What's in a pill....

This year is the 40th anniversary of the pill, or rather of the Supreme Court's decision that "legalized birth control for married women and that laid the groundwork for later decisions on abortion and birth control for unmarried women."

You might think that by now the pill would have been pretty much accepted by everyone. Apparently not. Some pharmacists have refused to fill doctors' prescriptions for birth control. Believe it or not, they see contraception as a form of abortion. Pro-Life Wisconsin director Peggy Hamill claims the following:

"We want to turn around the contraceptive mentality," she said. "The mentality that is unwelcoming to the gift of life that is a product of marriage."

And this is not just some red-neck reaction, Republican Sen. Tom Reynolds has been trying to pass a bill that would basically amount to a pharmacists' conscience clause measure that would give them legal ground for refusing to fill prescriptions for anything they see as a form of abortion. Thankfully, some Democratic Congressmen proposed a bill yesterday that would be the exact opposite and would require pharmacists to fill prescription contraception orders regardless of their moral beliefs.

It just blows my mind that some people could have the sort of medieval mentality that would consider that the goal of mariage should be to have children. In other words, it means that you should only have sex if you want to have children. What sort of backward notion is this?

The good thing though is that it will obviously never work. Sex is too great a thing for most of us to have it only when you want children.