Pro-Life 101: A Step-by-Step Guide to Making Your Case Persuasively [Paperback]

Scott Klusendorf (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 13, 2002

Don't take a beating the next time you mention abortion. This book gives you a complete presentation you can use to reach family and friends. You get answers to three vitally important questions:

1. How do I simplify the abortion issue for those who think it's complex?

2. How do I defend the pro-life view scientifically and philosophically?

3. How do I refute five common objections to the pro-life view?

Editorial Reviews

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I studied Scott's material and can assert with full confidence that he is among the best pro-life presenters. -- Fr. Frank Pavone, Priests for Life

Pro-Life 101 enabled me to share the pro-life message numerous times over to other people, young and old. -- Stephanie Gray, student, University of British Columbia

What is a young pro-lifer to do? Just watch Scott Klusendorf. -- Scott DeNicola, Focus on the Family Citizen Magazine

About the Author

Scott Klusendorf is Director of Bio-Ethics for Stand to Reason and a nationally-known speaker and debater. Scott travels throughout the United States and Canada training pro-life apologists to graciously and incisively make a defense for the lives of the unborn. Scott is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of UCLA.

Product Details

• Paperback: 69 pages
• Publisher: Stand to Reason Press (February 13, 2002)
• ISBN-10: 1930836066
• ISBN-13: 978-1930836068
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #394,536 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #72 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Nonfiction > Women's Studies > General

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Prepares pro-lifers for intellectual combat, June 17, 2002

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Alo H. Konsen (North Ridgeville, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pro-Life 101: A Step-by-Step Guide to Making Your Case Persuasively (Paperback)

Klusendorf deserves high praise for his laser-sharp focus, clear thinking, and brevity. He hammers home the key question about the unborn ("What is it?"), which clarifies every other issue in the abortion controversy. In 69 footnoted pages Klusendorf simplifies the abortion issue for those who think it's complex, scientifically and philosophically builds the case for the rights of the unborn, refutes five common objections to the pro-life view, and suggests ways to help a friend through a crisis pregnancy. As a wrap-up he collects the best resources for further reading in just two pages.

Before you send your sons and daughters off to school, give them this book to prepare them for the "intellectual" attacks of the pro-choicers.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Defines the Real Issue, June 5, 2002

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Steven E. Weimar (Colorado Springs, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pro-Life 101: A Step-by-Step Guide to Making Your Case Persuasively (Paperback)

While other pro-life books answer the socio-economic arguments presented by the pro-choice side of the issue, Scott Klusendorf convincingly defines the moral issue as resting on only one question, "What is It?". The popular pro-choice position revolves around individual rights and the avoidance of hardships, yet these arguments are irrelevant to the moral issue.

Scott also exposes the faulty logic used by the pro-choice side, such as begging the question by assuming the fetus isn't a person and by leveling personal attacks at pro-lifers, rather than presenting sound arguments for the pro-choice position.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just what the teacher ordered, March 11, 2002

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John Hof (Langley, BC Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pro-Life 101: A Step-by-Step Guide to Making Your Case Persuasively (Paperback)

Pro-life 101 is just what the teacher ordered. The release of 101 is wonderful news for educators who truly care for their students. It uses simple logic to bring about discussion of a very difficult subject. Any teacher can bring Pro-life 101 into a classroom and engage the students in fair, unbiased and stimulated dicussion on abortion.

Away from the rhetoric and name calling this issue usally brings with it, students come away from a session of pro-life 101 with an unbiased informed conscience. Mr. Klusendorf has captured a moment in time and stepped back from the abortion wars to objectively look at where we stand as individuals, as a people and even as a society.

His work promises to provide fodder for the continued debate about how we should live. Rather than simply giving all his reasons for being opposed to abortion, he analitically disects the Pro-Choice position, ultimatley asking them to answer his questions.

I reccomend Pro-life 101 to everyone truly interested in stepping back objectively from the debate over abortion. Rather than having your opinion shaped by ranting raving and media bias, look at the facts. Get Pro-life 101.

John Hof