Slavery was settled law for a century or so in the US, so
Posted on: January 9, 2018 at 12:05:49 CT
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that argument is a silly one. Sometimes the law is horrifically immoral as was the case in Nazi Germany and with regards to slavery and abortion in the U.S..
"do you support making access to birth control readily available for women in every village, town and city in this country as a means of reducing what you call this slaughter of innocents?"
No. Substituting one evil, though less egregious for another is not the best way to go. In fact, originally, Margaret Sanger et al argued that legalizing artificial contraception would make "every child a wanted child", but that lie has been exposed by the results of following her recommendations.
The pope at the time warned of what would happen and his predictions have been born out. The marital act would be separated from its natural function and women would be the biggest losers due to the consequences of this separation. Adultery and promiscuity would grow common, marriages would be destroyed and more children would grow up in single parent households. We also saw the legalization of the deliberate slaughter of innocent unborn children, based upon the same made up Supreme Court "penumbra of a constitutional right" to privacy they used to void laws against artificial contraception. The net result has been a tremendous loss of morals in our society and the widespread breakup of the nuclear family that had been the bedrock of our society since its inception.
That doesn't mean that I'm pushing for laws to put people in jail for using contraceptives, but it does mean that the government has no role in trying to promote it.