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Why Pro-Life Advocates Are Not Responsible for the Planned Parenthood Shooting Jul 20, 2017

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Timothy Brahm reads a piece he wrote with Josh Brahm after last year's attack at a Colorado Planned Parenthood. Many pro-choice people responded to that shooting by blaming pro-life advocates. In this piece Timothy show why such claims are completely unjustified by analyzing culpability and what it means to incite violence.

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A Simple Change That Instantly Communicates a Nuanced Approach to the Abortion Debate Jul 13, 2017

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Josh Brahm reads a piece he wrote about a change we made to our poll table that was inspired by a book by Dr. Charles Camosy.

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ERI Update - July 2017 Jul 11, 2017

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Josh Brahm gives an update on the main things that have been going on at ERI in the last month and what we're working on next.

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Q&A Session with Rock for Life Activists - Part 1 Jul 06, 2017

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Last month I spent about four hours in two sessions answering questions from Rock for Life activists before their outreach tour this summer. This is the audio from the first of those two sessions.

I'll list the topics below in case you want to jump around:

2:32: "Why are you pro-life?"
6:57: My views on capital punishment and how pro-life people who are pro-capital punishment can justify those two views.
14:31: Are pro-choice people inconsistent for criticizing pro-lifers who are pro-capital punishment, since they're for the choice to kill people in abortions?
18:06: How to think clearly about life-threatening pregnancies.
31:03: How do I talk about this issue with a couple that I know who have said that if they were in a situation where they had to choose between the mother dying and the child dying, that they would never do something that results in the death of the child. (This includes an analogy that explains why I'm not a pacifist.)
44:52: Thinking clearly about really difficult pregnancies that are not life-threatening.
46:37: "What about a woman who has an awful but not life-threatening pregnancy, but also does not have any support system?"
52:17: "That was really helpful, but what is a soundbite we could use when people ask us about life-threatening pregnancies at outreach?"
53:37: How should we think about birth control?
1:06:40: "I recently met someone who said that they're 'personally pro-life' but they also identify as 'pro-choice' because they think that should be a decision that people can make. What should I have said?"
1:20:46: "Sometimes when I tell people I'm pro-life I tell them about my mom who chose life for me in extraordinary circumstances. Is that a good idea?"
1:24:07: "What if a 10-year old is a rape or incest victim? Can she have an abortion?"

Notes:

I said that the youngest premie to have been born was 18 weeks and six days. While I have seen that fact somewhere, I can't find a source for it now. We do have a source for a premie being born at 19 weeks and five days though: Folkard, Claire. "Guinness World Records 2004 (Guinness Book of Records)." By Guinness. Random House, n.d. Web. 06 Feb. 2015.
The point about how different people need different tools to change their mind is from Timothy Brahm, and he expands on this a lot in episodes six and thirteen of the Equipped for Life Podcast.
The movie that depicts the true story I told about the mountain climbers Joe Simpson and Simon Yates is "Touching the Void."
Click here for the "6 Resources on Whether or Not Birth Control Pills Cause Abortions" piece.

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What We Learned in CMP's Fifth and Worst Video Yet Jun 29, 2017

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Timothy Brahm reads a piece he wrote two summers ago explaining three categories of damning evidence in CMP's fifth Planned Parenthood video.

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SPEECH: Why Every Teenager Should Be Equipped In Pro-Life Apologetics Jun 22, 2017

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This is a speech and Q&A session Josh Brahm gave at a homeschool conference in Atlanta this year. He describes what it's currently like to be a pro-life student on a college campus as well as the concepts that teenagers should be equipped in before they graduate high school.

After the speech Josh answered these questions:

50:09: When do you tell your kids about abortion?
54:17: What are your thoughts about sidewalk counseling ministry?

During Q&A Josh spontaneously talked about what youth pastors can do to prevent abortions in their churches because there was at least one youth pastor in the audience. That part starts at 52:34.

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Summarizing the Strongest Evidence That PP is Selling, Not Donating Jun 15, 2017

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Josh Brahm reads a piece he wrote two summers ago summarizing the strongest four arguments from the CMP videos that Planned Parenthood is selling, not donating, baby body parts.

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Why Even Thomson's Violinist Condemns Planned Parenthood's Selling Baby Parts Jun 08, 2017

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The silence from pro-choice people in response to the Planned Parenthood videos is deafening. Timothy explains why they should be furious with Planned Parenthood too.

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Our Experience at the OMSI Prenatal Exhibit Displaying Real Preserved Children: Article | Podcast

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ERI Update - June 2017 Jun 05, 2017

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Josh Brahm gives an update on the main things that have been going on at ERI in the last month.

Ben Shapiro's Response to Abortion in the Case of Rape Jun 01, 2017

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Three ways pro-life students should dialogue differently than Ben Shapiro debates.

Includes an endnote from Josh on what we learned yesterday that affected how we edited this podcast.