. Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, and Christopher Reeve all have in common? They have all aggressively promoted embryonic stem cell research (ESCR).
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for January 2010 Some say what I did was crazy. I was standing alone on a stage at Central Michigan University. My job was simple: Present the pro-life view and then debate...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for January 2011 It’s trendy to talk about social justice these days. Poverty. Human trafficking. The homeless. These social ills stir up images of helpless human beings,...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Americans are in for a rude awakening. Starting September 2012, some people will wake up to strategically-placed graphic pictures. And they won’t like what they see. But it’s about time.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
The arguments against slavery were the same as the arguments now against abortion: All human beings are intrinsically valuable and have equal natural rights, regardless of their characteristics.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
Making the pro-life case is completely within your ability. You just need to arm yourself with some information, a game plan, and some tools to help you get started.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
Saying that life begins at conception isn’t controversial. It’s science. What’s controversial is the question of whether or not every human being is valuable.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
Don’t know how to defend the pro-life position? Here’s a crash course.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
Should graphic images be used when we’re arguing against abortion? Yes, but care needs to be taken to make sure they’re used appropriately.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
I made a quick comment in yesterday’s post about how reductions trouble pro-choicers not because they’re morally different from abortions, but because it’s easier to see them for what they really are.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
I was going to comment on this article in the New York Times, “The Two-Minus-One Pregnancy,” but I think the horror of it speaks more clearly for itself than I ever could.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
It may seem like there are a myriad of defenses for abortion, but they fall into three categories.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Alan explains why abortion rarely makes the social justice list and why it should be at the top of the list.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
In response to Judith Jarvis Thompson’s “Violinist” bodily rights argument, there’s a new illustration that more closely parallels the situation of a pregnant woman (including those who are...
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Here’s a recording of the counseling a woman received who went in for a late-term abortion—what she was told about the procedure and what to expect.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
Abortion choice advocates often engage in logical gymnastics to avoid the inconsistency of their view.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Josh Brahm describes the approach his pro-life organization has been teaching volunteers to focus on when speaking to pro-choicers.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Alan discusses his monthly letter for October 2013.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Christianity Today reports: [Scientists] have learned how to reprogram adult cells so that they can do many things an embryonic cell can do.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Alan answers the question of whether killing an abortionist to protect the unborn is parallel to killing a person who attempts to murder a toddler.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
A discussion between John Ensor, Francis Chan, and John Piper covers the impact of graphic pictures, how teaching their congregations about human dignity and abortion glorifies God, and more.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Alan answers the challenge from abortion-choice advocates who ask pro-lifers, “How many babies have you adopted?”
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
The SLED Test is a simple argument against abortion.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
If you want to start conversations with people about abortion, you don’t need to be a philosopher. All you need is clarity on these three questions.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Paul McHugh (former psychiatrist in chief at Johns Hopkins) explains why Hopkins stopped doing sex-reassignment surgeries.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
I was recently interviewed by students about the injustice of abortion. I thought I’d share my answers. This post is the first of two parts.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
I was recently interviewed by students about the injustice of abortion. I thought I’d share my answers. You can read the first part of the interview here. This post is the second part of that...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
Is there any reason to think the contraceptives Hobby Lobby refused to subsidize are actually abortifacients? Dr. Rich Poupard examines this issue.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
When it comes to abortion, our culture uses the very points that normally condemn violence against the young to justify it.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
The test was positive. He had cancer. The tumor was only six centimeters, but because it was in his trachea (his windpipe), it had almost completely blocked his ability to breathe.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
A man with ALS explains his anger against those who promote assisted suicide.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Alan explains why embryonic stem cell research is not only morally problematic, but ineffective at treating disease and disability. Instead, he offers a scientific alternative.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
This month, Alan asks, “Must we kill humans to save other humans?“ and Brett talks about the reaction we should expect from the world, even when we’re loving.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
The objection that pro-life advocates or organizations aren’t really pro-life because they don’t also advocate [fill in the blank] is one you’ll encounter. Here’s how Scott Klusendorf responds to it.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
This past November I wrote that embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) had not led to any successful human treatments. I was wrong.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Alan answers the question of whether pro-lifers are inconsistent if they don’t condone the killing of abortion doctors.
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Web Content Article · By stand to reason On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Ten seconds is plenty of time to defend your pro-life views.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
It seems some politicians are worried about consistent, logical thinking leading from a fetal homicide law to fetal human rights.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
Alan took his 10 year-old son to UCLA to engage abortion-choice advocates who were twice his son’s age. Find out how and why he did that.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
Could you make a pro-life case that doesn’t employ religious reasons? Scott Klusendorf explains how to communicate a secular pro-life argument in two minutes or less.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
The abortion industry has been hiding behind a curtain of euphemisms for so long that even pro-lifers have become somewhat accustomed to its existence. Let these videos shake you back into...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
When the state leaves the choice of pregnancy termination solely to the individual, it affirms that the fetus is not worthy of state protection. This is not a neutral position.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:54 PM
This is how an entire culture loses its ability to see the evil right in front of its nose. All it sees are regular people, working in ordinary offices, doing something everybody knows about, and...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
If we can convince people our value comes not from the abilities we’re expressing at a particular moment in time but from the kind of being we are, then a case for universal intrinsic human...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 25, 2019 11:07 PM
If a pro-life atheist doesn’t believe in a Moral Law Giver, can their view be consistent?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 25, 2019 11:29 PM
Some abortion-choice advocates claim that abortion is no different than taking someone off life support. Alan explains why that is not the case.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 25, 2019 11:47 PM
Alan responds to the question: If going to Heaven is so great, why do Christians want to prolong unhappy life on Earth?
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On May 3, 2024 5:57 AM
What about abortion in the case of rape? If you’re a pro-lifer, you will be asked this question. Here’s how you can respond clearly and compassionately.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
Greg talks about if pro-life logic mean that women who get abortions should be punished, at what point should Christians challenge companies we do business with who take contrary positions, and if...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
A transcript from the Stand to Reason broadcast April 6, 2016.
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