Dealing with Pro-Life friends pt. 2

First off, I’d like to thank everyone for their comments from the previous post. They were very helpful ^.^
Later that night, I ended up apologizing to my friend for calling her ignorant. After all, a small bit of politics isn’t worth friendship. She accepted my apology and further explained that she can’t help how she feels since she is Catholic (an excuse yes, but one I can live with). She went on to say that while she adamantly believes in pro-life, that wasn’t to say she was totally against women’s rights in the church and firmly believes that women should be allowed to be priests.
At that point, even if she wasn’t apologizing, I forgave her. It occurred to me that I was the one being ignorant. I find sometimes we get caught up in our own beliefs so much, we forget that other’s have their own. Just because she’s pro-life doesn’t make her any less of a feminist, just like being pro-choice doesn’t make me any less of a Christian. So with that, we both agreed to disagree. I hope someday she’ll at least learn that abortions in case rape-pregnancy can be permissible. I’d be quite content with that. Until then, I’ll just accept who she is and what she believes. I think that’s all I can do.

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