Molly Secor-Turner recently opined: “The same legislators
who are attempting to outlaw abortion in North Dakota are also attacking the
very programs that can eliminate unintended pregnancy, and therefore the need
for abortion in the first place.”
What have these programs actually accomplished?
Demographer Robert Michael claims a 45% increase in divorce due to
contraception. Additionally, anthropologist Lionel Tiger concludes
contraceptive use has generated more men who abandon their role of being good
providers. These are negative social consequences. After fifty
years of easy contraceptive use there are more divorces, unwanted pregnancies,
single parent families, and abortions: not to be mention negative ecological
effects (google hermaphroditic fish and the pill). It is painfully
obvious that NDSU has been unable to bring about coherence among the
sciences. Planned Parenthood providing sex education that pretends a solution
which doesn't work is at best a disassociation between the sciences
and at worst contributing to a proven track record of societal harm. It
is an intellectual embarrassment.
The exercise of individual rights has social
consequences. Planned Parenthood’s programs don’t work because they
generate bad social effects. NDSU’s partnership with Planned Parenthood
perpetuates the falsehood that their programs will make the world a better
place when the evidence clearly suggests otherwise.
Fr. James Cheney
NDSU Newman Center Director
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