#67: AHA Fails to Understand Pro-Life History (with Jonathon Van Maren - Part 2)

Jonathon Van Maren joins the podcast for the second part of a discussion on what is going on with a hostile anti-abortion group called Abolish Human Abortion (AHA). In this episode, Jonathon discusses the history of the pro-life movement and why it needs to be understood, AHA's "Free the States" strategy, and what pro-life organizations and sidewalk counselors should do about them.

Related Links:

Jonathon Van Maren: How “Abolish Human Abortion” Gets History Wrong - Part 1

Jonathon Van Maren: How “Abolish Human Abortion” Gets History Wrong Again - Part 2

ERI Podcast: "Should Women be Prosecuted if Abortion Becomes Illegal?"

"Defenders of the Unborn" by Dr. Daniel K. Williams

"Abortion Rites" by Marvin Olasky

"Operation Rescue" by Randall Terry

"Wrath of Angels: The American Abortion War" by Jim Risen & Judy Thomas

Debate: Pro-Life Incrementalism vs Abolitionist Immediatism (Gregg Cunningham vs. T. Russell Hunter)

If you want to see Abolish Human Abolition's account of who they are to assess it on its own terms, read "The Five Tenets of Abolitionism" on the AHA webpage

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

04:12 Understanding the history of the pro-life movement

12:50 Why didn't the rescue movement succeed?

19:30 Will simply calling abortion "murder" end it?

20:17 Why the pro-life movement needs to understand it's own history

21:37 Is Jonathon doing the same thing as AHA does by critiquing them?

24:25 Would their "Free the States" strategy work?

28:48 Does AHA support throwing aborting women in jail?

36:28 How AHA's strategy seems defined by being simplistic

41:26 Reacting to Hunter exclaiming how sick he is of abortion

43:02 What should sidewalk counselors do when "abolitionists" are preventing them from saving babies?

54:03 Should pro-life organizations distance themselves from AHA?

Jonathon Van Maren is the Communications Director for the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform. His writings have been translated into more than six languages, and published in the National Post, National Review, First Things, The European Conservative, The Federalist, The American Conservative, The Stream, the Jewish Independent, the Hamilton Spectator, Reformed Perspective Magazine, among others. His insights have been featured on CTV, Global News, and the CBC, as well as over twenty radio stations. He regularly speaks on a variety of social issues at universities, high schools, churches, and other functions in Canada, the United States, and Europe.

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