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Survey Review: How Pro-Life & Pro-Choice People Define Abortion

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MP3 Download | 59:13

We recorded another episode with Secular Pro-Life’s Monica Snyder, our favorite practically co-host, to discuss Secular Pro-Life’s recent survey on the differences between how both sides of the issue define abortion.

A critical part of clear communication is making sure you and your dialogue partner are using the key words in the same way. Pro-life and pro-choice people often mean VERY different things when they use the word “abortion,” but they don’t know that, and miscommunication ensues.

This episode will help you avoid that miscommunication. The ERI team offers several practical dialogue tips stemming from what we can learn from this survey.

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No, Abortion Pills Aren’t Harming the Environment

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MP3 Download | 1:13:13

Yes, abortion pills are harmful to women and unborn children. We’re pro-life. But when you take an honest look at the evidence, there is no evidence that abortion pills are poisoning our wastewater.

Content warning: If you have experienced pregnancy loss, this may not be the episode for you. There’s an inherent graphic nature to the kinds of claims we’re offering factual and philosophical arguments against. While we kept the conversation as tame as possible, we know this is a very difficult subject for people who have lost one or more children, so please take care and pay attention to your body if you choose to listen to this episode.

Secular Pro-Life’s Monica Snyder joins Josh, Emily, and Rebecca to discuss the relatively recent argument from certain pro-life organizations that abortion pills and/or embryonic remains are poisoning our wastewater. We consider and respond to the strongest arguments for this claim and address the real harm this can have on people who have experienced miscarriage.

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Is This Pro-Choice Thought Experiment Cheating?

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Imagine you wake up one day and find yourself in a hospital bed. You have no idea how you got there, and there are cords running out of your body and into the body of a person who’s lying back to back with you on the bed. You understandably start to freak out a little. A doctor rushes in and explains: “It’s okay, you’re safe. Here’s what happened. That man on the hospital bed with you is a world-famous violinist who has a rare, typically deadly disease. He needs to be hooked up to someone’s kidneys so they can filter his blood, and it turns out you’re the only match in the world. So the Society of Music Lovers, which is obsessed with this guy and really doesn’t want him to die, kidnapped you, brought you here, and hooked you up.”

Estimated reading time: 7 minutes

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The Abortion Clinic Escort Who Defended Me

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This article is a shortened version of a story published by The Pro-Life Review, an Equal Rights Institute Affiliate Group dedicated to “persuasively arguing against abortion using the written word.” We highly encourage you to check out the full piece here and subscribe to their blog for more inspirational stories, abortion news reporting, and persuasive essays arguing against abortion.

This post was written by a pro-life sidewalk counselor who preferred to remain anonymous.

The first time I sidewalk counseled at Kay’s abortion facility, she blocked my path.

Kay was a volunteer clinic escort, meaning it was her job to escort women from their cars into the abortion facility. I was there to calmly and kindly invite women into conversation, and offer them a card with information about free pregnancy resources and after-abortion support. Kay was there to stop me, or at least to stop women from getting the information I offered them. Every time a woman pulled up, Kay walked out to the woman’s car, stepped in front of her as she got out to make it hard for me to talk with her, and led her away into the facility as quickly as she could. That certainly made things difficult, but I still managed to get into a longer conversation with one woman. 

Photo by Lorie Shaull

Estimated reading time: 12 minutes