Yes, it has. Birth control is accepted in societies at the forefront of civilization, namely countries in the west.
Condoms and pills that prevent pregnancy are not murder weapons. That attitude is what helps AIDS ravage Africa.
Tom,
It is admirable that you take such a strong and seemingly well thought out stand in protecting personal liberties, primarily based on the law of the land and in protecting society from having religious morals imposed on them. But protecting personal liberties over the morality for the common good is a slippery slope in itself. It must hold true under your position that anything made into law would be okay because that is the law- whether it is in contradiction to the overall good for mankind or not.
Through your stance that the woman has a law-based secular “right” to have her prescription filled, that people have the “right” to take birth control because it is legal, and your belief that- just because it is legal trumps all else, you yourself espouse unto others the religion of “man made law” over the natural laws of our Creator.
What you don’t want others to do, you precisely want to do- impose a secular brand of “religion” on those who believe otherwise, just because it is popularly mandated for a period of time. Laws change and many court decisions are based defiantly in opposition to the constitution and for reasons of personal greed.
And telling others “if they don’t like it, they can live somewhere else” is also in direct oposition to your stance. If the laws were reversed and not fitting to your belief system, would you still support them or would you go live somewhere else or would you voice your concern over them?
One cannot honestly deny that this country was founded in principle to and in accordance with God’s natural laws, primarily by Christians and for God-fearing peoples. As such, I don’t think you could possibly agree that the founding fathers had birth control and abortion in mind as constitutionally protected “freedoms” as they wrote the declaration.
The question I ask you is this: Where do your beliefs stop? If life terminating pills and abortions are okay and if birth control over abstinence is okay because all are “legal”, will legalized euthanasia be okay, would legalized infanticide be okay, would human cloning be okay? How about legalized prostituation and marijuana? Once these are legal, is there any point where a law might seem to be morally objectionable and offensive to you, or would all laws be good because the populous voted them as such?
If the government of these United States of America passed
any law, would you still support it, no matter how grossly that law might disregard human life or the dignity of many?
I have to assume that there might be some possibility that you would object to and therefore, your stance is flawed. I can’t believe that anyone could hold true that man made laws should always trump God’s laws no matter what.
The reason that this country is in decline is because the populous will not take a stand for what is righteous and good and pleasing to God as He demands. This
is the tyranny of relativism. It’s too difficult, it goes against the grain of doing whatever it is that brings one personal pleasure, convenience, lack of accountability and self-perceived happiness.
A common moral stance
must be taken for the people’s own good as a whole. That stance always must be in conformity with God’s natural law. There is only one truth.
That is just the way it is and until this country realizes it and holds
that truth to be self evident; we are headed towards further separation, calamity and despair and the eventual breakdown of “civilized” sociaety.
