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What If Abortion Weren’t a Possible Choice?

A Response to the Pro-Choice Objection of Unwanted Children

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Imagine a world without abortion.

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes.

"Fantasia," where abortion is not possible

I don’t mean just a world where abortion has become illegal or unthinkable. I want you to imagine a world where abortion doesn’t exist at all, because it’s not possible. In this alternate universe of Fantasia, the uterus is different than in our world. Women have “super uteruses” that can withstand a great deal of external interference while protecting the baby inside. This means miscarriages almost never happen and women can drink and smoke during pregnancy without harming the baby. However, doctors in Fantasia are limited in what they can do during a pregnancy. They cannot perform an amniocentesis, fetal surgery, or use ultrasounds to see into the uterus because of the reinforced structure. Abortions are not able to be performed because the procedure is literally impossible to carry out without also killing the pregnant woman. Hence, in this world, if a woman becomes pregnant, she only has two options: parent the child or place the child with an adoptive family.

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COURSE PODCAST CLIP: Social Media Dialogue Part 5: 9 More Practical Tips for Overcoming the Challenges

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Every other Wednesday we publish a new episode of the Equipped for Life Podcast, available to everyone who purchases our course, “Equipped for Life: A Fresh Approach to Conversations about Abortion.” Generally, these podcast episodes won’t be available to the general public, but we plan on releasing short clips from the episodes every Thursday, to give you a sense of what these podcasts are like.

In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course Podcast, Tim, Rachel, and I continue a multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. We give 9 more practical tips.

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In this clip, we discuss the sometimes unseen dynamics at play in a conversation and how this should affect our approach. Especially online, we need to remember that people are watching, whether it is in the public comments or in a private message which may be taken in a screenshot and spread publicly.

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ERI Update – April/May 2018 from Denmark!

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I walk around a botanical garden in Denmark and share about what’s been going on behind the scenes at ERI lately:

  • 00:00 – What I did in Denmark
  • 13:02 – Why I had to completely rework the way we do webinars
  • 17:07 – Speaker training for Rachel and her first speaking tour in Oregon and Pennsylvania
  • 19:35 – Where we’re at with the big Equipped for Life Course extension and why it’s taking so long
  • 22:02 – Why we’re building a video studio instead of renting studio time like we did when we first filmed the course two years ago

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ERI-Dialogue-Principle #3
“I want to encourage you to start thinking seriously about the impact you want to have in your lifetime. You will make the greatest impact on the people you’re friends with, not the people you occasionally spar with on Facebook. If that’s true, you’d be crazy to not desire friendships with atheists.”
 
For more of the context of this quotation, click here to read the full article, “Penn Jillette on Loving the People He Disagrees With.”
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PODCAST: Responding to Concerns Regarding My “Fetus Tunnel Vision” Piece

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The previous audio blog, “Fetus Tunnel Vision: 4 Reasons Pro-Lifers Need to Stop Doing This,” was a relatively controversial piece that I wrote about 5 years ago. Some people loved it, some hated it, and some had really good questions. I ended up writing 2 follow-up pieces responding to the concerns and questions I was seeing as I publicly engaged people on this issue. This is the first.

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