Biden administration wants to make over-the-counter birth control free: The first and second sexual revolutions and the path to true freedom
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🗓️ 23 October 2024
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Summary
Last year, the FDA approved the first nonprescription daily oral contraceptive. Now the Biden administration is proposing a rule that would make over-the-counter birth control and condoms free for the first time. The first sexual revolution separated sex from marriage. The second sexual revolution is now separating sex from people. In a culture that rejects biblical morality, what is the path to true freedom?
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, October the 23rd, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins, |
| 0:08.3 | narrating today's daily article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:16.0 | Last year, the FDA approved the first non-prescription daily oral contraceptive. |
| 0:22.0 | Now, the Biden administration is proposing a rule that would make over-the-counter birth control and condoms free for the first time. |
| 0:30.2 | In 1960, the FDA approved the first birth control pill, enabling women to have sex with less fear of an unwanted pregnancy. |
| 0:38.7 | This was an early step in the so-called sexual revolution. |
| 0:42.7 | Others followed. In 1962, Helen Gurley-Brown's book, Sex and the Single Girl, |
| 0:48.0 | encouraged single women to be sexually active. Betty Frieden's book, The Feminine Mistique, |
| 0:53.6 | published in 1963, argued that women |
| 0:56.4 | should find identity and meaning in their lives apart from their husbands and children. The legalization |
| 1:02.3 | of abortion in 1973 further enabled women to have sex without having to raise unwanted children. |
| 1:09.4 | Abortion pills are now widely available as well and are used in more than 60% of all abortions. |
| 1:15.6 | The first sexual revolution separated sex from marriage. The second sexual revolution is now separating sex from people. |
| 1:23.6 | The plague of pornography and virtual reality porn is making it easier than ever for |
| 1:30.0 | people to divorce sex from a physical relationship with others. As we noted yesterday, medical |
| 1:35.8 | and technological innovations continue to lower barriers to immorality that have existed for generations. |
| 1:42.4 | We could try to erect new barriers, such as enacting laws that |
| 1:46.3 | limit the availability of abortion and installing pornography blockers on our devices. These would be |
| 1:52.1 | helpful, of course, but human efforts cannot truly change human hearts. Rick Warren was right, |
| 1:58.2 | I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me. How? English writer |
| 2:03.3 | Paul Killing's North recently published a brilliant analysis explaining how modernity has descended |
| 2:09.6 | into a spiritual void. After charting the path that led us here, he writes that we now, quote, |
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