that time when I was 12 and forced to deal with abortion

[FourScore]

Thu Jan 19, 2012 at 05:35 PM PST
that time when I was 12 and forced to deal with abortion
by sexgenderbody

My parents sent me to Catholic grade school, catechism and the whole nine yards. My mother was Catholic but she was also a Democrat, pro women's rights. She dragged us to church but she was not on board with a lot of the Church's ways. My dad was Presbyterian and never went to church. He didn't buy into much of the rah rah business. But, Catholic school was where we went.

By the time I was 10, it felt like I had every sacrament except marriage & last rites. I had one clip-on necktie and a drawer full of white shirts & black pants. My instructors were nuns or priests. I still have scars on my knuckles from steel tip rulers being applied in response to some hijinx or another.

Until about the age of 10 or 11, us kids were kind of like a room full of puppies. Adults, nuns and priests mostly talked at us making announcements, scolding and instructions of some sort. Nobody asked us what we thought. We talked to each other in the schoolyard or on the weekend as we ran around on our own. We never asked the nuns or priests that much either. Nobody wanted to get pulled into some lecture about Jesus or some obscure holiday / saint / rite that we would then be responsible for remembering later.

That all changed around the time I was 12 or 13...

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[Historic NY]

1. I have to say I remember the entire scenario...

except we were taken to Albany as Catholic school anti-abortion protesters. Boy I thought it was going to be a class trip to see some stuff at the museum. I thought it was odd they were worried about killing unborn babies, but every night on the TEE-VEE death visited us from Vietnam. They told me it wasn't the same thing......how odd.