Supporting abortion because you feel people won't raise each other's children doesn't make you prochoice. It makes you a liar of the worst kind; one who will march this evil sacrament, abortion, across the backs of the poor just to protect it. What you inadvertently admit, without realizing it, is that you feel women who don't have means should abort their babies. That's not choice. You can't blather on about it's her body and her choice and yet hold up abortion as the antidote to poverty. A woman who sees abortion as the only way to save her child from poverty has more than likely bought the lies that proaborts have marketed to her and now feels she has no choice. A poor woman who has an abortion leaves the abortion mill still poor. You didn't solve her problems. You don't find prochoice people outside abortion mills waiting to help poor women.
It's prolife advocates....everyday people who have families and jobs, and illnesses, and worries like everyone else... who help these women find free daycare, free medical care, safe places to stay when the prochoice boyfriend goes ballistic, line up their paperwork to apply for benefits, take them to their appointments, and offer them any help we can find for them before and after the births of their children. I have a lot of prochoice friends and acquaintances. Not one of them has ever, ever, asked to be part of any of this help that's offered to women by prolife agencies everyday, nor have they accepted an invitation to help. Instead, they talk about privacy and minding our own business and then they go off and say we're not prolife if we don't find a way to pay for every moment of a child's life, while they themselves do nothing for these families. They bitch about politicians, but that doesn't pay for one single diaper.
I'm not surprised that Julie is so enamored of this nun. So is Huffpo and the National Catholic Register....which ought to tell you a thing or two about how opposed this woman is to Catholic teaching. She has quite a history. In fact, Joan is so opposed to it that she lies about and misrepresents it, and then rails against those lies.
Mother Theresa was a nun, too. She said "How can there be too many children? That's like saying there are too many flowers."
And....
"The greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion."
And....
"If a woman can kill her own child, how can we tell the people of the world not to kill each other?"
She also said many other things about abortion and it's affect on the world.
But that's not a nun Julie will ever hold up as a voice of truth or reason or Christian ideology. Not surprising.