Loss of Freedom
In Portland Maine, an eleven-year old girl can obtain birth control pills without the knowledge or consent of her parents. Read the article here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/18/national/main3379737.shtml
Read it carefully and if you're a believer, prayerfully...
I am dismayed! Richard says "There's something wrong there!" Schools have been gradually usurping parental perogatives over the past several decades, but this takes the cake. Not only is it medically irresponsible since we are talking about girls as young as 11, it is morally indefensible, not on the grounds that I feel it encourages young people to be sexually active outside the bonds of marriage (you already know how I feel in that regard) but that it debases the parent-child relationship, teaches kids that the only consideration of their sexual decisions is pregancy and totally ignores the horrors of STDs. In short, I think it's nuts!
What will we allow the "state" to do next? They already can tap our phones, hold us without due process if Homeland Security decides we look like a terrorist, and are trying to profile those who can and cannot get on an airplane. I love this country enough to die for her, but I am increasingly concerned at how many basic freedoms have slipped away.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/18/national/main3379737.shtml
Read it carefully and if you're a believer, prayerfully...
I am dismayed! Richard says "There's something wrong there!" Schools have been gradually usurping parental perogatives over the past several decades, but this takes the cake. Not only is it medically irresponsible since we are talking about girls as young as 11, it is morally indefensible, not on the grounds that I feel it encourages young people to be sexually active outside the bonds of marriage (you already know how I feel in that regard) but that it debases the parent-child relationship, teaches kids that the only consideration of their sexual decisions is pregancy and totally ignores the horrors of STDs. In short, I think it's nuts!
What will we allow the "state" to do next? They already can tap our phones, hold us without due process if Homeland Security decides we look like a terrorist, and are trying to profile those who can and cannot get on an airplane. I love this country enough to die for her, but I am increasingly concerned at how many basic freedoms have slipped away.
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