Have you ever talked about the issue of abortion and lost your cool or felt like the conversation wasn't going anywhere?

Today is the commemoration of Roe versus Wade, and so I thought it'd be helpful to model for you how to have these difficult conversations by using real conversations

that I've had on Catholic Answers Live.

So in the first conversation you'll see how to engage someone on the issue of abortion

who is really not open to changing his mind. And in the second

conversation all model how to engage a person who truly is open to changing their mind

and receiving the Gospel of Life. Our first caller is pro-choice because he doesn't know when life begins.

Ed, thank you very much for the call. Why are you pro-choice?

Because I do not believe that life begins at conception.

All righty.

Ed, when do you think the life of an individual human being begins?

Well, technically, when it's born, as an out of the womb, but that doesn't necessarily, I mean, I believe that abortion should be allowed

up until the moment, you know, at like nine months or something like that.

Okay, why do you think, so before the child is born, would you agree there's a human, there's a human fetus inside of the mother's body before the child is

born correct? What is a human fetus?

It is the potential to be a life human being if it comes to full gestation and development.

Okay, well, a potential... station and development.

Okay, well, a potential X is always an actual Y.

So if I say that a bachelor is a potential husband, what that means is he's an actual unmarried man.

So I didn't ask what it potentially could be.

Tell me what is a human fetus, what is that thing now?

To me, it's not a baby, that's for sure, and it's not a baby that's for sure and it is it is it is a

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