I’m going to talk about abortion. I know, it’s a word weighted with emotion, but I am approaching the subject from a different angle that I know you will benefit from no matter where you stand on the matter. I implore you to hear me out.
Two enormous misconceptions exist on the subject of abortion, and they are the reason for the seemingly unbridgeable divide between pro-life and pro-choice. No one will ever “win” that argument because we’re focused on polar outcomes.
The misconceptions are as follows:
- Making abortion illegal stops abortion
- Pro-choice means pro-abortion. (No woman wants to have an abortion. Nor does any woman want another woman to go through one)
If we can’t get past these misconceptions, the fight will never cease. That is a sad notion to me because we are so much stronger together.
Beth Teliho 