Ethics on drugs

Where will the judicial support for the refusal to sell Plan B drugs on alleged ethical or religious grounds stop?

With condoms? With IUDs? With birth control pills? Where? Would our judges support such restrictions?

Perhaps those with such high ethical standards ought to ask themselves how moral is it to bring an accidental and unwanted fetus into the world? It is no answer to say that the act of procreation was an unethical act and ought not to have occurred, for human beings occasionally act on impulse rather than ethics or religion.

Moreover, it is the woman who suffers from the druggist’s application of his morality. If religion is the standard, when Jesus spoke of the woman taken in adultery it was: “Neither do I condemn thee!” The male participant in the act often goes scot-free.

May the saints preserve us from such higher ethics.

Don Barnes

Spokane