Spanking of Children to Be Banned – but 12-Year-Olds Given Access to Contraceptives
Furthermore, according to aspects of the Children’s Act which came into effect this year, children as young as 12 have now been granted access to contraceptives!
The Social Development Department defended this, saying, “The Act provides that children should be provided with access to contraceptives. This is in realisation of the fact that children are sexually active at a very young age, even though the legal age of consent is 16.” And it said that given HIV/Aids among teenagers, it would be unwise to deny children access to condoms. What’s more, a young teenage girl is legally entitled to an abortion without parental knowledge!
Let us analyse this piece of insane legislation for a moment. The legal age of consent is 16, yet a child of 12 now has access to contraceptives. The legal age for purchasing cigarettes is 16, yet a child of 12 may now legally obtain condoms. An adult may not remove a protected tree from his yard without government permission, yet a young girl may remove a baby from her womb (murder!) without parental knowledge.
This is the kind of crazy “logic” which dictates the ANC government’s response to the sexual promiscuity of the youth! This “logic” goes like this: “They’re going to have sexual relations anyway, so we might as well dish out contraceptives. Oh, and if that doesn’t work and the girl falls pregnant, she can always abort her baby without her parents’ knowledge.” Instead of encouraging abstinence before marriage, it throws up its hands in resignation and says, “The kids are going to do these things anyway, so we might as well make it as ‘safe’ and easy for them as possible.”
What a nightmare world this is! Has it gone stark, staring mad? Yes! It has, because the heart of man is desperately wicked (Jer. 17:9), and he is totally depraved, and has no concept of right and wrong once he rejects the Word of the Lord. Children, instead of being protected by adults, are now being encouraged to sin by adults. May the Lord yet have mercy on this land!
Recommended reading: Parental Use of the Rod, by Shaun Willcock (pamphlet). To order, see here.
July 2007
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