As someone else pointed out, most of us were adults when this child was *born.* I try to keep that in front of me. Add her relative youth to the fact that she practices a religion which *deliberately* keeps its practitioners ignorant and tells women that the whole of their purpose is to life support for a uterus, and you understand her position a little bit better.
The thing that always blows people away is that I used to be just as ignorantly anti-choice as the individual in question. Then I got out into the world and discovered that, as you point out, there are a myriad of grey shades.
She does, however, remind me of my favorite quote by Oscar Wilde: "I am no longer young enough to know everything."
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Date: 2004-12-30 02:51 am (UTC)The thing that always blows people away is that I used to be just as ignorantly anti-choice as the individual in question. Then I got out into the world and discovered that, as you point out, there are a myriad of grey shades.
She does, however, remind me of my favorite quote by Oscar Wilde: "I am no longer young enough to know everything."