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Wesley J. Smith: Contraception is not a ?basic human right?

By Alliance Alert

Wesley J. Smith writing at First Things / Secondhand Smoke: "Too many policy advocates these days attempt to elevate what they consider to be desirable public polices to the status of basic human rights . . . [S]hould birth control be considered a basic right akin to the rights to life, speech, and personal autonomy, such as freedom from rape? Is access to birth control really so central to the minimum level of human existence that everyone should be legally required to have access to it? Nope."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 29, 2010 (boomark / email).