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  1. #81

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    Quote Originally Posted by K
    Mr. Amador,
    The depth of your knowledge of the debate on the HB 3773 is impressive. Would you have a blog? If not, I think you should have one.
    Thanks so much. I have a website, which is not exactly a blog since it doesn't have the automated features. I'm still developing it. But you can see it now. It's at:

    http://www.phnix.net

    I've posted stuff on a number of issues. There's a discussion board where others can submit articles. Article submissions are, of course, subject to approval before they get on the main page, but the discussion board is pretty open. I also post on some other blogs such as this one and PCIJ.

    Thanks very much for your comments. God bless!

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    Took a look. Interesting mixture. Open Source Software Advocacy + Pro Life Advocacy

    But I guess they mix in a weird sorf of way: one is againts tyrants who try to control technology. The other is againts tyrants who try to control humans.

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    Quote Originally Posted by K
    Took a look. Interesting mixture. Open Source Software Advocacy + Pro Life Advocacy
    Thanks! I hope to improve it in time. I don't use any special tools kasi, just a regular text editor. I do HTML the old way.

    Quote Originally Posted by K
    But I guess they mix in a weird sorf of way: one is againts tyrants who try to control technology. The other is againts tyrants who try to control humans.
    I guess they are different sides of the same coin (or of the same polyhedral object!).

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    [size=18px]Here and There : Ligtas buntis?[/size]
    By Roy Cimagala
    Mar 05, 2005, INQ7.net
    http://news.inq7.net/viewpoints/inde...d=29435&col=68

    AN ugly controversy is now raging over the government's latest family
    planning campaign, "Ligtas buntis" [Filipino for safe pregnancy].

    This issue, to me, has become a real pain in the neck. Like a broken
    record, it's amazingly stubborn, refusing to simply fade away. It keeps on
    popping up in the public attention, a very pesky irritant indeed.

    The problem at bottom is the insistence that the Catholic Church should
    change its position on family planning, and that it should just keep quiet
    about what the government and other groups are doing in the area of family
    planning.

    Well, they might as well expect the end of the world first before such
    change can come. When a basic moral issue is involved, the Catholic Church
    will not be silenced, even if it has to be crucified in public opinion.

    The trouble is that this Ligtas buntis campaign, while heavily sanitized
    and deodorized, continues to be afflicted with the basic sick idea that
    contraception is just okay, especially given
    Write the editor the poverty, ignorance, blah, blah, blah of the people.

    It tries to appear human by boasting that it respects freedom, it is meant
    to pursue noble goals like safe pregnancy, avoidance of unwanted
    pregnancies, it is sensitive to the plight of the poor, the women, and the
    children, etc.

    To gain more strength and attractiveness to their position, they try to
    get a consensus of the people regarding family planning issues. As if the
    truth and nature of things depend on the consensus of people.

    Then it tries to paint ghosts of the true position of the Catholic Church.
    For this, some sectors accuse the church of being anti-poor, anti-women,
    anti-freedom, of meddling in government affairs, of being unrealistic,
    trapped in some outdated ideas, etc. Hello!

    As long as its concept of freedom includes the cafeteria approach of
    presenting only the medically and legally approved methods of family
    planning, without giving due consideration to the moral requirements, that
    campaign will meet an active resistance from the Catholic Church. No doubt
    about that.

    Morality is never a superfluous requirement in human life. It is not meant
    only for the rich and for the able. It involves every one of us, since it
    is part of our nature, and especially of the supernatural character of our
    being.

    As such it has a universal dimension. We cannot say that just because we
    are dealing with poor and ignorant people, then we just can excuse them
    from the moral requirements. No sir!

    If we are dealing with poor and ignorant people, or those who are
    difficult to teach and handle, then we have an objective problem to solve.
    But the solution cannot be by revising morality. We would actually be
    revising human nature that way.

    Some sectors in the pro-contraception side try to redefine morality by
    pegging it mainly if not solely on the criteria of practicality,
    popularity, etc. This is not how morality is to be defined.

    Morality is derived from the nature of the human person. It ultimately has
    to touch on the source and author of human nature, and thus it unavoidably
    has to consider the role of God.

    Any concept of morality that shuns from God and an objective analysis of
    human nature would be congenitally infirm, erroneous and dangerous.
    Unfortunately, we now have strong ideologies that have this frame of mind.

    To accuse the Catholic Church of being anti-poor, of being inhuman, etc.,
    is rottenly unfair. What the church tries to say, with total respect for
    the freedom of everyone, no matter how abused, is that the moral dimension
    should never be ignored when we pursue matters related to family planning.

    The Catholic Church has always commended the many things that are moral in
    the programs of government and private entities. But when they come out
    with immoral things, then it will come in, just to clarify, but never to
    impose and force.

    In this present campaign of the Ligtas buntis, it continues to warn people
    that its cafeteria approach that includes contraception is morally wrong.
    It cannot run away from this duty.

    The campaign may have many other good features that are morally sound, and
    the Church is quite happy with them and leaves the people to decide what
    is best for them. It's when it comes out with something immoral that it
    rouses the Catholic Church to action.

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    Here is part of an article from the New York Post concerning Ortho Evro:
    http://www.yourlawyer.com/practice/n...20Evra%20Patch
    THE PATCH OF 'DEATH'
    New York Post - SUSAN EDELMAN

    10/10/04 - A popular and profitable contraceptive patch promoted by
    sexy TV ads caused 11 times as many fatal or life-threatening blood clots
    as a leading birth-control pill, a new lawsuit charges.

    The Ortho Evra patch is "defective" and more dangerous than the
    manufacturer admits, alleges a suit by a Texas mother of two who
    suffered a massive stroke and is now paralyzed after 12 days on the
    patch.
    This is an article from Concerned Women of America:
    http://www.cwfa.org/articles/7168/CWA/life/

    Contraceptive *** Patch Linked to 17 Deaths
    1/5/2005
    By Elaine McGinnis

    Ortho Evra: more dangerous than you think.

    The contraceptive patch, Ortho Evra, is responsible for the deaths of
    at least 17 women since its release on the market in 2002, according
    to an article in The New York Post. The most recent reported victim is
    18-year-old Zakiya Kennedy.

    Zakiya Kennedy collapsed last April on the upper east side of New York
    City while waiting for the subway. She died one hour later on the way
    to the emergency room. Her father, Kevin, told ABC News' Chris Cuomo
    that, prior to his daughters death, "She was complaining about pains in
    her leg or in her shoulder. She thought it was from her exercising."

    The autopsy revealed Kennedy died because a blood clot had entered her
    lung. Called a pulmonary embolism, the blood clot is a dangerous side
    effect of the birth control patch that she wore.

    Ortho Evra is used by more than 400,000 women. It is similar to the
    birth control pill, yet manufacturers tout it as more convenient.
    Women wear the patch for one week for three weeks in a row and skip
    the fourth week. It works by secreting pregnancy-preventing hormones
    into the blood via the skin.

    Regrettably, Kennedys death is not an isolated case. The New York Post
    used Freedom of Information laws to obtain records from the U.S. Food
    and Drug Administration to discover that 16 previous deaths and
    21life-threatening cases have already occurred.

    For example, a 37-year-old mother of two suffered a massive stroke
    after using the patch for only 12 days. She has recently filed a
    lawsuit against Ortho-McNeil, the patchs manufacturer.

    Dr. Andrew Friedman, head researcher of the womens unit for
    Ortho-McNeil, says being aware of the signs, such as leg pain, swelling
    and shortness of breath, are important. It could be a sign of a
    potentially dangerous clot.

    Friedman defends Ortho-McNeil by reminding consumers: On TV, almost
    half of the time of the advertisement is devoted to talking about the
    potential risks and potential warnings that women should be aware of.
    Yet there is no mention of death as a side effect.

    Kennedy's grandmother, Roberta Alloway, says Ortho-McNeil should
    increase warning labels so women are aware of what they are taking.
    They need to really let people know that my granddaughter and other
    people have died from this patch, she told ABCs Cuomo.

    "My granddaughter was an A student. Her life was cut short because she
    wore a patch to protect herself from getting pregnant," she said.

    Dr. Shaun Biggers of New York Presbyterian Hospital says that very few
    women are expected to die from Ortho Evra. He told Cuomo: Based on our
    best estimates less than two per 100,000 women less than the age of
    35 will die from complications of the patch.

    Yet more than twice that number have already died.

    Concerned Women for Americas Senior Policy Director Wendy Wright is
    saddened by the outlook of these medical professionals: Sadly, some
    medical and pharmaceutical officials believe that it is OK for healthy
    women to die in exchange for selling more of their products. In their
    minds, dead or injured women are a worthy price for sexual freedom and
    higher profits.

    Lester A. Ruppersberger, D.O., a gynecologist at St. Marys Medical
    Center in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, told Physicians for Life that the
    numbers didnt surprise him. Its about money. Its about marketing. I
    hear the Ortho salesman in here every week. He doesnt talk about the
    pill at all anymore. All he wants to talk about is the patch, because
    thats what he gets his commission on -- how many he sells.

    Ruppersberger continued, Birth control pills did not do what everybody
    expected them to do. [T]hey increased the rate of unwanted pregnancies,
    abortion rates, sexually transmitted disease rates, abuse rates, and
    pornography rates. But wasnt the pill supposed to free women?

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    [size=18px]HOLD ON TO YOUR PRECIOUS GIFT[/size]

    A PASTORAL STATEMENT on Population Control Legislation and the "Ligtas Buntis" Program

    BELOVED PEOPLE OF GOD:

    Last February 15th, a committee in Congress approved a bill on population
    control, "reproductive health", sexual rights for young people, and
    mandatory child *** education, among others. The measure imposes fine and
    imprisonment for parents, spouses, and health professionals who impede
    "sexual and reproductive rights." It creates a program for fertility
    control by encouraging the limitation of family size to two children. It
    gives incentives to 2-child families. Women -- married or single -- will
    be taught "all methods and techniques to prevent pregnancy." The sponsors
    have called the proposal "responsible parenthood" and "population
    management."

    During committee deliberations, the authors have also denied the beginning
    of human life at fertilization.

    What is the underlying agenda? The central idea is to reduce our
    population purportedly to spur economic growth. This is also saying that
    in order to eliminate poverty, we must reduce our human resource.

    The premises are all wrong. A long line of serious economists and
    demographers have long discredited the Malthusian myth that positive
    population growth stunts economic growth. Modern history has also
    demolished this myth.

    After a population control program was put in place in the country in the
    1970's and after billions of public money spent every year to fund it, our
    population growth has already been declining and continues to slide today.
    Poverty has not been reduced. Official government data attest to this. And
    if this population trend continues-and it will-the Philippines will lose
    precious human capital, much to its peril.

    A "Ligtas Buntis" Program.

    While this is happening in Congress, the Department of Health is now
    implementing nationwide a Program called "Ligtas Buntis." Touted as an
    information campaign for "maternal health", "Ligtas Buntis" targets 2
    million MEN, WOMEN and COUPLES OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE,
    ADOLESCENTS 15-19 years old, and the POOR among us. Even INDIGENOUS
    COMMUNITIES are identified as priority areas.

    In this program, barangay health workers will interview couples, map and
    make a masterlist of families after house-to-house, door-to-door, and
    person-to-person "surveys" on their methods of fertility control.
    Sexuality education, contraceptive pills and devices will be
    dispensed. The surveys will be recorded, reported, and monitored.
    Everything will be documented.

    THE CHURCH CANNOT BE UNMOVED BY THESE ASSAULTS ON THE FAMILY

    1. The legislative proposal to limit the size of the Filipino family
    in the guise of "reproductive rights" is unjust, arbitrary, and
    unreasonable legislation. It has no place in public governance.[/list]

    2. "Responsible Parenthood" goes beyond simply providing for a
    family's material needs. While we must preach about providing
    bread, there is no substitute for first preaching about the higher
    truth about man.

    For we know by our Faith what is authentic responsible parenthood:
    It means respect for one's generative functions. It calls upon
    married persons to use discernment and generosity in their
    decisions. It calls for due regard to physical, economic,
    psychological and social conditions in deciding "to raise a
    numerous family." It includes the spouses' decision "based on
    grave motives and with due respect for the moral law, to avoid for
    the time being or even for an indeterminate period, a new birth."
    Responsible parenthood makes parents "free and responsible
    collaborators of God the Creator."

    3. The "LIGTAS BUNTIS" Program violates and mocks the privacy and
    autonomy of couples and families. It desecrates the sanctity of
    marriage and family life.

    4. We CONDEMN the pressure to deny the presence of human life at the
    moment of fertilization. Humanity cries for justice for the
    millions of crimes and senseless abortions because of this lie.
    From the fusion of the basic cells of the father and the mother
    following the marital act, the fruit is already human. No human
    ordinance can turn that truth into error.

    TO OUR LEADERS AND LAWMAKERS -- A well-formed Christian conscience does
    not permit you to write or support measures which contradict the basic
    rights of families and the fundamental imperatives of faith and morals."
    Christian leaders have both a political and moral obligation to safeguard
    "the laws of nature and of nature's God." Failure in this duty is a
    betrayal of public trust and an open defiance of your Faith.

    TO ALL SPOUSES -- Build your family on the rock of Christian generosity
    and discernment -- Your right to found a family is rooted on your
    Christian responsibility and freedom of religious belief, together with
    the right to act according to that belief. That freedom may not be
    breached.

    TO OUR HEALTH WORKERS -- You have the right to conscientious objection.
    It is both a civic right and a Christian duty to insist on it.

    TO ALL THE FAITHFUL -- Defend truth. It gives light to our reason, and
    preserves us from error. Resist the enticements of false "freedoms"
    and counterfeit "rights." Defend the privacy of family.

    Take heart and stand firm. Be courageous in the Faith. HOLD ON TO YOUR
    PRECIOUS GIFT -- that "pearl of great price." It is the source of
    unfailing strength. It is your breastplate when you face the storms that
    besiege conscience.

    Let our Blessed Mother, the Virgin Mary, Queen of the Family, be our
    loving Advocate in these challenging times. Entrust to her our families.
    Let us pray for the graces which the Lord promised to those who invoke
    her in this Marian Year.

    Manila, Philippines, February 18, 2005.

    For the CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE OF THE PHILIPPINES

    (Sgd.) +FERNANDO R. CAPALLA, D.D.
    Archbishop of Davao
    President, CBCP

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    [size=18px]Benedict XVI: Fight AIDS With Chastity[/size]
    Underlines Dangers of Disintegrating Families

    VATICAN CITY, JUNE 10, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Fidelity and chastity are
    fail-safe ways to prevent the spread of AIDS, says Benedict XVI.

    The Pope received in audience today the bishops of South Africa,
    Botswana, Swaziland, Namibia and Lesotho, and commented on the
    "devastation caused by AIDS and related diseases." The prelates were
    on their five-yearly visit to Rome.

    In his English-language address, the Pontiff said that he shares the
    bishops' "deep concern" for the situation.

    "I especially pray for the widows, the orphans, the young mothers and
    all those whose lives have been shattered by this cruel epidemic," he
    added.

    At the same time, the Holy Father encouraged the bishops in their
    efforts "to fight this virus, which not only kills, but seriously
    threatens the economic and social stability of the continent."

    "The Catholic Church has always been at the forefront both in
    prevention and in treatment of this illness," he noted. Catholic
    institutions treat 25% of all AIDS sufferers in the world.

    The Church plays an important role in offering care for AIDS patients
    in southern Africa, despite the fact that Catholics are a minority in
    the area: 7% in South Africa, 5.1% in Botswana, 5.4% in Swaziland,
    20.1% in Namibia and 41.3% in Lesotho.

    Stability

    Benedict XVI assured the bishops that "the traditional teaching of
    the Church has proven to be the only fail-safe way to prevent the
    spread of HIV/AIDS."

    "For this reason, the companionship, joy, happiness and peace which
    Christian marriage and fidelity provide, and the safeguard which
    chastity gives, must be continuously presented to the faithful,
    particularly the young," he said.

    The Holy Father added: "It is of great concern that the fabric of
    African life, its very source of hope and stability, is threatened by
    divorce, abortion, prostitution, human trafficking and a
    contraceptive mentality, all of which contribute to a breakdown in
    sexual morality.

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    Time out for some logic!

    The reason other countries encourage their citizens to have more babies is because they have a rapidly ageing but affluent and educated population. Furthermore the economies of these countries are more than able to absorb new entrants into their workforce.

    The Philippines on the other hand has a young and impoverished population that is largely ignorant, and barely employeable (mainly in labour-added-value industries). The economy already struggles to absorb the current workforce and will surely be impotent as far as absorbing any new souls born into the islands. Which is why millions of Filipinos depend on overseas employment (further neglecting the proper upbringing of the offspring they leave behind, and contributing to the burden the State has to shoulder to rectify the lives of wayward and unproductive future citizens).


    As the venerable International Business Machines once suggested:

    Think.







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