Head for the Hills!!

Two recent media items caught my attention as prime examples of the willful ignorance that seems to pervade our culture. There seems to be a toiling, sweating, grunting, fighting effort to ignore traditional rational human thought. Day by day, the modern atheists walk around, seeking truths to turn on their heads, like so many stones.

First, there is the case of the Maine Middle School that has garnered national attention by approving a plan to allow birth control to be provided free of charge by medical personnel to students. The specific mode of the contraceptive is “the pill.” Further oddity – the school physicians authorized to distribute this pill are not required – nay, not authorized – to inform the parents of the 11-to-13-year old child, and hence, the child’s regular physician may never know that his patient is being medicated.

Forget, for a moment, the obvious medical wisdom issues at stake, such as the one above, and the fact that there is robust evidence that prolonged use of the pill is, if not dangerous, at least possibly detrimental to the overall health of a woman – so let’s start them on it at the age of 11.

Forget, if you must, that there is no legal way that an 11 or 13 year old can engage in sexual intercourse that I am aware of. At least, there is no one who can legally engage in intercourse with a child of that age.

One of the main proponents of this measure said the following (my paraphrase): “We can keep our heads in the sand about whether or not these young people are having sex, or we can do something to decrease the instances of teen pregnancy.” No one bothers to put any serious energy into stopping the culture of sexual immorality. We just hide (or kill) the “symptoms.” The institutions of sexual license and death – and do not presume that to be a hyperbolic epithet – such as Planned Parenthood continue to peddle their wares.

The second instance is that of a proposed plan (and I do not remember the location) in a U.S. hospital, pending probable court approval, to have a druggie “safe room.” This concept is already in practice in parts of Canada. The idea is that heroin addicts can come to the free clinic, (BYODrugs), and shoot up in the presence and supervision of a nurse, who can monitor the needle stick, and the dosage used.

The justification? This will prevent dozens of unnecessary drug overdose deaths.

Both issues use the “women-will-seek-an-abortion-anyway” justification.

These issues are not worth argument, not at all. There is no need to pick them apart. I feel as though our society is sinking further and further into this weird mire, and I find myself dissecting issues, coming up with arguments against certain things, until I realize exactly what I am trying to argue against.

And with that realization, I increasingly wonder why anyone should ever have to make this argument at all.