‘Pro-life’ should not mean ‘anti-sex’

If you can’t achieve your objective directly, try an end run.

The Bush Administration doesn’t have the votes in Congress to make abortion flat-out illegal in this country. So it is trying a couple of different end-run strategies: Getting more “conservatives” onto the Supreme Court, at least as soon as some of the liberal Justices will just obligingly hurry up and die — and, also, this escape clause for pharmacists that lets them opt out of providing reproduction-related medicines.

I’m old enough to remember when selling contraceptives was illegal in Connecticut.

That’s where we’re headed again, nationwide, notwithstanding the current crocodile tears for the poor oppressed fundamentalist pharmacists who are having to dispense “materials from Satan” like condoms and Plan B pills.

If these fundamentalist pharmacists won’t do their jobs, which include stocking and selling contraceptive materials, they need to change their occupation rather than insisting on being roadblocks to proper women’s health care.

Any person who opposes abortion and also opposes contraception is not “pro-life” but rather is “anti-sex.”

Contraceptive materials decrease the number of abortions — that’s not rocket science.

I haven’t personally had any problem with a pharmacist. But then I’m a guy.

Chuck Hastings

Federal Way