The Equal Rights Institute Podcast

When the first Women’s March happened in 2017, Rachel was a senior in College. She was taking women’s studies classes, so she was surrounded by people who were promoting, organizing, and going to the Women’s March. She felt immersed in that culture, and it was a really interesting experience for her. This post, inspired by that experience, takes that Women’s March and pro-choice activism and looks at what pro-life advocates can learn from what they did right and discusses what we should do differ

This is a short clip from the Equipped for Life Podcast, available to everyone who purchases the Equipped for Life Course. In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course Podcast, Rachel interviews Lori Navrodtzke, a Pregnancy Resource Center counselor and Justice For All volunteer, about how to dialogue with people about abortion if they’ve already had one.

At the 2018 Students for Life of America Conference, Timothy Brahm gave a never-before-heard speech on social media dialogue. After the presentation, Tim answered some questions from the audience along with Josh Tijerina from Halcyon, another social media presenter at the conference who presented before Tim did.

This is a short clip from the Equipped for Life Podcast, available to everyone who purchases the Equipped for Life Course. In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course Podcast, Josh, Tim, and Rachel finish the six-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. They give 7 more practical tips on argumentation. In these clips, the team gives 2 tips for how to use sources or research studies in online conversations.

This is the last in a series of three pieces that Josh wrote on the topic of fetus tunnel vision. The first piece defines fetus tunnel vision and gives four arguments for why pro-life people should not have it. The second responds to some concerns and complaints about the piece. And this third piece addresses more questions.

This is a short clip from the Equipped for Life Podcast, available to everyone who purchases the Equipped for Life Course. In this episode, Josh, Tim, and Rachel continue a multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. They give 9 more practical tips. In this clip, the team discusses the sometimes unseen dynamics at play in a conversation and how this should affect our approach.

Josh walks around a botanical garden in Denmark and shares about what's been going on behind the scenes at ERI lately.

The previous audio blog, “Fetus Tunnel Vision: 4 Reasons Pro-Lifers Need to Stop Doing This,” was a relatively controversial piece that Josh wrote about 5 years ago. Some people loved it, some hated it, and some had really good questions. Josh ended up writing 2 follow-up pieces responding to the concerns and questions he was seeing as he publicly engaged people on this issue. This is the first.

This is a short clip from the Equipped for Life Podcast, available to everyone who purchases the Equipped for Life Course. In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course Podcast, Josh, Tim, and Rachel continue a multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. They give 12 more practical tips. In this clip, Josh introduces an idea from game theory, Rapoport’s rules. He talks about the value of the third rule: recognize when the other person teaches you something.

Here at ERI we like to help pro-life people not be weird. About 5 years ago, a Students for Life staff person reached out to Josh asking for an example of a weird thing pro-life people do. The first thing that came to his mind was what we call fetus tunnel vision. This was something Josh had been thinking about for years. For example, pro-life people often compare 9/11 to abortion. This article and the following in the series explain why this is a bad idea.

This is a short clip from the Equipped for Life Podcast, available to everyone who purchases the Equipped for Life Course. In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course, Josh, Tim, and Rachel continue a multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. In this episode, they begin a series of 35 practical tips in five categories.

Many conversations about abortion succeed or fail because of your rapport, or lack thereof, with the pro-choice person. This piece gives a kind of interesting dialogue tip that has made a huge difference in building rapport in Tim's conversations. He didn’t even notice it was significant until Rachel pointed it out.

This is a short clip from the Equipped for Life Podcast, available to everyone who purchases the Equipped for Life Course. In this episode of the Equipped for Life Course, Josh, Tim, and Rachel continue a multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. Tim discusses virtue-signaling. What is it? Are there different types? Are some of them actually okay? And when is it a valid or helpful accusation?

“My body, my choice” is possibly the most common slogan in defense of abortion right now, and an embarrassing number of pro-life people completely misunderstand it. This misunderstanding is so common, and it is so destructive. For Tim, and the rest of the team at ERI, it is a point of particular frustration. This piece is a response to a particular meme that completely misunderstands bodily rights arguments, and is therefore really harmful to the pro-life cause. Please stop sharing it.

This is a short clip from the Equipped for Life Podcast, available to everyone who purchases the Equipped for Life Course. In this episode, Josh, Tim, and Rachel begin a multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. They begin the series by talking about some of the obstacles that often prevent good dialogue from happening on social media, like image management. In this clip, Tim introduces the idea of image management in public conversation online.