What a Catholic Nun Taught Me About Abortion - ‘If Nuns Ruled the World’ Excerpt - Elle
Girls didn’t get pregnant in my high school. Sure, young women took extended trips to visit relatives in a far away town or they “got mono” for an entire semester. But no one got pregnant.
It was a Catholic girls high school, one where we wore uniforms and elderly nuns dotted the lush grounds. During my sophomore year there was a campaign to pray for the fetuses of un-wanted children. We were instructed to name them. We were supposed to pray that they wouldn’t be aborted.
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I hadn’t given a thought to my high school since the late nineties when I graduated. That is, until I met Sister Donna Quinn, who has been front and center in the fight for a woman to be allowed to have an abortion. It was Donna who made me think about how wrong it was that the school never thought that they were making young women feel ashamed of themselves. That those young women were forced to keep a secret, one that was difficult enough without being reminded every single day that they were going to hell for it. It was Donna who taught me that there are Catholics out there who are willing to fight for a woman’s right to choose. It was Donna who made me want to pray for the young women and not their fetuses.
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