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The Seth Gruber Show

What Does It Mean To Be Pro-Life? | A Whole-Life vs Pro-Life Debate with Michael W. Austin

The Seth Gruber Show

Seth Gruber

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4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Must Pro-Lifers address more than just abortion in order to be truly pro-life? Does the term pro-life refer to more than just opposing abortion? Hosted by the Postmodern Realities podcast of The Christian Research Journal, Seth Gruber and Michael W. Austin debate these questions. Michael argues for the "whole-life" position maintaining that the pro-life movement must apply its beliefs to more than just abortion. Seth argues for the historical pro-life position, that ending the state-sanctioned slaughter of one-million babies a year is a large enough injustice to justify a single-minded focus. Directing operational resources away from saving children and ending abortion will only fragment and bankrupt a movement already underfund and understaffed.  For Seth's article on this topic - You're Not Really Pro-Life Unless... You Oppose Abortion. That's It!  --> https://tinyurl.com/y2xzgc3l For Mike's article on this topic - Pro-Life For All Human Life  -->https://tinyurl.com/y5qlp8f4 Date: 09/14/20 ___________________________________________________ To help UnAborted create more pro-life content and take our content to the streets, become a Patron of the show at https://www.patreon.com/unaborted To help Seth reach more high school and college students through pro-life presentations around the country, become a monthly supporter at https://prolifetraining.com/donate/

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0:00.0

Welcome to Unabordered with Seth Grouber. Thanks for tune in today.

0:03.6

Hey, did you know that Oscar Schindler wasn't really anti-Hollocaust?

0:07.4

Because after saving a thousand Jews from the Holocaust, he didn't do anything to

0:11.3

employ them or provide universal health care

0:13.5

afterwards. Did you know that the abolitionist movement wasn't really anti-slavery

0:17.4

because they only focused on freeing the slaves. They didn't provide social

0:21.3

benefits for plantation owners so that they would stop enslaving black people in the first place or address poverty during the 1860s.

0:29.0

Now clearly these critiques are absolutely ludicrous and disingenuous because we understand that it's a good thing

0:35.5

for movements that focus on justice to apply a narrow-minded focus to their goal so that they

0:42.3

maximize the likelihood that they'll accomplish

0:44.8

their goal and certainly because the Holocaust and slavery were the

0:48.2

dominant issues of their day it required its own movement to seek justice and its abolition.

0:55.7

Well the same is true today for the pro-life movement.

0:58.1

However, there's a new set of people within evangelicalism in the pro-life movement

1:02.6

that call themselves whole life proponents

1:04.7

or consistent life ethic proponents.

1:07.8

And their belief is that you can't really

1:10.1

be pro-life unless you're speaking out against every other form of injustice, unless you're

1:16.4

adopting responsibility for a whole cornucopia of other societal ills.

1:21.0

Now this may make you feel very good about yourself by saying I stand against all forms of

1:25.2

injustice but it's unreasonable for anyone to solve or end all forms of injustices.

1:30.9

This is why we have movements and organizations focused on just one.

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