ABSTRACT
Sue’s mother was a fervent right-to-lifer, busy circulating petitions against abortion for the Bishop in between birthing or adopting her approximately 25 children. She was equally vehemently opposed to education about birth control, and Sue watched as her sisters became teenage mothers and wives of abusive husbands. She felt the contradiction between the hollowness of her own “right-tolife” and the reality of the family violence she and her siblings faced daily while growing up. Her early experiences prompted her desire to rebel and led to her commitment to help children by making the world a better place, rather than bearing her own children.
