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1. Marty

   1 year ago

   The real issue is not whether or not a woman should not have sex if she isnt able to be responsible for a baby....the issue is that society has grown so immoral that for many women marriage is not on the table for them once they do get pregnant out of wedlock. Men are using women to the max these days and if a woman does not put out she will never have a boyfriend let alone a husband. As long as other women are out there having sex with the young men, the women who truly wants a relationship is denied one even if she gets pregnant. Let's give these women a break here and start looking at society as a whole for the problem of abortion and make the entire society including the men responsible as well.

2. Turyatemba Alex

   3 years ago

   i have never read such an informative and well articulated article.someday i will give some of these views a wider readership.Every living soul needs this! Thanks Jennifer

3. Anonymous

   3 years ago

   I've never seen this explained quite so clearly or consicely as was done here. Thank you so much for putting such eloquent words to what many of us are thinking!!

4. KHanley

   3 years ago

   Wonderful article! I so rarely see the discussion of abortion linked to the contraceptive mentality. This issue really needs to be discussed and people need to hear about it. When I was married in the Church (as a non-Catholic at the time) I didn't see any discussion about contraception. So I took the lack of discussion to mean my husband and I could do whatever we wanted. In hindsight, I wish I had heard these voices talking about the issue of sex, and marriage and contraception etc. It would have been very helpful. And at this point in time, it is a very helpful discussion to engage people in because we will NEVER get rid of abortion (or homosexual "marriage" or legalized polygamy etc) if we don't get people to really understand the meaning of sex. Yes, there are challenges to NFP and abstinence (and other Church approved methods), but I'll take those challenges any day over the problems we had when we were using birth control! And most importantly, this new sexual counter-revolution gives clarity to how we will teach these topics to our own children (something we certainly never had growing up!)

5. Vance

   3 years ago

   Jennifer, you hit the nail on the head. I like Sue's "Home based working mother". This sexual counter-revolution must be waged from the pulpit. I am 64 and have never ever heard what you articulated from the pulpit. I've heard protestant televangelists articulating what you said. ABC, NBC, and CBS have sitcoms that glorify casual sex. MTV is probably the worse offender. Catholic schools and the Sunday pulpits are places that can address these issues to a large audience. I enjoy your articles.

6. Jean

   3 years ago

   Regarding "stay at home mom".
   
   How about just plain wife, mother, partner and being a mother is fulltime work as well as worker in the work force.

7. Elizabeth

   3 years ago

   Thank you for writting this. It says what my parents always taught me and I hope to teach my children.

8. Sue Chapman

   3 years ago

   Some great words here, similar to sentiments I express when leading sessions on this topic with teenagers. Just a small thought- can we have another term for "stay at home" mum ? That was my parenting choice but not my choice of term to describe myself as it has such negative connotations. The question of "Do you work" is also odd ("no I just sit in the corner and stare at the walls all day"???!!!) so perhaps we could shock a few people by saying "home based working mother"?

9. Pam

   3 years ago

   Jennifer, Your article is excellent. At the same time, when you say that: "(In no way am I speaking here to women who are victims of violent assault. No woman chooses to be raped.)" I fear women who have been raped may think that the "in no way...." means that in the case of rape, it is okay to choose to have an abortion. The state made this an exception in the past when abortion was against the law, but the case of rape does not make abortion a moral "good" or "right." The woman has no "right" to take that innocent human life. No doubt the experience is incredibly traumatic for the mother, but adoption is the "good" and viable alternative, if she can't accept the child into her life.

10. Angela

    3 years ago

    AMEN! I am trying to teach the love of life with my daughters and I am praying other parents are doing the same. My husband and I study the Theology of the Body,(beautiful)but can not see it in the works around the world. we have to make it better for our children.

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