Alexandra DeSanctis and Ryan T. Anderson have written an insightful book in Tearing Us Apart. It’s a benefit to pro-life advocates and laymen both — and you need not read the entirety to grasp the book’s brilliance or value. While one may consume their work chronologically — I promise I won’t stop you — it works just as well as a reference.
They list the harmed parties as follows:
- The Unborn Child
- Women and the Family
- Equality and Choice
- Medicine
- Rule of Law
- Politics and the Democratic Process
- Media and Popular Culture
What I was most struck by in the initial perusal of the book is how the authors’ thoughtful structure communicates the profoundly public nature of abortion, a so-called private operation according to pro-choice advocates. But we corporately suffer from the destructive inhumanity of abortion, and it is to Alexandra and Ryan’s credit that this is so capably relayed.
Tearing Us Apart is the sort of book that will long sit near at hand, alongside Rodale’s Synonym Finder and Merriam-Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature. It’s a necessary text, and I cannot recommend it enough. Here’s the link.
Note: No, I was not put upon to suggest the book. I gain nothing from your purchase, and the copy I own was purchased with my hard-won pennies. It’s simply a laudable piece of work and worth your consideration.