Wal-Mart Does Good (for a change)
Normally, I have many unkind things to say about Wal-Mart. But today, I have something good to say about them, or at least about one of the pharmacists.
Brent Beams, pharmacist at the Springfield Wal-Mart near Columbus, OH, refused to sell the Plan B pill to a young couple. Plan B, the so-called “morning after pill,” is available over-the-counter to patients over the age of 18.
The very fact that these pills are so available speaks volumes for the society that we live in. It is as if it is socially unacceptable to take responsibility and face the consequences. A possible consequence of unprotected sex is pregnancy. People who take Plan B or get an abortion aren’t facing their problems, they are punishing the baby–the innocent one–for their shortcoming. That baby had nothing to do with what they did, and yet it will suffer for that.
My wife and I are trying to have a child. We have both face potential difficulties in this area. A child would be nothing short of a blessing from God. I can’t put in to words how thrilled I would be to be someone’s daddy. It makes me sick to read about people who treat their God-given ability to have children with such a cavellier attitude as to go buy a pill that will end this potential life within them. A life, by the way, that God chose to bless them with. And they simply scoff at it. They stamp it RETURN TO SENDER and mail it back. Then they get back to the only thing that they are good at: focusing on themselves.
Maybe this is an angry and bitter article, but I think everything here needed to be said.
