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.

Today I'll be examining how Michael Knowles from the Daily Wire defends the pro-life position

by examining some of his dialogues and appearances in other podcasts.

But before we do that, if you want to help us catch up to the Daily Wire when it comes to influencing a lot of people and helping our culture,

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So I want to begin by saying that this episode is not an attack on Michael Knowles or even a heavy criticism of him.

I agree with many things that he says, though there are positions and approaches that he takes that I also disagree with.

I also recognize that Knowles discusses a wide variety of issues, so nobody can be an expert on everything.

I'm not expecting him to have an expert grasp of the pro-life worldview.

Finally, I know that in a live setting, like a dialogue, you don't always phrase things exactly as you'd like to.

I've been in that situation myself many times.

So all that put together, please don't consider this episode a slam on Michael Knowles.

In general, he does a very good job of presenting the pro-life worldview.

And for the purpose of this episode, we'll examine clips from a conversation he had with a pro-choice medical student,

and a recent conversation he had with a group of mostly pro-choice women on the whatever podcast.

The goal in this episode is to point out a few things that Knowles does when talking about abortion, that can be improved.

And I'm doing that in order to benefit everyone who listens to him and to provide some helpful advice when people listen to him and see this when they encounter these same talking points in their own conversations.

But first, I want to commend Knowles for getting to the root of the abortion controversy.

In his dialogues, he's very good at stripping away the metaphors and euphemisms that pro-choice advocates often rely on.

Take a look.

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