Our Mothers Don’t Need More Abortions. They Need Good Marriages

We owe our mothers a culture where marriage is the norm, not the exception — a culture where new life is a cause for joy, not for despair.

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The pro-life movement and its allies are doing a lot of indispensable policy work now in the wake of Dobbs. Each state is a battleground. Hundreds of thousands of vulnerable mothers and their babies are counting on the outcome of their work.

Pro-life legislation is necessary, but it is not enough. Encouraging marriage should be an essential component of any pro-life conversation. The typical abortion client is an unmarried woman with a low income who already has a child. She needs something that no policy can provide: a loving husband.

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Benjamin Watson

Benjamin Watson is a former Super Bowl champion, the vice president of strategic relationships with Human Coalition, and the author of The New Fight for Life: Roe, Race, and a Pro-Life Commitment to Justice.

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