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CW: pregnancy loss
Regarding yesterday’s discourse I have a few things to say. To the priests that follow me, I hope you can read this with an open, soft heart.
For every discussion that takes place on this platform, there is multiple people who have experienced loss.
Regarding yesterday’s discourse I have a few things to say. To the priests that follow me, I hope you can read this with an open, soft heart.
For every discussion that takes place on this platform, there is multiple people who have experienced loss.
Some are men, ALL are women. And while many of you feel the need to dissect the minutia of illicit and licit procedures and rules, every woman who sees you doing this has had to process the loss, physically, emotionally, spiritually and mentally. It’s A LOT.
So while you are casually debating whether or not the medical procedures that may leave us infertile or half as fertile or, at worst, dead, we sit on the sidelines and feel completely dehumanized.
Rendered down to our reproductive value by those that dismiss our personhood.
Rendered down to our reproductive value by those that dismiss our personhood.
There absolutely must be more room for pastoral care and compassion for non-clergy. Learn more, read more, understand more before you open your mouth or your app. Do better, because *that* is how to be pro-life.
