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Josh Brahm    

President & Co-Founder of Equal Rights Institute

Josh Brahm is the president and co-founder of Equal Rights Institute. A sought-after speaker, Josh has spoken for more than 23,000 people in five countries and in 22 of the 50 states.

Josh’s primary passion is helping pro-life people to be more persuasive when they communicate with pro-choice people. That means ditching faulty rhetoric and tactics and embracing arguments that hold up under philosophical scrutiny.

He has publicly debated leaders from Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), Georgians for Choice, and one of the leading abortion facilities in Atlanta.

Speech Topics


6 Practical Dialogue Tips: What We’ve Learned from Talking with 5,000 Pro-Choice People

In this lecture, I will share our best tips for creating the kind of conversational environment where people are the most likely to change their minds. This is one of our most fun speeches, filled with great stories of conversations to illustrate our points.

The Most Persuasive Pro-Life Argument

In 2013, a group of advocates from multiple pro-life organizations started heavily experimenting with a different way of arguing for the personhood of the unborn. We were all shocked at how much more effective it was at changing the minds of pro-choice people than any other argument we had used before. We call it the Equal Rights Argument. This argument masterfully takes premises that almost all pro-choice people already strongly agree with, and demonstrates that the only reasonable conclusion is that the unborn is a person with a right to live.

Understanding and Responding to “My Body, My Choice”

The strongest pro-choice argument is one that grants the entire pro-life case that the unborn is a full human being (like an adult). But it goes on to claim that abortion should still be legal because women have a right to control their own bodies. Pro-life advocates shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss these “bodily rights” arguments, but they also don’t need to be afraid of them. Whether you’re a seasoned veteran or new to sharing the pro-life message, I will give you a roadmap for making a powerful case against these arguments. The audience will leave ready to engage any pro-choice advocate who defends abortion with “bodily rights” arguments.

9 Faulty Pro-Life Arguments & Tactics

Want to be the most effective pro-life ambassador possible? This presentation will certainly help you do that! While surprising to some audiences, pro-lifers occasionally make arguments that are easily refutable. They also sometimes use tactics during abortion debates that are counter-productive. Josh carefully analyzes nine examples in this presentation.

Relational Apologetics: How to Cultivate Friendship Amidst Challenging Conversations

“Relational apologetics” means cultivating relationships with people who have different beliefs, for the sake of genuine friendship and for discovering truth together.

Josh illustrates with multiple stories from his life of pro-choice friends he’s spent time with discussing abortion. He also illustrates with some inspiring stories of other people whose lives have been changed through unlikely friendships. After making two arguments for why people ought to have a pro-choice friend, Josh offers several practical tips for cultivating friendships with people who disagree about important issues.

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