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In reply to the discussion: WTF-- IVF is the same as murder? [View all]wnylib
(21,465 posts)ex mother-in-law to understand her view. I think she believed herself to be more Catholic than the pope.
Since I am not Catholic, I don't know what the church's position was at that time (1970) regarding loss of a fetus or even an infant without baptism. Or what their position would be on that today.
My ex and I were married by a justice of the peace to avoid the religious issue with the families. (Mine is Protestant.) But his mother called almost daily to say we were "living in sin" for not being married by a priest. Finally, to make peace, we agreed to a ceremony in the chapel of a Catholic church. Had to get a dispensation for him to marry a non-Catholic, go to the pre marriage classes, and I had to change my witness. A Jewish friend and her Catholic boyfriend were our witnesses for the JP wedding. My witness had to be Christian, preferrably Catholic, for the church wedding, which took place 3 months after the JP one. His family refused to acknowledge the date of the JP wedding as our anniversary. They made a point of
ignoring it and inviting us out to celebrate on the anniversary date of the church ceremony.
Five years later we were divorced, in a civil court. Since that was forbidden, I'm sure they considered me a bigamist when I remarried a few years later.