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The top three causes of mortality in our country are 1st Diseases of the
Heart 2nd -Disease of the Vascular System and 3 rd Malignant Neoplasm. We
should know how many of these casualties are women who suffered from the
adverse effects of synthetic estrogen as they do in developed countries. Please
take note that next to lung cancer, breast cancer is the most common cause of
malignancy in our country and only 5 to 10 % of those women who develop
breast CA have genetic predisposition.
[Indonesia has looked into the risk of breast cancer among Indonesian women
by age at first use of the pill (Bustan Contraception 1993). For women who
started at age 22 and below they have been found to have a 210% risk, for
women 22-26, 70 % and for 27 and up 60% risk of developing breast CA.]
The fact that NO medicine works 100% is also attested to by the Alan Guttmacher
Institute, the official research arm of International Planned Parenthood Federation
(IPPF) the largest promoter of ar tificial bir th control and abor tion worldwide.
One of its publications states that although the pill is supposed to reach an
effectiveness of over 99%, in practice the rate is much lower. Between 1.9% and
18.1% of women will experience an unplanned pregnancy in the first year of
using the pill (therefore contributing to the so-called unwanted pregnancy). This
failure rate is also attested to by studies on contraceptive failure among the
married, the unmarried not co-habiting, and the cohabiting, the highest
contraceptive failure based on the study of Fu, H. ( graph enclosed ) is among
the co-habiting who will largely consider that pregnancy as unwanted after
sexual indulgence, and will most likely end up to abor tion.
This largely explains the slippery slope described by Valorie Riches. Once a
contraceptive mentality sets in abor tion is not too far behind because of high
contraceptive failure. As Alfred Moran, chief executive officer of Planned
Parenthood of New York City, wrote in the New York Times in 1983 -Until we
reach the millennium when we have a perfect contraceptive, when every
pregnancy is planned and all children are born wanted, Planned Parenthood will
continue to provide not only sex education and contraception but also abortion.
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In fact their observation is that no population control is successful without
resorting to abor tion, the perfect back-up, - which is to kill an innocent child,
the highest form of child abuse!
Both the BCPs and the IUD violate Ar ticle 2 Section 12 which states that life
must be respected from the moment of conception until natural death.
Please take note that even pro-choice lawyers recognize the abor tifacient
properties of the pill and IUD because they have successfully used it in the
legalization process of abortion in America. As Ruth Colker, a Tulane Law School
Professor (Dallas Morning News, 23A, February 6, 1992 ) argued on the
opposition to the Louisiana Law Banning abor tion:
Because nearly all birth control devices, except the diaphragm and
condom, operate between the time of conception
and implantation
,
the statute would appear to ban most contraceptives.
Atty. Frank Sussman, lawyer for Missouri abortion clinics also used these
arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, April 27, 1989:
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IUDs and low dose birth control pills act as abortifacients.
EXPERTS who deny the abortifacient properties of the pill and IUD
have actually transferred the beginning of life from fertilization to
implantation or nidation.
Dr Nathanson himself was at the forefront of the Birth Control Industry and
presided over 60,000 AB & Co-founder of NARAL. He helped make abortion
legal in the U.S. But now he has recognized the sacredness of life and the error
of his previous advocacy (when he realized its horror through ultrasound and
eventually presented his documentary entitled Silent Scream).
Please note that doctors and scientists in Embryology, Anatomy and Physiology
who study life in its early stages of development recognize and define life as
beginning from fertilization, after all what will implant if theres no fertilization?
We therefore see the legalization of these drugs and devices which can act as
abor tifacients to be the entry point for the eventual legalization of abor tion on
demand in our country. This is the universal experience in ALL countries where
this was done. Bir th Control does not stop with contraception it is inclusive of
abor tion to complete the cycle of the culture of death.
We therefore submit that although this bill includes prevention of abor tion as
an element in this reproductive health care, inevitably it actually condones and
promotes it.
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The Barrier Methods Condoms and Diaphragms
The Barrier methods condoms and diaphragms are not abortifacient but they
have the highest failure rate varying from 430 % depending on the age group
surveyed. It therefore contributes considerably to the so called unwanted
pregnancies which end up in abortion. It condones promiscuity and since it
does not protect 100% it contributes to increased incidence of sexually transmitted
disease /infection (STD/STI).
The number of people infected with HIV infection in this country has been
described by infectious specialist as low and slow. In 2003 it reported 1,892
and in 2005 over 2000 cases were reported although that has been extrapolated
to 20,000 and more but still much lower than countries where condom is widely
promoted and readily available. In Thailand by 2003, 750,000 people are infected
whereas in the U.S. 700,000 are infected. There was a time in mid 1990s when
it was reported to be 1 million. So responsible health care workers in the U.S.
recognized that the best way to address the problem is risk elimination rather
than simply risk reduction. They embarked in the promotion of abstinence program
and self-mastery programs (True Love Waits) which was star ted by the
Methodists. When this was launched half a million kids signed up. This program
contributed greatly to the reduction of STIs.
The Human Papilloma virus (HPV) is another dreadful virus transmitted through
promiscuous sex and the major cause of cervical cancer. Barrier methods are
not effective here since shedding occurs from widespread areas of the perineum.
HPV cause war ts anywhere on the skin and mucous membranes. And men can
be asymptomatic carriers. This information must be well disseminated.
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Adverse effects of Tubal Ligation
Hemorrhage & bleeding*
increased risk of heavy menses in the long term*
Increased future gynecologic rate of surgery including hysterectomy*
adverse anesthesia effects*
post tubal ligation syndrome*
In the original oath of Hippocrates, the Greek Physician who lived 460377
B.C., the following are stated I will not give a women a pessary to produce
abortion
with purity and holiness I will pass my life and practice my art
I
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will not castrate anyone. Not even those laboring under the stone and will shun
men who are practitioners of this work.
These practices therefore are not new. They have done it even during the ancient
times. These are pagan practices being imposed on us.
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The western world recognized the error of active birth control too late, so now
most of the developed nations and the Group of 8 are graying. Why are our caregivers
and workers needed in these countries? Because they no longer have the manpower
to provide even their basic services. Recruiters from one European country expressed
the need for 30,000 nurses to care for their elderly population (some of whom probably
refused to have children to begin with, or aborted them). America does not feel this
as much because it continues to have a strong immigrant population.
Metro Manila is overcrowded because 13% of our population live in NCR which is
0.2 or 1/5 of 1% of the entire land area of the Philippines. People flock to the city
because nothing much is going on in their home provinces. Our problem is not
overpopulation but population maldistribution. The concentration of population in the
urban areas is due to the underdevelopment of the countryside.
From the 1968 to 1994, eight billion pesos (P 8 billion) have reportedly been spent
for population control. Did we genuinely help the poor improve their lives with that
kind of money spent in family planning? It could have benefited them more if this
kind of money was spent on education and building schools in far flung areas so they
do not hold classes under the trees, or increase farm to market roads to help our
agriculture, implementation of the irrigation bill, more roads and bridges, housing for
the poor, basic services, from garbage collection to clean environment and more !
Now we understand the budget for this program has even doubled. We must set our
priorities correctly.
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and Hustler based on the research work of Eichel and Judith Reisman ( Ref.
enclosed).
The dismal outcome of these modules on the sexual morality of young people
were evident on the fact that by 1991 the U.S. Institute of Research disclosed
that 55 % of the kids aged 15-19 are sexually active although unmarried. So it is
no wonder that we are also reaping the fruits of these modules in our country
today. THE REASON WE SEE INCREASED CASUAL SEXUAL ACTIVITY AMONG THE YOUNG
IS NOT BECAUSE THEY LACK INFORMATION BUT BECAUSE THE WERE GIVEN TOO MUCH OF
IT, TOO SOON, AND INAPPROPRIATELY. SEX WAS REDUCED TO JUST WHAT PEOPLE DO
RATHER THAN AN EXPRESSION OF WHO THEY ARE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF MARRIAGE.
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The Natural Way of Spacing Children
The natural way of spacing children is the Billings ovulation method. It is NOT
a contraceptive; it is a way of life. It is more than 99 % effective as attested to by
the World Health Organization (WHO) study and therefore comparable to the pill
with the advantage that - it has no adverse effects and at no expense, not
abor tifacient, it does not objectify women, among users there is low incidence
of divorce as attested to by a U.S. study because spouses communicate about
the responsibility of parenthood which is mostly just imposed on women.
Disadvantage? It requires values education and respect for fer tility and nobody
makes money out of it.
We therefore submit that much of the intent and purpose of the consolidated
bill are actually in place and being implemented to the detriment of many. It
should NOT be legislated. Many of its provisions require serious thought and
deliberation on how the misconceptions and inaccurate information can be
rectified for the genuine benefit of women and the Filipino family.
We propose that the allocation of precious resources for this bill be used instead
to boost the funding for education, basic services and primary and preventive
health care.
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