“I think what inspired me honestly was just knowing that we were at a seminal moment in not only American history but [also] … pro-life advocacy,” Watson told Sabol.
He said he believed pro-lifers are in a “new fight for life.”
“This time period doesn’t look like it did before Roe was overturned,” he explained. “Now is the time not for us to shrink back and think that this is over but really to re-engineer and to reimagine what it looks like, to keep that same energy and take it up a notch, because quite honestly even though Roe was overturned, there are still women who feel like abortion is a necessary and needed option for them.”
Watson, a Christian, said a lot of work still needs to be done in the pro-life movement.
“There’s an idea out there that pro-lifers only care about children in the womb, and we know that not to be true,” he told Sabol. “It may be for some but not for most of the people that I’ve encountered. But there’s an individual responsibility: What are we doing with our own personal resources? How are we serving?”
Watson noted the 2,700 pregnancy resource centers around the country that serve women with educational opportunities as well as meet their material, physical, and in some cases spiritual needs. But he said pro-lifers must also be vigilant about state abortion legislation as well as speak to the issue at the church and home levels.