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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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“Missed-Period Pills”: An Ethical Nightmare

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Pink haired girl holding tray of pills

The University of California is beginning a study into public demand for “missed-period pills.” The pills are just misoprostol—half of the typical chemical abortion regimen—and what they are designed to do is procure a chemical abortion without the woman needing to know whether or not she’s pregnant. In other words, it’s either a chemical abortion or an unnecessary, unindicated medical intervention, but the patient doesn’t have to know which one.

Of note: the investigation seems to presuppose the rightness of providing the pills. The only questions the researchers seem to care about are: 1) will it effectively abort human embryos; and 2) will women purchase this, especially women who might not otherwise get an abortion. In other words, they want to help women who might be uncomfortable with abortion feel better by never knowing whether or not they were actually pregnant when they took the pill. It is, after all, just a pill for your “missed period.” The lead researcher, quoted in the linked article, hopes that the pills would be a simple prescription, able to be picked up at a pharmacy, in order to assure endemic abortion access.

These pills are an ethical nightmare. “Missed-period pills” violate multiple bioethical norms, and not just because elective abortion is wrongful killing. The pills are designed to promote and cater to cowardly ethical decision-making, all the while promoting a potentially less-safe form of abortion.

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes