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

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

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

And today I want to give a quick response to a video on TikTok that Thomas, our social

media manager, Catholic Answers, shared with me.

As we talk more about pro-life issues, ever since Dobbs versus Jackson, people have been

talking about abortion more than I have ever experienced in my 20 years as a pro-life

advocate.

I started doing pro-life advocacy when I was 18 years old.

I was still in college.

I would do fundraisers for the local pregnancy center at my high school.

I chose abortion actually as my persuasive speech topic in community college.

I remember actually that my professor for the speech, the speaking class said, okay,

you can't, and I had this lot actually with professors.

They would say you could write a research paper, but you can't do abortion as a topic,

or you can do a public speech, but you can't do abortion as your speech topic.

I always thought that was fascinating.

That was the one particular topic they did not want to hear about.

I'm not sure why.

I mean, maybe some of them were post-abortive and they just didn't want to hear about

the subject.

Because I always felt like that served the pro-choice people actually, because if you just

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