Category Archives: Miscellaneous

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Yes, Biola IS Pro-Life

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Biola University is a pro-life college. Period.

Biola has published an apology for how Diana Jimenez was treated, and they are making five commitments to further embrace the pro-life cause, even more than they were before. Read their apology here, and then read Scott Klusendorf’s open letter on the issue, as he has been very involved behind the scenes during this saga.

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The Best Two Days I’ve Spent Doing Pro-Life Work

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Words truly can’t express how I feel after the training seminar and outreach we led for Students for Life of America staff. I’ve never felt this personally fulfilled in my professional life as I feel right now. God answered all my prayers in a bigger way than I could have imagined.

The outreach was AMAZING. The staff were all great ambassadors. 8 people went from pro-choice to pro-life in 3 hours! (As far as I know, that’s a pro-life record!)

This organization has access to 762 campus clubs, and they want to help those clubs learn to ask good questions with an open heart, listen to understand, and find genuine common ground when possible. I’m over the moon about this organization and the impact they’re going to have.

We’re going to change the perception of the pro-life movement. People in the future will know pro-life people by our love. I’ve never felt so strongly that I can be a part of something that will end abortion.

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Are the Squishy Fetal Models Weird?

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Estimated reading time: 2 minutes.

UPDATE: So I originally posted this discussion question to get different opinions, so purposefully didn’t post my own so as not to lead the discussion. But now that the discussion has largely been had, for the sake of clarity, I’ll summarize my opinion which I posted in the comments:

I was slightly in favor of using the models when I wrote the post, and after reading some great comments both here and on the Facebook page, I am even more strongly for the models. (I think there are a few things we should probably avoid, like putting them all in a basket, but that doesn’t make the models intrinsically bad or even weird.)

I simply think that it’s worthwhile for us as a group to occasionally stop, look at an objection from someone on our own side, (or even the other side,) and consider that objection without bias. I think Rob Port is wrong about these models being inherently weird, but those are the kinds of conversations we should have sometimes, because we want to be effective.

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So this is interesting to me. A pro-life blogger named Rob Port recently wrote a blog post titled, “Dear Pro-Lifers: Can You Stop Being A Bunch Of Weirdos?” I was immediately interested because I’ve said before that I want to help pro-lifers to be “more persuasive and less weird.”

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In his piece, Port writes about an experience of being with his family at a state fair and a pro-life exhibitor handing his five-year-old daughter a “little rubber baby.” He writes,

“We threw it away, and we noticed a lot of the weird little creepies littering the garbage bins.” 

He ends his post with this:

“Whatever group is out there trying to promote the pro-life message by handing out squish alien babies, stop. You’re doing more harm than good.”