Whose Morals Should Decide My Childbearing? -- An Open Letter to the Catholic Bishops

By Valerie Tarico

Bas relief of a massage abortion from about A.D. 1150. Image via Wikipedia

Dear Bishops –

In our struggle to get health care for all, you saw an opportunity to make sure that American women can’t afford abortions, a way to be the deciders for all of us.  You look at someone like me who has had an abortion, and you see a sin.  Perhaps you think that those of us who terminate pregnancies haven’t thought these things through from a moral standpoint.  Or maybe we are simply less moral than you are:  thoughtless, selfish, or promiscuous. 

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