Huston, you have a problem. However, we have a solution.

Rosie O'Donnell, whose deep analysis of current events includes once comparing the Catholic Church to the Jonestown cult, recently expressed grave concern (see video below) that "women in America" are "once again" having to "fight for reproductive rights". Her guest, the talented Anjelica Huston, perhaps still angry about being embarrassed many years ago by the philandering Jack Nicholson, wonders, "How did guys get to be the ones who solely discuss it?", perhaps not aware that she and O'Donnell were discussing "it" on an hour-long primetime news program (CNN's "The Piers Morgan Tonight Show", guested hosted by O'Donnell).

Huston then intones, "It's the Dark Ages!" (What would fundamentalist Protestants and fundamentalist secularists do without recourse to the "Dark Ages"? I suspect their history-challenged, rhetorically-wanting brains would implode.) Intent upon showing that her lack of substantive knowledge is not limited to only past events, she says, "My theory was that if we dropped radios and blankets on Afghanistan, we wouldn't be having the problems that we're having now. I'm just so depressed about the state of the world." Unfortunately, she fails to explain how radios and blankets—which have been in Middle East since, what, the "Dark Ages"?—would ward off terrorist attacks and thwart radical Islamism. (To be fair, we all know the Iron Curtain collapsed under the weight of radios, blankets, and Happy Meals. Right?)

Huston is correct, however, in saying, "I don't understand a lot of things in present day America." She obviously doesn't understand that "reproductive rights" are not under assault, but are actually the reason used to currently assault religious liberty. As for the supposed goodness and inherent helpfulness of contraception, abortion, and related modern wonders, she would do well to read Mary Eberstadt's new and excellent book, Adam and Eve After the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution (Ignatius Press; visit the book's website), which readily documents the painful and destructive chaos unleased upon individuals, families, and communities by "reproductive justice" — a term, by the way, that is a bald-faced lie, as there is no reproduction and no justice involved.

Some of the basic facts are touched on in the video trailer for the Eberstadt's book: