Breaking News: Sex Causes Babies...

“Yes it’s hard to believe, but scientists have discovered a link between intercourse and the generation of human life.”

I would not be surprised to read this headline in the newspaper one morning. We have completely divorced nature from our bodies, which we now operate like machines. Everybody’s machine-um-body, is their own to do whatever they want with right? I mean, no one can agree on any absolutes. To each his own, ya know, whatever floats your boat. Except for, of course, one common fact that all people believe in: the right to have sex with anyone at anytime with out any “consequences.” And by “consequences” we mean disease or babies. But don’t try mentioning the first thing that comes to your mind, that seems so obvious: What about just not having sex? Unless you want to be accused of hating freedom, don’t throw around that abstinence talk in mixed company. That’s as offensive as it gets today.

You’re 11 and having sex? No biggie. Start taking a regular dosage of estrogen once a month for the rest of your life-well until your 30 and you’ve climbed the corporate ladder-then you can have one kid, maybe two, if for some odd reason a pet cat or dog isn’t satisfying you. We won’t mention the fact that the "pill" gives you increased risks of some small health concerns, you know, blood clots, strokes, the usual. Not to mention the fact you’re at least twice as likely to have miscarriages and you need at least a year of being off the “pill” before your body can adjust to not being heavily drugged. But all these health issues and more are apparently worth it for the sake of preserving immorality.

Why does our society, who worships science and medicine, refuse to acknowledge how horrible the “pill” is for you? It’s not because they don’t know, that’s for sure. It’s because sex is happiness and freedom-that is-sex with out consequences. And birth control allows for this great “freedom.” Abstinence programs? No, they are just manipulation used by some crazy religious groups seeking to impose their concern for life on the rest of the world. Society needs the pill no matter what the cost because they worship the great sexual “freedom” that it affords. (Cost also being very important monetarily, the pill is multi-million dollar industry, abstinence raises approximately $0 dollars a year).

So basically; Sex, good. Babies, bad. Solution? The pill. The pill didn’t work? Plan B: here try this pill, the morning after pill. Still pregnant? What madness. Here, have an abortion. Adoption? What a ridiculous suggestion. You shouldn't have to go through that. It's not like anything you did merits a birth.

Condoms, the pill, abortion, getting your “tubes tied.” Barren wombs are what America desires. Perhaps I have read the past 3,000 years or so of history a bit differently than some, but I seem to recall a child always being a wonderful thing, a blessing if I dare to use such an offensive deity-implying word. A new life came from your own loins, to pass on your family line! Getting pregnant means something went right. Now fertility is a problem, a disease, a sickness that needs a pill. For some reason the words of one man who spoke on the subject keep coming to mind. As they lead him to his execution, some of his followers cried out for his life. He responded, “do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed!’”

Today we are shocked and angry at the natural causation of pregnancy from sex. And we want to do everything possible to divorce the two and prevent this problematic correlation. We rejoice in creating lifeless wombs. What a horrible and backwards celebration.

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