LGBT Phobia Promotes Abortion: Another Story in This Vein

The Catholic University of America banned the Pro Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians from cosponsoring the recent Students for Life conference held on its campus.

The US head of the Rainbow Sash Movement, which promotes greater visibility of LGBT Catholics, sent off a media release protesting the exclusion. Students for Life and many members of the CUA student body disagreed strongly with the administration's decision. Which, by the way, was made with a lack of transparency--the same thing that shrouds many other discriminatory decisions.

As well as the violation here of the rights to free speech and freedom of association....If the voices of LGBT people are not heard in the prolife movement, the movement is all the poorer. How can it be about the right to life of LGBT people, too? And what can it learn to do to help LGBT people who are at risk for, or currently experiencing, crisis pregnancies--a very real problem?

LGBT Phobia Leads to Crisis Pregnancy and Abortion

This post originally appeared on the blog of PLAGAL, the Pro Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians. It appears here with the blessing of its author, Cecilia Brown, current PLAGAL president and a woman who has firsthand experience with the subject.

When I was young I knew I was different than everyone else. The only thing I ever heard when I was growing up was how “queers were *&%#*& perverts”. I spent my time trying to pretend I was someone else, straight.

As a result I ended up not with just one unintended pregnancy but two. One ending in abortion that almost ruined my life and the other the birth of my daughter. Because of this experience I have become active in the pro life movement and have gone on to become president of PLAGAL- The Pro life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians.

I share my story of how homophobia led me to pregnancy, abortion and how I came to the pro life movement to college campuses across the United States and parts of Canada. I have always known that pregnancy in the LGBT community was more wide spread because when I share my story many come forward to share theirs. For most of these individuals the only alternative to dealing with unplanned pregnancies that was ever mentioned was abortion. Abortion causes another bad can of worms to be opened up.

If sexuality were discussed in homes and in school for what it really was, suffering of so many would be eliminated. Finally I discover that someone else has been looking at the issue other than myself and has published their findings. To read the article that appeared in 365gay.com just click on the link below.

http://www.365gay.com/news/study-lesbian-teens-at-higher-pregnancy-risk/

The Prolife & Pro LGBT Group PLAGAL Joins the Blogosphere

While some antiabortionists are virulently LGBT-phobic, still others believe that prolife means the lives and wellbeing of LGBT persons as much as unborn children and pregnant women. A number of such prolifers are LGBT themselves.

Luckily there are friendly places online for LGBT and LGBT-allied prolifers. Nonviolent Choice is one of them. For example, we believe that choice in pregnancy prevention includes the right to choose same-sex relationships. (If you want to recommend any more LGBT-friendly topics or websites to us, please recommend them.)

But the hands down best prolife advocate by and/or for by LGBT persons is PLAGAL, the Prolife Alliance of Gays and Lesbians, a US based nonprofit that has been around since 1990, making bridges between communities that are too often miscast as diametrical opponents.

PLAGAL has long maintained a website at www.plagal.org And now PLAGAL has joined the blogosphere at prolifegays.blogspot.com/

Welcome, PLAGAL, from a longtime fan.