First published July 11, 2011
I’ve been telling you about a conversation I had with a friend. The “ProLife” conversation is probably one of the most important ones that we should be able to have. But, most of us do not have the facts or the confidence to do so. So, here’s part 4 of that conversation. But first, you should read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3.
She was thinking about this now. Perhaps she had run out of arguments. I continued, “So? you wouldn’t kill a disabled person, even if they had no clue about who they were or their surroundings. You wouldn’t kill a new-born baby, even if it was severely disabled, or even if his father was the guy who raped you. You wouldn’t kill a Siamese twin because it’s attached to somebody else and you wouldn’t kill someone who is dependent on someone else…but you would have an abortion.”
“Not necessarily”, she said quietly.
“But you think that it’s okay for someone else to have one.”
“If they want to.”
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First published July 4, 2011
Last time, and the time before, I was telling you about a conversation I had with a friend. The “Pro Life” conversation is probably one of the most important ones that we should be able to have. But, most of us do not have the facts or the confidence to do so. So, here’s part three of that conversation: 
Then I asked, “So it’s alive and human, but not a life?”
Silence. She was thinking about it too. I continued, “But it’s not a human person?”
“No”, she answered.
“Why not?”
“Because it’s inside the woman.”
“And so, is it your environment that determines whether you are human person or not?”
“Yes.” She said without thinking.
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First published June 21, 2011
Last time I was telling you about a conversation I had with a friend. The “Pro Life” conversation is probably one of the most important ones that we should be able to have. But, most of us do not have the facts or the confidence to do so. So, here’s part 2 of that conversation. 
“Would you have an abortion?” I asked.
“If I was raped I would.”
“Ok. I got that. If you weren’t raped. If your contraception failed, would you have an abortion?”
“I don’t know. It depends on the circumstances.”
“Like what?”
“I don’t know? if I am married or not, if I’m in school, if I have money?”
“So you would have an abortion if having the baby would be an inconvenience?”
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First Published June 9, 2011
Last week I also spoke to Michael Coren on S+L Radio about his new book Why Catholics Are Right. We spoke about all those things that people who really don’t know anything about Church always challenge us about. And since then I’ve been thinking a lot about how we need to be able to have certain conversations – about our Faith, about our beliefs, and to have the “Pro-Life” conversation is probably one of the most important ones. But, most of us do not have the facts or the confidence to do so. So, let me tell you about a conversation I recently had with a close friend I grew up with.
“I think that a woman can do whatever she wants with her body”, she said to me, quite agitated. (We had been at it for a bit already.)
“But, that’s not what the issue is,” I retorted.
“What’s the issue then?”
“It’s whether the fetus is a human being or not.”
Ignoring this last comment, she pressed on, “If abortions where illegal, think of all the women who would die trying to get abortions in unsanitary conditions.”
“That’s just completely irrational.” Now I was beginning to get agitated myself. “That’s like saying we need to make crimes legal so that the people committing them don’t get killed or hurt other people.”
She started to interrupt. But I continued, “It’s like saying, ‘let’s make suicide-bombings legal and safe so that the suicide bomber doesn’t hurt other people.’”
“Oh, c’mon!” she yelled, “What does that have to do with anything? Suicide-bombings kill people.”
“So do abortions.”
“A fetus is not a human being.”
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