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Podcast: New Books in Public Policy
Episode: Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis, "Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing" (Regnery, 2022)
Description: According to political philosopher Ryan T. Anderson and journalist Alexandra DeSantis, abortion harms everything it touches. It is an act of lethal violence against a child and leaves many women with lifelong regret and feelings of guilt and loss. Far from empowering women, abortion has reduced privileged women to serving as economic drudges to abortion-friendly corporations. “Pro-choice” culture pressures poor and minority women to regard abortion as liberating and presents childbearing as against their interests.These are some of the arguments in Anderson and DeSanctis’ book, Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing (Regnery Publishi...