Goodness where do I get started? I guess I’ll jump to the point. In 2017 I experienced an unplanned pregnancy. I had just raised my first $200,000 for my company in January. By June I was pregnant. I don’t always share much of my personal life on social media because I’m one of those people that really values my privacy. And I feel like the social media space is super noisy and I don’t always want to yell into a room where everyone is already shouting. But one thing that I am face-to-face is honest to a fault. In 2017 I shared what it was like becoming pregnant unexpectedly as a start up founder. I wrote about it for Forbes- you can see the article here. As both a Christian and a woman I can see both sides of the pro-choice and pro life argument. And I can’t pretend to have answers around this debate. At the end of the day I had three abortions scheduled for this pregnancy that I tearfully cancelled each time and I never went through with. The reason being- I didn’t know what this child I was carrying was meant to fulfill in this world. It could’ve been the next Dr. Martin Luther King, Maya Angelou, Gandhi the next Jesus even. I didn’t want to personally step in God’s way for what he was willing to bring forth onto the planet through me. But this was MY PERSPECTIVE AND MY CHOICE. And I do value the fact that I had the choice in the matter and I value the fact that all women should have a choice in the matter. At the end of the day I miscarried and I was honestly so happy that God‘s will aligned with my own will in terms of the structure of my life. The only advice that I can say is if everyone on both sides of this debate can do a better job of trying to understand where the other people are coming from and have more compassion. I feel like that’s the only way with temperance patience and understanding that we are going to arrive at any common solution and not rip each other apart. (Continued in comments)