Bloopers

Women are Not Swine

     In a letter to the Utica Observer-Dispatch, Kristin Smith from Chadwicks stated that “courts should have the rights to step in and mandate birth control…why allow women to keeping on having more children…if they cannot care or support them?”

     It is interesting that Kristin Smith did not say “courts should mandate birth control for men (who get women pregnant)...” but went and targeted the women, as if they carry the blame for everything. What she stated is a typical macho cliché and, as a female, she ought to be ashamed of herself! In her cowardice, she simply kept silence in regards to the males, but places all the responsibility on the mothers.

    Another point to note is how Kristin Smith really knows little about government functions and the role of the various parts. It is not the judicial, but the legislative branch that makes laws, and they themselves are subject to a higher law called the “Divine One”. 

    Artificial birth control, whether physical, mechanical or chemical is a violation of the exercise of a basic human right: the right to the recognition of and respect for one’s dignity as a human being. We are not pigs, dogs or cats that need to be castrated or have the healthy parts of our body mutilated. We all possess a right to the protection of our physical and moral integrity and no branch of government can violate this right.

    What the government can morally do is to limit or define conditions on the exercise of the right to marriage (but not take away the right itself).  She could make laws prohibiting someone from marrying until they can prove that they are prepared to care for offspring in a responsible and mature way. The government could obligate them to go through therapy or psychological testing to show what their ability is in taking on the responsibility of a child or a wife in marriage.

    If one is to make a barbarous statement declaring that courts should cut a woman’s tubes or stick hormone pills down her throat in order for her not to get pregnant, while, at the same time, tolerating the macho practices of male brutes is tantamount to a gross ignorance and grave irresponsibility. It is the same as saying “courts should mandate the slicing off of a person’s hands and feet since he simply refuses to get a job and work.” Come on, Kristin, God gave us a brain to use, and not an ass to reason with in its place!

Father Anthony Mellace