[LWalk18]

Having grown up Catholic I know that most Catholics her mothers assumed age are intensely anit-abortion and would have gladly raised the child as their own rather than having their daughter commit an abortion. I wonder if NARAL passed out the scripts before the seminar?

Do you really think that her family would have wanted to raise a half-black grandchild in 1973? Catholic or not, keep in mind that back then many people strongly disapproved of interracial marriages/biracial children and would disown their family members if they married or had children by someone of another race.

[presidio9]

Do you really think that her family would have wanted to raise a half-black grandchild in 1973? Catholic or not, keep in mind that back then many people strongly disapproved of interracial marriages/biracial children and would disown their family members if they married or had children by someone of another race.

No devout Catholic in 1973 or any other year would ever have even CONSIDERED the alternative.

[old and tired]

Do you really think that her family would have wanted to raise a half-black grandchild in 1973?

I wouldn't have been thrilled if my unwed daughter came to me pregnant, but I'm pretty sure we'd have raised the child (as opposed to forming an adoption plan). Just to be clear, killing the child would never have been an option. You are belittling the impact Faith has on people. As an aside, my wife and I (Caucasian Catholics) adopted two Viet Namese children in 1975. Obviously, they were a different race from us and our other children.

We are all made in the image and likeness of God. And it's trite, but even the smallest children know "Red, and yellow, black and white, we are precious in His sight Jesus loves the little children of the world."

[wideawake]

The standard practice in those days was for the grandparents to raise the child as if the child was the mother's sibling, to avoid the humiliation of their daughter's sluttiness.

In the case of a biracial child, that would be more difficult - but a "devout" Catholic family would go the adoption route, not the abortion one.

[utahagen]

LWalk18 may be 100% right, but all that would mean is that this particular girl was understandably panicked and acted out of fear. That the girl herself may have been innocent on a subjective level is not an argument in favor of legal abortion. (LWalk18, I know you weren't say it is an argument for legal abortion.) Perhaps the real point we should make to the people who organize these pro-abortion "speak-outs" is that understanding why a woman would think she needed to have an abortion doesn't translate into objective moral justification for the abortion.

[redangus]

As a matter of fact I know a family that did just that in 1970. Old-line Catholics do not BELIEVE in abortion. A parent might push adoption, but not abortion.