Until this comes out of a man's body...

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92. i grew up with mostly catholics

one whose mother forced her to have an abortion when she was 14 years old. it wasn't rape, it wasn't pedophilia, it was hormones having their way with a boy and a girl at the wrong time of the month. the girl was 4 months along and hadn't had the guts to tell her mother she was pregnant, but that pregnancy was ended post haste. Later during a visit she did say out loud that although she was catholic, she believed in abortion. bottom line she was not going to allow her daughter to blow the next few years of her life (the girl was a gifted athlete) for a mistake.

another one who, finding out her daughter was 5 months pregnant and unmarried with no prospects, yelled "you have to have an abortion!" because at the end of the day, what the neighbors thought was much more important than what the pope said. the daughter in this case had no intention of ending the pregnancy and ultimately delivered identical twins one month early. while visiting her, some of the neighbors came to visit and they all remarked how they didn't even know she was pregnant. once grandma saw those babies she was the proudest, happiest grandmother imaginable. but she put her daughter through an unreal amount of crap while she was pregnant and had the baby not turned out to be twins, it may have been given up.

this went on during the 1970s. my point is many catholics practice birth control and are pro choice.

the only people that seem able to "force" a particular vocabulary on an issue is anti-abortionists. I refuse to refer to them as "pro-life" and protest that usage every chance i get. i'm pro-life, and i'm pro-abortion on demand.