Emily will be speaking at St. Gerard Catholic Church in Lansing for Protect Life Michigan giving a speech on The Most Persuasive Pro-Life Argument.
| Date: | June 22, 2022 |
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| Time: | 7:00PM - 8:30PM |
| Event: | Protect Life Michigan |
| Topic: | The Most Persuasive Pro-Life Argument |
| Sponsor: | Protect Life Michigan |
| Venue: | St. Gerard Catholic Church in Lansing |
| Location: | 4437 W Willow Hwy Lansing, MI 48917 |
| Public: | Public |
This quick response video addresses one of the most challenging pro-choice dialogue points, what we call the “human-plus” argument: that you need something like human nature, plus another feature like sentience or consciousness, in order to have personhood.
As Emily Albrecht explains, the human-plus argument isn’t challenging to respond to because it’s a good argument, but because it’s a bad one; human-plus is ad hoc, adding extra requirements just to exclude the unborn, and it’s hard to get people to realize why this is a problem. This video walks you through what we’ve found to be most effective when trying to help someone avoid being ad hoc in a dialogue about abortion.
A while ago, we published a blog article featuring a dialogue I had over email with Chloe, a reader of my friend Isaac Saul’s Tangle newsletter. It was a great dialogue, and Isaac was also gracious enough to publish a condensed version of it for his readers.
Today, after last night’s story leaking a draft of Justice Alito’s (hopefully soon-to-be) majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Isaac published his own response to my dialogue with his reader. I responded to him privately to point out a couple ways in which I think his post mischaracterizes my position, but I also wanted to give an expanded public response, because the way he responded makes it seem like the team at ERI doesn’t actually understand pro-choice people very well.
(I think part of the issue is that Isaac is responding to the much shorter dialogue published in his newsletter, rather than the full version we published on the blog. We had to trim the full version aggressively to fit the word count he requested, which takes away time for some of the nuance we value in our dialogues about abortion.)
As I mentioned earlier, Isaac is a friend, so I don’t want this to be perceived as attacking him or anything like that. But I do think it’s important to clarify what I’m saying in my dialogue, since it’s important for me that people understand us as able to articulate the pro-choice position as well as any pro-choice advocate could.
Josh Brahm will be speaking at the FYNDout Free Pregnancy Center in Fairbanks, AK
| Date: | May 7, 2022 |
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| Time: | 5:00 - 7:30 pm |
| Event: | FYNDout Free Pregnancy Center |
| Sponsor: | FYNDout Free Pregnancy Center |
| Location: | Fairbanks, AK |
Editor’s note: This guest post by Muireann Lynch was originally published on the blog of The Minimise Project and can be found at this link.
Have you ever heard of an elevator pitch? It’s where you try to condense a topic down to a few sentences that you can get across in three minutes or less. The idea is that you have a new business or product that you’re trying to pitch to a potential investor. They’re incredibly busy and you haven’t a hope of setting up a formal meeting, but you happen to bump into them in an elevator. You have a captive audience for the amount of time you’re both in the elevator – minutes, if even. You need to make your strongest case possible in a very short space of time. What do you say?