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August 10
- Defending Life Series #9: "6 Faulty Pro-Life Arguments and Tactics"
 
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Established in 1971, Right to Life of Central California has worked faithfully to promote the value and respect of all human life, especially the unborn, the infirm, and the aged. We hope this website will serve to advance that goal.

News & Updates
Life ReportUPDATED 7/23: The 99th episode of RLCC's podcast Life Report is online! Click here to listen to "A Faulty Slogan, Abortion Violence & Our Newest Pro-Choice Fan."  Listener Mail: how many abortionists have been murdered in the U.S. since Roe v Wade; message from a new pro-choice fan; auditing pro-choice slogan: "if you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child;" Josh is challenged on the CatholicVote.org debate from last year. Want to watch us taping this episode instead of just listen to it? Click on the embedded video here.

Our podcast has a Facebook Fan page! Click here to become an "official fan!"

UPDATED 6/24: Read Josh Brahm's letter to the Fresno Bee editor, answering the argument that pro-lifers should adopt all the unwanted babies or shut up.

UPDATED 5/19: Read Josh Brahm's letter to the Fresno Bee editor, answering the argument that abortion reduces tax dollars.

UPDATED 5/11: The 96th episode of RLCC's podcast Life Report is online! Click here to listen to "Listener Mail - Violence, Parasites and Feminism." Josh, Liz, Kyle and Carrie catching up on listener mail.

UPDATED 5/6: The Defending Life Series has been going wonderful! Thanks for all that have been coming. For those that missed one or more sessions but wanted to come, you can download the audio for free below!

Session 1: Making Abortion Unthinkable (technically audio from a similar presentation Josh made a few months before.)
Session 1: Q&A
Session 2: Stem Cell Research - A "Brave New World" (includes Q&A)
Session 3: Planned Parenthood Unveiled - What They Don't Want You to Know (includes Q&A)
Session 4: Stem Cell Research 201: What the Media is Not Telling You: Coming Soon!

Downloadand distribute the flyer for the rest of the series! It will take place every 2nd Tuesday of the month, continuing May 11th. Titles to include, "6 Faulty Pro-Life Arguments and Tactics," and "Proving Pro-Life Points with Pro-Abortion Materials."

UPDATED 3/25: Download Josh Brahm's recent interview on Immaculate Heart Radio. (est. one million listeners!) Josh talks about reaching youth with new media, pro-life training, stem cell research, human cloning and more!

Read Josh Brahm's latest article, "Effectively Responding to Moral Relativism."

UPDATED 2/18: Download a 30-minute radio interview with Josh Brahm on KRDU from last week. After giving Josh a hard time for not coming on his station often enough, Ken asks Josh about the podcast, as well as the murder of Dr. Tiller, the use of "new media" in the pro-life movement, faulty pro-life arguments, how to have effective dialogues with pro-abortion-choice people, and Fresno Right to Life's upcoming Walkathon fundraiser.

UPDATED 12/24: New audio available from Josh Brahm recent speech in Trinidad: "Ignorance, Fear and Apathy: 3 Problems the Church Faces in Confronting Abortion." Includes a Q&A session.

UPDATED 12/16: Part 9 in the article series by Josh Brahm is online: "Excerpts From An Email Exchange With an Abortion Advocate." Read the entire series today.

Per requests from our supporters, we've finally set up an RSS feed for Josh Brahm's pro-life articles, in case you want to make sure you don't miss anything! Here's the link:
Josh Brahm Articles RSS Feed.

Read Josh's latest article, "Controversial YouTube Video Brings the Worst from Both Sides of the Abortion Debate." It's his first contribution to Live Action's blog.

UPDATED 12/3: Press Release: "Fresno Right to Life Hosts one of Nation's Largest Charity Auctions Honoring Jadine MacLiver & Greg Romagnoli"

UPDATED 12/2: Education Director Josh Brahm just returned from a speaking tour in Trinidad! We will be posting free audio download's of his speeches over the next month. Click here to stream or download a radio interview he did on a secular station, discussing common ground, good versus faulty pro-life arguments, comparing Trinidad's situation with the United States as regards to abortion, and responding to the main arguments International Planned Parenthood is making for legalizing abortion in Trinidad.

Science Matters episode 5! "Science Matters" is a new video series Right to Life is creating on how informed science impacts stem cell research and the other life issues. Watch the latest video on the right exposing possibly the most scientifically ignorant pro-choice argument: "Pro-Choicers IGNORE 2nd Grade Science Lesson!"

This series is already getting a lot of attention. The first video surpassed 60,000 views in less than two weeks! It's been linked by World Magazine and Jill Stanek, among others.

Watch the montage Josh put together from this year's 40 Days for Life campaign!

UPDATED 10/21: Josh Brahm and the Life Report podcast were featured in Our Sunday Visitor, along with several other young pro-life activists. OSV is the largest national Catholic weekly newsletter, read by many bishops and stacked in parishes around the country. Download the article here. (PDF)

UPDATED 10/20: Coverage of assault at Planned Parenthood:

  • RLCC PRESS RELEASE: Pattern of Threats and Intimidation Escalates Into an Assault
    on a Pro-Life Volunteer at a Prayer Vigil
    .
  • Watch the video of the incident here. Engage in the discussion in the comments!
  • Listen to Josh Brahm, Kyle Goddard, Liz Seaward and Carrie Guy discuss the assault on our Life Report podcast. We play audio from the assault, Carrie offers her perspective as a post-abortive counselor of the perpetrator's motives, and then we discuss the lack of media coverage before talking about the response from both sides of the debate on YouTube! Josh has a challenging question to ask pro-lifers, as well as pro-abortion-choice people at the end of the episode.
  • Listen to part 2 of the discussion about the worse from the YouTube debate here.
  • Read the NewsBusters.org coverage here.
  • Read LifeNews.com coverage here.
  • Read California Catholic Daily's coverage here.
  • Read Catholic News Agency's coverage here.

UPDATED 10/8: Read Josh Brahm's article: "Pro-Life Math, or How To Shut Down Dialogue REALLY Fast."

UPDATED 9/21: Free download of Josh Brahm's keynote address at Trinity Pregnancy Resource Center in Chowhilla, CA. Download MP3. Recorded 9/19/09. (42 minutes)

Read Josh Brahm's complete series "Busting Myths About Abortion & Health Care Reform."

  • Part 1: "Abortion won’t be included in the health care reform program since the word “abortion” isn’t in the bill."
  • Part 2: "President Obama backed off of his position in his interview with Katie Couric."
  • Parts 3 & 4: " The Capps Amendment forbids abortion" & "It won’t be taxpayer dollars paying for abortions, it would be the premiums paying for abortions."

UPDATED 9/11: Press Release: Right to Life of Central California Condemns the Killing of Pro-Life Activist.

Read Education Director Josh Brahm's post for Life Training Institute's blog here: "An Observation About Obama's Health Care Speech."

UPDATED 7/21: New article by Josh Brahm at the podcast site: "Reflections on the Term 'Pro-Choice'"

UPDATED 7/8: We've added two new FREE audio files to our Audio page, from one of Josh Brahm's presentations, "Proving Pro-Life Points with Pro-Abortion Materials." This page also includes another full pro-life 101 presentation by Josh Brahm, as well as an interview Josh did on Catholic Answers LIVE about Planned Parenthood.

UPDATED 7/3: A Personal Appeal by Executive Director Jonathan Keller.

UPDATED 7/2: New article! "The 6 Worst Abortion Arguments Jon Stewart Made to Mike Huckabee."

UPDATED 6/17: New article! "We can dialogue with pro-choicers through Twitter. Here's how:"

UPDATED 6/3: Download Josh Brahm's interview on KFAX radio commenting on the murder of Dr. Tiller. (11 minutes)

UPDATED 6/2: Read our full press release "Right to Life of Central California Condemns the Killing of Dr. George Tiller".

UPDATED 6/1: Action Alert: Cut Planned Parenthood's CA Funding.

UPDATED 4/10: Check out our new Audio/Video page!

UPDATED 3/26: Download Josh Brahm's interview on the Ray Appleton show (hosted by Inga Barks) talking about the "9 Things the Media Messed Up About the Obama Stem Cell Story" article.

UPDATED 3/17: Our new article has gone viral overnight, making national news: "9 Things the Media Messed Up About the Obama Stem Cell Story". This article has already been reprinted in LifeNews.com, (60,000 subscribers) and ProLifeBlogs.com! We've also been linked by Stand To Reason, Townhall.com, pro-life blogger JivinJ and Justin Taylor's blog, Between Two Worlds.

NewsBusters.org has this to say about the article:

  • "Josh Brahm has done the definitive dissection of the comprehensive media failure..."
  • "...exceptional magnum opus that must be read in its entirety to be fully appreciated."
  • "I thought I was reasonably knowledgeable in this subject area until I read Brahm's work."
  • "Brahm's '9 Things' ought to be required reading for those who are in the trenches defending life, but more importantly, for those who haven't been paying enough attention to this crucial issue."

Life Training Institue's blog says:

  • "This article by Josh Brahm is absolutely awesome in documenting the various ways news media have distorted or outright lied about the Obama stem cell story. Great job Josh, and this is absolutely must reading."

Renowned pro-life blogger Jill Stanek says:

  • "I just read Josh's report and am impressed not just by the magnitude of corroboration but also by how Josh put together his piece in an eye-appealing way. Impressive use of fonts, graphics, and colors. It is important that we not only write well but present well. Josh has done both."

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UPDATED WEDNESDAY, 2/25: Sign the petition against the Freedom of Choice Act!

UPDATED WEDNESDAY, 2/11: Right to Life has a Facebook Group! Please join us!

UPDATED FRIDAY, 2/6: Tell your friends about the new RLCC webpage: StemCellAnswers.com, which includes brand new article, "8 Bad Arguments for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research."

UPDATED THURSDAY, 2/5: RLCC's Josh Brahm was interviewed by Life Training Institute about podcasting and how pro-lifers can reach youth as well as pro-choicers through thoughtful dialogue and new media. Listen by clicking here to subscribe to the LTI podcast and download episode 2.

UPDATED TUESDAY, 12/16: BRAND NEW EDUCATIONAL ARTICLES! Go to our new and improved Resources page to read them, including the latest article, "The 3 Biggest Hurdles for Pro-Lifers Under a "Pro-Choice" President."

Quick links: Subscribe to BOTH the Right to Life YouTube channel and the Life Report YouTube channel. (Life Report is Right to Life's second YouTube channel dedicated to our podcast and future news videos.)

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