{"id":161328,"date":"2017-01-27T21:55:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T02:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=161328"},"modified":"2017-01-28T12:32:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T17:32:39","slug":"benjamin-watson-at-march-for-life-you-can-change-the-course-of-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/benjamin-watson-at-march-for-life-you-can-change-the-course-of-generations\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Watson at March for Life: &#8216;You can change the course of generations&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Super Bowl champion Benjamin Watson delivered an impassioned message to crowds of hundreds of thousands of Americans participating in the 44th Annual March for Life on January 27. Watson, who is an outspoken pro-life advocate, specifically addressed the men in attendance, urging them to take ownership of the abortion issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe as men must stand up for the lives of the innocent and their mothers in crisis,&#8221; he said. &#8220;As important as women have been in championing this cause, you men must rise up and lead the charge. Even if it wasn\u2019t demonstrated for you by a father, you can be different. You can change the course of generations. Men: we can be silent no more!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9YPivkW-7nc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Watson works alongside the pro-life nonprofit <a href=\"http:\/\/humancoalition.org\">Human Coalition<\/a> to engage men in the abortion conversation, and has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenjaminSWatson\/status\/815284735928889344\">recommended<\/a> that men read <a href=\"http:\/\/abortionexploitswomen.com\">Abortion: The Ultimate Exploitation of Women<\/a> to learn how to become effective advocates for women and children in the pro-life movement.<\/p>\n<p>In early January 2017, Watson <a href=\"\/news\/ben-watson-abortion-will-not-end-men-stand-women-preborn-children\/\">stated<\/a> that, &#8220;abortion will not end until men stand up for both the lives of the innocent and the mothers in crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Following Watson&#8217;s remarks, Bishop Vincent Mathews of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) took to the March for Life stage to share how his denomination of over 12,000 congregations\u00a0is engaging Christians and the African-American\u00a0community in the pro-life movement in unprecedented ways. This initiative began last year, when COGIC entered into a <a href=\"\/news\/human-coalition-and-church-of-god-in-christ-have-new-plan-to-make-abortion-unthinkable\/\">3-year partnership<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/humancoalition.org\">Human Coalition<\/a> to bring pro-life resources and education to Christians and the black community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MHLDQErRZO4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As you stand here,&#8221; Bishop Mathews said, &#8220;you are protecting Black Americans and Africans around the world. My people are being hunted like animals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today, COGIC\u00a0is working to promote active engagement in the pro-life cause\u00a0by encouraging members to work with pregnancy resource centers, to adopt children in danger of being aborted, and educate themselves and one another on abortion and its effects. Human Coalition created a pro-life resource center for the church, which can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/familylifecampaign.org\">FamilyLifeCampaign.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/petition\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-160409 aligncenter\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DefundAd-400b-1-300x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pro-life Americans\u00a0comprise possibly the most diverse cohort in the country, yet we are united in our message: our nation, and the world, can and must do better than abortion. With unprecedented media coverage &#8211; thanks in large part to President Trump publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\/videos\/10154924535873728\/\">calling out the media<\/a> for decades of failure to cover the March for Life &#8211; we hope that more Americans than ever will be exposed to the pro-woman, pro-life messages we heard echoed on the March for Life stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Bowl champion Benjamin Watson delivered an impassioned message to crowds of hundreds of thousands of Americans participating in the 44th Annual March for Life on January 27. 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