I’m a Catholic Who Could Never Imagine Having an Abortion

Yet, one thing keeps me from becoming fully pro-life

Harmony S
3 min readOct 3, 2022
Photo by Filip Mroz on Unsplash

So I love babies. My husband and I scroll through cute baby videos before we go to sleep and when we wake up. It’s very highly likely I will get preggies within a year, and he can’t wait.

We’re both Catholic. While I am a little bit more conservative than the typical American and he’s more liberal than most Jordanians, I still find myself having to get accustomed to the constraints from time to time in Jordanian culture.

Some of these, I welcome. I’m tired of being asked about pronouns. I just am.

I’m also happy to live somewhere in which I don’t have to risk being treated like I’m some batshit loony for expressing some religious ideas.

Other things, well, I’ll spare ranting about them, and instead I’ll be grateful for the general ‘look the other way’ approach Jordanians take toward foreigners.

So I mentioned we’re Catholic. You probably know how Catholics generally feel about abortion. Like, they shit their pants if you express any pro-choice tendencies.

To be fair, I see the arguments some of the time. You must be responsible for your actions. Sex is risky. Sex is also really wonderful and beautiful and not…

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Harmony S
Harmony S

Written by Harmony S

H A P P Y and you should be TOO!!! LIFE IS AMAZING 👏🦝🦄🌺🍭I write for ILLUMINATION, The Memoirist, Fuck Niches, and The Orange Journal.

Responses (5)

What are your thoughts?

Jesus was a Jewish Rabbi. Some of the oldest material in the Bible is an account of abortion as a trial by ordeal — The Test for an Unfaithful Wife — Numbers 5:11–31 — The…

I believe in a womans right to choose. Men have no business policing women's bodies. People claim to be prolife but we have children going hungry and living in poverty. Children that could be helped by leaders. To be prolife you have to care about…

p.s. Good article by the way. I understand and respect your stance on this matter, and I largely agree.
I'm pro-choice but not to an enthusiast degree.