by Steven W.
Mosher President,
Population
Research Institute
A good friend—at least I think we're still friends—recently
told me that he had decided that the "solution" to abortion was more contraception.
Of course, this solution is not original with him. It has been around for
decades and is constantly invoked by the Barack Obamas, the Hilary Clintons,
and the Nancy Pelosis of the world. But as he is a professing Christian
(and should know better) I took the time to write him the following note:
Dear Rich,
You propose contraception as a
"solution" to abortion. But without the notion of
"unwanted" or "unplanned" children that the contraceptive
mentality fosters, there would be no abortion. In fact, many forms of
hormonal birth control can be abortifacient (cause early chemical abortions) by
obstructing the implantation of the newly formed human embryo in his or her
mother's womb. After more than 40 years of killing through surgical abortion,
and now with the new breed of chemical abortifacients such as Plan B, the Ortho
Evra Patch, and Depo-Provera, the link between abortion and contraception is
undeniable. Professor Janet Smith describes the contraceptive mentality
in this way:
"The connection between
contraception and abortion is primarily this:
Contraception facilitates the kind of relationships and even the kind
of attitudes and moral character that are likely to lead to abortion. The
contraceptive mentality treats sexual intercourse as though it had little
connection with babies; it thinks of babies as an 'accident' of
intercourse, as an unwelcome intrusion into a sexual relationship, as a
burden. The sexual revolution has no fondness —nor room for—the
connection between sexual intercourse and babies..."[1]
Of course, there is big money to be
made by Big Pharma in the population control enterprise, especially if
governments can be persuaded to buy these powerful, steroid-based drugs (which
pollute not only women's bodies but the environment as well) in huge lots and
distribute them indiscriminately in the Developing World. A lot of the
anti-people propaganda out there is thus profit-driven, which is reason enough
to question it.
As a Christian, I do not believe
that the same God who created us could have failed to provide us with a planet
sufficient to our needs over time as our numbers expanded. Of course we need to
intelligently respond to the challenges that our growing numbers cause, and we
do, but those solutions should never involve eliminating human beings. Do you
really think that the same God who brought us into existence to be fruitful and
multiply now wants us to be barren and reduce our numbers?
[1] "The Connection Between Contraception and Abortion" Homiletic and Pastoral Review, April, 1993
The pro-life Population Research Institute is dedicated
to ending human rights abuses committed in the name of "family
planning," and to ending counter-productive social and economic paradigms
premised on the myth of "overpopulation." Find us at pop.org.
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