re: #243 buzzsawmonkey

That’s interesting, in that she was abiding by Church teaching by not opting for a (legal) abortion to keep her job. OK, she’d violated such teaching by having had sex outside of marriage, but it still seems pretty tough that her employers did not give her credit for refusing the abortion option.

That kind of malicious hypocrisy is all too common among puritanical antiabortionists.

My ex-wife had been a US Naval officer before we met in graduate school and married. She had been assigned to public affairs at a post in Italy. She was lonely, and began a relationship with another Naval officer. She used a diaphragm, but it failed her, and she became pregnant. She was also Roman Catholic.

Distraught, she went to her commanding officer, who was also Roman Catholic; he strongly advised her not to have an abortion, but to give it up for adoption there, and he would assist her in any way he could, and she agreed.

As soon as it was too late for her to have an abortion, her commanding officer called her in front of the assembled unit and publicly denounced her as a whore and a strumpet. Meanwhile, other female Navy members who got pregnant were flying to Germany over the weekend and having abortions, and suffering no career or social consequences.

She carried the pregnancy to term, and gave the baby up for adoption. And she left the Navy. And she left the Roman Catholic Church.