PBA220H: How to Effectively Dialogue About Pre-Born Human Rights

Prerequisite: PBA120H swap with PBA120H

• Ask questions to expose presuppositions
• pro-active versus reactive
• tell stories
• show rather than tell
• listen
• respond appropriately: e.g. CCBR blog post about going to pro-life town with SLED versus listening to someone in pain
• etc.
• http://www.unmaskingchoice.ca/training/classroom/dialogue
• http://www.prolifetraining.com/FiveMinute11.asp
• http://www.unmaskingchoice.ca/blog/2013/10/01/what-dialogue-abortion-actually-sounds

Heart apologetics? / beINSPIRED / bridging the gap from head to heart:

The problem facing pro-lifers today is not in proving that fetuses deserve human dignity but that human beings deserve human dignity. -Juan Tolentino

On branching from head to heart: http://www.unmaskingchoice.ca/blog/2013/10/07/ignorant-or-denial

2014 CC training, Stephanie breaks it down into just two main things:

• Ask questions [to expose presuppositions, or “we don't mean every claim we make”]
• Tell stories [ to what end? to trot out the toddler? Good Samaritan: to paint a familiar and relatable picture, and then introduce a question into that…]

Recipe to redirect from circumstances to child:

1. Find common ground
2. Tell a story [to trot out the toddler]
3. Ask a question