Pro-Life Thinking

Clinton and Nathan interview Eric Sheidler about his late father, Joe, in this tribute to a pro-life legend.

Pro-Life pioneer, Joe Scheidler, passed away last week. Clinton and Nathan are joined by Eric Scheidler to discuss the legacy his father leaves behind and how Joe paved the way for pro-life activism today.

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Books mentioned on the podcast:

Abandoned: The Untold Story of the Abortion Wars by Monica Migliorino Miller

Closed: 99 Ways to End Abortion by Joe Scheidler

Racketeer for Life: Fighting the Culture of Death from the Sidewalk to the Supreme Court by Joe Scheidler

Clinton is joined by Stacy Trasancos to talk about medical research involving human fetuses. Most of us are aware that fetal cells are often used in the development of vaccines, but there are other ways fetuses are used which pro-life people need to be aware of.

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Clinton and Nathan discuss a recent paper published in Journal of Medical Ethics by Nick Colgrove, Daniel Rodger, and Bruce Blackshaw regarding whether or not pro-lifers are hypocrites and whether or not it matters in the grand scheme of arguments about abortion.

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The paper we're discussing is Prolife hypocrisy: why inconsistency arguments do not matter, : Colgrove N, Blackshaw BP, Rodger D. J Med Ethics. doi:10.1136/ medethics-2020-106633

Clinton and Nathan are joined by Rebekah Dyer of Justice for All to talk about good tips for discussing abortion with pro-choice people. There's also a bit of a technical issue. For some reason, extracting the audio has cut off the end of the past few broadcasts. I'm working on seeing why that happens to avoid it in the future. Subscribe to our Facebook channel for upcoming exclusive content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM2T5lvj5Do&ab_channel=Pro-LifeThinking

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Books mentioned on this podcast:

Scott Klusendorf, The Case for Life

Trent Horn, Persuasive Pro-Life

Greg Koukl, Tactics

Clinton and Nathan interview Emily and Nathan Berning of Let Them Live, a virtual pregnancy resource center that reaches out to women considering abortion and offers them resources.

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The coronavirus vaccine is among us but reports are that at least some of the vaccines developed used cell lines derived from aborted fetuses decades ago. Clinton and Nathan discuss the ethics of taking these vaccines with bioethicist Dr. Helen Watt of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre in Oxford, England.

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Books mentioned in this podcast:

The Ethics of Pregnancy, Abortion, and Childbirth by Helen Watt

Clinton and Nathan discuss items in the news. Topics for discussion:

-- Famous pro-choice philosopher, Judith Jarvis Thomson, has passed away.

--Human meat being grown for human consumption.

--An elderly woman in Canada was euthanized to avoid the trauma of isolation by being locked away inside her room for two weeks due to coronavirus.

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Books mentions on the podcast:

Disputes in Bioethics by Christopher Kaczor

Visions of the Anointed by Thomas Sowell

Clinton and Nathan discuss some items in the news related to bioethics.

Topics for discussion:

-Pfizer has announced a coronavirus vaccine which is 90% effective. Pro-life people are concerned about the use of aborted fetal cells.

-Poland is a generally pro-life country but recently outlawed abortions for fetal disability, which pro-choice advocates are not happy about.

-The election is still up in the air but Joe Biden has announced bringing in Ezekiel Emanuel to his coronavirus task force, an ethicist who believes life over 75 is not worth living.

-UC Berkeley disavows its eugenic research.

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Clinton and Nathan interview Hendrik van der Breggen on his recently published book, Untangling Pro-Choice Arguments.

You can find a link to a post on Hendrik's blog about his book here: https://apologiabyhendrikvanderbreggen.blogspot.com/2020/12/untangling-popular-pro-choice-arguments.html?fbclid=IwAR3D5DJZET_TDY92jqVm2m3o_mnjjki1vEEW3ITvWVWWS-McRLmzlftU9Ns

Clinton responds to the remaining eight Biblical arguments against the sanctity of human life that were left on a review of the podcast.