New book provides roadmap to pro-life movement’s future

The two began writing the book in December, when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The case ultimately overturned Roe, leaving abortion up to the states.

The book dives into several aspects of society harmed by abortion, Anderson said, including the unborn child, women, racial minorities, people with disabilities in the womb, the field of medicine, the legal system, the political system, and culture, from big business to the news media. 

The authors also defined three theses upon which the right to life stands and provide rebuttals to pro-choice arguments. The theses are: the biological, the moral, and the political. 

DeSanctis explained that the biological thesis defends the fact that the unborn child is indeed a human being and not a clump of cells, part of the mother, or a parasite.

The moral case, she said, poses the question of what it means to be a human being — and why human beings have moral worth. 

Finally, the…