For most of my life, I have been unabashedly and unflinchingly pro-choice. For many years, I saw abortion as little more than another form of birth control. Today, I am pro-life. What changed my mind? It wasn’t my conversion to Christianity. My position changed when I started to think carefully …
Read More »If It’s a Human at a Crime Scene, It’s a Human in the Womb
When I first started working as a police officer, DNA evidence was extremely rare. Criminalists, when processing crime scenes, relied far more on fingerprints to identify suspects than they did DNA. Over the years, forensic criminalists improved their ability to collect and process DNA evidence. Today, DNA evidence is commonplace. If I’ve got a piece of evidence at …
Read More »When Does God Identify “You” as “You”?
Life begins at the moment of conception. We know this to be true due to the unique genetic nature of every fetal human. I didn’t always accept this truth, however. In fact, for most of my life, I was pro-choice. I came to this realization about the nature of human …
Read More »Ab wann ist ein Embryo ein Mensch?
The More Science, the More Reasonable the Pro-Life Position Technologie ist der Freund jedes Kriminalbeamten. Sei es die DNA-Analyse, Fingerabdruckuntersuchung oder ganz einfach Videos, die den Täter überführen. Und dieselbe Technologie ist auch eine entscheidende Hilfe für die Pro-Life-Bewegung, findet J. Warner Wallace. Der Kriminalbeamte und Autor weiss, welche Fortschritte …
Read More »Stop Using the Term “Fetus”
Several years ago, I tweeted an article in LifeNews entitled “Three Terms Pro-Lifers Should Avoid That De-Humanize Unborn Babies.” The author, Kelsey Hazzard, made an excellent point about our use of words when arguing for the pro-life position. Hazzard argued that the terms, “first days/weeks/months of life”, “rapist’s child”, and …
Read More »Investigating the Evidence for the Pro-Life Position (Podcast)
In this podcast, J. Warner continues an examination of the pro-life arguments he used in his discussion with the atheist in last week’s podcast. Jim describes the SLED paradigm popularized by Scott Klusendorf of Life Training Institute and examines the Biblical position related to the status of the unborn. Subscribe …
Read More »Even Abortion Advocates Shy Away from the Truth About Elective Abortions
Mary Elizabeth Williams recently wrote an article for Salon.com entitled, “So What If Abortion Ends Life?” Her work created quite a stir because she took a position (as a an abortion advocate) acknowledging the point of conception as the beginning of life. Rather than argue that the fetal human is not a living human being, Williams said …
Read More »Do These Concerns Justify the Destruction of Fetal Humans?
Fetal humans become humans from the moment of conception (based on what we’ve learned from both science and Scripture). In addition to this, there are only four distinctions between fetal humans and humans of any other age (including toddlers). Given this foundation, it’s much easier to engage people on the typical justifications offered for the destruction of the …
Read More »The Death of a Fetal Human is Different Than the Death of a Dying Human
While hosting the Stand to Reason Radio Show, a caller asked me how to defend an objection related to abortion. A friend asked him how he could be comfortable ending the life of a person on life support, yet uncomfortable ending a life in the womb. He was asked to imagine the scenario of a dying man …
Read More »The Insignificant Differences Between Fetal Humans and Human Toddlers
If human life begins at the point of conception (as indicated by science and Scripture), are there any disqualifying differences between humans in the womb and humans outside the womb? Are fetal humans less human than toddlers? Is there status as human persons less certain? If so, why? Stephen Schwartz first identified four differences between fetal humans and …
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