{"id":9451,"date":"2015-02-11T12:27:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T16:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9451"},"modified":"2015-02-11T12:27:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T16:27:25","slug":"do-catholics-have-crisis-pregnancies-moving-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/02\/do-catholics-have-crisis-pregnancies-moving-post.html","title":{"rendered":"“Do Catholics Have Crisis Pregnancies?”: Moving Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

(although the answer will not surprise you!)<\/p>\n

Let me tell you about a woman I know.\u00a0 She is a cradle Catholic and firm pro-lifer, happily married to a supportive and loving husband.\u00a0 She lives in a modern\u00a0apartment in a safe, friendly neighborhood, and her family\u2019s income is enough to provide for their necessities and a few luxuries too.\u00a0 She has a wonderful support group of like-minded family and friends.\u00a0 But last year, she\u00a0became unexpectedly pregnant and it was one of the biggest crises she ever faced.<\/p>\n

She was thrown into panic\u2013she had two children under 4, and already felt overwhelmed; she was on anti-depressants; they already had four people squished into a 3-room apartment, and couldn\u2019t afford to move; they had enormous student debt; and her husband was scheduled to be in the middle of an unpaid internship the month the baby was due.\u00a0 She worked a physically demanding part-time job, and the pregnancy brought with it panic attacks, severe insomnia and nightmares, back pain so bad it made her limp for a few months, and depression that occasionally reached the point of suicidal thoughts.\u00a0 She was angry at God, afraid of the future, and resentful of the baby.\u00a0 She felt horribly guilty that she couldn\u2019t view the baby in her womb as anything but a burden, and she felt ashamed to be so overwhelmed when she had such a fortunate life.\u00a0 She was so scared of another pregnancy after this one that she was flooded with temptations to take birth control or get sterilized.\u00a0 And once, at the darkest point, the thought of abortion came into her mind.<\/p>\n

This woman is me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

more<\/a>\u2013comments include other women\u2019s powerful stories. Also, notice how her family and friends carried her through this crisis. Every week at the pregnancy center I speak with women who have nobody to talk to, nobody to shoulder their burdens. That\u2019s much harder for them than the (also really awful) economic anxiety and hardship.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(although the answer will not surprise you!) Let me tell you about a woman I know.\u00a0 She is a cradle Catholic and firm pro-lifer, happily married to a supportive and loving husband.\u00a0 She lives in a modern\u00a0apartment in a safe, friendly neighborhood, and her family\u2019s income is enough to provide for their necessities and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[162,11,30,117,26,27],"class_list":["post-9451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mackerel-snapping","tag-abortion","tag-his-banner-over-me-was-love","tag-mackerel-snapping-2","tag-mothers","tag-suffering","tag-vocation"],"yoast_head":"\n"Do Catholics Have Crisis Pregnancies?": Moving Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"(although the answer will not surprise you!) 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