Moral Outcry

The US Military is nothing if not consistent. Perhaps our first clue should have been in late 2009 when Army Major Nidal Hasan was charged with killing 13 people at the Killeen Army base, instead of the 14 that should have been counted, since one woman was pregnant. We are used to the double standard in this nation that almost always charges people (correctly) with two murders if they are accused of killing a pregnant woman yet allows abortion as legalized murder.

This is why I was grieved, but not shocked, when I saw this article over the weekend which announced that the US military has decide to make the “morning-after” pill available at all US military health care facilities worldwide.

“The decision to carry the pill, often referred to as the morning-after pill, was based on a recommendation by the Pentagon's Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, an advisory panel made up of medical professionals from the military services, Pentagon officials said Friday.”

Apparently the Department of Defense is now in the abortion business. Citing a desire for “uniformity,” the Pentagon spokesperson told CNN that it was a “clinical” decision. This decision makes the abortion pill a “core drug,” which is then required to be carried by all department health facilities.

Once again, we see that our national level leaders are showing a disregard for the value of life. This pill is not simply “contraception,” as many argue. It can actually abort the baby by preventing an already-fertilized egg from being implanted in the uterus. While the military may see this as a fine line, it’s not. If pregnancy has begun, a life has formed. But clearly, to the military, what’s more important is allowing sexual behavior without responsibility:

If your superiors don’t count your baby as being alive, then go to the pharmacy, take your pill and get back on duty. And if you do it again, repeat this process.

This decision is wrong on so many levels that one blog entry can’t cover them all, but consider the implication of this with the fact that our nation continues to devalue life at a national level, not only with the legalization of abortion, but now with the much-debated health care plan. Consider that the military carries with it a power structure that could lead to a superior “urging” someone to go “take care of last night” so she can get on with her job.

It’s bad enough that this pill even exists, but now a new pill, which will kill a baby for up to five days into his or her life, has been introduced in Europe and is trying to get its claws in the United States.

Every little decision creates a path to a bigger consequence by subtly desensitizing us to its reality. How long will it be before the military considers this new abortion pill a core formulary, as well? When those who are elected and appointed to defend life and our own soil, turn and issue decrees that devalue the life of the children who are part of this nation, then something is grossly wrong.

Nationally, we continue to create an atmosphere of desensitization to life. Take a pill here, a “procedure” there, and pretty soon you control your “reproductive health.” Planned Parenthood founder and eugenics supporter, Margaret Sanger would be proud of this decision. And that right there is a reason to speak out now before the peace of more babies is held in the name of “clinical” decisions.