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[quote=Anonymous]I’m a 54-year-old woman, so the birth control pill and abortion have been available throughout my reproductive years, though I have never had an abortion.

I was raised Catholic in the 1970s, attending a parochial grade school and high school. Of the 17 girls in my 8th-grade class of 1978, seven (that I know of) became pregnant out of wedlock - anywhere from high school to a couple of years after college. Most are Caucasian, a few Hispanic. We were taught that b/c was a sin AND totally ineffective. We were also taught that abortion is a mortal sin. This was drilled into us relentlessly, so I have no doubt that this is why my female peers opted not to use b/c and wound up pregnant. Abortion was obviously not an option. Unlike girls a born a decade earlier, all of these girls/women kept their children. Most married the fathers.

Over the years, I have seen what played out. Now I am Facebook friends with most of these women. None of their lives are great, except for maybe one. Most seem sad and caught in a lower-class lifestyle. A few are mothers of incarcerated men. All except for one are divorced and on second or third marriages. None have wealth. Most did not finish college and work low-wage jobs, or don’t work at all. Strikingly, most have children who also have children out of wedlock. It’s like watching this terrible cycle play out all over again.

From what I can gather, all of these women are still strongly against abortion. I was spared their fate, so I view the world through a different lens. The older I get, the more I directly blame the Catholic Church for how my generation (of Catholics) wound up. While our priests were getting it on with each other at the rectory (documented), we were being taught a long list of “sins.” I feel as though I was raised in a cult, managed to get out, but still experience the pain of seeing those who did not fare so well.

The GOP needs an under-class to exploit and profit from. Their policies demonstrate that living children are of little concern to them. The Catholic Church and Evangelical churches need members to generate enough donations for church leaders to live high on the hog while “the faithful” procreate and shuffle along.

Restricting abortion access has never been about babies. It has been totally about controlling women and ensuring a lower class of sheeple. I have a 14-year-old daughter and I am genuinely afraid for the future in which she will live.[/quote]

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