Monday, September 10, 2007

How Many Assumptions Can You Count?

I was just reading this article on the Boston Globe website. It is stunning in the assumptions which the writer brings to the table. Let me highlight a few with a few comments thrown in.

  • "An increase in the price for prescription birth control obtained at
    campus health centers has some college officials worried that students
    will be at greater risk for unwanted pregnancies." - unless the students were abstinent resulting in zero risk for unwanted pregnancies.
  • "The price increase has left Massachusetts college campuses scrambling to accommodate students' needs." - this sure seems like a huge assumption. Since when has contraception been a "need" rather than a desire?
  • "Imani Williams, a sophomore at UMass-Boston, said, 'If the problem is
    children having children, then contraception shouldn't cost so much.' - how can it be that no one is thinking about abstinence as a form of contraception that costs nothing?
  • "Angus G. McQuilken, a spokesman for the Planned Parenthood League of
    Massachusetts, said his organization has been lobbying Congress to
    change the law. 'Birth control is basic healthcare. Making birth
    control less affordable for college students and low-income women is
    bad public policy, and counter to the goal of reducing unintended
    pregnancies,' he said. - if it's basic healthcare then why don't we overtly tell young people who don't want to get pregnant that the healthiest they can be is abstinent?
The above, besides being annoying reveals that the culture assumes that kids are rabid sexual creatures incapable of not having sex and that we should do all we can to support them indulge their animal nature. This is not only harmful but demeaning to those made in the image of God.



2 Comments:

At 11:57 AM, Blogger Robert Marshall Murphy said...

How about the assumption that having children is a burden? Whatever happened to thinking of children as a blessing? Oh wait! They interfere with my being able to do whatever I want whenever I want for myself! Of course they're a burden to assiduously avoided! >-P

 
At 11:32 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Good words.

 

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