Regazzo, speaking solely for myself as a convert FROM Catholicism, it is not Absolute Truth that "an abortion--any abortion, for any reason--is wrong." (Full disclosure: I was baptized Catholic. By the time I came along, my family was NOT welcomed in the Church due to having a disabled family member, even though I had late relatives who were priests/nuns and a late godfather who was a military chaplain. Tell me how that was "choosing life," will you?)
I thoroughly respect your right to believe what you believe on abortion and profess that for yourself as dictated by your religious beliefs. But it is NOT MY BELIEF. I will NOT be bound by your Church's laws. And =I= am shocked by the "intemperate outlash" of a group of male priests who will NEVER have to bear the price--physically, emotionally, or financially--of a woman's unwanted pregnancy daring to talk about blockading clinics, lobbying legislators to pass anti-abortion laws, or otherwise interfere with MY RIGHT to control MY BODY.
My relatives who were priests and nuns? Believe it or not, they were pro-choice Catholics!
This is, as I commented above, the same Church that paid lip service to The Culture of Life yet *drove* my parents from their faith when they needed it most. And yes, I AM angry about that, for their sakes, though they are long dead. I converted from Catholicism for many reasons both personal and theological; one of the foremost was my refusal to accept that "any abortion, for any reason, is wrong."
I have a severely developmentally disabled sibling. Don't even THINK about telling me that abortion due to a fetus' disability, to pick just one reason, is wrong until you've lived the horror that has been my life due to having a severely disabled, violent, retarded sibling who destroyed three lives and damn near destroyed mine through trying to molest/kill me many times as a child. Because if you do, you don't know what the bloody hell you're talking about and I will slag you off like there's no tomorrow, let me warn you right now.
It's one thing to say "I'm Catholic, and I could never have an abortion." I truly do respect that. But when one religion is talking about attacking women OF OTHER OR NO RELIGION in the name of THEIR belief and trying to make it illegal for women to control their own bodies...nope, sorry, I don't think it's an "intemperate outlash" to be angry and make it known, as Nea has.
And no priest has the right to tell ME what to do with MY body. Ever. Period.
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Regazzo, speaking solely for myself as a convert FROM Catholicism, it is not Absolute Truth that "an abortion--any abortion, for any reason--is wrong." (Full disclosure: I was baptized Catholic. By the time I came along, my family was NOT welcomed in the Church due to having a disabled family member, even though I had late relatives who were priests/nuns and a late godfather who was a military chaplain. Tell me how that was "choosing life," will you?)
I thoroughly respect your right to believe what you believe on abortion and profess that for yourself as dictated by your religious beliefs. But it is NOT MY BELIEF. I will NOT be bound by your Church's laws. And =I= am shocked by the "intemperate outlash" of a group of male priests who will NEVER have to bear the price--physically, emotionally, or financially--of a woman's unwanted pregnancy daring to talk about blockading clinics, lobbying legislators to pass anti-abortion laws, or otherwise interfere with MY RIGHT to control MY BODY.
My relatives who were priests and nuns? Believe it or not, they were pro-choice Catholics!
This is, as I commented above, the same Church that paid lip service to The Culture of Life yet *drove* my parents from their faith when they needed it most. And yes, I AM angry about that, for their sakes, though they are long dead. I converted from Catholicism for many reasons both personal and theological; one of the foremost was my refusal to accept that "any abortion, for any reason, is wrong."
I have a severely developmentally disabled sibling. Don't even THINK about telling me that abortion due to a fetus' disability, to pick just one reason, is wrong until you've lived the horror that has been my life due to having a severely disabled, violent, retarded sibling who destroyed three lives and damn near destroyed mine through trying to molest/kill me many times as a child. Because if you do, you don't know what the bloody hell you're talking about and I will slag you off like there's no tomorrow, let me warn you right now.
It's one thing to say "I'm Catholic, and I could never have an abortion." I truly do respect that. But when one religion is talking about attacking women OF OTHER OR NO RELIGION in the name of THEIR belief and trying to make it illegal for women to control their own bodies...nope, sorry, I don't think it's an "intemperate outlash" to be angry and make it known, as Nea has.
And no priest has the right to tell ME what to do with MY body. Ever. Period.