When I was a student at St. Paul’s Catholic school we learned about abortion and birth control and why both were sins. I went home and asked my mother what she thought about Birth control. She said she was for it and did not think it was a sin. She would not go to confession and tell a priest that she wanted forgiveness for using it.
Then she told me a story about her neighbor when she was growing up. One day she saw the neighbor talking and crying to her mother at the kitchen table. The woman was with child again and told my grandmother that she already had six children that she could not feed. Her husband was abusive and drank a lot. She told my grandmother that she was so tired and did not think she could have another child. I forgot about the conversation until a couple of weeks later she says her mother crying because the woman next door had a back alley abortion and had died of an infection.
Her children were split up and sent many different directions. Some went to family while the older ones went to adoption agencies.
My mom has been both prochoice ,pro contraception, and pro catholic ever since. I myself struggle with abortion but defiantly believe in contraception for a variety of reasons.
It pains me today to actually listen to Republican candidates actually state that they think without contraception bad behavior can be controlled. Really! I do not think that going back to the good old days will help our society or out children. I will not mention STD’S because I think that is a no brainer
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