FEMALE drug addicts will be given long-term contraceptives under plans being considered by ministers.
The Scottish Executive has said it is examining plans which were drawn up last year which would see drug users given long-lasting contraceptives, such as injections and coils in order to prevent them having unwanted pregnancies.
The admission, comes in the wake of dramatic proposals by a leading academic which would see women on drugs paid to go on contraceptives.
…But a spokesman for the Catholic Church, Peter Kearney, said: “If you are going to sterilise drug-addicted women, why stop there? Why not sterilise alcoholics? There must be as many women with chronic alcohol problems.”
[Full Story]
I remember a TV movie in the 1970’s where a couple are running from the law since they had a unlicensed child. I thought the movie was pretty over the top and ridiculous. I am not laughing anymore. The answer for drug-addicted women is now contraceptives. That’s real compassion for you. I remember another movie in the 1970s Logan’s Run where they killed anybody over 30. Our culture is fast becoming an anti-Logans Run where everybody is over 30. Much of Europe is fast approaching this and without immigration we would have also.
3 comments
I’m ashamed to admit it, but there was a time that I thought it would be a good idea to sterilize drug addicts also.
I confessed that in my second confession after I came back to the Church. God forgive me — God help us.
Cathy,
Your not the only one. I felt the same for addicts, welfare mothers, you name it.
I deal with these kind of the poor on a daily basis. What they need is not a quick fix – it is to have the self respect to be able to not have sexual relationships that are abusive to them. Most of them need to be healed from years of decades of abuse at the hands of those who should have cared for them. They need healing. They need Jesus.