On April 5th, U.S. District Judge Edward Korman ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make the “morning-after” emergency contraception pill available without a prescription to girls of any age.
In a public statement, Bill Donohue noted that a twelve-year-old girl in a New York City school cannot be given an aspirin by her teacher, even if she has a fever. The same girl cannot buy a large soda during lunchtime because Mayor Michael Bloomberg has decreed that it is not good for her. But now she can be given a pill, unbeknownst to her parents, that could arguably abort her baby.
Neither Judge Korman nor Mayor Bloomberg said what the aspirin-denying teacher should do if he saw a girl reaching for a large Coke to down her abortion-inducing pill.
This is what we’ve come to in our culturally schizophrenic society. Our moral code is patently incoherent, and the contempt shown for parental rights is astonishing. Hopefully, this imperial decision will be overturned.
