Two recent news items regarding so-called “emergency contraception”:

(1) Researchers now claim that a new morning-after pill has been shown to prevent pregnancy when used up to five days after sex — longer than any “protection” developed so far.

(2) Pentagon officials have decided to require all U.S. military bases around the world to provide abortifacient (“morning-after” or “plan-B” or “emergency contraception”) pills for the troops.

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These kinds of pills will abort a newly-conceived embryo by preventing its implantation into the wall of the mother’s womb.

Their manufacturers prefer to call what they do “contraception” rather than “abortion”, knowing that some people are a bit funny about abortion — even thinking it is wrong – which could be bad for sales. They try to claim that pregnancy begins at implantation, not at fertilisation of the egg.

Everybody knows, of course, that from the moment the DNA from the sperm and the egg unite, they form a new and unique human being — nothing further being added by implantation.

Other problems with “morning-after” pills include the fact that they are useless in preventing sexually-transmitted diseases . . . .

One might have hoped the military would focus on discipline and proper behaviour — because lives depend on it — rather than promoting risky activities.

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In the earliest days of contraceptive and similar pills, Pope Paul VI warned that contraception leads inevitably to practical atheism and irresponsible deeds.

You cannot defy the natural law and still have a relationship with the Creator of that law.

In Pope Paul’s words:

“If we do not want the mission of procreating human life to be conceded to the arbitrary decisions of men, we need to recognise that there are some limits to the power of man over his own body and over the natural operations of the body, which ought not to be transgressed.”

Having decided to ignore that warning, modern man (and woman) are now badly bogged down in a morass of unnatural, bizarre and sub-human technologies — such as in-vitro fertilization, cloning, genetic manipulation, and destroying human embryos in cold blood for certain kinds of stem cell research.

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