In a controversial move, the Obama administration has announced it will allow the morning-after pill Plan B One-Step to be sold to girls and women of all ages without prescription or proof of identity.

The government announced on Monday that it will drop its appeal of U.S. District Judge Edward Korman’s ruling to make the pill available to females age 15 and up without prescription. Back in April, Judge Korman overturned a ruling that required girls younger than 17 to have a prescription for the pill. When Plan B One-Step was first created in 2011, it was going to be made available to all girls and women without a prescription, but Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius overruled the decision and implemented the requirement for a prescription instead.

When the government filed its appeal last week, a federal appeals court decided to block the unrestricted sales of Plan B until the appeal was resolved, but ruled that it would allow the more generic, cheaper, two-pill version to be sold over the counter without a prescription to girls and women of all ages. The government, not wanting the two-pill version to become widely available, dropped its appeal, making Plan B One-Step available to all child-bearing-age females without a prescription or ID. The Food and Drug Association said there is less safety data available on the use of the two-pill version by younger adults than there is for the Plan B One-Step, which it approved to be “safe” for all ages.

This move has caused concern among certain groups which feel the decision shows contempt for parental rights and limits the amount of influence parents have in their children’s lives.

“A 12-year-old girl in a New York City school cannot be given an aspirin by her teacher, even if she has a fever. The same girl cannot buy a large soda during lunchtime because Mayor Michael Bloomberg has decreed that it is not good for her. But she can be given a pill, unbeknownst to her parents, that could arguably abort her baby,” notes Bill Donohue of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.

However, women’s rights groups are hailing the move as “a huge breakthrough” in the fight for women’s health and equality. Up to this point, many had criticized the government for bringing politics into the issue. “It’s about time that the administration stopped opposing women having access to safe and effective birth control,” said Annie Tummino, coordinator of National Women’s Liberation.

While both sides banter over the government’s decision, both sides are missing two big points.

First, America is hooked on promiscuous sex. While “pro-choice” groups see the pill as “reproductive justice” and a benefit to women’s health, pro-family groups are mostly focusing on why teenagers shouldn’t have such free access to contraceptives. Nobody is even talking about the universal problem of fornication. As Trumpet columnist Stephen Flurry wrote in March last year,

Promoting everyone’s right—including that of young teenagers—to a consequence-free, illicit lifestyle of casual sex now trumps the constitutional right every American once had to practice his or her religious convictions. And make no mistake, America’s government is the state religion when it comes to actively and aggressively promoting a sexually deviant lifestyle—a lifestyle that undermines everything God teaches about marriage, family and sex.

Second, the morning-after pill is potentially a form of abortion. It works by preventing a fertilized egg from implanting itself in the uterus. In other words, the already conceived embryo dies because it is unable to implant itself in the mother’s uterus. This is a form of abortion by any traditional definition. To treat that so casually as to make it available over the counter even to teenagers shows contempt for that unborn life. To understand why this is so serious, read “Is Abortion Really Murder?”

America’s backward values regarding sex and family are at complete odds with the wholesome values God outlines in the Bible. Herbert W. Armstrong outlined these values in his book The Missing Dimension in Sex. But America has rejected those values and gone its own way. To learn more about the birth control issue in America, read “The Inalienable Right to Illicit Sex.”