S3 26: Contending for Life in a Post-Roe America, One Year in With Alexandra DeSanctis
The Strong Women Podcast
Sarah Stonestreet
2.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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We have been living in a post-Roe America for a year now, and it's become more evident than ever that abortion has torn our nation apart—affecting babies and mothers, families, civil society, and every area of our common life. This week we're joined by Alexandra DeSanctis, co-author of Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing. Alexandra gives us a year-in, post-Roe analysis of the pro-life movement. While abortion affects more than just one group of people, this week's discussion focuses on how it has affected women—even those who have not had abortions themselves. We hope this conversation informs and equips you to have meaningful conversations about this difficult topic. As Chuck Colson would say, culture changes over the backyard fence, which is why it is so important to be knowledgeable on how abortion affects those closest to us—families, friends, and neighbors.
Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing by Ryan Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis
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Mystery and Manners by Flannery O'Connor
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| 0:00.0 | Strong women listeners, we're excited to offer the Colson Center National Conference online. |
| 0:12.2 | Use promo code Strong Women, which is all one word, to get $5 off of the $49 ticket price. |
| 0:20.1 | For one low price, you can experience all the main stage |
| 0:24.2 | talks, breakouts, and panel discussions from our annual Christian Worldview Conference at |
| 0:30.2 | your own leisure. Visit colsonconference.org for full event details and registration. |
| 0:55.6 | Welcome to the Strong Women podcast, where each week we explore a deeper understanding of the humanity, value, intellect, and creativity of women. |
| 0:57.3 | I'm Sarah Stone Street. |
| 0:58.6 | And I'm Erin Kunkel. |
| 0:59.6 | Glad you're here. |
| 1:14.2 | My guest today on the Strong Women podcast is Alexandra Desa Sanctez, who is the co-author of the book, Tearing Us Apart, How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing. |
| 1:16.0 | I've asked Alexandra to come on because we have been in a post-Roe America for a year now, |
| 1:22.9 | and I wanted to hear Alexandra's insights on where are we? How are we doing in the pro-life |
| 1:29.5 | movement? And what should we think about and focus on moving forward? So in our conversation |
| 1:35.7 | today, we focus a lot on how abortion has affected women. And I'm not just talking about women |
| 1:41.9 | who have had abortions. Of course, they're affected. |
| 1:45.4 | But I'm talking about even just the view of women in the workplace, the view of children and how |
| 1:52.1 | women view their own children, the consequences from abortion reach further than we might think. |
| 1:59.8 | Glad you're here and I hope that this conversation is |
| 2:02.8 | meaningful and helpful for you so that you can go back into your spheres of influence and |
| 2:07.9 | engage in this conversation in a helpful way. So I'm glad you're here. Well, Alexandra, thank you so much for joining me today. Thanks for having me. Good to be with you. |
| 2:21.4 | Tell our listeners a little bit about yourself. Where are you in life and what fills your time? |
| 2:26.7 | Sure. So I live in Northern Virginia for now. My husband and I have been married for about two years and |
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