Bill Pratt | November 25, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Please spend 10 minutes watching this talk by Alexander Tsiaras where he takes the audience through a visualization of the growth of a human being from conception to birth. It is truly amazing!
Category: Abortion, Science and God |
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Tags: Alexander Tsiaras, TED, visualization of conception to birth
Bill Pratt | November 15, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Immanuel Kant is a famous philosopher who lived in the eighteenth century. One of Kant’s most lasting contributions to philosophy was in the field of ethics. He believed that moral laws could be derived from reason, and that all immoral behavior was, therefore, unreasonable or irrational. Kant argued for the idea of [...]
Category: Abortion, Philosophy |
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Tags: categorical imperative, ethics, Immanuel Kant
Bill Pratt | November 2, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt According to Dr. Wendy Savage of Doctors For A Woman’s Choice On Abortion, on a recent edition of Unbelievable?, the reason that abortion should be legal is: Women, throughout recorded history, have always wanted to be able to have abortions. Women will procure abortions whether they are legal or not. Illegal [...]
Category: Abortion |
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Tags: Madeleine Flannagan, Unbelievable podcast, Wendy Savage
Bill Pratt | October 19, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Almost one year ago, I wrote a short blog post asking our readers to sign a document called the Manhattan Declaration. Why am I back again asking you to sign? Because we need more of you to participate. So far, the declaration has gathered 476,000 signatures – impressive, but not enough. [...]
Category: Abortion, Gay Marriage, Marriage, Morality, Religion |
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Tags: Abortion, Freedom of religion, Gay Marriage, Manhattan Declaration, Marriage, religious freedom
Bill Pratt | January 13, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt So we’ve seen that the Bible does teach that some sins are more serious than others and that some virtues are greater than others. There is a moral law hierarchy. But what does this practically mean? First, let’s look at debates over public policy. When determining where to focus your efforts [...]
Category: Abortion, Faith and Works, Morality, Sin, Theology |
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Tags: adultery, apostle Paul, global warming, gossip, heavenly rewards, moral hierarchy, moral law, rewards, Sin
Bill Pratt | November 25, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Recently, a group of 152 Christian leaders from Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism came together to sign a declaration that states in clear terms Christian support for the sanctity of life, traditional marriage, and religious freedom – all of which are under attack in the United States and around the [...]
Category: Abortion, Gay Marriage, Morality, Religion |
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Tags: Abortion, Gay Marriage, Manhattan Declaration, religious freedom
Bill Pratt | June 29, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt Incredibly, this was the sage advice of a writer who showered us with his wisdom in the letters to the editor section in our local newspaper. I rarely read the letters to the editor, because they almost never say anything of substance, but in a moment of weakness, I read them [...]
Category: Abortion |
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Tags: Abortion, ethics, moral law, Morality, pro-choice, pro-life
Bill Pratt | June 6, 2009
Recently, late-term abortionist George Tiller was gunned down by an abortion opponent. Truth be told, many in the pro-life community have a hard time feeling sorry for a man who ended so many thousands of innocent lives, but still we know that his murder was morally wrong. A crucial question is this: If Dr. Tiller [...]
Category: Abortion |
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Tags: Abortion, George Tiller, murder of George Tiller, pro-choice, pro-life
Bill Pratt | May 16, 2009
Encouraging news from a recent survey of Americans on the issue of abortion. A new Gallup Poll, conducted May 7-10, finds 51% of Americans calling themselves “pro-life” on the issue of abortion and 42% “pro-choice.” This is the first time a majority of U.S. adults have identified themselves as pro-life since Gallup began asking this [...]
Category: Abortion |
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Bill Pratt | February 10, 2009
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You will not believe how well this seventh grader defends the pro-life position. Her speech is truly amazing. For those of you who are pro-life and have trouble articulating your position, you could learn a lot from this child.
Category: Abortion |
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Tags: Abortion, apologetics