Jennifer Fulwiler: "A Sexual Revolution"


One woman's journey from pro - choice atheist to pro - life Catholic...



Adapted from this source: The Jesuit magazine, "America," July 7 - 14, 2008.

"BACK IN MY PRO - CHOICE DAYS, I read that in certain ancient societies it was common for parents to abandon unwanted newborns, leaving them to die of exposure.

"I found these stories to be as perplexing as they were horrifying.

"How could this happen?

"I could never understand how entire cultures could buy into something so obviously terrible, how something that modern society understands to be an unthinkable evil could be widely accepted among large groups of people.

"Because of my deep distress at hearing of such crimes against humanity, I found it irritating when pro - lifers would refer to abortion as killing babies.

"Obviously, nobody was in favor of killing babies, and to imply that those of us who were pro - choice would advocate as much was an insult to the babies throughout history who actually were killed by their insane societies.

"We were not in favor of killing anything.

"We simply felt that a woman has a right to stop the growth process of a fetus if she faced a crisis pregnancy.

"It was unfortunate, but that was the sacrifice that had to be made to prevent women from becoming victims of unwanted pregnancies.

"At that time I was an atheist and had little exposure to religious social circles...."

A good, compelling read....! :)

www.americamagazine.org

Jennifer Fulwiler is a Web developer who lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and three children. She converted to Catholicism from atheism in 2007 an dwrites about her conversion at:

www.conversiondiary.com.