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The Secret Diary of the Christian Feminist.
Let’s talk through pro-life and pro-choice dichotomy. Where do Christian feminists stand?
“I’m pro-life,” I said.
It was as though I had admitted to an unspeakable, heinous crime. All of my female classmates gave me the stunned eyes, and one even scoffed.
I’m currently in a class called Court and Constitution: Individual Liberty and the Law. It’s fascinating how I’m drawing from and challenging my own morals and see what the law and Supreme Court cases rule about them — understanding the “private” in the “public” law. And recently, we finished a heated unit on the right to life. Of course, abortion, an inevitable point of controversy, came up.
No longer would women be oppressed under the hand of man who wanted to put women in their place at home or be victims of the horrid culture of rape or sexual assault.
Upon discussions, debates, dissents, and documentaries, I was overwhelmed. Spiritually, I felt like I was a bad Christian. Demons swindled and spun me around in a tornado of lies telling me that I was only a product of sin — a blood descendant of my grandfather who had aborted…
