All of the advice from ERI rings true and helpful, not only in a debate about abortion, but any kind of debate. I appreciate every blog post and video you guys provide.

I thought this was yet another really well thought-out assessment of Walsh. It's really sad that he can make so many great points, but the inflammatory remarks you mentioned causes pro-choice people to immediately shut down and not consider ANY of his points. I also want to state my agreement that it was a huge oversight not to mention the fact that consensual sex IS a choice where you know a baby could result, which I think is the primary reason the Judith Jarvis analogy is ridiculous except in the case of rape.
I am a pro-life apologist and have grown to appreciate the Equal Rights Institute perspective more and more over the years. Just to add something to the conversation regarding this last point, here's my favorite quote that I think is at the heart of the abortion issue:
"The deception-based world of abortion is rooted in our devotion to what
has become a near-sacred belief – total sexual freedom. We have
determined as a modern, secular, post-Christian society that we have
the absolute right to engage in sexual relations with whomever we
want and whenever and wherever we want, and we repudiate the notion
that we have to take responsibility for the natural result of sex –
which is children. Having committed so deeply to this proposition, it
matters not how barbaric and inhuman abortion is, how many gorgeous
children we see with their throats cut, heads cut off, chemically
burned alive, brains sucked [out], or spinal cord “snipped” with
scissors. We must allow for abortion on demand or our sacred right to
sexual freedom ceases to exist." -David Kupelian