Pro-Choice Catholic Testimony
“I do not regret my abortion. That choice allowed me to find religion, allowed me to graduate, allowed me to begin a career — none of which would have been possible if I had become pregnant.”
“I was 20 and in college when I had an abortion. I was on the pill, I and took it responsibly, but still somehow became pregnant. I wasn’t raised Catholic; I found religion in college, and in fact after five years of attending was just baptized through RCIA this past Easter. I do not regret my abortion. That choice allowed me to find religion, allowed me to graduate, allowed me to begin a career — none of which would have been possible if I had become pregnant. Abortion is ownership over my body, an ownership we are all blessed with. To me, the Catholic church is much like America: Because I love my country, I have a responsibility to engage with and change the law. I feel the same way about Catholicism. And just as no one can take my unalienable right to freedom from me. In spite of what some in the church believe, no one can take God from me either.”