Religious Exemption

White Catholics have decided every American Presidential Election since 1976, but neither party speaks for them, or even to them very much of the time. There is no reason to assume that a Republican Administration would treat Catholic institutions any better.

But it is bordering on miraculous that such facilities, controlled as they are by the products of post-1968 seminary courses, and in many cases by the hotbeds of 1970s radical feminism that are the dwindling remnants of the Religious Life for women in America (among other places), have not been handing out contraceptives, and indeed performing abortions, for decades by now, entirely of their own volition.

Femaleness has been classified as in itself a medicable condition by means of the contraceptive pill, which is simply not a medicine at all. It is, in point of fact, a poison, designed precisely to stop healthy body parts from performing their natural functions, and accordingly attended by all manner of horrific side effects. The Pill, in turn, has wrought havoc by filling our water supply with synthetic oestrogens.

Maleness itself has also been so classified, leading to the heavy medication of boys purely for being boys, by means of Ritalin and other powerful "treatments" for largely or entirely invented conditions. The impact of antidepressants on the rise of violent mental illness also calls for the most unflinching examination. As does the impact of cannabis on the rise of schizophrenia, and by extension also on lung cancer, mouth cancer, throat cancer, brain tumours, serial miscarriage, low birth weight, male and female infertility, impotence, and a huge number of other conditions.

The surprisingly orthodox, often fabulously endowed Catholic medical resources in the United States obviously have plenty of work to do. Let them get on with it.