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Talk Selections offered by Dr. Brian Clowes

“The International Abortion Situation” [PowerPoint, 60 minutes]. This talk addresses the root of the problem, the racism of abortion, and, for each of the six population continents, statistics on total fertility rates (TFRs), the status of abortion laws, and the future of world power (Europe, Africa and the USA).

• Description of the mission and composition of Human Life International
• The purpose of pro-life training
• Characteristics of the training program
• Outline of the paramount pro-life strategy
• Training session format
• Sources of program material

Session 1: “Essential Elements of Pro-Life Activism” (90 minutes)

• The four foundation stones of Christian activism: Training, Recruiting, Information and Prayer [TRIP]
• Why the anti lifers are so effective
• The first foundation stone: Training
• The typical new pro-life activist's experience
• Typical mistakes made by untrained or improperly trained pro-lifers
• What a competent pro-life activist can do
• The benefits of training
• The second foundation stone: Recruiting
• The four-step recruiting process
• The role of recruiting
• Public attitudes: The uncaring 80%, the uninvolved 15% and the activist 5%
• Why Christians are not involved in activism
• Reasons people become active
• The unique qualities of new activists
• The five general categories of personal skills
• The four elements of every individual: Body, mind, heart and soul
• Why 80% to 90% of all activists drop out in the first year
• Definitions, sources and antidotes to stress and strain
• The third foundation stone: Information
• The value of accurate and timely information
• The kind of information an activist must know and be able to find
• Information resources: Books and periodicals
• Computer technology is the tidal wave of the pro-life future
• The Facts of Life Compact Disc and how to use it
• Strategic and tactical intelligence, value and sources
• The fourth foundation stone: Prayer
• The interior life and its benefits
• The four levels of prayer
• How to pray and fortify your interior life

Session 2: “The Mission of the Pro-Life Movement” (90 minutes)

• The eight sources of influence in any society
• The purpose of a revolution
• Contrasts between societal revolution and evolution
• Attacks on the family and how to defend against them
• Attacks on the Church and how to defend against them
• The “lineup” from the worldly and eternal perspectives
• The many reasons for hope
• Scripture on a Christian's duty
• On judging others
• Elements and resources of the pro life movement

Session 3: “The Basics of Effective Planning” (90 minutes)

• General outline of the planning process
• The temporal/temporary and eternal/infinite contexts
• The six essential elements of mission planning -- The mission, the focus, the opposition, assets, the environment and tactics
• The ten Principles of the Offensive from the Book of Proverbs
  (1) Gather intelligence
  (2) Achieve unification of purpose
  (3) Exploit the opposition's weaknesses
  (4) Retain the initiative
  (5) Specialize
  (6) Communicate
  (7) Maintain the momentum of your initiatives through flexibility
  (8) Concentrate superior power at the decisive time and place
  (9) Exploit your successes with vigor and imagination
  (10) Provide for the security of your people and your group

Session 4: “Source and Nature of the Anti-Life Mentality” (90 minutes)

• The eternal war between the Culture of Life and the Culture of Death
• What and who is "anti-life?"
• How the anti-life mentality kills
• How the anti-life mentality attacks the four elements of the individual: The physical, the mental, the emotional and the spiritual
• The two primary strategies of modern liberalism: Radical egalitarianism and radical individualism, and their inevitable results
• The grand sweep and cycle of human history
• Why we must know the characteristics of the anti-life mentality
• The twelve characteristics of the anti-life mentality
  (1) It is humanistic
  (2) It embraces situational ethics
  (3) It cannot distinguish between licit and illicit freedoms
  (4) It is driven by guilt
  (5) It is short-sighted
  (6) It is self-centered and therefore cannot truly love
  (7) It is coercive
  (8) It is paranoid
  (9) It is pessimistic
  (10) It is pathologically dependent
  (11) It cannot reason properly
  (12) It cannot tolerate opposition
• How the twelve characteristics of the anti-life mentality are related

Session 5: “Anti-Life Tactics” (90 minutes)

• Why we should learn the anti-life tactics
• The ten anti-life tactics and how to counter them
  (1) Infiltration and subversion
  (2) Incrementalism (gradualism)
  (3) The victim status
  (4) The privacy cloak
  (5) Unilateral pluralism
  (6) Newspeak
  (7) Propaganda
  (8) History revisionism
  (9) Illegal activities
  (10) Violence

Session 6: “The Basics of Successful Pro-Life Debating” (30 minute introduction)

• Why learning to debate is so important
• Learning to debate: The four-step process
• Anti life debating tactics
• The objectives of sloganeering
• The importance of learning the forty pro-abortion slogans
• The five primary pro life debating tactics
• Rules for debate preparation and effective debate
• How to use the debate training program on The Facts of Life Compact Disc

Session 7: “How to Organize Your Pro-Life Group” (60 minutes)

• The general plan: Go with the POPE [Pray, Organize, Plan and Expose/Educate]
• Prayer: How and when to do it
• Satan's general and particular assaults and how to defend against them
• Organizing: Finding a good spiritual director, how to run meetings, gathering intelligence, committees, electing leaders, training, establishing a vision and values, finding and influencing the decision-makers, making a newsletter, recruiting, tips on maintaining morale and professionalism
• Planning: Missions, the eternal and temporal contexts, the grave weaknesses of the pro-abortion movement, and unity
• Exposing and Educating: Methods