Pro-Choice Catholic Testimony

I am an abortion provider. I am Catholic. I am pro-choice because I am Catholic. Confused yet? It’s okay. It doesn’t really make sense until you have seen what I have seen taking care of the women and girls who need compassion and safe healthcare and who look to you to shepherd them. I can see on my patients’ faces and in their hearts that adding a child to her life will cause negative health outcomes for her and that child. Two-thirds of my patients are mothers and want to be the best mother possible to the children they are raising. Some patients are struggling in abusive relationships and don’t want themselves or their children to be forever attached to that cycle. Some patients know that they will be great parents one day after they finish school and get a stable job, but that day isn’t today. Many have health issues that an unplanned pregnancy would exacerbate. Every single patient (of the thousands I have seen) wants to be a good parent when and if they choose to have kids. Every single patient wants to be healthy — mentally, physically, and spiritually. Every single patient has been good and deserving of compassion, safety, and health. So that is what I do. The sick, poor, and weak that we are taught to provide for and care for are right in front of us — the women who desperately need abortion to live a healthy life. Can you see them, too?