Just came across this site. . .

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4. I am familiar with the YFC group.

It was not part of my religious background because I grew up in a theologically liberal Lutheran church and we had our own youth group that met on Sunday evenings. But I had a friend in high school whose father was a Baptist minister and she invited me to go to a YFC meeting with another girl that we knew who belonged to an Assembly of God church.

So I went to a couple of meetings with them on weekends when I didn't have other plans (a date or plans with other friends for the local teen dance held each weekend). They were deeply disappointed that I did not respond to the altar call. After a couple meetings, I declined future invitations from them.

During student teaching in college, my supervising teacher told me that she'd had an abortion before they were legal. She said, "What else could I do? I wasn't married and I was a good Catholic girl so I couldn't tell anyone that I was pregnant."

Say what??? Good Catholic girls get abortions? I was not opposed to the fact that she'd done it. Just could not wrap my head around her reasoning. She was a Spanish teacher and had lived in Spain for a year as an exchange student in college during the period when Franco was dictator of Spain. She praised his strict moral laws that made it illegal for girls and women to show their knees in dresses, wear shorts, or two piece bathing suits. Yet in her classroom, she wore very tightly knit, low cut tops and helped her students put Valentine cutouts on their bulletin board that had explicit sexual performance messages.

And she was anti abortion.

The dissonance was head splitting for me.