Birth Control = The Downfall Of America
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In the early 1960s, the so-called birth-control pill was introduced to the U.S. and, in no time, millions of American females were on the “Pill” and that changed the course of history.
That is true because up until the 1960s, young women and young men always had to think twice before getting intimate, largely out of fear of producing “unwanted” or “unplanned” babies.
However, because of what was facilitated by the “Pill”, most of the young lovers of the mid-to-late 1960s did not even have to think once before hopping into the sack with each other. For the first time in history, females in their child-bearing years could have sex with males as often as they pleased without fear of getting pregnant -- and that caused America to explode.
In the mid-1960s, and mostly because of what was made possible by the birth-control pill, the entire U.S. erupted into an orgy of “recreational sex”, “sexual experimentation”, “one-night stands”, “shacking up”, “hippie love-ins”, “group sex”, “X-rated movies”, “bra-lessness”, “mini-skirts”, “hot pants”, “wife-swapping” and “strip joints” -- OR, what came to be known as the Sexual Revolution.
Inflaming the upheaval to an even greater level of intensity, abortion was legalized. On January 22, 1973, in a case widely referred to as Roe vs. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a state may not prevent a woman from having an abortion within the first six months of pregnancy.
Before I go on, I must mention one other factor.
On numerous occasions, I have heard people say that the birth-control pill is one of the greatest discoveries in history. Because that drug provides women with a relatively safe and effective means to avoid “unplanned pregnancies”, it has allowed a very large number to reach their potential in fields that were closed to women before.
Well, that is true and I personally agree with that view. However, it must not be overlooked that the Sexual Revolution -- which for the most part has been fueled by the “Pill” and the legalization of abortion -- has nearly destroyed the supremely-important institutions of marriage and family.
The glorification and widespread practice of “recreational sex”, et cetera coupled with the official pronouncement that abortion is nothing but a “matter of choice” has sent a highly-destructive signal. A great many Americans have been led to believe that random sex without concern for the consequences is just great and responsible sexual behavior and committed relationships are outdated or “old school”.
Because of that mentality, thousands-upon-thousands of women and girls are having one baby after another with the fathers of their children fleeing the scene, never to be heard from again. On top of that, a considerable number of 13-year-olds have had more sex partners than the average adult has, and a very large number of teenage boys are gleefully impregnating two, three and even four girls at a time.
Causing matters to be even worse, the nationwide attitude that the killing of an unborn baby is nothing but a “matter of choice” has led a number of dim-witted criminal types to conclude that a human life is worth no more than the 9-millimeter bullet that it takes to snuff one out.
You do not have to take my word for it. Just pay a visit to your local state prison and ask one of the “home boys” doing 25-to-life for murder why he became a killer. Chances are he will answer by saying something like, “I ain’t no worse than them abortion doctors. Just like they be terminatin’ babies that nobody wants, I terminated two ugly chumps that nobody wanted”.
Yes, the birth-control pill coupled with the legalization of abortion = the downfall of America.
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Will,
First, I remember that tragic incident.
Second, what you commented is so true. All of the murders, illegitimate births, forcible rapes and rapid spread of sexually-transmitted diseases that is taking place today was set into motion several decades ago.
http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/151404
Check it out - the link "seems to prove" what I've known for a long time. Anytime you have people in power that try to suppress choice, or legislate morality - it tends to only encourage, and even make fashionable whatever it is that those in power try to discourage.
It's sort of the reason why Jesus never once said, "go forth into the nations, and legislate morality in my name."
feenix
Interesting hub and take on the subject.
My opinion is that the mechanism of the sex pill is not the ultimate culprit. The culprit is the person doing the act. The sex pill is just one of the many things that people do because they can do it.
There is a long list of questionable things that people do and sex pills are just one of them. This pill is probably preferable to abortions which serve the same purpose for these females.
There is the whole field of drug taking by people of all ages. The drug cartels may provide easy access to them, but it is the people that want the stuff.
The latest phase of government non support to stop harmful products is the new warning labels for cigarettes.
These would not be necessary if people didn't want the stuff.
The problem distills into the domain of the people and not the things that are available to them.
The question is what is wrong with people?
Thanks
All law is legislated morality. All law is based on the moral standards of the nation. We as a nation feel it immoral to steal, murder, rape, etc., so we pass laws making it illegal.
Of course, none of those laws actually prevent immoral acts. They are on the books so we can't claim we did not know, and to set the penalties.
WillStarr - but almost all law is either "moral" law or business law - most often law is business law put into place by wealthy persons who bought a politician for that purpose - to make a law to protect their business interests.
Therefore - laws represent NOT the morality of the people, but those in power.
I've very little respect for law.
Opinion Duck,
As Sir Isaac Newton said, "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction".
Well, that is what I attempted to point out in this hub. The birth-control pill just might be the best thing since sliced bread. However, like all other "good things" there are some negative consequences associated with it, and that is a fact of life that must always be recognized.
Ironically, that is when the liberal movement also begin to take serious roots. Coincidence? Naw....I think you may have defined it down to a very good source though.
The Pill...
I never thought about it the way you described it. It really did start the sexual revolution....no fear, no risk, and with abortions, no accountability....just do it.
Will you also make a great point pertaining morality and legislation. People do not like to hear it, but our Bible WAS the cornerstone to our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.
God is pretty clear on HOW we should conduc our lives....
I vote up and awesome, also very useful.
Wesman,
I just checked out that link and I do not agree with the author at all.
In my opinion, the Republicans in that state were quite correct in cutting off Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood clinics.
The reason why I feel that way is Planned Parenthood's biggest money maker is Medicaid-funded abortions.
And because I believe that abortion is murder, and that large-scale abortion is mass murder, I am opposed to what could be categorized as state-sponsored genocide.
Will,
I am with you on this one. In fact, the legal and penal systems of all Western societies are rooted in The Ten Commandments.
CMerrit,
Thank you for your comment and for the vote. And, yes, the "Pill" kicked off this nation's current state of moral decline.
The point is, all law is based on the moral standards of that nation.
That's why it's legal to cut off the hands of thieves and execute homosexuals in Muslim nations. Those laws reflect their moral standards.
Aw, c'mon, Wesman. You are not one who has "very little respect for law". You strike me as being the same kind of law-abiding citizen I am.
Perhaps you are just skeptical of some of the laws on the books.
Will,
Excellent analogy.
It is not the gun that kills, but the person holding the gun.
It is not the pill that has sex, but the children whose parents did not teach them right and wrong.
And law is not justice - any more, at least, sadly, not in this country.
Jamie Doyle,
With all due respect, nowhere in this hub did I suggest that the birth-control pill, in-and-of-itself, is the culprit. What I said, in so many words, is the drug FACILITATED irresponsible behavior by those who are irresponsible.
Well, I "mostly" obey laws. I just don't have much interest in disobeying many laws.
I've been one to experiment with illegal substances - that would be my primary lifetime example of law breaking, that and speeding!
But I disagree that laws represent the people. I maintain that laws represent the business interests of wealthy persons within any given nation.
As for abortion - I'm not "for it" either, and someone profiting from such a thing is disgusting to me completely and totally.
I damn sure don't want money that I earned going to pay for someone's abortion. I also don't want my tax money going to bombing little brown people far away.
But I think abortion should be available - if it isn't, then someone winds up throwing the baby in the dumpster, etc. Of course that's happened before - and abortion was available, but shame prevented that person from getting an abortion.
Let me clarify here - I think abortion is horrible, horrific, immoral, and sick. I just think abortion is better than throwing babies into dumpsters, or seeking out some witch doctor to perform an unsafe, and illegal one.
"But I think abortion should be available - if it isn't, then someone winds up throwing the baby in the dumpster, etc."
A distinction without a difference. Dead is dead. And I've lost count of the times abortionists have been caught throwing dead babies in the trash!
Something to consider...my wife is a labor and delivery nurse, and none of the OB/GYN docs she works with will perform an abortion unless it is absolutely necessary to save the mother's life, which is extremely rare.
What is disturbing, according to those docs, is that abortionists are typically poorly rated OB/GYN docs who have finally found something they can do! After all, in an abortion, if they kill the patient, they have succeeded!
Wesman,
Come on, man, you are very intelligent.
What you essentially said is a doctor should be hired to kill a person in order to save that person from possibly being killed in the future.
Well, let me provide another example then. A few years ago there was a "white trash" couple of drug addicts here in Texas from a fundamentalist family.
They were kids, basically - kids who had a kid.
Later on, and I suppose high on some substance - they determined that there were demons in their child, and killed the child with a hammer.
While I can appreciate WillStar's "dead is dead" comment for the fact that it is; I still think that it would have been better for that murdered child to have never lived at all than to have been killed by it's parents with a hammer.
Now of course I am not God, and I can't know the mind of God (and I do very much believe in a God) - so perhaps it's not for me to say.
Wesman,
You said it, I didn't -- It's not for you (or me nor anyone else) to say.
Human beings are not supposed to determine who should live and who should not.
I agree to that one completely. The problem is that man is proud, just as his master, Satan is; so we do it non stop!
I can't support abortion, but I have to look at it, and I have to think about it, and I have to deal with it.
So it all comes down to this: Does an anti abortion stance make things better, or worse?
What I seem to be observing, without being totally sure of it - is that an anti abortion stance makes things worse.
I could certainly be wrong, and, like always, I hope that I am.
I don't have the political answers, I "only" have what I truly believe are greater truths, and I also think that I know (as arrogant as it may sound) exactly how all of this is going to turn out in the end.
"I still think that it would have been better for that murdered child to have never lived at all than to have been killed by it's parents with a hammer."
There are appoximately 1,300,000 children killed by abortion each year at their mother's request.
There are less than 1,000 murdered each year, and not all of those were killed by their parents.
Your argument does not hold water at all.
I disagree.
This isn't a WillStarr and Wesman battle of the minds here, and it's not personal.
I'd personally rather be aborted than murdered with a hammer. I'm nearly positive that that would be less painful for anyone involved.
The only point I'm making with that little completely true story from. . .five or so years ago, is that that child's life was entirely miserable - reading about it even made me miserable (not that I even matter here).
Those kids had a kid (very irresponsibly) because their family frowned upon abortion, and that's understandable as well.
The thing is, it would have been better for that murdered child to have never lived than to have been murdered with a hammer.
Wesman,
I have a very beautiful young female friend (she's 29) who is a vice president in one of the large, well-known book-publishing companies.
She has a Masters degree in English literature, she is one of the youngest officers in her company, she makes a 6-figure annual salary, she has a magnificent apartment here in NYC and she does a lot of volunteer work to help the needy.
Well, her mother and father were both heroin addicts and they neglected and abused her. And when she was six years old, the authorities took her away from her parents and she ended up living in a number of foster homes with some of them being even more hellish than her parents' home was.
She had a terrible childhood in which she had to endure a lot of pain and suffering.
Now, based on a lot of people's logic, my beautiful young successful friend should have been aborted. After all, her parents were strung-out junkies and she lived in deplorable conditions throughout her childhood.
And, by the way, there are thousands-upon-thousands of stories like that of my friend in this country.
Good comeback!
Like I say, I don't presume to have the answers to the problems of this world.
I'm lucky - most of my sorrows are my own shortcomings. I can look at me and further consider myself lucky for not having the responsibilities and possible shortcomings that come with parenthood.
Wesman,
Of course you don't have the answers because if you did, you wouldn't be sitting around on a Friday afternoon "hubbing". You would probably be up in the Dakotas helping the flood victims ;-)
hehehehe!!!!!!
If I truly had the answers to all the questions - I'd MOST LIKELY be like King Solomon - enjoying my 700 wives, and 300 concubines! ALL AT ONCE! HAHAHAHA!
Wesman,
I thought about saying something like that but I remembered that this cite is rated PG.
Humanity will not stop having sex. Birth control or not, this act is instictual. For the primary drive of preseravtion of the species it will not be snuffed out. However, killing, is not instinctual. One kills, outside of self defense, to satiate the ego. He has what I want... kill him... I have it now. I am having a baby... it doesn't fit with my lifestyle... I have my lifestyle back. Simply and Ego driven act. A choice no matter how disparaging is the individuals own. I would not pretend to tell or ask a woman what ought to be done with her body, nor should she mine.
Man this is Heavy
Feenix! Thanks so much for the mention! I really appreciate it. As for your hub, I couldn't agree more. I have been married (to the same woman) for 20 years. No birth control pills and no abortions - no painful memories. We have 2 daughters.
Sometimes man takes what is so simple and makes it difficult. God gave the ancient Hebrews a myriad of laws to follow - 10 of which were to reign supreme and provide a moral law for all others.
While I believe that God truly loves his creation in man, I often wonder if He thinks to himself, 'I gave them some very simple rules to live by. If they would stop coveting and killing and love their neighbors, the trials of life would be much easier to bear.'
There are many folks that have painful memories from recreational sex and others that, because of their own selfish desires, took away a promising new life.
"This people draw near with their words and honour me with their lip service, but they remove their heart far from me." Isaiah 29:13
Thanks again, Feenix!
Feenix
The point that I was making is that the problem is with the people and not the means available.
So I am not sure what your comment was referring to.
Thanks
Thank you so much for your Hub feenix. People are influenced easily enough from all different things. I think that is why it is so important not to legalize/legislate things without considering the negative consequences that are certain to follow.
dear feenix. As usual I completely agree with you. it isn't just the downfall of America though, it's been the downfall of the west. There has been more harm done by permissiveness in peacetime, than by many terrible wars. When you're at war, there are the obvious signs of bad things going on. The terrible thing about a permissive society is that corruption is hidden beneath prosperity and a false sense of security. The Pill has done nothing to improve the lives of women who feel under the thumb of men. It has simply given bad men more reign to use and abuse women.
Hello, Tolerable James,
Thank you for your comment.
Personally, however, if I came in contact with a female who was about to undergo an abortion, I would do every thing I could to talk her out of it, or even to block her from doing it.
You see, when a woman is pregnant, the baby she is carrying is NOT a part of her body. That unborn child is a separate and distinct human being who's safety and life should be protected, just like yours and mine.
Dexter,
One of the reasons why you and I are very good friends is I consider you to be a "real man".
In fact, if not for men like you, this world of ours would be in even worse shape than it is.
I love and respect you, brother.
Opinion Duck,
What I was attempting to convey is that opposite of what you suggested I said, I do not consider the birth-control pill to be the culprit when it comes to individuals practicing irresponsible and way-out sexual behavior -- just as I do not consider a gun to be the culprit when some idiot blows away someone.
I was just making the point that even though the "Pill" is a good thing in various ways, there a number of negative consequences associated with it.
Guanta,
I believe that, at the very least, more needs to be done to educate youngsters and everyone else on how to "act civilized".
Hello, lizzieBoo,
Terrific comment. Absolutely terrific -- and quite insightful, too.
It is so right that the birth-control pill has been a greater boon for males than it has for females. For example and speaking as a male, there have been numerous occasions that the "Pill" made it possible for me to have my way with females or to use them.
In my opinion, birth-control measures are just one more thing that is "enslaving" women. While males make relatively little effort to carry out birth-control measures, females in their child-bearing years are often strapped with doing such things as taking a pill every day, having birth-control devices surgically placed in their bodies, getting their "tubes tied", and keeping track of the days when they "can" and when they "cannot".
Well thanks feenix. You always get a good debate going. Funnily enough, I just wrote something which has parallels with this Hub. Something in the air?
Nothing more to add here. Another great read, thanks Feenix. I'll follow that link to Dexter. God Bless
Hello, lizzieBoo,
I apologize for taking so long to get back to you, my very good friend.
I certainly do hope there is "something in the air" and I am going to read your post in the very near future, as soon as I catch up on resonding to all the comments that have been left on my hubs.
Remember, you are one of my favorites here and I will be in touch real soon.
Good hub. I never thought of this myself, but everything you've said here is true. I'll vote it up.
jtyler,
Thank you very much for the encouraging comment and the vote.
WillStarr Level 8 Commenter 11 months ago
Remember the girl who was attending her prom when she went into labor? She went into the restroom, delivered, killed her baby, and went back to the prom. People were horrified at her callousness
But if she had hired a doctor to kill that late term baby, it would have been perfectly legal and would not have been news at all.
What she should have been charged with was practicing medicine without a license.
You are spot on with this feenix. We destroyed our moral standards decades ago, so why should we be surprised at the views of our children today?