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In the communist Post today was a story about faith based drugstores starting to crop up around the states.  One will actually be opening soon in Chantilly.  This is nothing more that an alternative to your society stores that also carry the profanity magazines as well “other” sexual aids.  Here in part is the article.

“The United States was founded on the idea that people act on their conscience-that they have a sense of right and wrong and do what they think is right and moral” said Tom Brejcha, president and chief counsel at the Thomas More Society, a Chicago public interest law firm that was fined and reprimanded for refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control pills.  “Every pharmicist has the right to do the same thing,” Brejcha said.

But critics say the stores could create dangerous obstacles for women seeking legal, safe and widely used birth control methods.  “I’m very, very troubled by this,” said Marcia Greenberger of the National Women’s Law Center, a Washington advocacy group.  “Contraception is essential for women’s health.  A pharmacy like this is walling off an essential part of health care.  That could endanger women’s health.”

Say WHAT?  This is liberal speak for ” we got to ban guns because they are a public health risk.”  Yeh, I get it.  Here’s more.

Some pro-life pharmicies are identical to typical drugstores except that they do  not stock some or all forms of contraception.  Others also refuse to sell tobacco, rolling papers or pornography.

Some critics question how such pharmicies justify carrying drugs, such as Viagra, for male reproduction issues, but not those for women.  “Why do you care about the sexual health of men but not women?” asked Anita L. Nelson, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.  “If he gets his Viagra, why can’t she get her contraception?”

Viagra is a contraceptive?  Oh, please tell me it’s not soooooo!

“in general, I think product differentiation expressive of differing value is a very good thing for a free, pluralistic society,” said Loren E. Lomasky, a bioethicist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.  “If we can have 20 different brands of toothpaste, why not a few different conception of how pharmicies ought to operate?”

Others maintain that pharmicists, like other professionals, have a responsibility to put their patients’ needs ahead of their of their personal beliefs.  “If you are a health care professional, you are bound by professional obligations,” said Nancy Berlinger, deputy director of the Hastins Center, a bioethics think tank in Garrison, N.Y.  “You can’t say you won’t do part of that profession.”

Excuse me?  You mean that anyone that takes the hippocratic oathe should violate the oathe and their own beliefs so that you could, say, have an abortion because it is legal to do so?

What is being said from the opposition is that they want it their way.  How dare we try to have any morals or seek to cater to a specific group.  Get this:

Critics also worry that women might unsuspectingly seek contraceptives at such a store and be humiliated, or that women NEEDING the morning-after pill, which is most effective when used quickly, may waste PRECIOUS time.  “Rape victims could end up in a pharmacy not understanding this pharmacy will not meet their needs,” Greenberger said.  STOP!  What is a rape victim doing in a pharmacy?  They should be at the hospital or police station.  Rape is a crime-not a wound in need of some antiseptic and a band-aid! Continue.  “ We’ve seen an alarming developement of pharmicists over the last several years refusing to fill precriptions…”  (What kind of prescriptions would that be?)

You get the gist.  Now let the fun begin.  I say if you’re Chik-filet and you don’t want to do business on Sunday for religious reasons then GOD bless you!

Western civilization, born in ancient Greece and Rome, nurtured in Northern Europe, and matured in the United States and Canada, is dying.  More specifically, we are killing ourselves.  According to the CDC, the (age adjusted) white fertility rate in 2005 was only 1,840 live births per 1000 women aged 15-44, well below the replacement birth rate (See Table 15).  To compare apples to apples, that CDC report of non-age-adjusted white fertility rate was 58.4 live births in 2004.  Meanwhile the abortion rate was 10 per 1,000 women in that age group.  That would work out to another 469 live births, putting the total fertility rate up over 2,300 per 1,000 white women of child-bearing age, well above the replacement rate.

Blacks fare a little better.  Although their abortion rate (28 vs. 10) was higher, the Black Total Fertility Rate (TFR) was 2,020. The Hispanic abortion rate is 26.0 per 1,000 women of child-bearing age, but their TFR is 2,824.5.  (The rate for Mexicans in America was 3,021.0!)

The same trend is occurring in Europe, Russia, and Japan.

We are told that the wages of Sin is Death (Romans 6:23).  We are dying.

Thanks to the miracles of modern medical technology and the liberal definition of a “person,” it is now possible to have a child with no mother.  How is this possible?  Well, human ovaries are complete — eggs and all — before birth.  Let us say that a mother-to-be, near full-term, is killed in a car accident, and the unborn child, too.  The distraught father not-to-be could have eggs extracted from the unborn child, which eggs could then be fertilized and implanted in a surrogate.  The resulting child would have no mother.

Regardless of which way the democrats decide, it looks very much like McCain will be the Republican. I’d rather have a true conservative, but is he “good enough” on a large enough set of issues?

I visited his website, and looked at some of the issues:

Abortion — he says he believes Roe v. Wade was wrong, and does not believe the courts should rule by judicial fiat. — a plus

2nd Amendment — signed the Congressional Amicus brief that asks the court to let the lower court ruling stand (the right to bear arms is an individual right). a plus

Health care — seems to support a nationalization of health care. a minus

Taxes — seems to have a principle of low taxes, but has a lot of programs that would require taxes. semi-neutral.

Iraq — believes we can “win” whatever that means, but it would require additional forces. Not sure what to do with this. neutral

“human dignity” (his website’s words, not mine). He seems to have reasonably conservative ideas (protection of children from porn, stem cell research should not be government funded, marriage is “one man, one woman”. I’d have to give him a plus.

Defense (not immigration) — strong on military. a plus

Immigration — too conciliatory to those already here illegal. a minus

Environment — appears to have bought into global warming as a fact rather than a theory that is hotly (pun intended) debated. a minus

Overall, he is just better than worse (he has an overall plus of one issue).