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It’s the question we’re asked more often than any other, and we want to answer it carefully. The question is, “What should I do about the pro-life activist near me who is being difficult? Should I approach them differently than I do my dialogues with pro-choice people?”

Josh and Emily invited ERI Lead Editor Andrew Kaake and Secular Pro-Life’s Executive Director Monica Snyder on the show for a two-part discussion on the way they think about responding to online comments, eight common types of difficult pro-life people, and how you can respond to them.

Note: Sorry for the occasional distortion with Josh and Emily’s mics. They’ve had a good six-year run, but we’re replacing them before the next time we record (the mics, not Josh and Emily).

We also had technical issues with Monica’s video stream due to technical issues. All of her audio is there, but the video is missing sometimes.

Related Links:

Secular Pro-Life:
https://secularprolife.org

Monica Snyder for Secular Pro-Life: “Nine months of inconvenience.”

First episode of our two-part podcast with Jonathon Van Maren on AHA:
https://youtu.be/0SvNYXQqvuM

Chapters:

• 00:00 Introducing the guests and topic
• 02:49 Opening comments
• 09:28 ERI/SPL’s policies on responding to comments
• 18:58 8 Types of Difficult Pro-Life People…
• 19:39 Type 1: The Ones With Only One (Unpersuasive) Argument…
• 26:08 Type 2: The Ones Who Need to Stop Saying This, Now!
• 38:20 Type 3: The Ones Who Are Very Out of Touch with Reality
• 47:20 Type 4: The Ones Who Really Frustrate Monica

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This is a continuation of Josh’s conversation with Gary Freeman on crossing the racial divide in pro-life work. In this episode they discuss the high abortion rate in the African-American community and why that is, and how we should think about the debate over Planned Parenthood being an allegedly racist organization.

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This is a continuation of Josh’s conversation with Gary Freeman on crossing the racial divide in pro-life work. In this episode they contrast Gary’s position with those who say that you can’t be pro-life unless you agree with them on other social issues, why people in black churches are distrustful of Gary as soon as he calls himself “pro-life”, and how the church could have possibly made Black Lives Matter irrelevant.

If you haven’t listened to the first part of this conversation, do that first for this section to make sense in context.

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This is the first of a three-part series of conversations with Josh and Gary Freeman, a former guest on our podcast. In this episode they discuss Gary’s new ministry, on relationships being key to white and black people understanding each other better and successfully crossing the racial divide, as well as the need to serve people well in spite of cultural differences.

Learn more about Major League Dad here:
https://www.MajorLeagueDad.org

Chapters:

• 00:00 Introducing Gary and his new ministry
• 05:23 Why Gary is choosing to focus his ministry on local needs, instead of national work
• 10:20 Setting the stage for this episode
• 13:28 Where Gary is politically
• 17:45 Where Josh is politically
• 21:16 Why does there have to be a “black church”?
• 33:33 On white and black people understanding each other more through relationship
• 48:25 On the need to serve people well in spite of cultural differences

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While at our AirBnb in Washington, D.C. we filmed a set of podcasts with Emily, Jacob, and Meredith Maloley. Meredith helped Emily run the pro-life club at St. Olaf, and now volunteers as an ERI Club Coach and works at a Pregnancy Resource Center.

In this episode they discuss (and refute) the most common myths that organizations like NARAL and Planned Parenthood spread about pregnancy centers. They then finish by talking about the most helpful (and least helpful) things pro-lifers can do to help PRCs.