In the current debate about the introduction of the morning-after-pill on the market, two aspects should be clarified.

For long years now, we, and especially the younger generation, have been repeatedly told that the use of contraceptives would solve problems that might arise as a result of sexual activity, notably unwanted pregnancies and sexually-transmitted diseases.

The fact that contraceptives sometimes fail to work was often referred to in subdued terms, if at all. Now, all of a sudden, in order to bolster the argument for the use of the morning-after-pill, the occasional failure of contraceptives is being proposed as one of the reasons for its use.

This would be comical were it not for it being so tragic, especially for those young people who have had their lives ravaged after having believed what some of their elders had deceptively told them.

Another fact about the morning–after-pill is that nobody can assert in absolute terms that, apart from having a contraceptive effect, it does not have an abortifacient one too.

Law courts would never dream of condemning anyone to death (if at all), even for the most heinous of crimes, unless guilt has been proved beyond reasonable doubt. Yet, a human being made in the ‘image’ of God can be condemned to destruction at the very early stages of his/her existence, even if nobody can prove with certainty that it is not a human life that is going to be eliminated.

Future generations will pro-bably refer to present timesas being eminently irrational and contradictory!