Opinion - Posted on 09:14 PM, October 26, 2010
Business World
Capital View -- By Mercedes B. Suleik
Clear and present danger
In promoting contraception, the so-called Reproductive Health Bill is an oxymoron...a misnomer. Reproduction means to give life. Contraception means to abort life. It’s as simple as that. I am not about to tote up what media and other supporters of the bill call religious objections. After all, some non-Catholics, non-Christians, atheists, and agnostics somehow get apoplexic when God enters the picture.
What I would like to call attention to is that this bill, couched though it be in innocuous language, is riding on the wrong premise that the Philippines is over-populated, and worse, there are just too many poor people, and the only solution is to stop these poor people from reproducing.
Let us be honest for once, and admit that the "population management" program is rooted in the Kissinger memorandum of 1975, which advocated population control measures and the promotion of contraception among the 13 most populous countries, among which was the Philippines.
The overt rationale was that population growth is deemed inimical to the socio-political and economic growth of these countries; the covert reason was that rapid population growth in these less developed countries was seen to be against the national interests of the United States. In fact, from 1997 to 2003, the USAID had been shouldering 80% of the total family planning commodities (read contraceptives) which amounted to US$3 million annually. When that dole-out ended, the Department of Health embarked on the "Philippines Contraceptive Self-Reliance Strategy" which arranged for the replacement of these donations with domestically provided contraception.
In fact, that policy already makes moot what the RH bill is trying to do, not to mention the fact that the Local Government Code allows local governments to put it into effect themselves, as some LGUs have already done.
What the RH bill does is really to make contraception a state policy, doing violence to the rights of the nation’s citizens to decide on their own family sizes and their children’s upbringing, as well as to the conscience rights of medical and health workers, educators, and employers in light of the coercive sanctions in the bill.
There is a "clear and present danger" to all of us if this bill is passed in this coming Congress, as its proponents swear they will do so.
It might be good for them to remember that this bill has gone through 23 congresses, and somehow, it never got passed...must be an unseen Hand? Okay, I promised no religious overtones.
Let me just tell you why there is a "clear and present danger," and propose that there really is a true conspiracy to depopulate the world, but especially the less developed countries. For sure, once the bill is passed, we shall have effectively entered the loop of the Obama administration’s policy of promoting worldwide abortion, no matter how the bill’s proponents claim that in our country abortion is "still a crime." Take note of the word "still" -- how easily that caveat can eventually disappear.
I grant that there are those who are sincere about poverty alleviation but are misguided, or indeed deceived, about the means and methods to help the poor.
The danger is that there are those who are malevolent in their intentions and devious about their methods, who have advocated the unthinkable -- they are the ones who are ultimately behind the advocacy for "family planning" and "reproductive health."
The Millenium Challenge grant that PNoy so deliriously claimed as the bacon he brought home ostensibly seeks to help fight corruption, improve education, etc., etc. and alleviate poverty via, please take note, "reproductive health measures." Nothing apparently wrong with that, except that Obama’s Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton’s, definition of "reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion." It follows that whatever definition the framers of the RH bill has of reproductive health, access to that green gravy will find its way to eventual access to abortion.
Another cause for my feeling about "clear and present danger" is that Obama’s crew includes John Holdren as advisor for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology, and co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Who is John Holdren?
He is the one who, in a 1977 book entitled Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment, advocated forced abortions, mass sterilization through food and water supply contamination, mandatory body implants to prevent pregnancies, particularly to people deemed as causing "social deterioration."
Shades of Adolf Hitler! His co-authors are Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich. In case our RH proponents who rationalize their stand on the over-population bogey, have forgotten, or never have heard of him, Paul Ehrlich and the Club of Rome in the 1960s raised the idea of the "population bomb" and "limits to growth" theories (which have consistently been proven to be as hilariously true as the corner soothsayer’s proclamation that "the end is near").
Another version of this theory is the "overloaded lifeboat" theory of the earth. Despite his dire prediction that eventually the world would run out of resources (taking off from the discredited Malthusian theory), the world has stumbled on, discovering new resources and technologies, and actually has progressed.
Of course there are pockets of poverty everywhere, even in the rich countries, but is the solution to decimate population?
If that were so, how can the RH proponents claim that their bill is "pro-poor" -- why, they are saying the poor who "breed irresponsibly" should be given pills, condoms, and whatelse, so that they would stop procreating, thus lessening the number of poor people.
Goodness, why don’t they just line up all the poor in Luneta and execute them for "economic sabotage"?
Let me just cite a summary of some of the things this new science advisor of the Obama regime proposes in that book, which scares me to death...which could eventually support and form part of the anti-life program of the US (little brown brother, take heed):
"Forcibly and unknowingly sterilizing the entire population by adding infertility drugs to the nation’s water and food supply.
"Legalizing "compulsory abortions," i.e., forced abortions carried out against the will of pregnant women, as is commonplace in Communist China where women who have already had one child and refuse to abort the second are kidnapped off the street by the authorities before a procedure is carried out to forcibly abort the baby (Note: this book was published in 1977 when China had the one-child policy...which they are rethinking now).
"Babies who are born out of wedlock or to teenage mothers to be forcibly taken away from their mother by the government and put up for adoption. Another proposed measure would force single mothers to demonstrate to the government that they can care for the child, effectively introducing licensing to have children.
"Implementing a system of "involuntary birth control" where both men and women would be mandated to have an infertility device implanted into their body at puberty and only have it removed temporarily if they received permission from the government to have a baby.
"Permanently sterilizing people who the authorities deem to have already had too many children or...who have contributed to ‘general social deterioration’.
"Formally passing a law that criminalizes having more than two children, similar to the one-child policy of Communist China.
"This would all be overseen by a transnational and centralized ‘Planetary Regime’ that would utilize ‘global police force’ to enforce the measures outlined above. The ‘Planetary Regime’ would also have the power to determine population levels for every country in the world."
If it wasn’t so scary, we could just dismiss it as the ramblings of a mad scientist from fiction, but that book exists (Holdren actually had a picture taken of him with his book).
Holdren and his colleagues, it has been reported, moreover are now at the forefront of efforts to combat "climate change" through "similarly insane programs focused around geoengineering the planet."
They are reportedly also advocating "large-scale geoengineering projects designed to cool the Earth," such as "shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun’s rays." Golly gee!
I don’t know about you, but as a child star once said, "Takot ako" about these shocking and draconian population control plans, the horrors that population control, sterilization, and genocidal culling programs that are now underway little by little. Let us not be mesmerized by the glitter of the gold that is being offered to us in exchange for the very life of our people.
As I said earlier, perhaps the motives of people supporting the RH bill in their desire to solve our country’s poverty problem are sincere, but let them not be deceived and taken up to the mountain to view the riches of the world to be had, if they would only fall down and worship the evil one.
merci.suleik@gmail.com
