Emily Geiger

No, I don't support mandated vasectomies or mandated tubal sterilization. I’m not interested in forcing people to get pregnant or not. I’m not pro-life because I want to control people’s bodies or punish people for sex. I just think once a human exists, it's wrong to kill them.

If your strategy in an abortion conversation is to assume the worst of everyone, you won’t have productive dialogues, and you’ll miss out on opportunities to persuade people. In one-on-one conversations, you should always start by giving the other person the benefit of the doubt.

"Abortion is just removing. Biology kills it." Anytime one kills another, "biology" is what actually does the killing. If I shoot you, you lose blood, and that’s what kills you. But if I do something that causes biology to kill you, I still killed you. Abortion IS killing.

If you don’t like it when pro-choice people dehumanize the unborn, then you have no business dehumanizing pro-choice people.

The only reasonable way to justify a pro-choice position with exceptions is to argue that the unborn is not a human person early in pregnancy but becomes a person later in pregnancy. I’m not saying that’s a good position, but it can at least be logically consistent.

Abortion is 14x safer than childbirth? That’s been thoroughly debunked several times. Only one study claims to prove it, but that study compares data sets that differ in scope and manipulates statistics in the form of inflation, false equivalence, and third-variable fallacies.

We think pro-lifers should be considering opposing ideas as one of the best opportunities for dialogue and respond with open curiosity. In contrast, the worst thing we can do is ignore the ideas, mock them, or threaten the lives of the authors.

People are different, so they have different needs. Tailor your approach to meet their needs.

Pro-freedom? Me too. But AT MINIMUM, physical violence against innocent people for no self-defense or just war type of reason must be illegal. So abortion must be illegal. I’m pro-freedom, but physically killing an innocent human isn’t a thing anyone should have the freedom to do

People changing their mind in front of you is not the only way to measure success. It might be that the person you’re talking to feels more comfortable around you, so you have a longer, serious conversation that the person can reflect on later.

What’s our goal for stopping abortion? We have no interest in controlling women’s bodies or punishing people for having sex or something. We just want to end legalized killing of innocent people, and the unborn are people.

I think we agree that killing people, generally speaking, shouldn’t be an option. So, if, as I’m claiming, abortion kills a person, then abortion shouldn’t be a legitimate option. I’m not forcing the woman to do anything by arguing that we should take away an illegitimate option.

While sidewalk counseling, there may be a time when threats or acts of violence against you become a reality. It is important to know how to handle such a situation, and, in particular, when and how to involve the police.

The most important concept is that when somebody starts talking about “life” in the abortion debate, don’t make another step before clarifying whether they’re talking about biological life or something more philosophical.

Many people need more than one conversation to change their mind about an important issue like abortion. Some people need a relationship.

PC:"You just want to control what people do with their bodies!" PL: "No, I’m interested in controlling what people DON’T DO with their bodies, like kill other humans." #endabortion

“Evicting” a fetus from your uterus is the same as dropping a toddler in the ocean; both are perfectly healthy humans, just too underdeveloped to survive in that environment. Forcing them into an environment where you know they can’t survive is killing and must be illegal.

You're most likely to take differing viewpoints seriously after forming a relationship with a person, rather than in the beginning, when you have no idea who the speaker is or what they’re like.

I think we should accurately describe other people’s positions because it demonstrates that we care enough about them and their views to try to understand them. We should love the people we’re talking to and not just see them as an object, a mind to be changed.

Most people will not change their minds about a serious subject after one conversation, so an ongoing dialogue with a friend can be really helpful.

Loving, truthful people are always more persuasive than unloving, truthful people.