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New Pro-Life Resource: ERI Quick Response Series

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We’re excited to share our newest video series with you! Our Quick Response series is designed to provide answers for many of the most common pro-choice objections in under five minutes. We’re launching this series in a YouTube playlist with a dozen videos, but we have many more that we will be releasing on a weekly basis over the next few months!

Quick Response Series

If you want a quick reference for how to respond to people who claim the fetus is a parasite, who bring up back-alley abortions, or who talk about consenting to pregnancy, these videos are for you! They’re also perfect for sharing with others to help them understand your views, even on subjects like the Violinist Argument. You can link to them in social media dialogues, watch them to quickly brush up on your dialogue skills, or direct your pro-choice friends to them to get a conversation started. The possibilities are endless!

Here are links to each of the first twelve videos and their scripts; watch them all, or just the one that interests you right now!

Quick Response #1: The Embryo Isn’t Human: https://blog.equalrightsinstitute.com/quick-response-1-the-embryo-isnt-human/

Quick Response #2: The Embryo Isn’t a Person: https://blog.equalrightsinstitute.com/quick-response-2-the-embryo-isnt-a-person/

Quick Response #3: The Fetus Is a Parasite: https://blog.equalrightsinstitute.com/quick-response-3-the-fetus-is-a-parasite/

Quick Response #4: My Body, My Choice—A Woman’s Body Is Her Sovereign Zone: https://blog.equalrightsinstitute.com/quick-response-4-my-body-my-choice-a-womans-body-is-her-sovereign-zone/

Quick Response #5: Women Have the Right to Refuse the Use of Their Bodies – The Violinist Argument: https://blog.equalrightsinstitute.com/quick-response-5-women-have-the-right-to-refuse-the-use-of-their-bodies-the-violinist-argument/

Quick Response #6: Consent to Sex Is Not Consent to Pregnancy: https://blog.equalrightsinstitute.com/quick-response-6-consent-to-sex-is-not-consent-to-pregnancy/

Quick Response #7: Banning Abortion Forces Women to Stay Pregnant: https://blog.equalrightsinstitute.com/quick-response-7-banning-abortion-forces-women-to-stay-pregnant/

Quick Response #8: Abortion Is Necessary for Women’s Equality: https://blog.equalrightsinstitute.com/quick-response-8-abortion-is-necessary-for-womens-equality/

Quick Response #9: Abortion Is a Private Health Care Decision: https://blog.equalrightsinstitute.com/quick-response-9-abortion-is-a-private-health-care-decision/

Quick Response #10: Back-Alley Abortions: https://blog.equalrightsinstitute.com/quick-response-10-back-alley-abortions/

Quick Response #11: Banning Abortion Won’t Stop Abortions: https://blog.equalrightsinstitute.com/quick-response-11-banning-abortion-wont-stop-abortions/

Quick Response #12: We Need Broad Abortion Access for Rape Cases: https://blog.equalrightsinstitute.com/quick-response-12-we-need-broad-abortion-access-for-rape-cases/

We hope you find this to be a resource you can reference repeatedly as you continue to have conversations with different pro-choice people. You can be confident that there are answers to the toughest pro-choice arguments and be equipped as a compelling pro-life advocate. Our Quick Response series is here to help you be even more persuasive in your dialogues about abortion!

Emily will be speaking at Liberty Classical Academy in White Bear Lake, MN on February 4, 2022.  Emily will be presenting two speeches, The Most Persuasive Pro-Life Argument and Understanding and Responding to “My Body, My Choice”.

Date: February 4, 2022
Event: Liberty Classical Academy
Sponsor: Liberty Classical Academy
Location: 3878 Highland Ave
White Bear Lake, MN 55110
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Muslim Intellectual Debunks Pro-Choice Islamic Scholars

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Download MP3 | 1:32:27

In this episode Muslim intellectual Dr. Javad Hashmi refutes pro-choice arguments made by famous Islamic scholars.

Javad T. Hashmi is a board-certified emergency physician, former Fellow of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, and a PhD candidate in the Study of Religion (Islamic Studies) at Harvard University. In addition to his medical training, Dr. Hashmi holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Arabic & Islamic Studies from U.C. Berkeley and Harvard respectively.

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A Muslim Intellectual’s Journey from Pro-Choice to Pro-Life

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Download MP3 – 1:19:55

This is the first of a two-part series with Muslim intellectual Dr. Javad Hashmi. In this episode Josh interviews him about his journey from pro-choice to pro-life and how Muslims think about moral culpability and human value. They spend the rest of the episode having an impromptu nerdy philosophy debate about personhood.

Javad T. Hashmi is a board-certified emergency physician, former Fellow of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, and a PhD candidate in the Study of Religion (Islamic Studies) at Harvard University. In addition to his medical training, Dr. Hashmi holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Arabic & Islamic Studies from U.C. Berkeley and Harvard respectively.

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Jacob Nels with Voices for Life – Right to Life Kern County – Part 2

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Jacob talking to pregnant woman

Download MP3 – 28:49

Jacob Nels joins host Marylee Shrider on Voices for Life, a production of Right to Life of Kern County, to discuss his sidewalk counseling ministry and the resources that Equal Rights Institute provides to increase your effectiveness outside of abortion facilities. In this episode, Jacob provides insight into fostering dialogues with abortion-minded women, including conversation starters, body language, clothing, signage, and graphic images.

Chapters:

  • 0:30 — Recap of part 1
  • 2:33 — Understanding what abortion-minded women are going through
  • 6:53 — Conversation starters on the sidewalk
  • 9:45 — Focusing on helping and loving the woman
  • 10:49 — Body language and what to wear
  • 13:18 — Keeping a calm presence
  • 13:50 — All ages can be effective on the sidewalk
  • 14:55 — Continuing the conversation throughout their time at the clinic
  • 16:25 — Effective use of signs
  • 18:42 — Graphic images
  • 23:32 — Talking to pastors about sidewalk counseling
  • 25:40 — Sidewalk Counseling Masterclass information
  • 27:48 — Conclusion

 

Related Links:

Right to Life Kern County
http://rtlkc.org/

Equal Rights Institute Website:
https://EqualRightsInstitute.com

Equal Rights Institute Blog:
https://Blog.EqualRightsInstitute.com

Equipped for Life Course:
https://EquippedCourse.com

Sidewalk Counseling Masterclass:
http://SidewalkCounselingMasterclass.com