If I had the prolife platform to speak at the RNC or DNC, this is what I would say. (A thread)

The pro-life movement is a very diverse and welcoming movement. It is a movement built on a long history of diversity.

From Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul and Victoria Woodhull to Elizabeth Blackwell, Pearl S. Buck, and Fannie Lou Hamer; our movement has been lead by courageous women brave enough to demand women's ability to bear children be supported and their children be welcomed.

Even today, we see women and men of all political affiliations, races, creeds, and sexual orientations leading the movement forward to be welcoming to all humans regardless of their level of development, age, or ability. From @secularprolife, @RehumanizeIntl, and @ProLifeLGBT to

@ProLifeDem, @marjoriesba, and @aaplog we see a diverse group of professionals from all areas of life come together to support the dignity of the weakest members of the human race. From strong and outspoken women such as @Albany__Rose, @KayFellowz, @Terrisalin, and @NWFproTX...

to determined and soft-spoken women such as @StupidRock, @RachelKCrawford, @SDyksen, and @KammanSamantha we see a rally cry demanding women be lifted out of the shackles of the belief that their offspring must die for equality.

Abortion is not the solution to problems women face. It is a symptom of a culture that has abandoned both women & children. Abortion forsakes compassion for both women in disparity, domestic violence, & socioeconomic struggles as well as the child that didn't create the system.

Abortion creates a lifelong break in the relationship between a mother and her child. It tears down the responsibility and protection a father can offer his son or daughter. Men are wounded by the destruction of their children as much as women.

Abortion puts a wall between men and women as they seek to navigate relationships. Rather than open and honest communication regarding the responsibilities to and love for any children created by the most intimate act outside of birth two humans can experience,

abortion puts the onus completely on the mother to decide the fate of their children. Women are met by society with a shrug of the shoulder and an offer to kill their child. The response to women who speak about the lifelong grief and/or regret they experience after abortion is

met with badly misrepresented data and gaslighting. As a women who regrets her abortion, the response I typically get is that my faith or family are to blame. This flies in the face of the amazing support I have received both by members of my faith and my support system.

The truth about abortion is this: We have had 47 years since Roe v. Wade to prove abortion solves the problems women face as the bearers of the next generation. IT HAS FAILED.

Not only have women failed to rise out of generational disparity, but we have more single mothers now than ever facing the hardships of securing employment, obtaining an education, and raising children without the support of their child(rens)'s father or their country's support.

Rather than face the opiate epidemic and the harsh realities of domestic violence/human trafficking women face with solutions that leave their motherhood and womanhood intact, women are offered the choice to terminate their child and go back to the situations they were in.

As women/girls sink further into a position of being a sexual conquest for men, a pro-choice society offers them no alternative to escape the other than abortion. It places all of the ownership of consequences for "sexual liberation" on women.

While women should be free to give consent when and with whom they wish to engage in any sexual activity, the result of that consent should not be a society that leaves them alone with the burdens of child rearing or the wounds of abortion. We must rise up and demand better.

We must demand a society that embraces all humans in all their diversity. Humans of all creeds, races, sexual orientations, genders, abilities, neuro-diversities, ages, and political affiliations should be treated with dignity and respect. Our policy should be one of no violence.