{"id":7194,"date":"2004-03-14T13:52:50","date_gmt":"2004-03-14T18:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/03\/14\/contraception-not-compassion\/"},"modified":"2004-03-14T13:52:50","modified_gmt":"2004-03-14T18:52:50","slug":"contraception-not-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/03\/contraception-not-compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"Contraception not Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">FEMALE drug addicts will be given long-term contraceptives under plans being considered by ministers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">The admission, comes in the wake of dramatic proposals by a leading academic which would see women on drugs paid to go on contraceptives. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8230;But a spokesman for the Catholic Church, Peter Kearney, said: &#8220;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.&#8221;<br \/>[<a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/scotland.cfm?id=293362004\" target=\"_blank\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">I remember a TV movie in the 1970&#8217;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&#8217;s real compassion for you.  I remember another movie in the 1970s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B00004VVNB\/104-9991363-3574309?v=glance\" target=\"_blank\">Logan&#8217;s Run<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}