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Persuasive Pro Life: How to Talk about Our Culture's Toughest Issue 1st Edition Paperback – September 28, 2014

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** SEE NEWER SECOND EDITION NOW AVAILABLE *** Are you scared to talk about abortion? Don t worry almost everyone is. Either we think the subject is too impolite, or we don t want to be branded an intolerant fanatic, or we re afraid we won t represent the pro-life side well enough. Whatever the reason for this fear, it causes many of us pass up opportunities to speak out on behalf of the unborn. You can overcome this fear, says Trent Horn in his new book Persuasive Pro-Life. With a little knowledge and a few proven techniques, you can become a bold and effective apologist for life. Drawing on over a decade as a pro-life organizer, Horn helps you cut through the diversions and obfuscations of the pro-choice side in order to accurately frame the legal, historical, and medical issue surrounding abortion. Then he demonstrates with vivid personal examples from his years of campus activism the importance of being charitable in all abortion debates, no matter how strident the other side might be. We must be not just warriors for the pro-life cause, he says, but ambassadors for it. Then Horn leads you a guided tour of the many types of pro-abortion opponent or inquirer ( the pragmatist, the skeptic, the conflicted ) along with more real-life examples. In each case he teaches you specific approaches what to say, what not to say, and how to bear yourself that are custom-tailored to every situation. The struggle over abortion has never been hotter, and the stakes could not be higher. Read Persuasive Pro-Life today and never again be afraid to speak up for the precious and fundamental right to life.

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Although the Catholic Church defends the sanctity of human life, many Catholics are ill-equipped to discuss the issue of abortion in a way that is persuasive to those who disagree with the Church's position or do not fully understand it. For this reason, Trent Horn's book should be required reading for every Catholic in the United States. --Francis J. Beckwith "Professor of Philosophy and Church-State Studies, Baylor University"

I am so grateful for this book! It brilliantly combines reason and compassion in order to build up a culture of life. --Fr. Frank Pavone "National Director, Priests for Life"

One of the strengths of this book is that it includes a great many practical tips that are incredibly important for pro-life advocates who want to be effective when talking to pro-choice people. --Josh Brahm "President, Equal Rights Institute"

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Trent Horn is an apologist at Catholic Answers. Since he converted to Catholicism at the age of 17, Trent has had a passion for explaining and defending the Faith. After college, Trent traveled the country training pro-life advocates on college campuses to engage opponents in compassionate and persuasive dialogue. Trent then earned a master s degree in theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville and before joining Catholic Answers served as a respect life coordinator for the Diocese of Phoenix. A dynamic speaker and debater, Trent is also the author of Answering Atheism and Persuasive Pro-Life.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Catholic Answers Press; *** 1st Edition- see New 2nd Edition Now Available (September 28, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 335 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1941663044
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1941663042
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.28 x 1.06 x 7.99 inches
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After his conversion to the Catholic faith, Trent Horn earned three master’s degrees in the fields of theology, philosophy, and bioethics. He serves as a staff apologist for Catholic Answers, where he specializes in teaching Catholics to graciously and persuasively engage those who disagree with them. Trent is the host of The Counsel of Trent and has authored or co-authored over a dozen books, including The Case for Catholicism, Persuasive Pro-life, and Why We’re Catholic: Our Reasons for Faith, Hope, and Love.

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Customers find the book provides logical answers and practical stratagems for those with courage to enter the debate. They say it answers hard questions and provides solid arguments that are difficult for readers to understand. Readers also appreciate the author's persuasive and sound way of working up the arguments. They mention the book is filled with easy-to-remember facts and acronyms to help present. Readers also mention the author does an excellent job explaining the prolife stance. They appreciate the well-thought-out ideas for use in discussing the pro-choice stance.

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"...The arguments contained in this book I believe clear up a lot of moral confusion I have had on many other topics not just on the issue of abortion...." Read more

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Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2015
Trent Horn’s Persuasive Pro-Life is a very accessible guide in defending the sacredness of unborn children. His practical solutions include: “Don’t engage in activities that will unnecessarily offend those who disagree. Consider the pro-life advocate who dresses up in a grim reaper costume, complete with skull mask and scythe, and holds an “I’ll see you in hell” sign at an abortion facility.” Now, in pro-life scholarship, it is rare that we’ve seen such weirdos, but unfortunately these are the kinds of folks that sometimes show up on my Facebook feed. The media loves to film them because it paints the pro-life movement as being anti-intellectual.

Horn provides the case that the pro-life advocate needs to have intellectual reasons to defend his position. “The most loving thing we can do for someone is to tell him the truth and prevent him from being deceived.” Horn encourages pro-life defenders to use questions. This is consistent with the tradition of Jesus and Socrates. Horn wrote, “When we make statements in conversation, they can turn unintentionally into speeches that get ignored. A better approach is to ask questions, because this lets us steer our conversations toward the truth without having to “preach” the truth to anyone.” Horn very practically encourages asking “dumb” questions to allow the pro-choice person to clarify their position. Some of those questions include:

1. What is abortion?
2. What is a child?
3. What is a human?
4. What is pregnancy?
5. What’s wrong with being pro-abortion?
6. Why is it wrong to kill a newborn baby?
7. What does abortion do to the fetus?
8. Is there a difference between a condom and an abortion?
9. Why is abortion a sad or difficult choice?
10. What is so upsetting about pictures of abortion?

Citing Steven Wagner, Horn suggest “agreeing whenever possible” when dialoguing about abortion. Perhaps one could find agreement by asking questions like: “Do you believe men should have the choice to abort their fetuses?” (Do you think men should be charged with the murder of a human being if they kill a pregnant woman’s fetus? Do you think the punishment should change if the fetus was unwanted? 3. “What do you think about aborting a fetus simply because she is female?” (Do you think a feminist can support abortion against female fetuses?) 4. “Would you prefer there were fewer abortions?” (Why? What is it about abortion that you find unpleasant?) 5. Should abortion be legal through all nine months of pregnancy for any reason? (If not, why not? Where do you think the cutoff should be, and why do you draw the line there?)

These type of agreement follows the example of Pope Benedict XVI who said that dialogue is not meant to create good relationships but that “the broader purpose of dialogue is to discover the truth.”(page 66) I thought one of Horn’s best portions in the book was dealing with the “TOLERANT.” Horn wrote, “Vice President Joe Biden said that while as a Catholic he personally believed that life began at conception, he could not impose that article of faith on other Americans.” Would we tolerate racism or slavery? Of course not. This reminded me a debate that Abraham Lincoln had with Judge Stephen Douglas that Francis Beckwith cited in Defending Life:

“In his failed 1858 bid for U.S. Senate seat from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln engaged in a series of public debates with his Democratic opponent Stephen . Douglas. Amongst the many topics which they disputed was the question of whether U.S. territories should be allowed by the federal government to permit slavery if they so chose. Douglas maintained that although he personally opposed slavery, he was not willing to require that the federal government eliminate slavery, for to do so would be to violate the principle of popular sovereignty- that local majorities should be permitted to vote on the issue free of all federal constraints.

But, as Lincoln pointed, out, when Judge Douglas says he ‘don’t care whether slavery is voted up or down,’…he cannot thus argue logically if sees anything morally wrong in it,… When Judge Douglas says that whoever wants slaves, they have the right to have them, he perfectly logical IF there is nothing wrong with the institution; but if you admit it is wrong, he cannot logically say that ANYBODY HAS A RIGHT TO WRONG.”

Horn wrote, “For those critics who say it is disgusting for pro-life advocates to show graphic images of abortion, I would refer them Naomi Wolf’s article, in which she candidly admits: The pro-choice movement often treats with contempt the pro-lifers’ practice of holding up to our faces their disturbing graphics. . . . But feminism at its best is based on what is simply true. While pro-lifers have not been beyond dishonesty, distortion and the doctoring of images (preferring, for example, to highlight the results of very late, very rare abortions), many of those photographs are in fact photographs of actual D & Cs; those footprints are in fact the footprints of a 10-week-old fetus; the pro-life slogan “Abortion stops a beating heart” is incontrovertibly true. While images of violent fetal death work magnificently for pro-lifers as political polemic, the pictures are not polemical in themselves: they are biological facts. We know this.” (page 91)

Horn encourages using graphics effectively. Although I’ve heard other pro-life apologists like Scott Klusendorf cite this Wolfe quote before, Horn’s book provides unique real life conversations. Because of Trent’s combination of practical apologetics and personal experience, I recommend every pro-life advocate to read Horn’s book. I give it 5 out of 5 stars.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2023
This is of course a pro-life book. It will guide you on how to speak to pro-choice advocates. It will guide you on what to say and how to say it so as not to offend your listener. Trent Horn attempts to offer you every argument proffered by the pro-choice person you are speaking with. It is well written and definitely comprehensive.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2015
Mr. Horn does a fantastic job in this book! I found this book to be very informative and to contain reasons for protecting the unborn extremely compelling. I used to believe that abortions should be legal before the child was born, and then I became Catholic and I accepted the Catholic teaching on the subject. However, even though I decided to accept it, I did not really understand it. Trent lays out the reasons on why a person is a person, who a person is, etc. I find his arguments and his debates online and on the radio stronger than any that I have heard. The arguments contained in this book I believe clear up a lot of moral confusion I have had on many other topics not just on the issue of abortion. Trent has made me think and reason in ways that I had never thought possible. Read this book and then pass this book along. It is great to strengthen your arguments if you are already pro-life or to open you up to new ways of thinking if you are pro-choice. Trent does this in a way that is very respectful to all opinions on the most important topic of our time.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2019
Trent Horn is an amazing apologist and a superb advocate for the pro-life movement. In Persuasive Pro-Life, Trent puts forward rock-solid and irrefutable arguments for why we need to care for and protect the most vulnerable among us. Trent systematically shows how each and every argument put forth by abortion advocates are weak, nonsensical or tragically misguided. This book teaches you how to speak with pro-abortion people using patience, reason and most-importantly, compassion. Buy this book and help in the defense of the unborn.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2016
This is a FANTASTIC book. It gives clear, scientific, non judgmental, reasons for seeing (and defending) the unborn as children and not "pregnancy tissue". The chapters have a great organization, the reasoning is clear. Horn not only points out how to defend life he points out how NOT to argue (don't generate heat rather than light). Great examples from his own efforts and others. Clear statements, easy to remember. This book is for those who want to defend life AND for those who think the Church is a "woman hater". You might not agree with the Church's stance but if you read this book at least you will understand WHY the Church believes as she does.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2015
Trent Horn's Persuasive Prolife is a thorough study of the way people in our culture address the abortion issue with emphasis on how to charitably and clearly explain why the unborn child should be protected from abortion. Horn examines and refutes each justification for abortion, attacking the arguments not the people. I'd not before heard some of the pro-choice arguments he discusses. Indeed, he is so thorough that it reminds me of the game "Whack a Mole," particularly when you also read his footnotes: each time he refutes a pro-abortion position another one arises for him to whack in a seemingly endless -- and sometimes esoteric -- series of rationalizations for abortion.

For the most part, Horn writes lucidly, at times conversationally, yet the book is not a quick read. He is most effective with his suggestion to Trot Out the Toddler, i.e., to ask why a justification for abortion would not also permit killing a toddler. And his insistence that a prolifer "not be weird" and listen to rather than simply attack those who have participated in abortions is invaluable.

Persuasive Prolife would be a very good resource for anyone interested in the abortion controversies, and particularly for those actively involved in prolife efforts.
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Reviewed in India on March 13, 2021
Valuable for any pro-lifer. Easy to read and logically consistent.
Steve Orbe
5.0 out of 5 stars This is probably the best acquisition I have ever made
Reviewed in Canada on July 7, 2018
I have always been pro-life, however, I have not always being able to properly debunk common pro-choice arguments that I would hear either on the news, social media, or in conversations with friends and colleagues. So I began to research for a book on this topic and came across Persuasive Pro-Life.

This is probably the best acquisition I have ever made. Now I am able to better represent the pro-life side and to debunk common pro-choice arguments. It is good to be passionate pro-life but it is also important to be intelligent pro-life, and to be able to convey the pro-life message with charity and intelligence. This book definitely helps to achieve that. This is a must-read for every pro-life advocate.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 14, 2017
Another brilliant book from Trent Horn. I loved reading it and feel much more informed.
Héctor Guillermo Muñoz
5.0 out of 5 stars Contundente, simple, e intuitivo
Reviewed in Mexico on January 1, 2017
El autor hace un trabajo simplemente sobresaliente en este libro, sinceramente dudo que haya algún otro recurso que supere el alcance que tiene éste trabajo, ya que no solamente se enfoca en defender una posición, sino que enseña al lector CÓMO traerla a la mesa con personas con las que discrepemos, y CÓMO utilizar el método socrático para juntos llegar a la verdad. El libro está dividido en capítulos que cubren la manera de enfocar la cuestión de manera particular para cada tipo de persona (ej. los pragmáticos, aquellos que han sido lastimados por el aborto, aquellos que se dicen religiosos, etc.) La manera respetuosa e intuitiva del autor para hablar acerca de la cuestión hace que este sea también un recurso que se puede compartir con amigos o familiares que discrepan con la cuestión pro-vida.
Angie
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent! A must read for anyone with an opinion or a non-opinion on abortion
Reviewed in Australia on February 18, 2015
Trent has logically and rationally covered everything in a very easy to read and understandable way. This is a must read for anyone who is either pro-choice or pro-life.