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Related: About this forumCatholic nun explains pro-life in a way that will stun many Republican lawmakers
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Catholic nun explains pro-life in a way that will stun many Republican lawmakers
In one simple quote, Sister Joan Chittister, O.S.B. sums up the hypocrisy in the 'pro-life' movement:
"I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is."
This quote applies well to many Republican lawmakers and anti-choice extremists who continue to introduce/pass misogynist laws restricting a woman's reproductive rights. At the same time, the GOP works to shut down women's health clinics, with a special vengeance towards Planned Parenthood (#StandWithPP). You don't hear of these Right Wing anti-choice extremists adopting children from unplanned pregnancies. But you do hear of them cutting government programs like school lunches for children, cutting government financial and heath care aid to families who are homeless and/or in need, and blocking free college education. No, the goals of these hypocrites seem to be more about controlling women's bodies and women's futures. It's good to hear Sister Chittister, a Benedictine nun, define the GOP double talk so well.
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Catholic nun explains pro-life in a way that will stun many Republican lawmakers (Original Post)
Panich52
Jul 2015
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TexasProgresive
(12,343 posts)1. I love Sister Joan
but they will dismiss her as one of those liberal heretic Catholic nuns. Probably have already for other things she has written and said.
Kath1
(4,309 posts)2. She said it all!
So true. So sad.
Wonderful for a Catholic nun to point this out.
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