As a pro-life advocate, I’ve long been frustrated with not having a central “bank” with regard to arguments and evidence to “point” to. I’ve often re-written the same arguments to different people with little change, because the abortion-choice arguments come down to very few viewpoints, most of which have to deny the humanity of the unborn.<\/p>\n
I’d really like to see something similar to what Michael Speilman<\/a> did at Abort73.com<\/a> in providing the pro-life case, except putting each argument on a single page where both sides are represented, along with relevant evidence photos or references. I’d also like to display the dry syllogistic argument in a form that would point out the error.<\/p>\n Francis Beckwith<\/a> did a great job in his book “Defending Life”<\/a> by providing an almost exhaustive treatment of each abortion argument. I kind of envision what he did as a hyperlinked argument that you could “drill” down into and supplemented by media support.<\/p>\n Then when you encounter abortion arguments you can identify it as one on an argument page and send the abortion-choice advocate there with a pre-made link.<\/p>\n Such a pro-life case site would would serve several purposes:<\/p>\n 1. Provide a single comprehensive educational point of reference for pro-life advocates. The long term goal is to educate an enormous body of pro-life advocates who thoroughly, lovingly, gracefully and devastatingly wield their material, such that opposing the pro-life position would be considered foolish, selfish and shameful.<\/p>\n What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a pro-life advocate, I’ve long been frustrated with not having a central “bank” with regard to arguments and evidence to “point” to. I’ve often re-written the same arguments to different people with little change, because the abortion-choice arguments come … Continue reading
\n2. Provide best of class arguments for the pro-life position.
\n3. Be able to interlink a web of material. Think wiki, but more finely grained.
\n4. Provide explanations why abortion choice advocates hold a particular view.
\n5. Invite abortion choicers a place to try to shoot holes into the case for life.<\/p>\n