Don’t Take That Chance The June 13, 2013 newspaper reported that a court has upheld the Obama administration’s effort to make the “morning after” pill available to youngsters (Akron Beacon Journal, page A-2). This abortifacient (abortion causing chemical/drug) is known as the Plan B Contraceptive and anyone at any age may purchase it off the shelf – or soon will be able to do so. Until now it was available without prescription only to women age 17 and older. Since some girls mature and develop reproductive ability by age 9, you may one day hear a clerk at the local drug store telling a little girl, “You will find the morning after pill down Aisle 8, between the Flintstone vitamins and Crayola crayons, Honey.” Please don’t underestimate the power of this drug: it is a killer drug. It will kill new life found within the womb and no one really knows how it will affect the youngster as her body continues to develop. It makes one wonder, “Is Doctor Frankenstein behind this?” Well no, he isn’t. But unrealized by many Americans, there are Frankenstein-like social theorists working (under camouflage banners – this one of “women’s rights”) to undermine the role of parents and their teaching of morals and values to their children. Some in government have bought into this idea. Having seen where some parents fail to properly teach their children, the assumption is that most have failed to teach their children. The solution is to let the government do it. That way, all the children of America will be taught the same things and, presumably, will think the same way. This is not a new theory. It is indoctrination through propaganda. It shuts out opposing ideas, like teaching Intelligent Design alongside materialistic Evolution as an explanation of the origin of life. But back to the Plan B Contraceptive: when the news that any girl of any age (“Mommy, I want to go to the store and buy a lollipop and a morning after pill”) was broadcast on the Today Show, Al Roker acted stunned. The friendly weatherman soberly stated, “A little disturbing. I’ve got a 14 year old daughter and I’m not comfortable with the idea that you just go and buy this. It goes to obviously other issues as well, but I think it kind of almost in a way removes the parent from part of the process.” Did you catch the essence of Mr. Roker’s concern? “It… removes the parent from … the process.” Hey Al, guess what? You got it right! Melissa Harris-Perry of the MSNBC network recently provided this insightful remark on the subtle power struggle between statists (who want to raise your child) and parents (most of whom know nothing about this relatively new effort of sabotage), “We have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.” The “whole community” is left undefined, but any one with common sense knows she means government bureaucrats and the social theorists who influence policy. How do you like knowing your son or daughter may soon be their guinea pig? Who is going to teach my son or daughter morals in this “whole community”? Hollywood film makers? Politicians? Umm, okay – I thought about it and my answer is “No, thanks.” Long ago the Lord Himself gave to parents the responsibility of providing moral and spiritual instruction to their children. “And these words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart, and you shall teach them diligently to your sons (and daughters) and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up” – Deuteronomy 6:6-7. If you don’t teach your son or daughter what is morally right, then others will teach them what may be morally wrong. Don’t take that chance!