Economic boom for purveyors of poison
- Jul 31, 2007 - comment
Projections that sales of the so-called “morning-after” pill will continue to climb should remind every person who believes human life is precious that not everyone in the U.S. shares their perspective. Press reports indicate sales of the drug were $40 million since becoming available over-the-counter to individuals 18 and older last summer.
When a woman faithfully carries out the drug regimen, often called Plan B, within 72 hours of sexual intercourse, she can insure (to a high probability) the likelihood that an embryo will be blocked from implanting in the wall of her uterus.
The innocuous sounding drug is an intentional deadly potion for human life (at the point of a fertilized egg).
Those promoting this “emergency birth control” proudly report the increased availability of the drug is preventing the need for 800,000 abortions a year. They contend that Plan B works by preventing pregnancies, not ending them, given their view that pregnancy does not begin until a fertilized egg is implanted in a woman’s uterus.
Yet a great number of people of faith, including many medical professionals, believe life begins at conception.
So if the ingestion of a drug does anything to block the natural movement and development of that fertilized egg, which is what the synthetic progestin levonorgestrel that comprises Plan B does, it seems an abortion has occurred.
Stockholders of Barr Pharmaceuticals, the company that manufactures the drug and believes sales of the “morning-after” drug will double this year, must be giddy over the prospects of greater profits for the company. People of sincere biblical faith should be heartsick that getting rid of a human life is now so easy and so popular.
Prior to the August 2006 FDA decision to allow over-the-counter sales of the drug regimen, women were required to secure a prescription from a physician.
While efforts by pro-lifers to keep in place restrictions on use of the drug then were noble but futile, the fight to preserve human life remains less about changing laws and more about changing hearts.
When men and women understand and appreciate that God intended sexual relations to be within the confines of matrimony (Heb. 13:4) and that every human life is crafted by God and is precious to Him (Psa. 139), then the stockholders of pharmaceutical companies that manufacture and dispense poison that targets innocent, preborn children will find their portfolios suddenly less valuable.