Once I'd realized women were not simply empty wombs, other dominoes began to fall. If saying "all women can't do something" was reductive, for example, how could I feel that abortion was definitely evil? I wanted to call up the Pope and say, "I'm young, and I'm pretty sure I'm not a genius, but this makes no sense and I can't be smarter than all you priests by this much." Either the Church's prescriptive views were being defined and presented by people who knew they were a lie, or they didn't know they were lying -- and I couldn't figure out which was more terrifying. I felt like I was on the other side of some wide chasm, looking back and wondering, What is everyone doing back there?
-- Cameron Esposito, Save Yourself, p. 77-78
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