In the midst of all
the (quite appropriate) turmoil about the Obama Administrations
frontal assault on religious freedom, there's one thing that I've
seen very little commentary on – yet.
What I'm referring
to is the categorization of contraceptives, sterilization, and
abortifacients (i.e. the “morning after” pill) as “preventative
services”. This is the guise under which this mandate is being
sold to the public, and nobody seems to be questioning it. After
all, aren't “preventative services” always a good thing? Isn't
it better to prevent a problem than to have to deal with it?
It depends on what's
being prevented. Most preventative services are therapies (e.g.
vaccines) or tests (e.g. mammograms & colonoscopies) designed to
head off a dangerous disease or condition. Clearly, preventions such
as these are good and desirable.
But what disease or
condition are contraceptives, sterilization, and abortifacients
preventing? Most moderns would answer “pregnancy”. But
pregnancy is simply a stage in human development, a form that humans
take. So what are these “services” really “preventing”?
People.
That's the “plague”.
That's the danger that our government fears so much that it is
willing to go to such lengths to prevent. In these modern times
there are a lot of reasons offered for this, from neo-Malthusian
dread to the selfish creed of radical individualism. But it's an old
fear – we see it in the first chapter of Exodus, where the
Egyptians are alarmed at how fruitful the Hebrews are while they (as
is common with sophisticated cultures) were not. This hatred of
people, particularly of children, is the creed for which
contraception is a sacrament and which does not shrink from murder to
spread its “gospel”.
This is the voice of
hell itself. This is Alcasan's head talking. Movie scenes portraying
the demon-possessed uttering maledictions in alien voices are penny
ante. When the leader of the richest, most powerful nation in
history publicly mandates “preventative services”, by that
meaning preventing children, that is echoing the oldest evil in
history. And when we as a culture not only understand what he means,
but think it typical and unremarkable, then we have passed into
darkness far beyond any Hollywood theatrics.
The cat is truly out
of the bag, for anyone who takes the 30 seconds necessary to think
clearly about this issue and see past the smokescreen being thrown up
to fool the foolish. This is not about freedom or healthcare or
anything else. It's not even “about” religious freedom (though
that is being trampled along the way.) It's about using the
resources and power of the secular state to insure there are fewer
children. Mandated access to chemical and surgical castration, and
chemical (and ultimately, surgical) abortion. (Don't think for a
minute that isn't part of the plan, or that they can't do it because
it's illegal. The law isn't stopping them now, and it won't stop
them when they decide to make that part of the package.)
The days are dark,
and getting darker. Blood is already being shed in this fight, and
even more will be shed before it is resolved. Resolution may lie on
the far side of complete societal collapse (or the Lord's return –
maranatha!) But none of us
should be in the least confused regarding what this is really about.
