Episodes by Topic

The core syllogism, keeping the case simple, and the one question that settles the debate.

• Forget who killed Roe, who does abortion kill?April 2026
• The Most Common Pro-Choice Mistake: Leaving the Unborn Out of ‘Us’December 2025
• How to Defend the Pro-Life View in a Minute or LessAugust 2025
• Disliking the Pro-Life Argument Doesn’t Make It FalseJuly 2025
• Should Abortion Stay Legal to Prevent Partner Abuse? The Hidden AssumptionJuly 2025
• Pro-Lifers, Don’t Let Critics Rewrite Your Job DescriptionJune 2025
• Pro-Life Arguments Christians Shouldn’t Use: A Response to Eric MetaxasMarch 2025
• How to State the Pro-Life Argument Simply and ClearlyFebruary 2025
• ‘Our Bodies, Our Futures, Our Decision’: The Assumption Behind the MemeDecember 2024
• Are Pro-Lifers Devaluing Women? Answering a Pastor’s ObjectionNovember 2024
• Don’t assume your Christian friends understand moral reasoningSeptember 2024
• 5 things pro-lifers should sayJune 2024
• ‘Pro-Lifers Don’t Care After Birth’: The Question That Refocuses ItMay 2024
• What Is the Pro-Life Argument? Ground Rules and the SyllogismJuly 2023

Embryology and the SLED test: size, level of development, environment and dependency.

• Is the Pro-Life View Faith or Science? Embryology AnswersOctober 2025
• Does Life Begin at First Breath? Answering Bart Ehrman’s Bible ClaimOctober 2024
• Are Frozen Embryos Alive? Answering the Freezer MemeMay 2024
• The SLED Test: Why Dependency Doesn’t Justify AbortionDecember 2023
• The SLED Test: Why Being Inside the Womb Doesn’t Change What You AreNovember 2023
• The SLED Test: Why Level of Development Doesn’t Determine ValueNovember 2023
• The SLED Test: Why an Embryo’s Small Size Doesn’t Justify Killing ItNovember 2023

The substance view, human equality, and answers to Tooley, Singer, Greasley, Boonin and others.

• After-Birth Abortion? Answering Giubilini, Minerva, and BooninJuly 2026
• Michael Tooley and the Pattern Behind Pro-Abortion ThoughtJuly 2026
• Newborn, but Not a Person? Answering Peter SingerJune 2026
• Human, but Not a Person? Answering Kate GreasleyJune 2026
• They are disabled persons, not persons with disabilitiesJanuary 2026
• Self-Awareness vs. Human Nature: What Makes Humans Valuable?May 2025
• Are Humans Just Animals? Why Species Membership MattersJuly 2024
• Are the Unborn ‘Potential Humans’? Where That Argument LeadsMay 2024
• Does Self-Consciousness Make You a Person? Where That View LeadsApril 2024
• Lila Rose and Kristan Hawkins vs. Destiny: Identity or Equality?August 2023
• The substance view of human valueAugust 2023
• What makes humans equal?July 2023

Hard cases (rape, ectopic pregnancy), bodily rights, and common pro-choice claims.

• Is Pro-Life Really About Racism? Answering Pastor Caleb LinesAugust 2026
• Why Not Just Be Pro-Abortion?July 2026
• How to Answer Any Abortion Objection: Sort It Into Five CategoriesApril 2026
• 7 Abortion Arguments Pro-Lifers Will Face in 2026January 2026
• Should Abortion Stay Legal to Prevent Partner Abuse? The Hidden AssumptionJuly 2025
• Dropping Bombs is Not the Same as Dismembering BabiesJune 2025
• N.T. Wright on Abortion: Where He Gets It WrongJune 2025
• How to be pro-life when a 12 year old is pregnantMay 2025
• Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘Fundamental Rights’ Shirt: Where Do Rights Come From?May 2025
• What about rape?March 2025
• Answering a Critic Who Claims He Refuted the Pro-Life ArgumentFebruary 2025
• Do Pro-Lifers Hate Women? Why It Doesn’t Change What the Unborn IsJanuary 2025
• A Challenge to Abortion Advocates: Make a Better ArgumentJanuary 2025
• ‘You’re Just an Absolutist’: Name-Calling Isn’t a RefutationDecember 2024
• 2024 Election Predictions, Plus: Must We Know the Embryo Has a Soul?October 2024
• The Burning IVF Clinic Argument: Why It Doesn’t Settle AbortionOctober 2024
• Pro-life laws don’t kill, abortion drugs doOctober 2024
• Pro-lifers are not lying in their description of abortionJuly 2024
• Is the Pro-Life Argument Too Religious for the Public Square?April 2024
• Saving vs. Killing: Why the Burning Lab Argument FailsApril 2024
• ‘Not Really Pro-Life Unless…’: Answering the Whole-Life DistractionMarch 2024
• Is removing an ectopic pregnancy the same as having an abortion?February 2024
• Answering the coat-hanger back-alley objectionJanuary 2024
• Your “right to life” is not your critic’s “right to life”January 2024
• Answering Judith Jarvis Thomson’s Violinist ArgumentAugust 2023

How to talk about abortion: staying calm, asking good questions, using images, speaking.

• Witnessing in a Pub: How a Pro-Life Conversation Turned to the GospelOctober 2026
• Is Abortion Murder? Why Your Words Matter in the Abortion DebateAugust 2026
• Making the Pro-Life Case Worldwide, With Leslie SegravesMay 2026
• How to Answer Any Abortion Objection: Sort It Into Five CategoriesApril 2026
• Category Errors in Pro-Life Apologetics: Lessons From the Super BowlFebruary 2026
• When Pro-Life Speakers Are Smeared: Thaddeus Williams and Shame TacticsFebruary 2026
• Talking About Abortion at Thanksgiving: Questions for Your FamilyDecember 2025
• Allie Beth Stuckey vs. 20 Progressive Christians: A Pro-Life Master ClassNovember 2025
• How to Keep Your Cool When Arguing About AbortionOctober 2025
• How to Defend the Pro-Life View in a Minute or LessAugust 2025
• Charlie Kirk Talks Abortion With a Student: Feelings Aren’t ArgumentsAugust 2025
• Why Abortion Conversations Blow Up, and How to Keep Them CivilAugust 2025
• How to Respond to Personal Attacks in the Abortion DebateApril 2025
• Pro-Life Arguments Christians Shouldn’t Use: A Response to Eric MetaxasMarch 2025
• Make Abortion Advocates State Their Argument, Not Just Assert ItMarch 2025
• Assertions Aren’t Arguments: Lessons From Lila Rose’s ‘Surrounded’March 2025
• Answering a Critic Who Claims He Refuted the Pro-Life ArgumentFebruary 2025
• Gregg Cunningham on Abortion Images: Why Pro-Lifers Must Show ThemNovember 2024
• 5 Ways to Spot Bad Arguments About AbortionAugust 2024
• Pro-Life Public Speaking With Dr. Marc Newman of Speaker for LifeJune 2024
• 5 things pro-lifers should sayJune 2024
• 5 things pro-lifers shouldn’t sayJune 2024
• Have Republicans Abandoned Pro-Lifers? Why Politicians Should Say LessJune 2024
• Ridicule Isn’t an Argument: Handling Street-Level Pro-Choice ObjectionsMarch 2024
• Using abortion pictures in the real worldJanuary 2024
• Why Pro-Lifers Should Use Abortion ImagesJanuary 2024
• John Ensor on Pro-Life Persuasion: Challenges and OpportunitiesSeptember 2023
• Lila Rose and Kristan Hawkins vs. Destiny: Keep Your Pro-Life Case SimpleJuly 2023
• Arguing Well on Hostile Turf: Ground Rules for Pro-Life ConversationsJuly 2023

Relativism, wokeness, media and celebrities, and training the next generation.

• Prudence and Patience: The Centuries-Old Ideas Behind AbortionJuly 2026
• Embryo Jewelry and Personal Attacks: Defending Human ValueJune 2026
• Personally Pro-Life? Why Politicians Lose the Abortion ArgumentApril 2026
• Christian worldview training is not an optionMarch 2026
• Answering Rebecca Todd Peters’ Progressive Christian Case for AbortionMarch 2026
• Must Pro-Lifers Speak Out on Every Issue? Woke Pressure ReturnsFebruary 2026
• Joe Scarborough Says Jesus Never Mentioned Abortion: A ResponseDecember 2025
• Charlie Kirk’s Memorial, the Gospel, and Whether Unity Is PossibleOctober 2025
• Lessons From Charlie Kirk’s Life and Death for ChristiansSeptember 2025
• Do Rights Come From God or Government? Sen. Tim Kaine’s Dangerous ClaimSeptember 2025
• Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘Fundamental Rights’ Shirt: Where Do Rights Come From?May 2025
• Are Pro-Lifers Devaluing Women? Answering a Pastor’s ObjectionNovember 2024
• ‘You’re Forcing Your Morals on Me’: One Question That Answers ItJuly 2024
• ‘Don’t Impose Your Beliefs’: Why Moral Relativism Isn’t NeutralMay 2024
• Is the Pro-Life Argument Too Religious for the Public Square?April 2024
• Rick Allen on Equipping Kids With a Biblical WorldviewMarch 2024
• Taylor Swift on Dobbs: Why Pro-Lifers Must Keep Making the CaseFebruary 2024
• Abortion and wokenessDecember 2023
• Wokeness and the Pro-Life Worldview, Part 2: Why They Don’t AlignOctober 2023
• Wokeness and the Pro-Life Worldview, Part 1: Critical Race TheoryOctober 2023
• The Worldviews Behind the Abortion Debate and How to Engage ThemOctober 2023
• Leslie Segraves on The Case for Life Video CourseSeptember 2023

Pastors, preaching, and answering progressive or misused readings of the Bible.

• How to Preach on Abortion: Hard Truth, Real HopeOctober 2026
• Unmuting the Pulpit: Why Pastors Must Speak on AbortionOctober 2026
• Witnessing in a Pub: How a Pro-Life Conversation Turned to the GospelOctober 2026
• You Are Not Israel: Dr. Craig Ireland on Imperfect Pro-Life LawsSeptember 2026
• Is Pro-Life Really About Racism? Answering Pastor Caleb LinesAugust 2026
• Prudence vs. Premature Zealotry: The Biblical Case for Political WisdomJuly 2026
• How to Tell Biblical Christians From Wolves on AbortionMarch 2026
• Answering Rebecca Todd Peters’ Progressive Christian Case for AbortionMarch 2026
• When so-called Christians flip-flop on abortionFebruary 2026
• Confusing Things Catholic and Protestant Leaders Say About AbortionNovember 2025
• ‘I Follow Jesus, Not the Bible’: A Red Flag on AbortionSeptember 2025
• When ‘Love’ Becomes an Excuse to Affirm What’s WrongJuly 2025
• N.T. Wright on Abortion: Where He Gets It WrongJune 2025
• Self-Awareness vs. Human Nature: What Makes Humans Valuable?May 2025
• Wolves in the wombApril 2025
• Is Christian Political Engagement a Power Grab?February 2025
• Does Life Begin at First Breath? Answering Bart Ehrman’s Bible ClaimOctober 2024
• When Christian Leaders Say They’re Pro-Life but Block Pro-Life TalksSeptember 2024
• Don’t assume your Christian friends understand moral reasoningSeptember 2024
• Can a Christian vote for Kamala Harris?August 2024
• Should Pastors Stay Silent on Abortion for the Sake of the Gospel?August 2024
• Does Genesis 2:7 Say Life Begins at First Breath?May 2024
• How a church can help defend lifeJanuary 2024
• Twisting scripture to justify killingNovember 2023
• Is Preaching on Abortion Political? Pastor Jim OsmanOctober 2023
• Is Pro-Life Truth Found by Private Revelation or Scripture? With Jim OsmanSeptember 2023
• Your pastor is silent on abortion, now what?August 2023

Elections, politicians, pro-life laws and life after Roe.

• Post-Roe Pro-Life Strategy: Why the Movement Must PivotAugust 2026
• Personally Pro-Life? Why Politicians Lose the Abortion ArgumentApril 2026
• Forget who killed Roe, who does abortion kill?April 2026
• Do Pro-Life Laws Block Emergency Care? Truth vs. Political SpinApril 2026
• Winning Back Voters on Abortion: Mark Harrington’s Making Abortion HistoryMarch 2026
• Category Errors in Pro-Life Apologetics: Lessons From the Super BowlFebruary 2026
• Do Rights Come From God or Government? Sen. Tim Kaine’s Dangerous ClaimSeptember 2025
• Do Pro-Life Laws Actually Reduce Abortion? Changing Hearts and LawsAugust 2025
• Does Obamacare Fund Abortion? The Warning Progressives DismissedJuly 2025
• Can Christians Fellowship Across Political Differences on Abortion?April 2025
• Is Christian Political Engagement a Power Grab?February 2025
• Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Act: Every Senate Democrat Voted NoFebruary 2025
• Pro-life advocacy in the Trump eraDecember 2024
• So you really think laws don’t work?November 2024
• True or False: Voting for a Republican President increases abortion?November 2024
• 2024 Election Results: A Win or Loss for Evangelicals and Pro-Lifers?November 2024
• 2024 Election Predictions, Plus: Must We Know the Embryo Has a Soul?October 2024
• Pro-life laws don’t kill, abortion drugs doOctober 2024
• Pro-Life Politics as the Art of the Possible, With Mark HarringtonSeptember 2024
• Must Pro-Life Christians Vote for Kamala Harris? Answering David FrenchAugust 2024
• Can a Christian vote for Kamala Harris?August 2024
• The 2024 GOP Platform on Abortion: Why Pro-Lifers Share the BlameJuly 2024
• Have Republicans Abandoned Pro-Lifers? Why Politicians Should Say LessJune 2024
• Should we prosecute a mother who has an abortion?December 2023
• Voting Pro-Life: Answering Christian Leaders Who Shrink the Pro-Life VoteAugust 2023

Equal protection, incremental laws, prudence vs. compromise, prosecuting women.

• The One Question That Ended the Abolitionist DebateSeptember 2026
• Three Reasons Equal Protection Advocates Lost MeSeptember 2026
• You Are Not Israel: Dr. Craig Ireland on Imperfect Pro-Life LawsSeptember 2026
• Clean Hands, Dead Children: Dr. Craig Ireland on the Abolitionist DebateSeptember 2026
• Prudence vs. Premature Zealotry: The Biblical Case for Political WisdomJuly 2026
• Should Women Be Prosecuted for Abortion? Jonathan Van Maren on PrudenceMay 2026
• Equal protection: Biblically mandated or imprudently considered?April 2026
• Does a Contraceptive Mentality Lead to Abortion? Why to Drop the LineJanuary 2026
• Is Supporting Incremental Pro-Life Laws Compromise? Prudence ExplainedFebruary 2024
• Prudence or Compromise? Jason Storms of Operation Save AmericaFebruary 2024
• Should Pro-Lifers Accept Abortion Exceptions as a Matter of Principle?December 2023
• Should we prosecute a mother who has an abortion?December 2023

IVF and frozen embryos, euthanasia and MAID, end-of-life care.

• Must Pro-Lifers Always Resist Death? When a Newborn Is DyingOctober 2026
• Why Canada’s Euthanasia Crisis Is America’s WarningSeptember 2026
• Embryo Jewelry and Personal Attacks: Defending Human ValueJune 2026
• 5 words to help you think clearly about IVFJanuary 2025
• Alabama Embryos and Christian ResponsibilityMarch 2024
• Is removing an ectopic pregnancy the same as having an abortion?February 2024

Strategy, pregnancy centers, unity, endurance and missions.

• Two Distractions Pulling Pregnancy Centers Off MissionAugust 2026
• Post-Roe Pro-Life Strategy: Why the Movement Must PivotAugust 2026
• Disagreement Without Division: Drawing Lines Without Breaking FellowshipMay 2026
• Making the Pro-Life Case Worldwide, With Leslie SegravesMay 2026
• Winning Back Voters on Abortion: Mark Harrington’s Making Abortion HistoryMarch 2026
• Does a Contraceptive Mentality Lead to Abortion? Why to Drop the LineJanuary 2026
• Pro-Life or Pro-Abundant Life? Why to Keep the Main Thing the Main ThingJanuary 2026
• Is the Pro-Life Movement Winning? Don’t Believe the Year-End SpinDecember 2025
• When Should Pro-Lifers Divide? Disagreements to Discuss, Not Fight OverSeptember 2025
• Do Pro-Life Laws Actually Reduce Abortion? Changing Hearts and LawsAugust 2025
• Pro-Lifers, Don’t Let Critics Rewrite Your Job DescriptionJune 2025
• How to make it long-term as a pro-liferApril 2025
• Pro-life advocacy in the Trump eraDecember 2024
• Pro-Life Politics as the Art of the Possible, With Mark HarringtonSeptember 2024
• Being pro-life for the long-haul: Why character countsSeptember 2024
• Do Abortion Rights Amendments Help Women? With Brittany ForslingAugust 2024
• ‘Not Really Pro-Life Unless…’: Answering the Whole-Life DistractionMarch 2024
• Are Pro-Lifers Losing After Dobbs? Facing the Hard TruthsNovember 2023
• Missions and abortion in the 10/40 WindowSeptember 2023