Basic and undeniable facts

From any point of view, the following facts about the RH bill are now plain, clear and admitted. First, it is an imposition on our government and an intrusion into our sovereignty by United Nations (UN) agencies particularly the UN Population Fund (UNFPA); by foreign governments, particularly the United States of America (USA) and the United Kingdom (UK); and by foreign organizations and institutions, like the International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF), Reproductive Health Rights Movement (RHR), Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Zuellig Foundation, and other big foreign pharmaceutical companies working in the shadows.

Obviously these foreign groups are spending enormous amounts of money to push for the passage of this bill. This is clearly and undeniably shown by the sustained media blitz endorsing it and the relentless efforts of its backers pressuring this administration to pass it. Hence, it is really quite hard to believe the repeated claim of these foreigners that they only have our best interest in mind and do not have their own interests and purposes to promote as they push for the passage of this bill.

The sad reality however is that some of our legislators in the Lower and Upper House actually believe these foreigners by endorsing and signing the bill as its sponsors. And sadder yet is that our country’s biggest business organizations specifically the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), Employment Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP), Makati Business Club (MBC), Management Association of the Philippines (MAP), and Philippines Business for Social Progress (PBSP) have succumbed to these foreigners by recently coming out with a manifesto of support for the enactment of such bill. They swallowed the foreign groups’ repeated line that the bill promotes a “national reproductive health and population management policy and program and allocating funds for its implementation”.

Apparently, these legislators and businessmen have ignored or refuse to see the other established and undeniable facts about this bill more specifically: that it is designed to control our population growth in the name of family planning through contraception or the use of contraceptive pills and artificial birth control supplies and methods; that contraception does not promote national reproductive health but on the contrary may cause or lead to abortion and is dangerous to the overall physical and moral health of women. These are facts undoubtedly showing the inherent evil in contraception that will be subsidized by the government in billions of pesos pursuant to the bill.

At the risk of being repetitious, and in the hope that the proponents and backers of the bill will finally see the light, this bill is but part of the US ambition to facilitate control of global resources by controlling the population growth of the least developed countries like the Philippines, as contained in the now declassified report made during the Nixon era known as the Kissinger report. This is a plan now being more vigorously and aggressively implemented by the Obama administration which is openly supporting abortion under the guise of contraception as a means to achieve it. Contrary to one of the bill’s premises, our overpopulation has nothing to do with our poverty problem. Indeed as presently happening, our economy is growing even as our population continues to grow precisely because our big and young population contributes to attaining a robust economy for our country.

On the other hand, contraception being promoted by the bill is inherently evil not because this is a belief of the Catholic Church. There is no religious issue involved here. It is more of a factual and ethical issue.

Factual because statistics clearly show that other countries freely allowing the use of contraceptive supplies and devices have higher abortion rates. Medical and scientific findings also show that certain contraceptives directly cause abortion and other fatal sickness like cancer.

Ethical in the sense that contraception is related to matters that undermine “values inherent to the dignity of any human person”. Thus according to Fr. Julio Penacoba in his article “Ethical Reasoning about a Legislation Promoting Contraception”, when the Church speaks against contraception, it is like the Church speaking ‘against corruption, bigamy or drunkenness where she is not stating rules for Catholics only... She is simply offering a moral valuation of certain behaviors of all men of goodwill who mind the dignity of the whole person”.

Technically, according to Fr. Penacoba, contraception is “any action intended to deprive the sexual intercourse of its possible life giving effect”. So if persons practice contraception while engaging in sexual intercourse, they are not expressing total love but as if saying “I enjoy this but I do not want to give myself totally to you – I will withhold my/your possible fertility”.

Furthermore considering the basic principle of Social Ethics, Fr. Penacoba says: One thing is that a law cannot forbid all unethical behaviors and another thing is that a law would foster them. Take the case of getting drunk, one thing is to forbid that you get drunk privately in your room and another is to make available drinks for free nationwide for those who want to get drunk privately. Again a law that would mandate education on how to get drunk as part of normal life would not be an ethical law in itself. In a parallel way, one thing is to forbid contraception and another thing is to make a law that will provide it for free – nationwide – and to mandate education of the upcoming generation for them to consider contraception as normal and good for the health and country..That type of law would be encouraging citizens to harm their personal dignity while still calling it neutral or even good”. This is what the RH bill promoting contraception is all about.  In our case, drinking seems to be more dangerous than contraception because our Congress will pass the Sin Tax bill discouraging getting drink while encouraging in the RH bill, contraception that is dangerous to life and health.

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