In two different public opinion polls last year, a majority of Americans said they were opposed to abortion, while even more Americans oppose taxpayer funding of abortion. Strange, then, that a supposedly “independent panel of experts” recommended that the Defense Department require American military bases around the world to stock supplies of the so-called “emergency contraception pill,” also commonly referred to as the “morning after pill.”
Let’s get one thing on the table right now – “emergency contraception” is a dishonest and purposely misleading phrase used to condition Americans to believe it is a benign method to prevent pregnancy.
According to the Pentagon, an independent panel of alleged doctors and medical experts has recommended that American taxpayers should pay for abortions for soldiers and Defense Department personnel all over the world. I use the term “alleged” in front of the phrase “doctors and medical experts” because one would think that “doctors and medical experts” would understand medical terms like “conception” and “contraception.”
In fact, this pill doesn’t merely prevent conception, it can and does prevent a fertilized egg – yes, a newly conceived child – from implanting itself in the uterine wall where it would normally gestate and develop for the next nine months until the mother gave birth. That’s not “contraception.” That’s abortion. And taxpayer funded abortion at that.
Given that this panel of doctors and medical experts have been entrusted by the Department of Defense to make such a sweeping recommendation on behalf of our soldiers in uniform, we have to assume they know how the pill works –
and yet chose to ignore not just the moral question of abortion, but the prevailing pro-life public sentiment and the potential outrage of an even larger majority of Americans who are deeply opposed to taxpayer funding of abortion.
The news release by the Pentagon suggested the doctors on the panel were “independent.” But ultimately, the panel reports to the current political administration, whose 13 of its first 16 political appointments had ties to the abortion industry, including Planned Parenthood. Given that terrible track record, it would not be surprising to learn that they, too, have ties to the abortion industry.
The health and safety of young girls and women must come before political agendas, even in the military. All too often, when it comes to anything related to contraception or abortion, the rules begin to change. Had this decision been made without political or ideological motivation, it would have given great weight to the overwhelming body of medical evidence – in
addition to the moral issues – that demonstrate this drug and its side-effects are harmful to women.
What an irony that we send our soldiers into battle to protect life, while our taxpayer dollars are used to destroy life on the very military bases where they live and train. Both taxpayers and the soldiers they support deserve better.
