Answers to arguments concerning life, humanity, and personhood; arguments concerning rights and fairness; arguments concerning social cases; arguments concerning health and safety; arguments concerning the hard cases; and arguments against the character of prolifers.
Suggestions on how to help unborn children and their mother, from Randy's book ProLife Answers to ProChoice Arguments.
This resource is available from the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity:
The Pill: Addressing the Scientific and Ethical Questions of the Abortifacient Issue
This abortion debate with Scott Klusendorf and Nadine Strossen was filmed April 2011 at Westmont College. Recorded by Tim Eaton.
Note from Randy: The following article is from Feminists for Life (www.feministsforlife.org) I don’t agree with everything in this article (particularly the implicit male-bashing), but it demonstrates that it’s possible to argue against abortion even from a committed feminist perspective.
Most modern feminists have made easy access to abortion the very symbol of liberation for women. The literature of the National Organization for Women repeatedly refers to abortion as the most fundamental right of women—more important even than the right to vote and the right to free speech. NOW has designated the protection of abortion ...
There is a small but influential circle of prochoice advocates who claim to base their beliefs on the Bible. They maintain that “nowhere does the Bible prohibit abortion.” Yet the Bible clearly prohibits the killing of innocent people (Exodus 20:13). All that is necessary to prove a biblical prohibition of abortion is to demonstrate that the Bible considers the unborn to be human beings.
Abortion is about God. To leave God out of the picture of abortion is to trivialize it. All things are trivial without God.
Many abortion providers cannot escape the fact that abortion is the taking of a life—the killing of a baby.
“I have the utmost respect for life; I appreciate that life starts early in the womb, but also believe that I’m ending it for good reasons.…So yes, I end life, but even when it’s hard, it’s for a good reason.” - Cheryl Alkon, “Confessions of an Abortion Doctor,” Boston Magazine
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations." (Jeremiah 1:5)
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