Abortion Doesn’t Have to Be an Either-Or Conversation

Amy Alspaugh, Linda S. Franck, Renée Mehra, Daniel Suárez-Baquero, Nikki Lanshaw, Toni Bond, Monica R. McLemore
December 8, 2021

tl;dr

Treating the decision with nuance and care is essential to reproductive justice.

This opinion article by a group of reproductive health providers and ethicists argues that just as almost nobody is entirely pro-life or pro-choice, complexities abound in abortion care and we must learn to hold two opposites. The reasons people have abortions matter because, in a reproductive justice framework, we can hold both the opposites of insisting that abortion is a human right and that we must improve health care and parenting resources for everyone who wishes to parent.

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