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lostnfound

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16. Immediately after Roe v Wade, Catholic schools began heavy indoctrination about it
Mon Sep 21, 2015, 06:18 PM
Sep 2015

I think it is not just complacency. In 7th or 8th grade, or maybe even both, we spent four or six weeks on the subject of abortion. It was very clear what we were expected to believe - not only that Catholics had a moral obligation to never have one, but that we had a moral obligation to try to stop others from having them.

To their credit, these same religion teachers also taught us that war was generally immoral and the death penalty should also be banned, and that we had an obligation to help the poor. They were just as firm on the last part, and invited liberal Maryknoll sisters to speak regularly.

I think it was 20 years before I started feeling differently about it.

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