Yesterday the NZ Herald reported that a trial was beginning to make the morning after pill available free over the counter ( http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=204&objectid=10508753 ). Theoretically this is to reduce teen pregnancies. This is a shocker! The morning after pill is simply another form of potential abortion. Of course the recipient does not know whether they are pregnant, so it is not active abortion; but, it is potential or passive abortion. This is an astonishing decision. It shows that we have absolutely no concern for the unborn child. It is another example of child-abuse! Sure, teen pregnancies are a problem, a big problem. But the answer is not to respond to one problem with legitimising the killing of the unborn child! I am disturbed that the main response I am hearing is a concern that this will lead to more promiscuity. It may well do so, but that pales in comparison to the problem of killiing babies! This is another example of the horror we face...
The blog of Mark Keown, New Testament lecturer at Laidlaw College, Auckland, New Zealand. It involves comments on theology, life, sport and whatever comes into Mark's random mind.