Reply #11: I am a year younger than your Mom

[HockeyMom]

although my kids are much younger (29 & 24)than you. I spent 12 years in Catholic school and my husband spent 8 years, although neither of our parents were particularly religious. That religious education was enough to cure both of us. We sent our kids to public schools and just went through the trappings of a religious training with them. Today neither of them are particularly religious. One of my daughter's is also a lesbian and we do support her. That alone would have been a major problem if we had followed the church's teaching.

I had the misfortune to have an ectopic pregnancy at 5 weeks in a Catholic hospital. I will not go into details here, but suffice it to say they thought that embryo had more rights than me. My only thought at the time was that I was going to live to see my daughter grow up. It helped me to survive and live through their hypocrisy. My life is worth more than a 5 week old embryo's. I am sure my daughter would agree with that. Her younger sister would never have been born if I had not survived. Living, BREATHING, human being have more rights than embryos.

I vote in every single election. It is my duty as a citizen and as a mother to try to leave my children with the best possible world my one little voice can possibly muster.