Persuasive Pro Life: How to Talk about Our Culture's Toughest Issue

by Trent Horn

Tolerance doesn’t mean approval, acceptance, or even indifference. To tolerate something means that we are willing to allow the thing that bothers us to exist.

isn’t abortion the ultimate act of intolerance because it does not tolerate a baby’s presence in the womb?”

Laws against illicit drug use, prostitution, selling organs, public urination, and indecent exposure show there is no absolute right to do anything we want with our bodies.

The uterus’s purpose seems clear: to support the life of an unborn child. Otherwise, why is it even inside the body at all?

If the pro-choice advocate says that late-term abortions are irrelevant because so few of them occur, then he will have to give up his arguments from the rape cases, because they are equally infrequent.

I would not have to guarantee slave owners that I could provide jobs for slaves in order to justify ending slavery.

The goal of the pro-life movement is to secure the right to life of all human beings from conception to natural death. That means it should be illegal to intentionally kill an innocent human being, regardless of that human being’s level of function or location.

All movements that care about doing good limit their scope of activities, because if they try to do everything, they accomplish nothing.

Even the pro-choice movement doesn’t try to protect all “choices.” Many pro-choice advocates oppose the choice not to join a labor union, the choice to own a firearm, or the choice not to hire a person because of his sexual behavior. Just as pro-choice advocates can restrict their definition of choice to mean “access to legal contraception and abortion,” pro-life advocates should restrict their definition of life to mean “the legally recognized right to life of all human beings.”