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#103: Do You Need Religion to be Pro-Life? (w/ Monica Snyder)

Release Date: 12/29/2025

#104: Are Women Being Denied Care? (w/ Secular Pro-Life's Monica Snyder)

Equipped for Life Podcast

Josh Brahm and Monica Snyder wrap up their series of recent discussions by addressing denial-of-care stories. In this episode, Monica and Josh define what a denial-of-care story is, explain why abortion bans are often blamed for causing pregnancy-related deaths, identify the actual problems behind the most sensationalized stories, empathize with tragic outcomes and legitimate pro-choice concerns, and propose courses of action that pro-life people can take to help prevent similar tragic stories from happening in the future. Related Links: Secular Pro-Life’s entire blog category of debunking...

#103: Do You Need Religion to be Pro-Life? (w/ Monica Snyder)

Equipped for Life Podcast

Josh Brahm and Monica Snyder return to discuss the question: “Do You Need Religion to be Pro-Life?” The conversation touches on practical and philosophical points, including discussion about objective and subjective morality and its relationship with deism, as well as Monica’s experiences responding to both pro-life and pro-choice people who raise a scrutinizing eyebrow when they realize that they are talking with a pro-life atheist. Links: Secular Pro-Life: Secular Pro-Life: A couple of examples of pro-choice religious-ish-ness: Human Life...

#102: Forensics and Abortion (w/ Secular Pro-Life's Monica Snyder)

Equipped for Life Podcast

After much anticipation, Josh Brahm FINALLY gets to interview Monica Snyder from Secular Pro-Life about her background and expertise in Forensics. Monica explains how her work in forensics and DNA analysis affects her view on the abortion issue, particularly when it comes to questions about the justice system and why we shouldn’t prosecute women who have had abortions. Content warning: Includes discussion of forensic rape kits as well as methods of testing whether a baby was aborted instead of miscarried. Links: National Right to Life: ERI Statement: Chapters: 00:00:00...

#101: It’s About the Babies, Not Your Sex Life (w/ Monica Snyder)

Equipped for Life Podcast

Content warning: This whole episode is about sex. It’s probably not the episode to listen to around your kids. Secular Pro-Life’s Monica Snyder returns to the Equipped for Life Podcast for another series of episodes, beginning with the topic, “It’s About Babies, Not Your Sex Life.” Stemming from real-life conversations, Monica and Josh identify many of the various factors that contribute to pro-choice perceptions or labeling of pro-life people as being “anti-sex” and then respond accordingly to each factor. The Dynamic Duo also provides some fun commentary...

#100: Celebrating 100 Episodes! (with the Whole Staff!)

Equipped for Life Podcast

We brought the entire staff on for our 100th episode! The team planned the outline without Josh, and the result was a fun, retrospective celebration of the podcast. Related Links: Ellen's first blog post: Ellen's most recent blog post: Joshua's episode on the podcast: Rebecca’s talking head video: Our first podcast with Rebecca co-hosting: Josh’s article the atheist responded to: Ellen’s favorite episode: Rebecca’s favorite episode: Joshua’s favorite episode : Emily's favorite episodes: Josh's favorite episodes: Tim Hull's favorite episode: ...

#99: Practical Tips for 40 Days for Life Volunteers

Equipped for Life Podcast

It’s October, and 40 Days for Life campaigns are in full swing! Josh, Emily, and Rebecca share and react to short video tips sent in from pro-life activists from around the country on how to effectively participate in your local 40 Days for Life campaign. (SPOILER ALERT: it’s not as hard as you think!) Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 07:40 Tip #1: Herb Geraghty 13:43 Tip #2: Rebecca Carlson 19:45 Tip #3: Kristi Burkhart 24:52 Tip #4: Michael New 28:07 Tip #5: Emily Geiger 32:26 Tip #6: Jim Burke 38:04 Tip #7: Rebekah Dyer 41:24 Tip #8: Josh Brahm 45:33 Tip #9: Jay Watts 50:45 Tip...

#98: Listener Mail: Lightning Round! Part 2 (w/ Monica Snyder)

Equipped for Life Podcast

LIGHTNING!!! (in slow motion). In this podcast, Josh Brahm and Monica Snyder from Secular Pro-Life sort through listener mail from SPL’s mailbag and give quick responses to several questions and requests. Part 2 of 2 addresses eight main topics, to include the biological case for the unborn, how to combat viral misinformation, the concept of abortion as healthcare, why women advocate for abortion, the medical necessity of third trimester abortions, what to do if the pro-choice person jumps topics, if brain activity should define personhood, and counseling resources for nonreligious,...

#97: Listener Mail: Lightning Round! Part 1 (w/ Monica Snyder)

Equipped for Life Podcast

LIGHTNING!!! (in slow motion). In this podcast, Josh Brahm and Monica Snyder from sort through listener mail from SPL’s mailbag and give quick responses to several questions and requests. Part 1 of 2 (this episode) covers seven main topics, namely, whether the “pro-life movement” should actually be called the “anti-abortion movement”, the availability of abortion pills, discrimination against children with disabilities, how to welcome secular members into a pro-life space, if we should boycott pro-choice media, trying to understand how a pro-choice person thinks, and whether...

#96: Survey Review: How Pro-Life & Pro-Choice People Define Abortion (w/ Monica Snyder)

Equipped for Life Podcast

We recorded another episode with Secular Pro-Life’s Monica Snyder, our favorite practically co-host, to discuss Secular Pro-Life’s recent survey on the differences between how both sides of the issue define abortion. A critical part of clear communication is making sure you and your dialogue partner are using the key words in the same way. Pro-life and pro-choice people often mean VERY different things when they use the word "abortion," but they don't know that, and miscommunication ensues. This episode will help you avoid that miscommunication. The ERI team offers several practical...

#95: No, Abortion Pills Aren’t Harming the Environment

Equipped for Life Podcast

Yes, abortion pills are harmful to women and unborn children. We're pro-life. But when you take an honest look at the evidence, there is no evidence that abortion pills are poisoning our wastewater. This episode includes a visual slideshow, and can be viewed at our YouTube channel here: Content warning: If you have experienced pregnancy loss, this may not be the episode for you. There’s an inherent graphic nature to the kinds of claims we’re offering factual and philosophical arguments against. While we kept the conversation as tame as possible, we know this is a...

More Episodes

Links:

Secular Pro-Life

Secular Pro-Life: “Is belief in God necessary for the pro-life cause to succeed?”

Secular Pro-Life: “Where do atheists think human rights come from?”

A couple of examples of pro-choice religious-ish-ness:

Human Life Review: SYMPOSIUM: What’s God Got to Do with It?

Secular Pro Life’s blog of sources about moral realism from non-theistic perspectives

“Is God Necessary for Morality?” Debate between Shelly Kagan and William Lane Craig

Pew Research Center study on religiously unaffiliated people (specifically the “Beliefs & practices” tab)

EFL Podcast on Stanford persuasion study

Retten Til Liv (Denmark Right to Life)