Episode 16: Can You Be Pro-Life & Believe In Exceptions?

Episode Synopsis:

The hosts answer a listener’s question about ways to respond to the topic of life-threatening pregnancies in conversations; and they address exceptions in cases of rape, incest, life of the mother, and disabilities. This episode proves why you can’t be pro-life and support exceptions.

Episode Duration: 26 min

In This Episode We Discuss:

1. Greetings (00:26)
2. Listener Tom V asks about ethical ways to respond to life-threatening pregnancies (00:50)
3. The analogy to conjoined twins (4:18)
4. Babies with disabilities or disease (5:29)
5. Can you be pro-life and support exceptions? (6:19)
6. A pro-choice lawyer’s law review article reveals the danger of exceptions (8:47)
7. The pro-choice side uses difficult situations to justify selling abortions (10:24)
8. The soft-sell of eugenics (11:33)
9. How to hold the pro-choice side’s feet to the fire on exceptions (14:44)
10. Abortions to save tax dollars and the push for genetic testing (17:17)
11. How conversations over exceptions portray the unborn conceived in those situations as subhuman (20:16)
12. We are not God (23:23)
13. Closing Statements (24:25)

Links:

• Pro-Life Answers, By: Mark Crutcher
• Life Dynamics Report: Child Predators

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