Failed Policies Have Led To Epidemic Drug-Taking And Promiscuity

By treating human beings as if they were laboratory rats, we have tried for decades to coax and corral them into sensible behavior.
This idea is called ‘harm reduction’ and lies behind the stupid, failed policies that have led to epidemic drug-taking and promiscuity.
It assumes people will do bad and stupid things, and that they should be helped to do them as safely as possible.
A keystone of the harm-reduction policy has been the free, easy issue of the ‘morning-after pill’.
Abortion on demand had somehow failed to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies.
Research has already suggested that, “the increase in pregnancy rates from, for example, greater sexual activity may cancel out reductions in pregnancy rates from greater use of emergency birth control.”
Or, the knowledge that a one-night stand need have no consequences will increase the number of one-night stands.
Schemes to make morning-after pills more readily available have been followed by more diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections.
More pills mean more promiscuity.
‘Harm reduction’ has increased harm.
We are not laboratory rats, or dogs, but human beings with the ability to make moral choices.
And the last people to grasp this will be those who govern this country.