A voice crying out in the wilderness, speaking truth, yet mostly unheard.

Unheard ...???

It is so sad when there are voices crying out ...not for equal pay, not for more union privileges, not for free benefits ...not crying, as in volume of your message.  I mean, crying out in pain ...like the starving Haitian child that hasn't been able to eat in days, except dirt cookies, which swell the stomach to give temporary relief before going to sleep.  Later that night, it causes intestinal obstruction, and the child is left screaming with no hope of rellief.

Which example is one that takes place in an uncivilized nation?

Consider the pain of a child left alone, having witnessed the death of her parents ...as a rebel group terrorizes her small village.


Just today I read of a 3-year-old girl and her younger sister who had wet the bed.  Their mom, who is an elementary school teacher, and her boyfriend had been drinking together ...so when they discovered the wet sheets, they left the two girls locked in the bedroom with the window open to the outside temperatures of 30 degrees below zero.  The 3-year-old died, and the other is in the hospital suffering from hypothermia.


That second example was in the United States of America.

And this is no fluke ...we should consider it no unlikely occurrence that a college student spends all evening in a hospital, with excruciating pain, the night before her exams, because she couldn't get proper medical treatment, merely because the government dictates they will not pay for it.  That should not be!!

Let's step aside from that issue for a moment ...

Suppose that the speed limit is 35mph in a certain neighborhood.  A bicyclist attempts to cross the road without looking.  The car going 35mph hits the bicycle.  Miraculously, the young bicyclist flies through the air, landing on his feet, uninjured, and in the next lane. A semi-truck strikes the young man, instantly killing him.  A police report is filled out, and it is determined that if the car had been going 70mph, the bicyclist would have been thrown onto the boulevard, and though he might have sustained some injuries, he would be alive.  Now, let me say, this is not justification for changing the speed limit to 70mph in that neighborhood.

And back to the contraceptives issue, the poor girl who was described to be in intense pain, should be able to get her medication, just like a Haitian should be able to get something other than a dirt cookie, and no written law or government should interfere with medical necessity.  But this by no means justifies paying $3,000 each year for contraceptives to be supplied to every student who feels they have freedom of choice.