1) Intentionally preventing the fertilized egg (a human being) from implanting is abortion (aka murder).

2) Sex-ed doesn’t reduce pregnancies. Your comments betray your worldview. Kids are not indulging in sex because of lack of knowledge. Kids are indulging in it because of raging hormones, a culture that glorifies “stolen waters” and mocks “marital fidelity” and teaches them that you can have sex without consequences. The indisputable scientific fact is that the teen brain is not wired for “rational” behavior in the face of sexual urges.

Actually, several so-called “morning-after pills” are true contraceptives in that they interfere with ovulation. I was speaking of true abortifacients such as IUDs, mifepristone, and even (some researchers believe) “the Pill” itself.

My reference to “dispensed without consideration” speaks to the intent of the prescriber, not the prescriber’s understanding of the mechanism by which the product works. In other words, it is not important to some prescribers how the product prevents or interferes with pregnancy, just that the end result is no pregnancy. Entirely pragmatic, as I said.

If it hasn’t been clear already, let me state that I abhor pragmatism as a guide to action. What “works” isn’t always what’s right.

I quite agree that good education about sexuality is very important and that maturity and responsibilty about sex are laudable goals. But state-sponsored/mandated education on human sexuality is usually all about the hows and whys and rarely about the why nots. Divorced from a biblical perspective and a solid spiritual foundation sex is perilous on multiple levels.

What DRT is saying is very true. If the violation of religious liberty is so important to conservatives, to the point that we are talking about civil disobedience, where where we when those states mandated religious organizations to comply to this?

Violation of religious liberty IS violation of religious liberty, does not matter whether the State does is or the Federal Government does it.

When you speak of the “abortifacient quality of many contraceptives,” I assume that you are talking abut the infamous morning after pill, which according to you it is “dispensed without consideration for exactly how they prevent pregnancy?” Who doesn’t know how it exactly prevents pregnancy? That information is very easily obtainable. It prevents the fertilized egg from implanting on the uterus.

The pragmatic thing to do is to reduce the number of non-desired pregnancies. We got to educate our kids so that they are mature and responsible about sex.

And, Sadly we only have very few options, therefore we must be pragmatic and contraception is a much better option than abortion.

The fact that kids KNOW what sex is and how to have it, does not mean that kids are not ignorant nor immature about sex. A quick glance at teen pregnancy rates will show this. Kids must UNDERSTAND not just the how to do it but also all of the physiological and psychological parts that involve the sexual relationship. Teens who are educated about sex are much more mature and respectful toward sex. Educated teens are much more prone to wait to have sex.

In the same way, sin splits the Torah in two. On the one hand, the Law is characterized by sin and death. On the other hand, the Law is characterized by the Spirit of life. James Dunn puts it this way, “The Law shares the same plight as the ‘I’.”

In Romans 8:1-4, Jesus is the answer to this problem. He rescues the sinner and empowers Spirit-wrought obedience to the Law.

I took some Jr. Highers to a purity conference a couple years ago and one of them told me it was a really good *reminder* to save sex for marriage, that it’s easy for her to forget sometimes how important that is. In Jr. High.

Rom 7:21 So I find it to be a [Mosaic law] that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another [Mosaic law] waging war against the [Mosaic law] of my mind and making me captive to the [Mosaic law] of sin that dwells in my members.

RT @RickWarren. I’d go to jail rather than cave in to a gove[rn]ment mandate that violates what God commands us to do. Would you? Acts 5:29 Yes.