The Abortion Ban is Worse than You Think

Hi, I’m Ana and I’m a recovering Catholic. I’ve been seeing people write about the abortion ban, and I need to make a clarification. It’s much worse than that.

I’ve seen multiple, excellent articles covering the federal abortion ban. These articles are fantastic and well thought out. However, my only criticism is that they do not explain just how far this will go. As stated, I am a recovering Catholic. While most Christian sects are virulently pro forced-birth, Catholics are just as bad, but quieter about it. So I’m very familiar with their beliefs, a thing that I am still trying to work through with my therapist. But it gives me a lot of knowledge on this topic.

“How bad is it?”, you ask?

Well. Let me tell you. Obviously we know that this is going to affect abortions. But the concept “Life begins at conception” goes much deeper than that. Growing up in the Catholic Church, we were told that no birth control of any kind was acceptable, with the exception of Natural Family Planning, or NFP. Also called the “Rhythm Method”, which sounds way cooler than what it actually is. Now, ironically, statistics show that 99% of woman in the US have used b…