Preventive measures
By Phil Lawler ( bio - articles - email ) | May 07, 2004
Have you ever been tempted to put a Band-Aid on your finger, so that you'll be sure you don't get a cut?
No? Then maybe you can't help me understand all the news stories--here's just one of many examples--suggesting that the "morning-after pill" could prevent unwanted pregnancies.
A Band-Aid, you see, doesn't prevent a cut. But it might spare you, and others, from seeing the evidence of the cut: the blood.
But if you didn't have a cut, you wouldn't want a Band-Aid, now would you?
Phil Lawler has been a Catholic journalist for more than 30 years. He has edited several Catholic magazines and written eight books. Founder of Catholic World News, he is the news director and lead analyst at CatholicCulture.org. See full bio.
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