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- From: hrose@eff.org (Helen Trillian Rose)
- Subject: Re: PREGNANCY
- In-Reply-To: mjsmith@cac.washington.edu's message of 28 Jan 93 16:39:49 GMT
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- Martha> == Martha Smith <mjsmith@cac.washington.edu>
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- |> The only thing that will make you feel guilty about abortion is a priest.
- |>
-
- Martha> As a devout Catholic woman I object to this statement - a
- Martha> priest should never be what makes me feel guilty - nor any
- Martha> other human being for that matter. I feel guilty based upon my
- Martha> relationship with God. While you say that you did not seek the
- Martha> church's advice, the more relevant question is did you seek
- Martha> God's?
-
- I disagree. Priests and other preachers of the catholic church (nuns,
- etc). Take Catholic school for instance. They take you when you're as
- young as 4 (in England) and start teaching you *their* morals. They
- teach you what *they* want you to know. I went to an all-girls high
- school. They were teaching us feminism and anti-abortion beliefs side by
- side. Most people I know call this contradictory. And it was all taught
- by priests and nuns. I was twelve, and a (young) freshman. All of our
- physical science class were taken into a room, by a Nun (not our
- physical science teacher -- she was a lay-teacher) and shown "The Silent
- Scream", and then a priest came in and lectured us on how right it was.
- There was anti-abortion propaganda *all over* the school. Girls weren't
- taught what condoms were, or how to use them, even in an age where AIDS
- was rearing its ugly head (early-mid 1980s).
-
- So don't tell me that a priest can't make you feel guilty. They're
- better at guilt than just about anyone.
-
- --Helen
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- Helen Trillian Rose <hrose@kei.com, hrose@eff.org>
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