I feel outraged at Michigan’s Republican-dominated Legislature making a successful effort to impose the basic moral conduct required of extreme Christian religions on a woman’s reproductive choices. I saw up close what imposing the Church’s reproductive viewpoints meant in my community more than 80 years ago. Number one and perhaps the most important? Don’t have sex (when hormones are raging) until married or God will punish you. That was basically all the sex education you got.
Typical families were five to nine kids because contraceptives weren’t available. Having an unwanted pregnancy was an absolute nightmare, especially if you were a young girl. Goodbye high school and move miles away to live with no one near to hug so as to escape the unmerciful finger-pointing and humiliation. Women were desperate, even suicidal.
Religion spent most my lifetime spreading hatred toward homosexuals and sex before marriage, and since they finally lost the homosexual battle, they have doubled their forces and energy to impose extraordinary extreme reproductive measures which is precisely a Catholic/evangelical compulsory pregnancy point of view, and that view is letting it be God’s will and it is happening in Republican-dominated legislatures and Catholic hospitals.
Larry Little
Vancouver
