Global abortion statistics don't actually exist, but global abortion "estimates" are trotted out as if they were the same thing. Published by Guttmacher and given the stamp of approval by the United Nations and the World Health Organization, you might be surprised to learn that these wildly-inflated estimates have almost no basis in empirical data. Let's talk about why that is and what it means.

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Linda Gordon is a long-time feminist author and historian. She has written the book on birth control. And what she tells us is revealing. Birth control is not the solution to abortion. It is the gateway to abortion. You cannot accept the one without the other. And vice versa.

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Professor David Livingstone Smith wrote the book on dehumanization, but he left abortion almost completely out of the discussion. Why is that? Is abortion the one context in all of human history in which it is morally legitimate to dehumanize and destroy a group of demonstrably human beings?

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Part one of this discussion made the assertion that no matter how many pragmatic benefits abortion affords, they still don't justify the mass execution of the most innocent and helpless members of the human community. In this follow-up, we look at the claim that outlawing abortion does not actually reduce total abortions. Is that true?

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The pragmatic case for legal abortion entirely avoids any discussion of right and wrong. Instead, it argues that restricting abortion leads to increases in crime, poverty, and unwanted births. Even assuming that is true, does it matter?

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How is it that people on both sides of the abortion debate claim Martin Luther King Jr. as one of their own? Well, there's a reason for that, which is what this episode is all about.

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Margaret Sanger didn’t worship God. She worshipped instead at the First Church of Birth Control. She was its founding pastor; she was its first and best evangelist. But more than 100 years after the publication of her book, The Pivot of Civilization, birth control has not delivered the utopia Sanger promised. Nor has it eliminated abortion, which is something else Sanger assured us it would do.

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After conversion, is a Christian's job merely to make more converts? Or does God expect something more from those who bear his name? And what would he have us do about the widespread embrace of abortion?

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This discussion leans on the insights of Doug Wilson and C.S. Lewis to call for Christian engagement that is not bitter or cynical—but joyful.

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A look at Gandhi's collective teaching on artificial birth control, including a visit he received from Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger.

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