A few years ago, I was able to meet with the director of NKU
Health Services to talk about the university’s policy regarding birth control
and abortion.
I am not entirely against certain contraceptives. But
morally, I see a very limited use. Never, ever, should contraceptives that
serve as abortifacients (slickening the lining of the uterus so a newly formed
human life cannot continue forming, thus taking his or her life) have ever been
created, much less used. There are likely many more humans killed by abortifacient
birth control than those killed in abortion mills.
I am also morally against sex before marriage. So the only
circumstances I find contraceptives to be used appropriately is inside of a
monogamous, heterosexual marriage, and only if this will not take the life of a
very young human. I am open to arguments against its use here as well, but I
haven’t heard a compelling one yet.
With that background, I found NKU’s policies among the fairer
ones at a public university. They hand out condoms, and in doing so remind
students that there are still risks to having sex with contraception and that
the only way to avoid this is through abstinence.

On the side of abortion, the health center only refers if
specifically asked. Dr. Anderson, the director, told me they do the same for
resource centers as well. He is also a former pastor who now sees the
“complexity of the abortion issue”, so I might double-check his word.
All things considered, though, the policy isn’t too bad, if
indeed I was being told the truth. Yet I still take issue with the free
contraceptives.
This is one majorly hypocritical expectation of liberals.
They want the government to stay out of their bedroom, but want taxpayer funds
to kill their child in case their contraception doesn’t work. They don’t want Christians
to “legislate morality” but force us to foot the bill for their sexual
promiscuity.
Here’s the thing: if you want me out of your sex life, take
me out of your sex life. But you expect to have your cake and eat it too, and
public universities let you get away with it.
I don’t care what you do in your bedroom. I don’t hold you
to the standards I hold myself to. Yet somehow, it’s okay to force me to fund
lifestyles I believe are wrong.
My housing fees went towards a sign in the Norse Hall
director’s window telling students to ask if they need a condom. Surely that
conversation must be awkward.
“Hey, let me stop by my hall director’s office so I can get
some condoms for us later.”
“I got you, you two have fun.”
I find it utterly repulsive that such an option exists.
The foolish reality of it all is that public universities
are encouraging sex. You cannot hand out free contraceptives and simultaneously
encourage someone to not put himself at risk by having sex.
That would be like going to hold a friend’s hand during an
abortion procedure. If I really care about her, I’m going to try to stop her,
not enable her. No true pro-life person would help someone have an abortion. No
one actually worried about student health will enable them to do something that
puts their health at risk when there is a legitimate alternative.
Naturally, we couldn’t have a conversation about
contraceptives on college campuses without that little wink from a middle-age
person.
“Oh, you and I both know that they’re going to do it
anyway.”
Apparently there are rivers of testosterone and estrogen
that must be crossed on the way to class, making us lose all inhibitions and concern
over our health. We’re nothing more than horny animals running amok who have no
control over our lascivious passions.
Apparently, we just can’t help ourselves.
For the love of God, have a little faith in us.
The fact is, I know people that have never engaged in sexual
activity. I know unmarried adults that have never had sex. Have we considered
the self-fulfilling prophecy we are spouting from our positions of higher
learning?
“You all are going to have sex. That’s just the reality of
it.”
We don’t need a whole lot of encouragement, and an asinine
statement such as that is all it will take.
College health clinics will rave about getting ample sleep
and wearing sunscreen, but encourage sexual activity by paying for the night.
Imagine them telling us to wear sunscreen and do whatever we want in the sun,
and it will be “safe”. Why a clear warning for one but not the other?
The first line of the abortion cartel is the sex education
of public high schools and universities.
Here’s a simple policy. Let’s be entirely honest with
students. Let’s give them the facts on the risks involved with contraception.
Let’s tell them that condoms don’t protect against
the most common venereal disease, HPV. Give them unbiased information. Then
tell them that there is only one solution to side-step those risks: abstinence.
It’s the difference between running through a minefield or following the path
around it.
Then leave the choice up to them. If they want to be
sexually active, the consequences are solely on them. Don’t encourage them by
providing them free condoms.
I don’t feel it is too much to ask for someone to provide
his own contraceptives if he wants to have sex. There is a Kroger near campus
and plenty of other places that sell them. There are prescriptions. But to use
the money of students who are morally against sex before marriage is unfair.
Even if I weren’t against it, I still don’t see the need for why I should pay
for someone else to have a condom during sex.
I would stay out of your bedroom if you would let me out.
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