Former NFL Star Says Strong Men Are Key to Pro-Life Success. Here’s Why.
By Movieguide® Contributor
Former NFL player Benjamin Watson advocates for the pro-life movement and is adamant that strong men are the secret weapon for its success.
In an interview with The Christian Post, Watson said, “Since the very beginning, manhood has always been under attack. The reason why is because God ordained the role for men to be protectors, providers, priests and prophets in their household. In order to create disorder, you attack families. This is nothing new to the United States. This has been going on for a very long time.”
“If you don’t use your voice to protect women and children, there are other men and other people who will step in and do that to the other side and will look to snuff out that life,” he added. “Men have to understand who they are, they have to have the courage to speak out, and also realize that when men speak out…other people see that. It’s amazing how, when one person stands up and lights a fire, others see that and believe that they can do it as well.”
He’s said in the past that the abortion crisis in the United States is “in large part due to dereliction or outright abuse caused by men.”
Watson works with the Human Coalition, an organization committed to “building a pro-life, holistic, comprehensive care network to help rescue these women and their children from abortion.”
The father-of-seven understands that if men are willing to stand up, be bold and rise to the occasion of fatherhood, more children will be saved.
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“Men have to use their voice. The narrative out there is that this is not a men’s issue. Biologically, it is a men’s issue. By chromosomes, men have a role in this. You can’t have a child without one, so you do have a role in it,” he said.
“Men are only told to stay out [of this issue] when they have the view that life should be protected and supported,” Watson added. “They’re not told to stay out when they have the view that abortion should be on demand, for whatever reason, at any stage of development. It’s not that [they] don’t want men involved, [they] just don’t want certain men involved.
“We need men. Abortion and so many other social ills will not end or not be curtailed until men make it so,” he continued. “And that’s not to say that women don’t have incredible power. You do, but it goes the way that men allow it to go. The reason why we’re at this point when it comes to abortion is because men have allowed it to be so.”
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