Pro-Choice Pro-Life Let's Work Together: Reducing Unplanned Pregnancies to Reduce Stress on Women and Reduce Abortions

What if pro-choice and pro-life people stopped fighting long enough to work together on something many already agree on—reducing unplanned pregnancies?

In Pro-Choice. Pro-Life. Let’s Work Together, Wayne A. Van Der Wal, Ed.S., offers a common-ground approach to one of America’s most divisive issues. Drawing from personal experience as someone who has been both pro-choice and pro-life, as well as from years of counseling women and working with people on both sides of the debate, Wayne argues that prevention may be the most practical place to begin.

The goal is simple, but urgent: reduce unplanned pregnancies, reduce stress on women, strengthen support for families, and reduce abortions.

Rather than adding another shouting match to the abortion debate, this book invites readers into a more honest and compassionate conversation. Wayne encourages active listening, empathy, clear definitions, and solution-focused dialogue so people with deeply different convictions can still work together where common ground exists.

The book explores prevention and support from multiple angles, including abstinence, contraception, natural family planning, adoption, men’s responsibility, women’s support, healthy relationships, alcohol and drug use, sexual exploitation, pregnancy support services, and community-based outreach.

Wayne also points toward practical steps that citizens, families, churches, schools, community groups, pregnancy centers, organizations, and policymakers can consider, including stronger sex education, greater access to family-planning resources, better support for young parents, expanded counseling and childcare resources, and more compassionate local support systems.

This is not a book asking everyone to agree on everything.

It is a book asking whether we can work together on something that matters.

If fewer women faced the fear, pressure, and heartache of unplanned pregnancy, fewer women would feel forced into crisis decisions. And if people on both sides of the abortion debate worked together on prevention, support, responsibility, and compassion, we could build a healthier and more humane path forward.

Pro-Choice. Pro-Life. Let’s Work Together is a call to stop fighting long enough to start solving.