I was born into a Catholic home in the early 70s. Went to a Catholic grammar school run by nuns, then to Catholic high school run by Franciscan brothers, then to a Jesuit university. By the time I was 12 or so, I no longer bought into the whole God thing – after that I was just trying to find something that would make me believe like my classmates. I never found it. But … the whole pro-life stance was such a big deal it’s hard to describe. It was just kinda assumed that as a Catholic we’d be against abortion. We were encouraged to protest, march, etc. and it was likened to killing a newborn baby just before it became one. I am firmly pro-choice but it did not come easy to me after all those years. Really for me it was the last holdout.
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