As a female, I am a supporter of Planned Parenthood. From providing STI testing to the affordable healthcare options for those who can’t afford their own to the condoms that they give out for free and are seen in college dorm bathrooms, Planned Parenthood is an organization that I believe should continue to be funded.

However, this isn’t about why I think Planned Parenthood is needed.

The end of March saw a Planned Parenthood from Pennsylvania tweet (that has since been deleted) that “We need a Disney princess who’s had an abortion.”

Included in that tweet was a call for a Disney princess who is pro-choice, who is a union worker, who is an undocumented immigrant, and who is trans. But the headline everywhere focused in on the abortion section.

I was sitting in the Starbucks on campus with a friend when I read this. I read it out loud to her and we both looked at each in disbelief. I mean, seriously? A Disney princess who’s had an abortion? How are we going to explain that one to the kids? Or even a princess who is pro-choice, or a union worker, or an undocumented immigrant? (Now I’m not including the proposal for a trans-Disney princess because there are little kids who, at such a young age, can recognize that they were born in the wrong body.)

I can just imagine my nine-year-old sister saying, “What’s a union worker? What does pro-choice mean? What does an abortion mean?” I don’t even know how I could even begin to explain that to her. Even more, how would my parents explain that to her? It doesn’t make any sense for young kids to be exposed to concepts that have little to do with them.

An abortion, or even being pro-choice, isn’t a concept that little kids, especially little girls, have even thought of, nor are capable of thinking about. To be quite honest, I didn’t know what an abortion was until I was 12, and even then I didn’t fully understand the concept until I was 14 and in my freshman year of high school. I understand wanting to educate young girls on their options by providing different beliefs, but these kids don’t care. What they care about is whether or not they’re ever going to meet a Disney princess.

The whole undocumented immigrant portion also threw me off-guard.

Sure, there are plenty of undocumented immigrants in the United States, but who said that all the princesses were American? Snow White isn’t—she’s German. Cinderella and Belle aren’t American either, they’re French. Moana is Polynesian. Jasmine is Middle Eastern. Princess Tiana from "The Princess and the Frog" is really the only established American princess, seeing that she’s from New Orleans. Also, how would you go about having an undocumented princess? I mean, I guess you could have the princess flee from one country to another and live undocumented. But then how would everyone else know she’s a princess? If she tells them she could get caught and deported back to her home country.

While I really want to applaud Planned Parenthood for proposing a more diverse group of Disney princesses, I can’t.

I’m here for being diverse, but please leave topics like abortion, undocumented immigrants, union workers, and being pro-choice out of the world of children.

A Disney Princess is there to entertain, inspire, and encourage girls to follow their dreams. Let’s leave it that way.