What happens when a pro-life professor and a pro-life journalist collaborate to write a book? a strategy for the pro-life movement’s future and an analysis of the abortion industry.
The Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) president Ryan T. Anderson and senior writer Alexandra DeSanctis of the National Review have collaborated on the book “Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solve Nothing” (Regnery Publishing, 2022). The book, which was published only days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, makes a case for pro-life beliefs and details the brutality of abortion as well as how it has impacted society.
In an interview with EWTN Pro-Life Weekly on August 18, the authors projected that Roe v. Wade will be reversed soon. At that time, they decided to “provide a pro-life blueprint to the future of the pro-life movement,” according to DeSanctis.
We wrote a book in the hope that others who disagree with us would find it intelligible and maybe even beneficial, she said. In their essay, the writers argue that they sought to “create a case that abortion kills and affects unborn children first and foremost, but [also] to kind of demonstrate pro-lifers a bigger point, that abortion has genuinely damaged everything it’s touched.”
The two began writing the book in December, just before the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In the end, the case overturned Roe and granted abortion-related authority to the states.
The book explores a variety of societal aspects that are adversely affected by abortion, including the unborn child, women, racial minorities, people with disabilities in the womb, the medical industry, the legal system, the political system, and culture, ranging from big business to the news media, according to Anderson.
The authors also provided refutations of arguments in favor of abortion and listed three principles that uphold the right to life. The theses are the biological, moral, and political.
The biological thesis, in DeSanctis’ opinion, supports the notion that the unborn child is a human being and not merely a group of cells, a parasite, or a fragment of the mother.
She claims that the moral argument questions what it is to be a human being and why morality is significant.
Finally, the political thesis disproves the claims that “the government shouldn’t interfere between women and their doctors” or that “it is not the role of government to force your ideas on other people,” she said.
What kind of society do we live in if our laws don’t protect those who are most defenseless? DeSantis made a query.
The book includes chapters on marriage, the family, and the need to revitalize a pro-family culture.
The ultimate fallback, in Anderson’s words, is “so-called consequence-free sex” or “commitment-free sex.” In the book, we argue that abortion cannot simply be outlawed.
Abortion is a result of the sexual revolution. He claims that the sexual revolution is greatly influenced by abortion since it promotes risk- and commitment-free sex. Therefore, we must support a culture that supports marriage. Before they can commit to taking care of that child, men and women must first commit to one another.
Although the Roe ruling was reversed, DeSanctis stated that “the battle against abortion is not ended.”
“It’s the beginning of a new and crucial moment,” she remarked.