Jen at Et, Tu has an excellent article in America: “A Sexual Revolution”  about her journey from pro-choice atheist to pro-life Catholic. Really quite good.
Speaking of such journeys, I want to take you back many years to an article that was published in Commonweal in 1996 by Heather King – I clipped it at the time and used it in my classes. It’s a hard piece because of King’s experiences with abortion, but it’s all the more deeply hopeful because of that, too.
“One Woman’s Journey.”

The truth in my case is that there was not only enough to go round, there would probably have been more than most of the rest of the world will ever enjoy: maybe not an expensive home or fancy cars–I don’t have those things now–but nourishing food and a roof over our heads and comfortable clothes. There would have been books and music and museums. It would have meant sacrifice, deferred plans, missed vacations, no slipcovered down sofa, no hundred-dollar shoes, but there would have been enough. The truth was that I simply did not want to share.

Heather King’s website, with information about her most recent book, Redeemed.

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