Equipped for Life Podcast

This is a continuation of Josh's conversation with Gary Freeman on crossing the racial divide in pro-life work. In this episode they contrast Gary's position with those who say that you can't be pro-life unless you agree with them on other social issues, why people in black churches are distrustful of Gary as soon as he calls himself "pro-life", and how the church could have possibly made Black Lives Matter irrelevant.

If you haven't listened to the first part of this conversation, do that first for this section to make sense in context.

Learn more about Major League Dad here: https://www.MajorLeagueDad.org

Chapters:

0:00: Contrasting what Gary's saying with the pro-choice people who say that you can't be pro-life unless you agree with them on the death penalty, animal cruelty, etc.

10:27: "Are you saying I have to become a Democrat in order to have pro-life views?"

16:00: Why people in black churches are distrustful of Gary as soon as he calls himself "pro-life".

20:53: How the old way of responding to "you're only pro-life if you do X" doesn't work anymore.

25:15: What should white conservatives take from Black Lives Matter and what should they not?

30:39: How the church could have possibly made Black Lives Matter irrelevant.

35:35: What could both the white church and black church have done better after George Floyd was killed?

Josh and Emily went live last Friday with Lauren Handy and Terrisa Bukovinac from Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) to discuss the story people around the world are talking about, and get answers to the questions everybody is asking.

Lauren and Terrisa were incredibly open and shared a lot of information that hasn't been released before. If you want the most extensive interview and discussion of this story, then this is where you can get it.

CONTENT WARNING: This is the most somber discussion we've ever put out. There is no way to talk about this situation without it being graphic and disturbing, and frankly, it would be inappropriate to try to gloss over the difficult parts of this story. Beyond descriptions of what was found, we played a four-minute video that PAAU created (with their permission) for the press conference. Josh broke down multiple times during this live stream, commenting that it's the worst video he's ever seen. If you have a personal history with abortion, please consider whether it would be healthy for you to watch or listen to this one.

Chapters:

00:00: Introduction

19:58: Lauren and Terrisa share their story

36:29: GRAPHIC video

42:00: Josh asks questions

1:44:13: Emily responds to other pro-choice assertions, five takeaways, and Q&A

This is the first of a three-part series of conversations with Josh and Gary Freeman, a former guest on our podcast. In this episode they discuss Gary's new ministry, on relationships being key to white and black people understanding each other better, as well as the need to serve people well in spite of cultural differences.

Learn more about Major League Dad here: https://www.MajorLeagueDad.org

Chapters:

05:02 Why Gary is choosing to focus his ministry on local needs, instead of national work

9:59 Setting the stage for this episode

13:07 Where Gary is politically

17:24 Where Josh is politically

20:55 Why does there have to be a "black church"?

33:12 On white and black people understanding each other more through relationship

48:04 On the need to serve people well in spite of cultural differences

Josh's speech on relational apologetics: https://youtu.be/ndO3nByqVrM

While at our AirBnb in Washington, D.C. we filmed a set of podcasts with Emily, Jacob, and Meredith Maloley. Meredith helped Emily run the pro-life club at St. Olaf, and now volunteers as an ERI Club Coach and works at a Pregnancy Resource Center.

In this episode they discuss the most common myths that organizations like NARAL and Planned Parenthood spread about pregnancy centers. They then finish by talking about the most helpful (and least helpful) things pro-lifers can do to help PRCs.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

2:02: Myth #1: Pregnancy centers are fake medical clinics

7:12: Myth #2: PRC's coerce or manipulate women into not having abortions

20:42: Myth #3: PRC's are only pro-birth

28:58: What is actually helpful for the average pro-lifer to do for a PRC, and what should they not do?

While at our AirBnb in Washington, D.C. we filmed a set of podcasts with Emily, Jacob, and Meredith Maloley. Meredith helped Emily run the pro-life club at St. Olaf, and now volunteers as an ERI Club Coach and works at a Pregnancy Resource Center.

In this episode they discuss what pro-life advocates ought to know about how PRC's work behind the scenes, Meredith's journey from ERI-style college dialogues to counseling at a PRC, and comparing and contrasting her methods with Jacobs.

Learn more about Jacob's techniques with the Sidewalk Counseling Masterclass!

Jacob interviews Missy Stone, CEO of Reprotection, a new organization that helps pro-life advocates protect women and children from harm by investigating and closing down dangerous abortion providers. In this interview you will learn about how Reprotection works, the many government agencies that regulate abortion facilities, a few crazy stories, and how to get information to Reprotection so they can do what they do best while you stay focused on sidewalk counseling.

Chapters:

00:00 Introducing Missy and Reprotection

14:52 Why clinics are often poorly maintained and run by sub-optimal doctors

17:42 What Reprotection does

21:57 The government agencies involved in regulating abortion facilities and why bad reports are sometimes ignored

30:49 A success story

38:00 A horror story from Florida

58:54 How you can send tips to Reprotection and what they're looking for

1:08:05 Why Reprotection was launched after initial testing

Learn more about Reprotection at: https://Reprotection.org

Contact Reprotection at [email protected]

Josh Brahm shares why the podcast was on hiatus for three months, our surprising success on TikTok, and the top 5 videos, podcasts, and articles of 2021.

Chapters:

00:00: Intro and why we haven't published podcasts lately 05:35: Surprisingly fast success on TikTok! 08:22: Top 5 videos of 2021 13:30: Top 5 podcasts of 2021 17:35: Top 5 articles of 2021 21:22: Top 3 legacy articles read during 2021 24:56: Equipped for Life Academy plans

Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@equalrightsinstitute

Top five videos of 2021:

1: Integrity, Hypocrisy, and Witness: Learning from the Failures of Ravi Zacharias: https://youtu.be/siCmqKtoR0o

2: Unpacking Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman's Pro-Choice Arguments: https://youtu.be/Jut3puiZwCU

3: Pastors, You Can Reduce Abortions in Your Church | Pro-Life Theology in Practice: https://youtu.be/szw8ASoUZGw

4: The Supreme Court Abortion Case: Your Questions, Answered: https://youtu.be/Wxt4AhbUfjc

5: Sealioning: The Fastest Way to Shut Down Dialogue: https://youtu.be/BoZ3YYJryrQ

Top five podcasts of 2021

1: AHA: The Anti-Abortionists Who Fight Other Pro-Lifers (with Jonathon Van Maren - Part 1): https://youtu.be/0SvNYXQqvuM

2: REPLAY: The Supreme Court Abortion Case: Your Questions, Answered: https://youtu.be/Wxt4AhbUfjc

3: A Comedian Shares Tips for Using Humor in Dialogue: https://youtu.be/QVY-Fx8DTbM

4: AHA Fails to Understand Pro-Life History (with Jonathon Van Maren - Part 2): https://youtu.be/5BwphTDXnOk

5: Muslim Intellectual Debunks Pro-Choice Islamic Scholars (with Dr. Javad Hashmi): https://youtu.be/4DKXWOKhjeE

Top five articles of 2021:

1: Refuting Pro-Choice Memes (two new categories and some additional images): http://bit.ly/2K35CZJ

2: The Texas Heartbeat Law: An Overview: https://bit.ly/3zHhdUv

3: Abolitionists Are Going to Get People Killed, and the SBC Just Helped Them: https://bit.ly/3h8t6Lh

4: Fine-Tuning the Responsibility Objection: A Reply to David Boonin: https://bit.ly/3g1Sd33

5: Sealioning: The Fastest Way to Shut Down Dialogue https://bit.ly/3lQ7TYf

Top 3 legacy articles:

1: Is Abortion 14 Times Safer Than Childbirth? http://bit.ly/32AyyyC

2: Ben Shapiro's Response to Abortion in the Case of Rape: http://bit.ly/2r1zQzG

3: Our Experience at the OMSI Prenatal Exhibit Displaying Real Preserved Children: http://bit.ly/2rTRQw8

ERI's Mission, Vision, and Values: https://EqualRightsInstitute.com/mission-vision-values

Help make the Equipped for Life Academy possible: https://EqualRightsInstitute.com/donate

Josh Brahm and Emily Albrecht discuss pull the curtain back and talk about what ERI has done in the last year before announcing our biggest project of 2022! Finally we take questions from the live viewers. Thanks to apologist Tim Hull for hosting the live stream!

Help us reach our goal and make next year's project a reality at https://EqualRightsInstitute.com/Donate.

Thank you so much!

Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization is widely considered to be the most important Supreme Court Case on abortion in nearly three decades. We want you to understand what's happening in real-time and equip you with tools to discuss it effectively. ERI staff members Josh Brahm, Andrew Kaake, and Emily Albrecht listened live to the oral arguments, and went live the next evening to share their perspectives and answer your questions! This is the case everyone will be talking about, so prepare yourself to have productive dialogues about it!

Thanks to Tim Hull for hosting the live stream!

Links Mentioned:

Bookmark this fetal pain study!

More on the amazing story behind this study at this great post from Secular Pro-Life

ERI Blog - Arguing From Equality: The Personhood of Human Embryos

Here's a landing page with lots of resources from ERI on responding to bodily autonomy arguments: https://equalrightsinstitute.com/bodilyrights

ERI Blog - Pro-Lifers Aren't "Forcing" Women to Stay Pregnant

Quick Response #7: Banning Abortion Forces Women to Stay Pregnant

ERI Blog - Is Abortion 14 Times Safer Than Childbirth?

ERI Blog - Why Viability Is the Least Plausible Definition of Personhood

Stand to Reason Podcast - Tim Barnett with Josh Brahm: These Are the Best Arguments Against Abortion

In this episode Muslim intellectual Dr. Javad Hashmi refutes pro-choice arguments made by famous Islamic scholars.

Javad reacts to multiple videos in this episode, so to watch this episode on YouTube, click here: https://youtu.be/4DKXWOKhjeE Otherwise, there are links to everything he references in the description below.

Javad T. Hashmi is a board-certified emergency physician, former Fellow of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, and a PhD candidate in the Study of Religion (Islamic Studies) at Harvard University. In addition to his medical training, Dr. Hashmi holds a bachelor's and master's degree in Arabic & Islamic Studies from U.C. Berkeley and Harvard respectively.

Related Links:

Watch or listen to the first episode with Javad: https://bit.ly/3AWjGv3

AltMuslimah: "I am a Muslim Woman and I chose to Have an Abortion" https://bit.ly/2X39thw

Dr. Irving in International Journal of Scoiology and Social Policy: "When do Human Beings Begin? 'Scientific' Myths and Scientific Facts" https://bit.ly/3DyQR8H

The statistics on why women have abortions was quoted from Abort73.com/s U.S. Abortion Statistics page, which is quoting the Guttmacher Institute's 2004 survey of 1,209 post-abortive women https://bit.ly/3v7qbJ7 (Abort73) https://bit.ly/3DxJput (Guttmacher Survey Table - PDF)

Hamza Yusuf: "When Does a Human Fetus Become Human?" https://bit.ly/3BAPWnV

YouTube clip #1: Abortion in Islam | Animation https://youtu.be/B6iUY1kks-s

Dr. Omar Suleiman: Islam and the Abortion Debate: https://bit.ly/3lEPtvq

YouTube clip #2: Islamic Ruling On Abortion due to Medical Reasons https://youtu.be/yY6n7glG6Y0

YouTube clip #3: Is Abortion permissible in Islam or not? - Sheikh Assimalhakeem https://youtu.be/-Z6DygN6IJI

BeautifulIslam.net (South Asia article): Abortion and Doctor's Situation https://bit.ly/2YIAE1G

Islam Question & Answer: Ruling on aborting a pregnancy in the early stages https://bit.ly/2YSpLuv

YouTube clip #4: The Ruling on Abortion | Mufti Abu Layth https://youtu.be/SU9McOtBDT8

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice: Islam and Reproductive Choice https://bit.ly/3FUhJSO

ERI Bodily Rights landing page: https://EqualRightsInstitute.com/BodilyRights/

Follow Javad at https://twitter.com/DrJavadTHashmi

00:00 Introducing Javad

02:13 Muslim opinion polls on abortion

03:34 Javad's view vs. how Muslims typically think about abortion

06:35 Josh clarifies Javad's view

10:06 How science intersects with the abortion debate

10:45 Why women have abortions

13:09 Javad's more liberal views on women's rights within Islam

16:00 Wrapping up on statistics

17:02 Another pro-life Muslim scholar

18:22 Introducing YouTube clip #1

19:50 On Muslims believing the soul is breathed into the fetus at

120 days after conception

22:01 Next clip

22:09 On Muslim clerics not permitting abortion for financial reasons

25:04 Next clip

25:21 Muslim leaders sometimes say they are more pro-life than they actually are

26:23 Next clip

26:33 Responding to rape and fetal deformity exceptions

30:47 Next clip

31:13 More essentially pro-choice policies of Muslim clerics

31:52 Different Muslim views of ensoulment

36:59 Dr. Suleiman calls his position "neutral", but is it really?

39:12 Next clip (including setup)

40:59 On Muslim cleric's misrepresentation of Catholics on life of the mother exceptions

43:43 On common inconsistencies in Muslim's views on abortion

45:29 Responding to the viability argument

47:15 Javad on pointing Muslims toward Christian philosophy

47:49 Next clip

48:15 More inconsistency

48:30 Next clip

51:53 This Muslim cleric says that 80 days after conception matters!

54:26 Pro-choice issues from even conservative, traditionalist Muslims in South Asia

55:37 More pro-choice positions from a conservative Muslim website

56:58 Setting up clip from a "bad boy" liberal Muslim making weak pro-choice arguments

58:15 Next clip

1:00:36 Responding to "I'm not going to force my views on others" argument

1:02:27 Responding to "nobody chooses abortion lightly"

1:05:07 Next clip

1:08:04 Responding to the "gradations of life" idea

1:13:09 Quick reviews of other Muslim videos and articles

1:18:34 Bodily autonomy arguments

1:27:55 What caused Javad to begin reconsidering his views on abortion?

Host: Josh Brahm Guest: Dr. Javad T. Hashmi Audio/Video Editor: Chapter One Films & Josh Brahm Publisher: Jen Westmoreland