tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442827238174603755.post8392754441532435155..comments2023-09-11T08:30:08.843-07:00Comments on Life Training Institute Blog: What Happened to Editors? [Jay]SKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01905606527143286458noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442827238174603755.post-75357151822288717802007-07-16T05:40:00.000-07:002007-07-16T05:40:00.000-07:00Sadly, no. It was the second time I got roped into...Sadly, no. It was the second time I got roped into debating a young African-American female in front of an almost 100% black audience. A bit like Daniel in the lions den. I wrote an article about the debate I did before this one, with Georgians for Choice. Scott enjoyed it a lot and referred to it in one of his fundraising letters. You can read it by <A HREF="http://www.grtl.org/docs/georgiansforchoicedebate.swf" REL="nofollow">clicking here</A>.Josh B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01935312402091845351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442827238174603755.post-30145178503199125222007-07-13T17:57:00.000-07:002007-07-13T17:57:00.000-07:00My opponents response to the Guttmacher report? A ...My opponents response to the Guttmacher report? A lame attempt to accuse me of using false statistics. <BR/><BR/>'My reply? "Then you should take that up with Planned Parenthood. It's their study." <BR/><BR/>Her response? "Well, ah, ummm, if it's a Planned Parenthood study, then it's probably true, but I still believe that contraception will stop abortion."'<BR/><BR/><BR/>You go Josh! I wish I could have been there to see that one! You have it on video? Lori V.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442827238174603755.post-42666615567006215102007-07-11T05:49:00.000-07:002007-07-11T05:49:00.000-07:00Great article, Jay. One of the most powerful thing...Great article, Jay. One of the most powerful things pro-life advocates can use is sources to the studies we cite.<BR/><BR/>This is what is so brilliant about the way Scott Klusendorf debates. He holds up the research papers he is citing, or has even put them up on overhead projectors for the entire audience to see! The other side has nothing to say. <BR/><BR/>I've experienced this as well. My last debate was with a representative of the Feminist Women's Health Center at Emory University. (That abortion mill performs over 2,000 surgical abortions a year.) I spent the whole evening framing the debate around what is the unborn, and responding to her typical rhetoric with facts and research that I could hold up. <BR/><BR/>My favorite example of this is when we were talking about whether better access to birth control would reduce abortions or not. I held up <A HREF="http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.pdf" REL="nofollow"> this Alan Guttmacher report</A> that says over half the women that had abortions were on contraception the month they became pregnant! (There are a bunch of other similar studies that also debunk her argument, but this ones my favorite.) <BR/><BR/>My opponents response to the Guttmacher report? A lame attempt to accuse me of using false statistics. <BR/><BR/>My reply? "Then you should take that up with Planned Parenthood. It's their study." <BR/><BR/>Her response? "Well, ah, ummm, if it's a Planned Parenthood study, then it's probably true, but I still believe that contraception will stop abortion."<BR/><BR/>Did you catch that?! Not only did she admit that my study was probably factual, but she still tried to hold on to the same argument I was refuting with said study. As you can imagine, the audience was not impressed.Josh B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01935312402091845351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1442827238174603755.post-75611669803469124172007-07-10T19:59:00.000-07:002007-07-10T19:59:00.000-07:00Jay,This is good stuff: "Credibility is not as imp...Jay,<BR/>This is good stuff: "Credibility is not as important as it used to be in journalism."<BR/><BR/>This is so true. All the scandal at the New York Times in recent years has kind of brought this issue out. Also,not that I think the Washington Post represents excellence in journalism, but if the movie "All The President's Men" is an accurate representaion of what really happened during the Watergate investigation by Woodward and Bernstien, the editor in the movie showed some integrity. Every time the pair of reporters came to the editor with something they thought was big, he kept asking them, "Is she on the record?", "Do you have any evidence?". "I need proof!!!". Before I could go on Dr. Dobson's radio show, I was asked to provide photos, documents, and names of doctors to prove what I was saying about my daughter's case was accurate. Sometimes I will read something like your post Jay, and think, "Do they have an editor on staff there?". Great find , Jay. Lori V.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com