Dare I say "Amen"? I was a pregnant 16 year old Catholic girl in 1970 when my priest gave me the money for an abortion. He didn't make me feel guilty or ask for anything in return.
At about the same time, the Unitarian Universalist church in Dallas TX was raising money to fund the team led by Sarah Weddington to bring the case that is now known as "Roe v. Wade."
I'm now an active Unitarian Universalist, drawn to the church in part because of the denomination's stand on reproductive rights. The priest who supported me in 1970 disappeared suddenly and the Catholic Church has amped up its misogyny to the point where Catholics were bombarded with pro-Trump messages in 2016 and 2020. The Church has a single message to its voters: the only issue is abortion. Meanwhile Catholic women get abortions every day. Many Catholics are strongly pro-choice and just keep their silence in the pews. I can't fathom a way out of it, which is why I left the Church.
Because women for the most part internalize the misogyny of the culture. Even the precept of God in Christianity is the all powerful male, God the Father. Where is God the Mother or a genderless all powerful ultimate being? Even for the non religious most women who get married change their last name. But if you asked a man who was marrying a woman if they were changing or hyphenating their name you would be laughed out of the room. Until women, not the majority, but let’s say 20% , refuse to accept the misogyny of the culture nothing will fundamentally improve.
Dare I say "Amen"? I was a pregnant 16 year old Catholic girl in 1970 when my priest gave me the money for an abortion. He didn't make me feel guilty or ask for anything in return.
At about the same time, the Unitarian Universalist church in Dallas TX was raising money to fund the team led by Sarah Weddington to bring the case that is now known as "Roe v. Wade."
I'm now an active Unitarian Universalist, drawn to the church in part because of the denomination's stand on reproductive rights. The priest who supported me in 1970 disappeared suddenly and the Catholic Church has amped up its misogyny to the point where Catholics were bombarded with pro-Trump messages in 2016 and 2020. The Church has a single message to its voters: the only issue is abortion. Meanwhile Catholic women get abortions every day. Many Catholics are strongly pro-choice and just keep their silence in the pews. I can't fathom a way out of it, which is why I left the Church.
Because women for the most part internalize the misogyny of the culture. Even the precept of God in Christianity is the all powerful male, God the Father. Where is God the Mother or a genderless all powerful ultimate being? Even for the non religious most women who get married change their last name. But if you asked a man who was marrying a woman if they were changing or hyphenating their name you would be laughed out of the room. Until women, not the majority, but let’s say 20% , refuse to accept the misogyny of the culture nothing will fundamentally improve.