Pro-Life Logic

Pro-Life Logic: Equipping Believers to Defend Life with the Bible and Reason

Abortion is often framed as “complex,” “gray,” or merely a political talking point, leaving many Christians unsure how to respond. Pro-Life Logic is a comprehensive, small-group-ready resource that equips believers to see abortion clearly as a clash between tyranny and murder—and to answer that clash with Scripture, history, and rigorous reasoning.

What this resource is

• A Defender Series booklet by Travis R. Pardo, PhD, and P. Brian Noble that walks readers through four movements: Discern the Culture, Grasp the Biblical Worldview, Engage the Logic, and Debate the Issue.
• Designed for individuals, families, churches, and neighbors who want to understand abortion historically, biblically, and philosophically, and then speak with clarity and compassion.

Key content and structure

The booklet provides a full framework for a pro-life worldview:

• Discern the Culture: Introduces the “tyranny or murder?” framing, reviews abortion history from the Sexual Revolution through Roe and Dobbs, and surveys data on abortion rates and reasons women seek abortions.
• Grasp the Biblical Worldview: Unpacks Imago Dei, Psalm 139, “my body, my choice,” and hard cases like rape and incest, grounding every conversation in Scripture and theological clarity.
• Engage the Logic: Presents Dr. Peter Kreeft’s core syllogism (government must protect human life; all humans have a right to life; the pre-born are human; therefore the law must protect them) and defends personhood from conception in five steps.
• Debate the Issue: Offers twelve concise, field-tested pro-life responses to the most common pro-choice claims—from “personally opposed” and “back alley abortions” to viability, poverty, rape, and the life of the mother.

Built for small groups and training

• Includes guided activities (sorting terms, timelines, definitions), discussion questions, and case-based prompts that invite robust conversation rather than mere lecture.
• Integrates quotes and research from Peter Kreeft, Randy Alcorn, Francis Beckwith, the Guttmacher Institute, National Right to Life, and early church sources like the Didaché.
• Offers a curated list of books, audio, and videos for deeper study, making it ideal as the backbone of a multi-week class or apologetics series.

Ideal audiences and uses

• Church small groups, youth and college ministries, and adult discipleship classes needing a clear, biblically grounded way to address abortion.
• Pro-life leaders, sidewalk counselors, pregnancy center staff, and civic advocates who must answer hard questions in real time with both conviction and compassion.^[1]
• Pastors and elders developing a church-wide teaching series or position paper on the sanctity of life.

Connected to a wider Defender mission

Pro-Life Logic supports the Family Policy Institute of Washington’s broader effort to defend and advance biblical values in the public square, including protecting life from conception to natural death. As groups use this booklet and join the FPIW Defender commitment—pray, sign, vote, engage, recruit—they help shift culture at the level of both ideas and policy in Washington and beyond.