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Arguments about Pro-Life “Hypocrisy” Prove Nothing about Abortion

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Masked face holding another mask, hypocrisy

Estimated reading time: 12 minutes

Charges of “pro-life hypocrisy” abound on the internet. Unfortunately, they also exist in professional philosophy journals in the form of “inconsistency arguments.” These take the following form:

         P1: Were pro-life people consistent, they would X.

         P2: Pro-life people fail to X.

         C: Therefore, pro-life people are inconsistent.

Accompanying such arguments is an implicit understanding or explicit assertion that if the pro-life person does not change her beliefs or behaviors in order to be consistent, then her continued inconsistency counts as hypocrisy.

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Dealing with a Hostile Campus as a Pro-Life Club

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Download MP3 – 1:20:27

Emily pulls back the curtain to explain the ways that her pro-life club leaders overcame hostility, established a good working relationship with their college administrators, dealt with vandalism, connected with the pro-choice club, and more! Even if the campus is a hostile environment, students can take proactive steps to engage in successful pro-life activism.

Chapters

  • 00:00 Introduction
  • 01:50 Coaching other clubs
  • 04:05 Managing a club’s image
  • 07:03 Dealing with vandalism
  • 29:15 The importance of outreach
  • 30:42 Campus rules for outreach
  • 46:13 Explaining why you do outreach
  • 47:27 Be transparent
  • 54:34 The pro-choice club on campus
  • 1:13:01 When in doubt…
  • 1:18:17 If a club wants advice…

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Emily@EqualRightsInstitute.com

How One Club Changed Their Campus (Extended Interview with Emily Albrecht)
https://youtu.be/HoSwkt1wFdY

Emily’s First Outreach Mistakes
https://youtu.be/jP-gL9ZmafU

Emily’s First Dialogue Mistakes
https://youtu.be/u5hVXb0ikcI

Here’s the meme Josh referenced toward the end:
Trying Kombucha for the First Time

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https://EqualRightsInstitute.com

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

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How to Find Underlying Assumptions in Dialogue about Abortion

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Pro-choice people often bring underlying assumptions to the table when discussing abortion. Most of the time, while these assumptions play an important part in how they justify their position, they won’t say them out loud and may not even be able to articulate them. If we don’t reveal and confront these hidden premises in our conversations about abortion, we have a much smaller chance of getting a pro-choice person to think differently about abortion. 

People looking at underside of bridge

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
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Emily’s First Dialogue Mistakes

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Now that she has talked about the initial outreach mistakes the Oles for Life club at St. Olaf made, Emily discusses their initial dialogue mistakes. Toward the beginning, she blows Josh’s mind by explaining how many of their member’s musical backgrounds made it easier for them to critique each other without anyone’s feelings getting hurt. (We bet this same thing applies to lots of artists and others too.)

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Sealioning: The Fastest Way to Shut Down Dialogue

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Estimated reading time: 11 minutes

Social media brings out the worst in people. Many people take the opportunity to spew their thoughts onto the screen with relative anonymity and little self-reflection. This has wreaked havoc on civil communication for the past decade, leaving hateful comment threads and a tendency to always assume the worst of intentions in its wake. We have many colorful words for obnoxious people who harass others on the Internet, from “trolls” to “gaslighters.” A few weeks ago, I was introduced to a new term: the “sea lion.”