A Time To Pray

A LAW EACH DAY (Keeps Trouble Away) By Jose C. Sison (The Philippine Star) 

Updated August 03, 2012 12:00 AM

Even if the Lower House of Congress ends the debate on the RH bill, the controversies surrounding it will not end. And the reason is simple: many points of fact and of law brought out during the debate have been totally ignored, or have not been denied, or satisfactorily refuted or proven by its proponents as incorrect and false. The debate on the bill would have ended long before, and proper and intelligent voting could have followed, if the sponsors and backers of the bill had only addressed directly and answered satisfactorily the following issues raised:

Are the sponsors of the bill its real authors?

No. As early as the ’90s certain foreign groups already started promoting the alleged “reproductive rights” of women through the adoption of reproductive health laws and policies supposedly aimed at saving the lives and protecting the health of women all over the world. In fact some local government units (LGUs) have already enacted ordinances patterned after this RH bill of the foreign lobbyists. But subsequently these foreign lobbyists wanted it to be a more encompassing law of national application. So they ask some Congressmen and Senators to sponsor the bill. To make it “sensitive to – and effective in – our cultural, economic and political context” and to disguise the real purpose of the bill, other features were added. Thus the title of the bill now includes not only “Reproductive Health” but also “Population Development” and lately “Responsible Parenthood” according to P-Noy.

Who are these foreign groups pushing for the passage of the bill?

They are United States (US) based groups tapped by the US government itself and certain United Nations (UN) agencies that the UN uses at the instance of the US to make it appear that this is a global undertaking for the benefit of developing countries. Specifically they are the UN Fund for Population Development and Assistance (UNFPA) which grants financial assistance to developing nations that will pass the RH bill to achieve certain “Millennium Development Goals” (MDG).

Then there are the private groups like the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), which operates the largest abortion business in the US; and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which has recently set aside $4.4 billion to promote abortion in other countries. They operate here by supporting local NGOs like the Philippine Legislative Council for Population Development (PLCPD) and the Family Planning Organization of the Philippines (FPOP) to push for the passage of the RH bill that appropriates P3.3 billion in taxpayer’s money to fund contraception, sterilization and sexuality education in Philippine schools. In 2011 alone the FPOP received from IPPF the amount of $625,095 to work for the passage of the bill.

With this kind of foreign groups, it is quite clear that they are pushing for the passage of the RH bill to “ensure access to abortion services within an integrated sexual and reproductive health package.” Abortion is indeed one of IPPF’s Five “A”s with the strategy of “Advocating for the right to safe abortion services and providing them to the fullest extent permitted by law” (Planned Parenthood eyes “scale up” of abortion in PH, by Dominic Francisco).

But the sponsors and backers of the bill claim that it does not allow abortion and in fact prevents abortion?

This claim is contradicted by the provisions of the bill itself allowing universal access to an entire range of contraceptives which actually cause abortion as medically proven by documented researches. Furthermore, the World Health Organization (WHO) itself found that some contraceptives cause cancer and other serious diseases. And even if they do not directly cause abortion, contraception leads to abortion because “the use of contraception implies that while sexual activity is important, babies are a nuisance to be avoided. That viewpoint soon spreads to babies already growing inside their mothers. Such babies are often spoken to as mere “blobs of tissue” to be terminated at the whim of the pregnant woman and their doctors. Contraceptive practice moves all too easily from preventing conception to destroying fertilized ova.” (Dr. Les Hemingway, M.B., B.S., “Contraception and Common Sense”)

What the RH bill prevents is the crude, unhealthy and dangerous way of taking out babies from their mother’s womb by making it safer and healthier through the use of contraceptives. This is the real meaning of reproductive health. This is confirmed by the WHO which states that “restrictions on abortion demean women as decision makers and deter and delay them from seeking the reproductive health care they need and place their health and autonomy at risk. In short reproductive health means safe abortion. And this is concretely shown by USA, the formulator of the RH bill, where 500 million babies have already been killed through abortion since Roe vs. Wade was promulgated.

Our laws definitely do not give anybody including poor women, the freedom to kill babies in their wombs by opting to use contraceptives that cause abortion.

Even then we still need the RH bill for population control because our country is already overpopulated which is the main cause of poverty and classroom shortage.

Our population may still be growing but we are not overpopulated. There is just overconcentration of population in urban areas. In fact World Bank statistics show that our population growth rate has been steadily declining from 3.3% in 1960 to 1.7% in 2011.

To be sure according to the “Emerging Markets Equity Team” of Morgan Stanley, “our booming population is not a disadvantage” but a “big economic plus” because the concentration of people and business drives growth. In fact BSP Governor Tetangco said that “While some countries are facing problems relating to aging population, the Philippines is set to enter its ‘demographic sweet spot.’ Studies have shown that extended periods of accelerated economic growth coincided with the countries entering this period.” Hence even theWall Street Journal has warned that the RH could derail the country’s economic growth.

Therefore, now is the time to pray that P-Noy and our legislators be given the gift of discernment between good and evil. Even if 70% of our people allegedly favor the RH bill according to surveys, it does not mean that the RH bill is good for us especially because those 70% have not been properly informed, or misinformed. Let us therefore join the prayer rally at the EDSA Shrine tomorrow, August 4.

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The Truth about RH Bill

Mga Punto sa RH Bill, sa TOTOO lang


Naalala ko nung nasa college pa ko, nag-walk out ako minsan sa isang misa. Sa mga nakakakilala sa kin ngayon, malamang ay di sila makapaniwala sa ginawa kong yun. Pero totoong nangyari yun. Ito ay sa dahil sa pagkainis ko sa pari na nangaral laban sa two-child policy at sa panukalang tulad ng RH bill na sinusulong sa kongreso noon.  Nainis ako. Sa palagay ko kasi noon e dapat nang ipasa ang ganitong uri ng batas. Marami na ang naghihirap. Marami na ang nagugutom.  At hindi rin dapat mangaral sa pulpito si father dahil di niya alam ang sinasabi niya… yan ang sabi ko noon sa sarili ko.

At sa ilang beses kong pagbabasa at pakikipagdiskusyon tungkol sa RH BILL na ngayon ay RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD BILL, narinig ko na marahil ang lahat ng argumento ng magkabilang panig. Ilang beses ko na ring nabasa ang bill, yung orig, yung binago, yung binagong-binago (ilang revisions na rin kasi) at ang suma total ay halos pareho pa rin ang nilalaman.


Which side are you on?


Sa puntong ito, nasa kamay na ng mga taong niluklok natin sa puesto ang desisyon kung maisasabatas ba ang RH bill o hindi. Sa Aug 7 ay magkakaroon na ng botohan sa mababang kapulungan. Pero sa kabila nito, hindi pa rin sumusuko o humihinto ang magkabilang panig para ilahad ang posisyon sa usapang ito.  Kaya nakisali na rin ako. At nais kong ipahatid sa lahat ng mambabasa kung ano at bakit ako nandito sa side na ito.


Sa post na ito ay iniisa-isa ko na ang pinakakadalasang argumento na maririnig natin galing sa mga supporters ng RH bill. Ito yung mga naka-italics. Sa baba ay ang aking komento/opinyon patungkol sa bawat isa rito. Maaaring madagdagan pa ang mga ito sa mga susunod na araw pag naalala ko pa ang ilan. Maaaring magbigay rin kayo ng komento at opinion sa aking mga naisulat, kontra man kayo o kampi. Pero sana ay basahin nyo muna rin ang lahat ng isinulat ko sa baba. I-share nyo rin sa iba kung nagustuhan at nakatulong sa inyo ang mga bagay na nakasulat sa ibaba.


1.        This bill is necessary for the protection of our women as it promotes reproductive health benefits, sex education, women and children’s rights and protection, promotion of family planning, etc.

-- Tama naman po. Ang bill na ito ay naglalaman ng mga provisions na patungkol sa proteksyon ng kababaihan, benepisyo para sa pangangalaga ng kanilang “reproductive health” maging ng iba pa nilang mga karapatan bilang babae pati na rin ng kabataan. Kung babasahin niyo ang bill na ito ay talaga namang napakaganda para sa ating mga kababaihan ng karamihan sa mga provisions nito. At sa aking pagbabasa at pagreresearch patungkol sa bill na ito, nalaman ko rin na ang karamihan pala sa provisions ng bill na ito na ay nilalaman na rin ng ilang batas na meron na ang pamahalaang ito.


Ang patungkol sa karapatan at kalusugan ng kababaihan kasama ang kanilang reproductive health ay nasa loob na ng RA 9710 o ang Magna Carta of Women na naipasa na ilang taon na ang nakakaraan. Ang RA 9262 naman o ang Anti-Violence on Women and their Child Law ay pasok din sa karapatan ng kababaihan at kabataan laban sa pang-aabuso. Ang RA 6615 naman ay batas na nag-uutos na mag-extend ng medical assistance sa mga emergency cases sa kahit sinong tao ang mga pribado at publikong ospital (kung nabasa nyo yung bill, alam nyo na kung alin dito yung redundant part din. Tama, yung mga babaeng nag-undergo sa abortion na nagkaroon ng komplikasyon, pasok na sila sa bill na ito. And yes, may term na “abortion” sa RH bill). Meron na rin tayong PD 965 na nag-uutos sa mga ikakasal na dapat mag-undergo sila ng Family Planning seminar. May RA 8504 na tinatawag na Philippine AIDS Prevention Act din (the title explains itself). Para sa mga murang gamot naman ay may RA 9502.  Meron dingExecutive Order 452 na para sa mabuti at libreng serbisyo para sa mga indigent families.


At ilan lang po yan sa mga batas na meron na po tayo (at marahil ay dapat ipatupad pa ng maayos) na naglalaman na ng halos lahat ng probisyon (maliban sa isa) na nasa RH Bill. Hindi na po marahil kailangan pa ng RH bill at DAGDAG NA PONDO para sa bagong batas para ipatupad ang mga yan.



At kung nagtatanong po kayo kung ano yung isang provision na hindi nilalaman ng ibang batas pero matatagpuan sa RH bill, ayun po ay ang PROVISION na ang gobyerno ay MAGPOPONDO para sa contraceptives na siyang ipapamigay sa mga tao. Ang sinasabing pondo na gagamitin sa RH Bill ay naglalaro sa pagitan ng 3-14 Billion Pesos at marahil ay ilang bahagi nito ang mapupunta sa pagbili ng mga contraceptives. Ang tax na pinaghihirapan ng mamamayan na nagkukulang na para sagutin ang ilang mas matindi nating pangangailangan ay babawasan pa para ipambili ng condom, pills, IUD at kung ano ano pa.



Patungkol naman sa “maternal deaths” na dapat ay talagang maiwasan na sa panahong ito, ang statistika na ibinibinigay ng mga supporters ng RH Bill na “11 deaths per day” ay outdated na po at noong 90s pa nagmula ang datos na ito. Sa paglipas ng panahon at pagusbong ng kaalaman at teknolohiya, malaki na po ang ibinaba ng maternal death rate sa bansa ayon na rin sadatos ng National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB).


Maging sa World Health Organization (WHO) report nito lang 2010  ay nagsasabing malaki na ang binaba ng maternal death rates ng bansa at higit na mas malaki pa ang binaba kumpara sa ilang bansang progresibo gaya ng Russia, Hungary, Malaysia, Germany at Israel.


 At kung nanaisin lang natin na talagang bumaba, bakit hindi natin tanungin ang isang midwife sa Sagada, Mountain Province na isa sa pinakaliblib na lugar sa Pilipinas. Hindi ganoon kaprogresibo ang kanilang lugar maging ang kanyang pamamaraan pero nagawa niyang  maging kasangkapan para sa “Zero Maternal Deaths” at “Low Infant Mortality Rate” sa area na pinagtrabahuhan niya? Dahil dito ginawaran pa siya ng award ng United Nations. Pondo? Teknolohiya? Wala sila nun. Pero ang meron sila ay disiplina at dedikasyon para magawan nang paraan ang suliraning ito.


2.        We are overpopulated and continuously growing exponentially. And in a few years, our country will not be able to carry the whole population and our people will starve due to complete lack of resources.


-- Nakakatakot po talaga kung titingnan natin ang datos ng pag-akyat ng bilang ng populasyon ng Pilipinas.  Nasa 100 Million na tayo mahigit ngayon. Parang nung highschool more than 10yrs ago ay nasa 55 Million lang at ngayon ay doble na. Sabi ng iba ay baka sa 2020 daw ay di na tayo halos magkasya sa bansa.

Pero bakit parang sa Maynila at ilang mga urban na lugar lamang natin nakikita ang siksikang tao? Bakit sa mga karatig lugar at probinsya na lang ay tila maluluwag at malalaki pa ang lupa? At bakit marami pa ring mga bayan sa ating bansa na kokonti lang naman ang populasyon at may naglalakihang mga lupain ay naghihirap pa rin? Hindi kaya korapsyon ang dapat na bawasan?


Isa pa, totoo bang walang hanggan na ang paglobo ng populasyon natin? Subukan nating tingnan ang Total Fertility Rate. Ayon sadatos ng NSO, ang Total Fertility Rate ng bansa ay bumaba na ng todo kumpara noong 1960s sa value na 7 at ang value ay bumaba ng lampas kalahati na sa value na 3.1 noong 2008. At sa rate ng pagbaba ng TFR ng bansa ngayon, kahit wala pang RH bill ay tinatayang aabot ito sa value na 2.2 to 2.4 sa taong 2025. Dahil na rin ito sa pagbabago ng pamumuhay at kaalaman ng tao sa bansa.  Ayon na rin sa pag-aaral, ang value po ng TFR na kailangang ma-maintain o mataasan ng isang bansa para ang kasalukuyang populasyon ay mapalitan ang kanilang bilang sa susunod na henerasyon ay 2.3.


Pero sabi naman ng iba, kahit pababa ang TFR natin ay bakit pataas pa rin ng pataas ang bilang ng populasyon? Ang sagot po ay ang initial momentum na dulot ng mataas na TFR noong 60s and 70s.Kumbaga, nakapondo na tayo. Kahit pa bumaba ang fertility rate ngayon, hindi ito basta basta magdedecline agad. Gradual ito. Ang tingnan  natin ay ang rate ng growth hanggang umabot sa saturation point by the year 2040s.


Kung di pa rin maintindihan, ihalintulad natin ito sa isang kotse. Sa kanyang initial acceleration, binigyan siya ng malakas na power para tumakbo ng matulin at makatakbo ng malayong distansya.  Habang umaandar palayo, binababa paunti unti ng driver ang puwersa para bumaba ang speed. Pero habang pinapababa niya ang speed, tatakbo pa rin palayo ang kotse dahil na rin sa initial force.  At habang binibitawan ng driver ang gas, didiretso pa rin ang takbo ng kotse papalayo dahil sa nga sa initial force. At hanggang umabot ito sa distansya na kayang itulak ng pang-unang puwersa ang kotse, dun lang ito hihinto sa pag-andar. Ngayon, palitan natin yung force ng TFR, at yung distance naman yung population growth. Yan po ang dahilan kaya kahit pababa ang TFR ay tumataas pa rin ang populasyon.


Maraming bansa na rin ngayon na may TFR na mas mababa sa 2.3 at ang kanilang bansa ngayon ay nammroblema dahil sa population decline at aging (tulad ng Japan, Russia, Germany, Slovenia, atbp). Ito yung tinatawag na demographic winter na kung saan, tumanda ang kanilang populasyon nang hindi dumadami at naubusan na sila ng mga “manpower” para patakbuhin at palaguin pa ang kanilang ekonomiya. Dahil dito, ang kanilang gobyerno ay gumawa ng mga batas para “i-encourage” ang kanilang mamamayan  na mag-anak. Binibigyan nila ng benepisyong dagdag para magparami ang mga tao. Ang mga bansang ito ay progresibo na. Paano kung sa atin mangyari ito at mapabilis ng RH Bill na ibaba ang ating TFR na bumababa naman naturally? Pinagmamalaki ng gobyernong ito ang pagangat ng ekonomiya at ito ay napapansin na nga ng ibang bansa. Hindi ba kaya umaangat ang ekonomiya natin dahil angating mamamayan ang sumasalo ng trabaho sa mga bansang ito na nagkukulang ng manpower sa pamamagitan ng OFWs at BPO sa bansa? Ito ang ating bentahe sa kanila ngayon. At aalisin ba natin?


3.        The people have the right to informed choice. People must choose for themselves.


--  Naniniwala ako na dapat talaga,alam ng bawat isa sa atin ang pagpipilian at may karapatan tayo na pumili ng nararapat para sa ating mga sarili. Kaya nga may mga batas nang naipatupad tulad ng nabanggit sa number 1. Marami na ring mga palabas sa tv na ito ang tinuturo.  Ilang NGOs na rin na ito ang adbokasya.


Kung titingnan din natin ang mga diskusyon patungkol sa batas na ito, libo libo o milyon milyon pa siguro na mga Pilipino ang nagdidiskusyon patungkol sa RH Bill. Dito ay makikita natin na marami na talaga ang “INFORMED” kahit wala pang RH bill. At yung choice, matagal nang meron din ang bawat isa dahil wala naming batas na pumipigil sa tao na gumamit ng contraceptives. Pero sa oras na maipasa ang batas, ke ayaw ng isang tao na gumamit ng contraceptive o hindi, labag man sa kagustuhan o paniniwala niya, gagamitin ang kanyang buwis para ipampondo sa contraceptives at mabibigyan siya ng mga ito sa ayaw niya o sa gusto.  Sa huli, mas mawawalan pa nga tayo ng choice sa oras na maisabatas ang RH Bill.


4.        Contraceptives must be accessible for the people and they must have the rights to use it.


-       Tulad ng nabanggit sa number 1, may mga batas nang patungkol sa Family Planning. Kaya nga may mga health centers nang nagpprovide ng family planning seminars and consultations at nagbibigay din ng mga free contraceptives ang ilan dito. At kung accessibility lang din ang paguusapan, pumunta lang sa pinakamalapit na convenience store at makakabili na ng ilan sa mga ito.


At sa may mga gustong gumamit nito, wala naman talagang batas na nagpipigil ng paggamit nito. Gamitin nila kung gusto nila lalo’t kung hindi ito labag sa kanilang paniniwala.  Pero sana naman eh bumili sila ng sarili nila. At kung wala silang pambili, magpigil pigil naman sana sila. Huwag naman sanang asahan na sasagutin pa ito ng gobyerno para sa kanila.  Wag rin nilang i-asa na galing pa sa bulsa ng mga taong labag ang kalooban at sa kanilang paniniwala ang paggamit ang pambili nila ng contraceptives. Kung ito ang pagkagastusan ng gobyerno ng ilang bilyon habang nagrarally ang maraming estudyante na nananawagan ng dagdag na pondo sa edukasyon, habang kulang ang pondo sa programang pag agrikultura, habang kulang ang pambili natin ng gamit at armas ng AFP, hindi kaya dapat isantabi ang pagprioritize sa budget para sa mga contraceptives?


5.        RH Bill prevents abortion.


          --     Maraming debate patungkol dito, kung kelan nagsisimula ang buhay. Depende kung saang side ka nanggagaling kung alin paniniwalaan mo.  Kung sa fertilization nga ba nagsisimula ang buhay o sa implantation.


Ganito na lang siguro. Karamihan kasi sa mga pills, ay may mga actions na ginagawa sa loob ng matris ng ating mga kababaihan. 2 ang pineprevent nito, una ay ang mafertilized ang egg, pangalawa ay panipisin ang wall o kaya ay mag-secrete ng maraming mucus para ang fertilized egg ay hindi kumapit o kaya ay humina ang kapit hanggang sa tuluyang mawala ang fertilized egg.


Sa akin kung ako ang tatanungin, yung fertilized na egg ay isang nilalang nang may buhay. Kung sa iba ay hindi, nasa paniniwala naman nila yun. Pero yung ikalawang aksyon ng pills na iniiwasang kumapit o pinapahina ang kapit ng fertilized egg, ito na yungABORTIFACIENT character na tinatawag dun sa mga pills. Maaaring sabihin ng iba na “hindi pa naman kumapit”, pero paano yung nakakapit pero mahina lang kaya tuluyan rin nahulog pagkatapos? So hindi tayo sigurado kung anong “aksyon” ang nangyari sa loob. Lumalabas na hindi tayo sure kung may bata ba tayong napatay o wala. Hindi dapat sinusugal ang buhay kahit kelan.

Labas naman sa technical na usapan ay sa usapin ng psychology.  Ang konsepto ng “contraceptive” ay laging karugtong ng “abortion”. Hindi ba’t kaya ginagamit ang contraceptive ay para mapigilan ang “unwanted pregnancies”? Halos lahat ng mga contraceptive ngayon sa merkado ay walang 100% assurance na makakaiwas ng pagbubuntis. Sakaling matyempuhan ang isang babae na pumalpak ang contraceptive, ang resulta nito ay “unwanted pregnancy” pa rin, at dahil unwanted, may ilan pa rin na magtatangka na ipa-abort ito. Patunay ito sa resulta sa mga bansang may batas nang tulad ng RH Bill ay karamihan sa kanila ang sabay na pagtaas ng paggamit ng contraceptive at pagtaas ng bilang ng abortion tulad ng US, Cuba, Sweden, Denmark, Singapore, South Korea atbp.

Maaaring sabihin naman na kahit illegal ang abortion sa Pilipinas ay may gumagawa pa rin. Ganon din naman ang pagpatay, pagnanakaw at kung ano ano pang krimen. Pero tulad ng isang nagpaabort, ang isang magnanakaw pag nabaril, karapatan pa rin niya na maipagamot siya bago siya maparusahan sa krimeng kanyang ginawa.



6.        RH Bill is needed to prevent further spread of HIV, AIDS and other STDs.

--  Tulad sa number 1, may batas na po tayo na nakatutok po specific sa bagay na ito. Ang RA 8504 or ang "Philippine AIDS Prevention and Control Act of 1998." ang komprehensibong batas na ginawa para mabawasan at maibaba ang bilang mga taong nagkakaroon ng sakit na ito. Lahat ng provisions na patungkol sa AIDS/HIV na nasa RH Bill ay nakapaloob na ditto at mas marami at mas kumpleto pa. Kailangan na lang sigurong ipatupad ng mas maayos o kung gusto man nilang repasuhin ay puede naman kung gugustuhin nila.


7.        Catholic Church opposition is the only argument that anti-RH people have.

--  Ayon na rin sa mga nabanggit sa taas, hindi lang ang aral ng Simbahan ang batayan ng paglaban sa RH Bill, mas marami pa nga ang secular, scientific, constitutional at logical na mga dahilan para hindi ito maisabatas. Kadalasan, pag may RH bill na topic, kahit hindi nababanggit ang Simbahan ay makikita sa mga komento ang salitang “bishops, catholic, church, pari,pope” tapos may katabing mga salitang “damaso,pajero, bigot, hypocrite, makitid” at iba iba pang masasamang salita kahit wala naman sa istorya yung simbahan.


Ito ay marahil na rin sa ang Simbahang Katoliko ang pinakavocal na lumalaban sa RH bill at sa kabila naman, ang Simbahan rin ang nakikita nilang pinakamalaking hadlang at ito rin ang pinaka madaling gawing “poster boy” para kumampi ang mga tao sa RH Bill. Alam naman natin na marami rin ang galit sa Simbahan.

Pero sa kabila nito, hindi matatawaran ang dami ng mga tao at secular groups na laban sa RH Bill. Pero ito ay kadalasang isinasantabi ng mga proponents ng bill at ang patuloy lang na sinasagot nila ay ang mga argumento ng Simbahan. Don’t get me wrong. I stand and I believe in the Church’s side on this matter. But of course, pag argumentong pang Simbahan lang ang pinagusapan, mae-alienate ang mga hindi katoliko at maaaring magbunga ito ng hindi pagkakaunawa sa tunay na nilalaman ng RH Bill sa kanila at maaaring magbunga pa ng pagkampi nila sa panukalang ito sa dahilang ayaw lang nila sa anumang bagay na may relasyon sa Simbahang Katoliko.



8.        RH Bill will make people responsible, become good parents and make their lives better.


--  Sa dinami dami ng magagandang provisions na nasa loob ng RH Bill kung ito ay ating babasahin, talaga nga sigurong maganda ang magiging bunga ng mga ito. Yun nga lang, dahil nga naulit lang sa ibang batas ang laman nito at mas kumpleto pa sa iba tulad ng nabanggit sa number 1, hindi na kailangan pang isabatas ang naisabatas na.

At tulad ng nabanggit na rin sa number 3, matalino na ang mga Pilipino ngayon. Sigurado ako na magtanong ka kahit kanino kung gusto ba nila na mag-anak ng marami, ang isasagot ay hindi dahil mahirap ang buhay. Pero meron pa rin namang mga pamilya na malalaki at nagdadaan sa hirap ngayon. Marami akong kakilala. Makakatulong ba sa kanila ang RH Bill para umangat sa buhay? Malaki na ang pamilya nila eh, ang kailangan nila ngayon ay trabaho at edukasyon, hindi na condom.


Yung mga anak nila ang dapat nating alagaan. Bigyan ng tamang edukasyon para maging responsableng mamamayan. Hindi sex education ang sagot para maging responsable sila sa buhay. Ilan ba sa atin (lalo na sa mga magbabasa nito) ang dumaan sa formal sex education? Malamang ay konti lang o wala. Kahit ako hindi e. Pero alam ko naman kung paano maging responsable at ganoon ka rin na bumabasa ng article na ito. Pareho lang tayo, dahil nakapag aral tayo, dahil nagabayan tayo ng magulang natin ng maayos, alam natin kung ano ang tama at mali. Responsible Parenthood bill? Walang pinagkaiba yan sa RH Bill kung babasahin. Title lang po halos ang binago at ilang mga pagbabago sa ilang probisyon.


Isa pa, hindi lang naman sa mahihirap ang nagkakaroon ng mga iresponsableng mga tao pagdating sa usaping sekswalidad. Maging sa mga alta-sosyedad, mga pulitiko o mga professional na tao ay nagkakaroon din ng problemang ganito.  Pero sigurado po ako na ang isang taong may laman ang tyan at may laman ang utak ay mas makakapag isip at makakakilos ng tama bilang isang mabuting mamamayan kesa sa isang taong gutom at mangmang.


Kaya ako po ay nagpapasalamat sa mga pro-RH bill people lalo na kayong may tapat at may busilak na hangarin sa pagsuporta sa panukalang ito. KAYO po ang aking PATUNAY sa buod ng aking isinulat sa itaas. Dahil kayo po mismo na hindi nakaranas ng RH Bill ay alam kung ano kabutihan ng pagpplano sa buhay. Alam ninyo kung paano maging responsableng magulang at paano maging isang responsableng mamamayan.  Kayo po ang patunay na ang RH BILL ay isang panukalang HINDI NA NATIN KAILANGAN para mapabuti ang kaisipan at kalagayan ng ating mga mamamayan. Ang kailangan natin ay edukasyon at disiplina. Salamat at mabuhay po tayong lahat.

-- No to RH Bill

Source: The Ignored Genuis

Reproductive Health Includes ABORTION

How to Waste Money 101: The RH Bill

Courtesy of Saint Michaels Angels

Unheard of reasons why I am against the RH Bill

Posted May 27, 2011 by teachertwish

Conversations with pro-RH and watching debates on TV made me realize these new reasons why I’m against the RH Bill:

1) It condones negligent parents by saying: “Parents are irresponsible. Who else will teach the children on sex? The Government needs to intervene.”

2) It also condones corruption in government: “Alam naman nating mahirap pugsain ang corruption sa Pilipinas. When else will we start helping the poor?”

3) It demeans the ability of the poor to practice discipline in NFP. “Natural doesn’t always seem to work for the very poor that’s why they have 6-11 children  ” – Karen Davila

4) For the sake of choice, the pro-RH wants the poor to choose between natural and Group 1 carcinogens (contraceptive pills), and provide the latter for free.

5) The pro-RH are “not aware” of the abortifacient nature of contraceptive pills. Their comment? “In my opinion, they are not abortifacients.” Now medicine has become a matter of opinion. Add to that the opinion on where life begins.

6) The pro-RH will always downplay the obvious connection of contraception and abortion as if they are two different advocacies in the real pro-life stand. They will not answer the question of Plan B if contraception fails.

7) Rep. Hontiveros’ idea of sex education is contradicting: A – bstinence, B-e monogamous, and C-ontraception. Why put abstinence and contraception together? Why A if there is C? Why C if there is A?

8 ) Carlos Celdran is one name-calling pro-RH. No need to elaborate. (Rep. Hontiveros needs to tame him down.)

9) The pro-RH camp would last resort to destroying the person (and the Church) in their defense. These politicians do not know how to engage in a sustained reasonable debate. Can they just stick to the issue?

On NFP.
Pro-RH: “If it is so great, then why hasn’t the church teach about it with vigor like what they’re screaming about it now?”
Me: “Naku, you put in the Church na into our discussion. I wanted to keep the Church out of it. Now that you mentioned it, let’s put the Church in.”
Pro-RH: “My bad. I thought your linking it to there stand [sic].”

10) “Iba ang moralidad niyo sa moralidad ko.” – Dr. Sylvia Caludio. Aba! Then why should we let you impose your morality that contraception and abortion are okay on us? Dr. Claudio by the way is the chairman of WGNRR, an organization that supports abortion. “[Dr. Claudio] and her org can promote it all she wants. I don’t, and will not start advocating it.” – Ms. Lea Salonga.

11) The RH Bill is filed under the Commission on Population and Development. But they push on health benefits. It should then be files under Health, di ba? I smell something fishy.

Why I support the Catholic Church in its fight against the RH Bill:

1) The Church believes that the poor are human persons who are capable of practicing discipline.

2) She has been consistent in her arguments against the RH Bill. There is no need for strategy changes.

3) They protect the real essence of the woman, her uterus, by keeping the dangerous pills from destroying it.

4) The Church does help save the women’s lives by not promoting Group 1 carcinogens (e.g. contraceptive pills).

5) She supports PNoy’s slogan: “Kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap.”

6) The pronoun for the Catholic Church is actually female.

7) The Church has always been pro-poor: Caritas. Visit the website, you’ll see the programs for the poor there. Some Catholics are active also in helping the poor: Gawad Kalinga.

A brief message for those who claim themselves to be Catholics but are pro-RH: Have you read the Catechism of the Catholic Church? For sure, you haven’t. I suggest you read it. It’s very reasonable. It is “faith seeking understanding.” Then, and only then, can we have a decent discussion involving the Church without destroying its credibility.

I am entitled to my own realizations, and these are just based on my experiences. For sure there are exceptions to these instances. When I sound like I am generalizing, I am only referring to the people I had been exposed to.

My blog, my rules. For a change, comments section will only be dedicated to understanding the side of those against the RH Bill. This blog will be dedicated to fully understanding the Anti-RH Bill side. I expect questions about and supporting facts for the Anti-RH stand in the comments section. Any comment posted that doesn’t follow the rules will not be posted. ☺

Cheers!

Source: http://teachertwish.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/unheard-of-reasons-why-i-am-against-the-rh-bill/

Here’s How the Father of Lies Operates:

August 1, 2012 By Fr. Dwight Longenecker 

First the Dark Lord tells everyone that marriage doesn’t matter. “It’s only a piece of paper!” they cried. He encourages promiscuity, sexual ‘freedom’, adultery, fornication and co-habitation. “Marriage? What’s Marriage? Just an outdated institution to keep women barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen.” Let’s get rid of marriage. Let’s make divorce no-fault, cheap and easy. Marry as many times as you want, but marriage? It’s only a piece of paper.

Once that lie is firmly established simply shift it the other way around. “Marriage? We all want to be married!” Women want to marry each other. Men want to marry each other. Marriage is wonderful! Why are you denying me the right to be married! I want to be married too! I deserve to be married! I want to be married and spend the rest of my life with the person I love! Marriage! Marriage! It’s a wonderful thing marriage! We all want to be married!

This is the tactic: First destroy the sacred, the beautiful and the true, then once you’ve replaced it with a lie make sure everyone wants it. The same thing happened with ordination. “The Church is clerical! All those clergy! We want to de-clericalize the church! Get rid of the hierarchy! Don’t you know the Bible teaches the ‘priesthood of ALL believers! You don’t need a priest to confess. You can go straight to God. Those priests! They’re all misogynistic pedophiles! Priests! Creepy old guys in dirty cassocks. Yucch! Who wants to be a priest? Nobody. Seminaries are empty. Good. Ordination is outdated…”

Then the proponents of women priests say, “Why can’t we be priests? We want to be priests too? How can you deny our gifts? We want equal rights! We should be ordained too. We should be priests. How can you deny married men the priesthood? Don’t you know the first priests were married? Don’t you know there is evidence that there were women priests in the early church?? I mean there is a picture of a person in the catacombs who might be a woman who has her hands raised in prayer just like a priest!!!”

That’s why you have to stick to the truth. You start giving in to the protesters–the people who scream and bitch and moan and complain? As soon as you do they’ll turn the tables and get you for exactly the opposite fault.

Don’t appease bullies–especially if they’re being nice.

Source: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/standingonmyhead/2012/08/heres-how-the-father-of-lies-operates.html

Priests for Life announces it will defy HHS mandate: goes into effect today

BY BEN JOHNSON

NEW YORK, August 1, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The HHS mandate goes into effect today for businesses and non-religious employers, but one organization has already announced it will not comply.

Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life.

Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, said that while that organization “advocates the observance of all just laws…I want to make it clear to you today that we will disobey this mandate.”

In a letter setting forth official policy on the matter, Fr. Pavone wrote, “Neither Priests for Life as an organization, nor any one of our administrative team or Board of Directors, nor I personally, consent to provide, pay for, advocate, counsel, refer, or in any way tolerate or cooperate with any process, plan, exchange of money or services, or any other activity that would enable a person to engage in the use of abortion-inducing drugs, contraception, or sterilization.” 

The group does not qualify for a one-year exemption available to religious organizations to “adapt” to the mandate. “We are not ‘religious’ enough for this administration,” he said.

Faced with the option of violating its conscience or incurring fines up to $100 a day per employee beginning today, Priests for Life is standing by its convictions.

“Whether or not the government decides to eventually impose fines on us when our health insurance policy is renewed in a few months is not the issue,” Fr. Pavone wrote. “The issue is that as of today, as far as the government is concerned, we have to provide health insurance coverage for practices that are morally objectionable.”

The pro-life Catholic group had long signaled its impending defiance of what it considers an unjust and unconstitutional law.

“We don’t need a year, nor do we need a moment, to determine what we are going to do, or to ‘adapt’ to the rule,” Fr. Pavone said early this year. “You don’t adapt to injustice; you oppose it.”

The organization sued the Obama administration in February. The administration is expected to file a motion to have the lawsuit dismissed today, something Fr. Pavone says will fail. 

The victory of Hercules Industries over the administration’s lawyers in obtaining an injunction against the HHS mandate gives Priests for Life reason for optimism. The ruling, made by a Carter-appointed judge who served in the Peace Corps, established that a private employer may have legal standing to object to the mandate on statutory grounds.

Source: http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/priests-for-life-defies-the-hhs-mandate

The Church Militant - Bringing Catholic Back

Thought For The Day: Duty

"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty." 

- Thomas Jefferson

Planet Nibiru Featured in Russian News

Thought For The Day: Government

‎". . . A government whose power is not checked and limited, is a government who no longer acts as a "servant" of the People, but a "tyrant" over the People." 
- Douglas McCabe

Truths of the Catholic Church

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Oral Contraceptives are Group 1 Carcinogens

St. Michael Prayer

Dear Lord

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Italian mom sacrifices life for unborn baby

from lifesitenews:

ROME, June 25, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - When Chiara Corbella learned she was pregnant with her third child, it was a great joy that ended in bittersweet tragedy for the young Italian mother, who died this month after postponing cancer treatment to save her cherished baby.

In a story that echoes that of Roman Catholic saint Gianna Molla, Chiara and her husband Enrico Petrillo embarked on a remarkable journey of faith in 2010 when they learned that they were pregnant with Francisco - and that Chiara had an aggressive form of cancer, reports the Catholic News Agency.

The news was especially poignant for the couple since both of Francisco’s elder siblings, Maria and David, had been lost shortly after birth. In fact, Chiara and Enrico had become popular pro-life speakers for their stories of their few treasured moments with each of their first two children before their brief lives came to an end.

This time, doctors said Francisco was healthy and developing normally. So when Chiara was advised to begin treatment immediately for her cancer, she declined, waiting for Francisco to be born in May of last year. The cancer progressed over the following year, depriving Chiara of sight in one eye before she finally succumbed on June 13, 2012.

“I am going to heaven to take care of Maria and David, you stay here with Dad. I will pray for you,” Chiara wrote to baby Francisco in a letter, one week before her death.

Chiara’s funeral Mass was celebrated by the Vicar General of Rome, Cardinal Agostino Vallini, who called Chiara “the second Gianna Beretta.”

Saint Gianna Molla was an Italian pediatrician who died in 1962 from complications caused by a fibroma on her uterus, after she refused both an abortion and a hysterectomy because she was pregnant with her fourth child.


Although a tragedy to outside observers - and certainly also for Enrico, to whom Chiara was happily married – the couple’s last conversations reveal, in the young husband’s words, “a story of love on the cross” that seemed to conquer even death.


“The truth is that this cross – if you embrace it with Christ – ceases to be as ugly as it looks. If you trust in him, you discover that this fire, this cross, does not burn, and that peace can be found in suffering and joy in death,” said Enrico, according to CNA. “I spent a lot of time this year reflecting on this phrase from the Gospel that says the Lord gives a cross that is sweet and a burden that is light.


“When I would look at Chiara when she was about to die, I obviously became very upset. But I mustered the courage and a few hours before – it was about eight in the morning, Chiara died at noon – I asked her. 


"I said: ‘But Chiara, my love, is this cross really sweet, like the Lord says? She looked at me and she smiled, and in a soft voice she said, ‘Yes, Enrico, it is very sweet.’


“In this sense, the entire family didn’t see Chiara die peacefully, but happily, which is totally different.”


Enrico said he would tell his son Francisco when he was older that “the most important thing in life” is to “let yourself be loved in order to love and die happy,” and that “this is what his mother, Chiara, did.”


“She allowed herself to be loved, and in a certain sense, I think she loved everyone in this way,” he said. “I feel her more alive than ever. To be able to see her die happy was to me a challenge to death.”


Read the full CNA story here.

Thought For the Day: Be Still

Glenn Buys A Young Entrepreneur A Puppy With $1,000 Cup of Lemonade

From GlennBeck.com:

Glenn hosted a “National Lemonade Stand, Bake Sale, and Hug-A-Thon” special on Wednesday night full of excitement, lemonade, dancing cupcakes, fried chicken, families, and good old fashioned summer fun.

The highlight of the night may have been what happened after Glenn finished his monologue. After wrapping up and explaining why he decided to encourage people to hold lemonade stands across the country, he went to Pat and Stu in Babe’s parking lot to talk to some of the young kids at their lemonade stand. One girl had a sign saying she had no licenses, forms, or permits – she was just a nine year old who wanted to raise enough money to buy a puppy. Pat asked her if she got a hundred dollars, how much would she give to charity? She said 75%.

And then he shocked her by asking how much she would give to charity if she got a thousand dollars!

The young girl took a look at the money, screamed in excitement, and quickly went to fill a glass for Pat and Stu. Pat laughed and said the money was from Glenn and Tania who wanted her to get that puppy she wanted. The puppy cost a little over a hundred dollars – and she donated the rest to Mercury One.

Glenn delivered a powerful monologue about the importance of entrepreneurialism. He focused on the way that out of control regulation has hobbled kids from going out and do something as easy as setting up a lemonade stand. He explained that when you’re a kid, lemonade stands can be an entryway to capitalism. When it’s a hot day and you find out that people will give you money for a cold glass of lemonade – that’s a lesson! And you find out you can take that money and buy something (a puppy!) or save it or give it to charity – again, an important lesson.

But laws and regulations passed under the guise of “protecting people” now say that the lemonade a little kid makes and sells outside their house may not meet certain standards or their stand doesn’t meet some ridiculous criteria. In New York City, you have to file IRS forms and permits before opening a lemonade stand. In fact, you even have to take a fifteen hour food protection course! These rules don’t protect us, they stop the next generation from learning about entrepreneurship and capitalism.

God Is Dead: Catholic Priest Slams Atheism

Excerpt from The Blaze:

Fr. Pontifex is not just a Catholic priest, but he’s also a successful hip-hop artist who gained notoriety after he responded to Jefferson Bethke’s "Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus."

Now, he’s back with a new clip, this time taking aim at atheist activism. His new spoken word clip, entitled, "God is dead," delves deeply into secularism in an attempt to debunk its claims.


A description of the video reads:

This video is in response to the claims of the "New Atheism." One that has been presented by the likes of Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens. One who holds faith is NOT irrational. Science and reason are not incompatible with faith - in fact they compliment each other very well because they come from the same source, God. We hope that this video touches the hearts of many people.

Call Your Mother

Image above courtesy of Our Rosary Hour

June is Crusade of Conversion Month

June is Crusade of Conversion Month

Important Message from Virgin Mary for month of June

given to the visionary Maria Divine Mercy (May 31^st 2012)

---> http://www.thewarningsecondcoming.com/virgin-mary-june-crusade-of-conversion-month/

"I urge you children to dedicate the month of June to the conversion of mankind and to ensure that they will seek salvation.

Call this month the Crusade of Conversion month and pray as one through prayer groups throughout the world.
 

Here is the Crusade Prayer for the Crusade of Conversion 

Crusade Prayer (58) Crusade of Conversion Prayer

O dear Jesus I call on you to embrace
all God’s children and cover them with
Your Precious Blood
Let each drop of Your Blood cover
every soul to shield them from the evil one

Open the hearts of all especially hardened souls
and those who know You, but who are stained with
The sin of pride, to fall down and beg for the light of
Your Love to flood their souls

Open their eyes to see the Truth so that the dawn
of Your Divine Mercy will shower down upon them so they
are covered with the Rays of Your Mercy.

Convert all souls through the graces I ask you for
now Dear Jesus (personal intention here)

I beg you for Mercy and offer you this gift of fasting for one day
Every week for this month of June in atonement for all sins.

Amen.

Children you must fast for one day each week in the month of June.

You must recite My Rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet daily.

Doing this children you will save the souls of millions through the Mercy of My Son Jesus Christ.

Your beloved Mother

Mother of Salvation"

more information: www.thewarningsecondcoming.com/important-message-from-virgin-mary-for-month-of-june/

Mehr Infos: http://www.internetgebetskreis.com/en/

Christ, Truly Present in the Eucharist

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Fr. Kubicki reflects on Pope Benedict's general prayer intention for June 2012

Cute Hamster Plays Dead On Command

St. Michael & The Archangels

Abortion Clinic Owner Tells All

From Creative Minority Report:

Foundation Life has this amazing video of former abortion clinic owner Carol Everett explaining all. It's horrifying.

Here's just one quote: "We had a whole plan to sell abortion, and it was called sex education.”

Another thing she says is they dispensed contraception that if the girl didn't take it at the same time everyday was essentially useless.

She also tells about "counseling" and how it was really just a hard sell.

This is horrifying but pro-lifers must watch this to remind themselves what we're up against. Big Abortion is big businiess. 

The Covenant

  

Excerpt From Blaze.com:

Tim Ballard, author of the book "The Covenant". Ballard contends that America’s founding fathers tapped into an ancient power to build the nation — a feat they accomplished against all odds. The founders, being well-versed in Biblical understanding, believed that the U.S. was a new Israel of sorts, birthed out of a relationship and a covenant with the Almighty. Ballard maintains that, in contemporary times, the nation risks losing its blessings if individuals don’t recognize the importance of the covenant and an ongoing relationship with God.

“Those who understand the covenant feel an affinity to Israel,” Ballard explained. “The covenant is a promise between God and his people and the relationship is one of mutual action – God will deliver if we do what he tells us to do — if, as a nation, we strive to live worthy of it. It has nothing to do with denominations. I don’t care what faith you are – as long as you’re believing in God.”

So, what are these blessings, you ask? According to Ballard, they are liberty, protection and prosperity — all elements that the U.S. has traditionally enjoyed. Each, of course, provides substantial benefits to individual citizens and the nation’s survival as a whole. When the “mutual action” that Ballard spoke about is engaged, he claims that “there’s a response from heaven again and again.”

Nine-Year-Old Stands Up to Westboro Baptist Church with One-Boy Counter-Protest

"GOD HATES NO ONE"

From Gawker.com:

When nine-year-old Josef Miles spotted members of Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church doing their hate-mongering thing on the Washburn University campus in Topeka, he asked his mother, Patty Akrouche, if he could stage a small counter-protest to their message of intolerance.

With just a pencil and small notebook in hand, Josef took on the bigots with a succinct yet poignant proclamation: "God Hates No One."

"Those people are scary but he stood strong, was respectful and stood by his convictions," Akrouche wrote on her Facebook page. "He will be a good man, I have no doubt."

I am a survivor: born into addiction and poverty, but grateful to be alive

Excerpt from Lifesitenews:

Life was not always easy for me growing up with a teenage mother, who later became a drug addict and alcoholic. Yet, I always knew I was loved.  When my birth mother was not able to care for me, God always did. She died by the time I was nine years old from a drug overdose. She was 25

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Oftentimes, pro-choice supporters make statements like, “You do not know what it is like to grow up in poverty or with alcoholic parents,” or “No child would want to be born into poverty or into a family of alcoholics.” Well, I have lived that life, and, I must admit, if given the choice of having a family with money and no addiction versus the life I had, I would probably choose the first option. But, if given the choice between the life I had and that of a death sentence, I would choose the life I had.

Even though I grew up in a poor family that suffered from addiction, I never felt like I did not want to live. I actually never knew my life was that difficult or that my family was poor, because I did not know any different. Being a child of a poor family and of an addict did not define me, nor did it make my life any less valuable than anyone who may be reading this story.

Three years to the day after my birth mother’s death, I sat in a Russian courthouse. A Russian judge approved my adoption into my American family. I soon moved to the United States and now, five years later, I am a senior in high school, with a 3.2 GPA. I have just been accepted into college where I will study to become a registered nurse.

My future is bright, and my life is amazing, all because of one fifteen-year-old’s brave decision to choose life for me.

When I reflect on what my Russian birth mother must have been going through, and think about all the arguments people of pro-choice opinion give for a girl to have an abortion, I am faced with the realization that I am 90 percent of those reasons. Consider the fact that currently in Russia there are more abortions than live births; that definitely makes me a survivor, a person with a purpose. What that purpose is at the moment, I am not sure, but for today, it was to share my story.

Click here to read the whole article.

We Will Wait

Ursuline Nuns Issue Statement Defending Billionaire Contraceptive Campaigner Melinda Gates...

"The antichrist forces of the agents from hell are out now in great numbers invading Our convents and seminaries, My child.  You must hasten to reach your pastors with the Message." 

- Our Lady of the Roses, July 25, 1975

LifeSiteNews reported on May 10, 2012:

A group of Ursuline nuns whom billionaire Melinda Gates had claimed in a recent speech supports her campaign to inject tens of millions of women in impoverished countries with Depo-Provera and other contraceptive drugs, has issued a statement defending Gates and the work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, while simultaneously claiming to support Catholic moral teaching.

Gates recently told Newsweek that the nuns at the Ursuline Academy of Dallas, where she once attended school, were delighted to hear about her plans to initiate a global contraceptive campaign and contacted her to tell her: “We’re all for you. We know this is a difficult issue to speak on, but we absolutely believe that you’re living under Catholic values.”

“It was just so heartening,” Gates said of the phone call, which she says the Ursuline nuns made to her hotel room in Berlin, where she had just announced her intentions at a TEDxChange conference in early April.

In a statement on the matter issued yesterday to “employees, parents, students, alumnae, and other members of our school community” and obtained by LifeSiteNews.com, Academy President Margaret Ann Moser says that the nuns are “proud of Melinda French Gates, her dedication to social justice, her compassion for the underserved, and the great work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.”

“Melinda Gates leads from her conscience, and acts on her beliefs as a concerned citizen of our world,” adds Moser, explaining, “The mission of Ursuline Academy of Dallas is to educate young women for such leadership.”

While claiming that “Ursuline is committed to the moral and doctrinal teachings of the Catholic Church” and recognizing that “Melinda’s beliefs on birth control are different from those of the Catholic Church,” the sisters nonetheless say they “respect her right” to “speak from her research and experience of the world we live in.”

The nuns do not address Gates’ claim that they endorsed her contraceptive campaign. A spokeswoman for the Ursuline Academy of Dallas told LifeSiteNews.com that “Ursuline Academy is not participating in interviews or other discussion of Ms. Gates’ remarks or the statement. The attached statement is the extent of Ursuline’s comment at this time.”

As LifeSiteNews.com reported on Tuesday, Gates says her goal is to make contraceptives available to 120 million women by 2020, using a $4 billion budget.

The injectable contraceptive favored by the Gates Foundation is Depo-Provera, which can cause early abortions by preventing a newly-conceived zygote from attaching to the uterine wall. It is also associated with numerous dangerous medical conditions, including bone loss, increased risk of blood clots, breast cancer, cervical cancer, increased herpes susceptibility, memory loss, and other disorders, many of which are acknowledged by the U.S. Food and Drug administration.

In her Newsweek interview and in her April speech at the TEDxChange conference, Gates claimed that women in Africa are clamoring to be injected with contraceptive drugs.  She also says she wants to develop a class of non-hormonal contraceptive implants that permanently reside in the woman’s body and can be activated and deactivated at will. She denies she is engaging in population control and claims that her agenda has nothing to do with abortion.

When an interviewer at the Berlin TEDxChange conference asked Gates if the Ursuline nuns “are going to be horrified, or are they cheering you on?” regarding her campaign, Gates responded: “Well, I know they’re going see the TED Talk, because they know that I’m doing it, and I plan to send it to them. And, you know, the nuns who taught me were incredibly progressive.”

Contact information:

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