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Everything we know, taught properly. 3 courses and 7 lessons that take the argument a passage at a time, and a library of 24 articles for when you have ten minutes rather than an hour.

No course has a prerequisite. You do not need to have read the letter, or any other course, before starting any of them — each one teaches its own ground from the beginning.

  • Course

    Church & pastoral life

    A Letter to Church Leaders

    The open letter that begins the series: the charge laid before pastors and elders, the three claims it rests on, and the pastoral care it asks for the people who have already used these methods. Start here if you are going to read only one thing.

    Beginner5 lessons · 1h 24m

  • Course

    Medicine & mechanisms

    The Tract: Do You Know What It Does?

    The tract is the case compressed for a person who has five minutes and no background. This course takes you through it line by line, so you can give it away and answer what comes back.

    Beginner1 lesson · 15 min

  • Course

    Abolitionism

    The Norman Statement

    An allied statement, taken on its own terms: what it commits its signatories to, where it goes further than most evangelical statements, and where this site goes further still.

    Intermediate1 lesson · 20 min

  • Interactive module

    Objections & apologetics

    The Abolitionist Knight

    Answer the objection in its strongest form, give the scriptural ground and then a public reason your neighbour can examine — and the argument answers back.

    Intermediate4 chapters · 30 min

  • Interactive module

    Church history

    What a Waste of a Life

    An oral history told from beside the thing, while it happens: an 1824 abolition committee, a 1938 kitchen table, an ancient workshop account, and a pavement today.

    Intermediate4 acts · 30 min

  • Interactive module

    Objections & apologetics

    The Sword Drill

    Rapid recall practice: an objection appears, and you choose the scripture that meets it — untimed with full explanations, or against a ninety-second clock.

    Beginner18 objections · 10 min

  • Article

    Medicine & mechanisms

    Abortion: what it is, and the UK numbers

    What abortion actually is, how it is carried out, and the official UK statistics — every figure sourced.

    Beginner3 questions · 9 min

  • Article

    Abolitionism

    Abolitionism and equal protection

    What abolitionism is, how it differs from regulating abortion, and why we stand where Wilberforce stood.

    Beginner3 questions · 7 min

  • Article

    Abolitionism

    The Five Tenets of Abolitionism

    The five convictions that define the abolitionist movement: biblical, providential, gospel-centred, church-driven, and immediate.

    Beginner3 questions · 6 min

  • Article

    Abolitionism

    Abolition as obedience

    Why the five tenets are not a programme but the shape of trusting and obeying Christ when a nation sacrifices its children.

    Beginner3 questions · 7 min

  • Article

    Abolitionism

    Abolition and the pro-life movement

    Where abolitionists agree with the pro-life movement, where we differ, and why the difference matters.

    Beginner3 questions · 7 min

  • Article

    Objections & apologetics

    How to advocate for the preborn

    Apologetics training: making the case winsomely, and answering the common objections.

    Beginner3 questions · 8 min

  • Article

    Objections & apologetics

    Answering objections

    Honest answers to the questions faithful Christians actually ask.

    Intermediate3 questions · 12 min

  • Article

    Church history

    The Witness of the Church

    Nineteen centuries of Christian teaching on the conceived child, East and West — and the datable moment it broke.

    Intermediate5 questions · 20 min

  • Article

    Church history

    Why This Sounds Foreign to Christian Ears

    If this was ordinary Christian teaching within living memory, why does it now feel strange? Five reasons, worked through with the history.

    Beginner6 questions · 15 min

  • Article

    Medicine & mechanisms

    The Case Concerning IVF

    If the conceived child is under God's protection, that is true in the laboratory too — the case concerning IVF, with its tender word on infertility.

    Advanced5 questions · 15 min

  • Article

    Scripture & theology

    The Gospel

    The good news of Jesus Christ in short form — and why it is the foundation of everything we do.

    Beginner3 questions · 5 min

  • Article

    Scripture & theology

    Does God care about justice and the oppressed?

    A biblical theology of justice, the shedding of innocent blood, and why the preborn are the oppressed of our age.

    Beginner3 questions · 7 min

  • Article

    Church & pastoral life

    Why Christians must engage politics

    The lordship of Christ over the public square, the Wilberforce precedent, and answering "just preach the gospel".

    Intermediate3 questions · 7 min

  • Article

    Church & pastoral life

    How can we love our unborn neighbours?

    The Good Samaritan applied: practical neighbour-love for children in the womb — and for their mothers and fathers.

    Beginner3 questions · 6 min

  • Article

    Scripture & theology

    The line God drew

    Genesis 9:3–6 — mankind, the animals, and the first law against murder.

    Intermediate3 questions · 10 min

  • Article

    Scripture & theology

    A higher law

    Why abortion is murder whether or not you believe in God — and why, without Christ, you cannot fight it.

    Beginner3 questions · 9 min

  • Article

    Church & pastoral life

    Catholicism, the pro-life cause and the gospel

    Written for Catholic readers who oppose abortion: where we stand together, where the gospel divides us, and why forgiveness comes before the fight.

    Intermediate3 questions · 8 min

  • Article

    Scripture & theology

    The Biblical Case in Full

    The scriptural argument that the child conceived is a human being whom God defends — worked through text by text.

    Intermediate9 questions · 20 min

  • Article

    Church & pastoral life

    Marriage, Children and the Calling of Parents

    The fuller vision the case grows out of: marriage, children as heritage, and parents as stewards of an eternal soul — a posture, not a rule.

    Intermediate5 questions · 15 min

  • Article

    Church & pastoral life

    The Responsibility of Shepherds

    Why the series comes to pastors first: the watchman, the whole counsel of God, the stricter judgment — and the assurance that upholds the shepherd.

    Intermediate5 questions · 12 min

  • Article

    Law & statistics

    Abortion and UK law

    The Abortion Act 1967, the OAPA 1861, devolved differences, and the current push for full decriminalisation.

    Intermediate3 questions · 8 min

  • Article

    Law & statistics

    The numbers

    Abortion in the United Kingdom, stated from the official record.

    Beginner3 questions · 9 min

  • Article

    Medicine & mechanisms

    Contraception

    What certain contraceptives can do, in the makers' own words.

    Intermediate3 questions · 14 min

  • Article

    Law & statistics

    Abortion in the United Kingdom

    What the official figures mean before God — Isaiah 1 and Hezekiah's reforms applied to a land that has normalised this.

    Beginner3 questions · 8 min

Where to start

Everything here stands alone, but these are the orders we would suggest.

The whole case: the letter, its appendices and the tract

The open letter as a course, its eight appendices as articles, then the tract and the Norman Statement, in the order they were written. Work through all of it and you will be able to state, source and defend the whole case for the abolition of abortion in the United Kingdom.

  1. A Letter to Church LeadersCourse · 5 lessons
  2. The Biblical Case in FullArticle · 20 min
  3. The Witness of the ChurchArticle · 20 min
  4. Marriage, Children and the Calling of ParentsArticle · 15 min
  5. Why This Sounds Foreign to Christian EarsArticle · 15 min
  6. Abortion in the United KingdomArticle · 8 min
  7. The Responsibility of ShepherdsArticle · 12 min
  8. The Case Concerning IVFArticle · 15 min
  9. Answering objectionsArticle · 12 min
  10. The Tract: Do You Know What It Does?Course · 1 lesson
  11. The Norman StatementCourse · 1 lesson

The street advocate: ready for the pavement

For anyone preparing to speak for the unborn in public: the gospel first, the scriptural ground, then the craft of a street conversation and the objections you will actually meet, finishing with the tract so you can leave the whole case in someone's hand. Pair it with the street-work guidance under Act, and practise aloud until the answers come unprompted.

  1. The GospelArticle · 5 min
  2. The Biblical Case in FullArticle · 20 min
  3. How to advocate for the prebornArticle · 8 min
  4. Answering objectionsArticle · 12 min
  5. The Tract: Do You Know What It Does?Course · 1 lesson
  6. The Abolitionist KnightModule · 30 min
  7. The Sword DrillModule · 10 min
Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.
— Proverbs 24:11