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The Counsel of Trent

#457 – 5 Pro-life arguments you should avoid

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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In this episode Trent talks about five pro-life arguments you should avoid when trying to make the strongest defense of unborn children.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

0:07.0

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

0:12.5

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

0:16.1

I have now spent half of my life from age 18 to 36 defending the unborn.

0:23.4

I know there are people who have done it a lot longer than that people have been doing

0:26.6

it for 50 or 60 years.

0:29.0

God bless them for doing that.

0:30.6

But in that time, I've read a lot of books, had a lot of conversations, watched a lot

0:35.8

of conversations on the issue of abortion.

0:38.7

I've seen arguments that work well and others that are less effective.

0:43.6

In this episode, I want to talk about those arguments against abortion, those arguments

0:49.0

that people pro-lifers make in defense of the unborn that are not as strong.

0:54.2

Some of them actually have some serious logical flaws in them that a defender of legal abortion

1:00.5

can pounce on.

1:01.5

We don't want that to happen, right?

1:02.5

We always want the strongest arguments in defense of the truth, whether it's truth about

1:06.2

God, truth about Jesus Christ, about His church, or about our unborn brothers and sisters

1:11.8

who are at risk of being aborted.

1:13.6

Now the reason I want to talk about this today is because of a recent poll that came out

1:18.0

from the Gallup Polling Agency.

1:20.6

And people have tried to spin this poll saying that, oh, this shows that Americans support

1:26.4

abortion now and different people have reached all kinds of odd conclusions based on it.

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