The New Fight for Life: Roe, Race, and a Pro-Life Commitment to Justice

This book, written by a man, gives an expanded approach to pro-life discussion. Excellent read. I finished it last week and I am still think about it!

Benjamin Watson eloquently defends the sanctity of life while encouraging readers to show compassion for people who have to make difficult decisions due to circumstance.

“Our higher, more complete calling must be to address the factors that drive women to choose abortion by removing the obstacles that stand in the way of choosing life.”Benjamin Watson clearly demonstrates the vital link between defending the sanctity of life and pursuing racial and economic justice. He gives practical suggestions for how to build a culture where mothers are supported and children are valued, both inside and outside of the womb. Watson writes with compassion and conviction!

I rarely read a book all the way through and this book I have listened to once and now listening a second time. Brave, warrior, gentle, fierce, calm, brilliant, sensible, inspiring, honest, forthright, and inviting are all things that come to mind about this author, his family, his commitment, his walk with the Lord. I can't get enough of this book! It makes my heart sing! Highly recommend.

Benjamin does an amazing job of telling the truth about abortion in a America while weaving in personal stories about his life and family. This is a true “bridge-building” book that doesn’t divide based on political tribes, but rather gives practical suggestions on how we can all help the women, men, and the babies who are faced with the difficult decision.

Did not link history with the present day. Overemphasis on story and history. It's good to talk about history, but if you don't link it to present circumstances then it only problemitizes and doesn't bring a solution. While disparities can be caused by discrimination it is not always the cause.

To summarize this book, Ben's heart is in the right place, but his ideas are badly supported and just wrong. He assumes that if the government would just give poor people more money, then they wouldn't have abortions. Universal basic income, reparations, expanded free healthcare and housing, etc are the solution to abortion. What? These are far left policies. The welfare state got us in this problem in the first place.It was a shallow, poorly supported analysis of the abortion issue. I like stats. What percentage of abortions are repeat offenders? How many use it as birth control? How many middle class people have abortions? Why do women even have abortions? He just assumes it's poverty, which obviously is a contributing factor, but he never mentions that many/most women have abortions because they're pressured to by a family member or boyfriend. There's a lot of facts he leaves out that would change his conclusions.I do appreciate Ben's perspective, and I'm glad that I read the book it so that I can understand where other people are coming from. He's a Christian brother with a heart for loving others and for justice, but he needs to listen to some opposing viewpoints (like maybe a Thomas Sowell book or two) that I think would really challenge some of his assumptions.

This book tries to cover two topics, and doesn't do a good job at either. The ideas seem disjointed. There are better books out there that cover this better. The only highlights are some of his NFL playing stories, but are buried under arguments that lack clarity on why they're connected to each other. Feels like it was 4-5 drafts away from a finished book. Or maybe this should have just been a blog.