God rest the soul of Charlie Kirk.

“Why should I not be able to eliminate my ten-month-old baby?”

Charlie Kirk invited an obnoxious, narcissistic young college student to give her best effort at making her “pro-choice” arguments. He was respectful. She was not. He was convicted about protecting the weak, unborn child, and tried to draw out of the girl why he didn’t have the right to kill a born child if she could kill her unborn child. She ignored him and said she had another question to ask instead of responding to his respectful response to her.

This link includes that exchange, and many more, all of them examples of how you debate abortion — even when the other side has little interest in listening to what you have to say:

I’ve been watching Charlie Kirk videos on abortion over the last few hours, and I’m far from finished. Watching one makes you want to find more. This is how you do it. Charlie Kirk did the work of actually approaching people — and inviting them to approach him — to give a go at changing hearts and minds.

In this video, in fact, he credits the student up-front with asking a “good faith question.” The more you watch, the more you realize this isn’t uncommon for Kirk to say.

And then there was his debate while “surrounded” by 25 college students who disagreed with him on abortion:

It is remarkable how calm Charlie Kirk was with young people, frankly, being jerks. I have no doubt they were acting that way because of all kinds of factors — including abuse, trauma, the suffocatingly poisonous culture. But he could have been a self-righteous about the truth, especially when students acted like entitled, self-obsessed ignoramuses. Instead, he simply made his argument. He didn’t assume his opponents had ill will, even if the student who came up to him certainly seemed like he didn’t really care who Kirk was, what he had to offer, or what his actual points were.

He was Christian about debating. And appreciated how intimate the subject of abortion is — much more so than some of the college girls (I’ll use that because I’ve caught more than a few immature characters so far) making their accusations at him.

In one formal debate, Kirk asks:

Why do you get rights and the baby doesn’t?

. . . .

Do you believe that every human being has a right to life regardless of how small you are or what level of development you are? . . .

There is no excuse for murder, period. We believe that in the West. . . .

I’ve heard every argument. I’ve heard that the baby’s a parasite. I’ve heard that the baby’s an invader. I’d heard that the baby is currently taking the nutrients. None of them are morally applicable to the actual circumstance of gestation. . . .

Every human being has a right to life. Yes or No? It’s what built the West. . . .

I stand for the abolition of abortion in all circumstances . . . because life matters.

Every human being is made in the image of the divine. Is sacred. Is unique. And if we get away from this principle, as we have, we not only have moral degradation, we not only have the collapsing society around us, but it’s bad for that being itself.

That being itself is unique. That being has rights. And who are we to say, just because we’re older that we get to murder it?

Charlie Kirk was a joyful warrior for life. That is true in the sense that his life was rooted in faith in God. It is true to his witness as a debater about abortion, especially on college campuses. Over the last few hours, I’ve been watching as much Charlie Kirk on abortion as possible. It makes me wish I had thanked him and celebrated him during his life.

Maybe I was too distracted by politics to.

Many may have associated him with getting Donald Trump elected. But the most important part of his life was something more enduring. And in this heinous murder/assassination, I pray his memory is a blessing for life in America. May his family one day after much grieving and healing be able to celebrate their father as a courageous voice for innocent unborn human life — with compassionate care for women who have been lied to and used and abused and deserve better.

Here he talks with a self-described Christian student, and tells her that he doesn’t blame her for her position, because abortion is simply popular as a form of birth control. It’s on our culture, in a sense, and it’s why he invested so much in changing the hearts and minds of young people.

He also talks about rape and pregnancy without fear, and with compassion.

Here he tells a woman who regrets her abortion that he hopes God blesses others with her pain and loss and blesses her with more life:

In another interview, he directly pleads with an abortion-minded woman, feeling scared, and maybe desperate, like she has no option for the life of her child:

There will be a woman that will see this who is contemplating an abortion right now. And I hope she takes a pause.

And I’m going to be very honest with you.

The next nine months will be hard. Your body will change.  You’re going to go through mood swings and then it’s not going to get much easier once the baby comes in. but it is worth it beyond anything I can put into words for you to deliver that baby into the world.  And you might not feel that for the first year, the first two years, or three years, four years or five years

But there will be a moment when you wake and you will feel a significance, an accomplishment that is greater than any sort — of being a CEO of a shoe company or getting an extra bonus of a stock thing or going out clubbing with your friends.

If that reaches one woman in this audience . . . and I pray that it does: I want you to know

You are loved and supported. And finally, there are thousands of pregnancy resource centers which exist to support women in crisis. That they can have the psychological, religious, spiritual support — whatever you need. And they exist for you. And you have to know that you are not alone and that you can reach out for help. They tell you that abortion is the only option, and that is a lie from the pit of hell.

On the birth of his daughter, he reflected:

When you look down in your arms and you see your child, all of a sudden everything you’re fighting for, everything that you care about, everything that you are pushing for gets into absolute clarity absolutely almost instantaneously and immediately.

God rest the soul of Charlie Kirk. Please pray for the impossible miracle of consolation to his family and friends. And let’s insist on being better including by having real debates. And acknowledging, too, that this is not all about politics. There are demons among us. And they want an explosion of even more evil in response to murderous hatred. Seek that which is above. Love one another. Charlie Kirk had the right idea.