It’s about more than abortion rights.

It’s about women’s health, reproductive health & the health of the unborn fetus. It’s about the right to bodily autonomy, & the fight for women’s rights that has been going on for centuries. It has implications, not just for women & children, but for the LGBTQ+ community. It’s about the countless crimes & injustices committed against women, & the repercussions, or lack thereof, for the ones who committed them.

It’s a nuanced issue. It’s not black & white, & treating it as though it is may be the biggest injustice committed. It cannot be treated as if every situation is the same, & that women cannot make the best decision for themselves, their own bodies & their loved ones. It’s insulting, it’s disappointing, & it’s incredibly scary for a number of women who don’t have options that others have.

It’s not about abortion. It is, & always has been, about so much more than that. And all of that needs to be a part of the conversation, not just people yelling at each other from two different sides of a platform & never listening to one another.

At the end of the day, I think what we all want is to keep people safe & cause the smallest amount of harm possible. And once we realize that we have that in common, maybe we can shed these labels of pro-choice & pro-life & realize we are all pro-love. And then, maybe, we can actually reach a real solution that helps instead of hurts, lifts people up instead of tearing them down, & truly saves the lives of those we care about most.