The Pro-Life Talking Points series is meant to provide pro-life activists with clear and concise information with which to argue against common misinformation they will encounter while debating life issues. Feel free to download, copy, and distribute these one-page (two-sided) documents as needed.

We hope that this series will help pro-lifers begin small discussion groups and challenge one another to grow in their ability to argue the pro-life case.

Keep checking back also, as we will continue to add new Pro-Life Talking Points regularly.

Pro-Abortion Violence: Setting the Record Straight The Media Narrative for "Pro-Life" Violence is Seriously Distorted. ... The fact is that abortionists and pro-choice activists are guilty of much more violence than pro-life activists ...  PLTP_pro_abortion_violence.pdf

Why Women Abort Very few abortions are due to health reasons, rape, incest, or abnormalities: Many people think that women obtain most abortions to save their lives or physical health, for rape and incest, or to avoid birth defects. This is a fallacy that proabortion groups continue to cultivate ...   PLTP Why Abort.pdf

The Abuse of Population Control Population control history has been full of abuse: Since its beginnings in the 19th Century and especially since its exponential growth after World War II, the global population control movement has inflicted documented human rights abuses on millions of women worldwide.  PLTP_Abuse_of_Pop_Control.pdf

Negative Effects of the Pill Hormonal contraceptives have severe side effects: Though the mainstream media and feminist groups typically present hormonal contraceptives as a boon for women, they overlook the serious side effects reported in mainstream scientific literature.  PLTP_Negative_Effects_of_the_Pill.pdf

Does Welfare Reduce Abortion? The connection between welfare and illegitimacy is well-established: Social scientists have long documented that when women are paid to have children out of wedlock, they are more likely to do so.  PLTP_Welfare.pdf

Condoms Condoms fail for regular users: The condom is the most commonly used barrier method of conntraception in the world. Yet according to mainstream scientific sources, its efficacy has been grossly overstated by its promoters.  PLTP_Condoms.pdf

Fetal Development A new human being is created at conception: From the instant the male gamete (sperm) fuses with the female gamete (egg), a unique human being with his or her own DNA, different from those of his mother and father, is present. After fertilization, there are 46 chromosomes (or 47 in the case of Down Syndrome) where there were two sets of 23 chromosomes before.  The resulting being is genetically human and alive, and therefore, by standard biological definition, a human being.  PLTP_Fetal.pdf

Men & Abortion Men suffer in the aftermath of abortion as well as women: Though not nearly as much research has been done on abortion's effects on men as on women, considerable evidence shows that abortion often negatively affects men's mental health and that a large proportion of men regret their partner's abortion later on.   PLTP_Men_Abortion.pdf

Maternal Deaths Abortion-on-demand has not saved women's lives: Pro-abortion politicians and groups argue that without easy access to abortion, substantial numbers of women would die through illegal, unregulated, and unsafe "backalley" abortions. Yet the evidence shows death from abortion in the United States was very rare even before abortion was legalized.  PLTP_maternal_deaths.pdf

Obama v Life I: Before the Election Barack Obama declared the expansion of abortion his first priority: During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama discussed a large number of pressing issues facing the federal government from the economy and health care reform to terrorism and the war in Iraq. He chose to make the removal of all restrictions on abortion his first priority from the beginning of his campaign.   PLTP_Obama_v_Life.pdf