I am still reading this book, but I was impressed enough to write a review halfway through the book. First off, Alcorn presents all his arguments in a logical order, grouping like arguments together. He also responds to each individual reason why a pro-choice person supports abortion, and crafts his counter-argument calmly and rationally. Alcorn is adept at putting into words the vague reasons why pro-life people oppose abortion, and he explains it in such a logical way that Vulcans would approve of.

However, as rational Mr. Alcorn may be, he is not above describing what a fetus (fetus and unborn baby is used interchangeably during the book) feels during abortion, or using pictures of miscarried babies, aborted babies, and surgeries performed on fetuses that will increase their chance of living.

He also uses anecdotes when appropriate, like the one about a three-year-old who inadvertently saw a picture of an aborted baby (to put it gently, an aborted baby is a baby that's been taken apart). The three-year-old, in tears, asked his mommy, "Who broke the baby?" Randy Alcorn does try not to dwell on the gruesome; he'll just matter-of-factly explain things. My favorite anecdote is the one that involved Alcorn himself. He'll speak to college students and explain that while he was introduced as pro-life, he's really pro-choice. (Students nod in approval.) He believes that people can choose what they want to do with their bodies. (Cheers) Men can do what they want with their bodies, too. (More approval.) For example, if a man wants to force a lady to have sex with him, and rapes her, that's his choice. Nobody has the right to tell him not to use his body to rape her, so he shouldn't be punished for it. (Silence.)

Alcorn then uses this to compare the rape with an abortion, in both stories the victim is barely paid lip-service. The victim is the one who has no say in these things, but in a rape, people will go to the defense of the lady, making sure she recovers, but who's going to the defense of the fetuses? (By the way, if a rape victim gets pregnant, she shouldn't abort the baby, Alcorn says. It won't be our fault for "forcing" her to carry it full term, it's the rapist's fault for invading her in the first place, it's the rapist's fault for forcing a pregnancy on the lady. If the baby is aborted, then the lady will be as guilty as the rapist.)

Another main argument is over the fact whether a fetus is a person. Well, is it a lesser sin to murder a teenager because he's not full person yet, an adult? Is it a lesser sin to kill a child because she's not a teenager yet? How about killing an infant, because the baby isn't a child yet? Well, how about a fetus? (Clue: a fetus is a baby, even if it lives in a womb vs. a crib.) Then how about a "product of conception"? Questions like these abound in this book.

I started reading this book with an open mind, and even halfway through I am forced to conclude that abortion does indeed kill babies. Even if you are firmly in the pro-choice side, it would do you good to read this book, just to see where pro-lifers are coming from. Alcorn said that many pro-choicers are virtually clueless when it comes to the pro-life position, and that's where the heated arguments come from. Read this book, know each side's view, and THEN start arguing. We'd save a lot of time that way. - H. G.

This book is organized wonderfully and points out all of the fallacies of the pro-abortion/pro-infanticide stance. I refer to it in one of the chapters of a pro-life book I am writing about how not only the unborn human beings but newborn and infants have been dehumanized by the "legal non-person" pro-abortion argument. Now we see the return of eugenics, where people sue because they had a baby with Down syndrome, such as wrongful life and wrongful birth lawsuits and where whole organs are used from aborted children for research. Great book! - C. M.

This book has every pro-choice argument you can think of! I love that it doesn't have religious answers. I am personally a religious person, but I don't think abortion is a religious issue but rather one of basic human rights. Every pro-life person should have this book and see how to articulate your views. - K. R.

Hello Mr. Alcorn,

I just wanted to thank you for the answers to many of my questions in your book, Prolife Answers to Prochoice Arguments. I have some prochoice relatives and this information will help me to be able to answer their arguments with more intelligence and backup information to my answers. Thank you for your help in the prolife cause!

A fellow believer,
B. D., age 12