Population control–2

The House of Representatives is debating on the proposed Reproductive Health bill and although the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines said that its survey shows that 140 congressmen have expressed opposition to the bill, they can change their minds.

The minority block has also come out publicly and said that they have withdrawn their authorship of the bill. Malacanang was dismayed and had asked that the minority explain the reason for their withdrawal.

Why should they? Can’t they change their minds after realizing the grave error of this bill that would coerce Filipinos to kill the human person in the womb of the mother? What is the difference between the coercion of China to force its families to have only two children and imprison them if they have more?

Two years ago I was in Shanghai and a Chinese told me that once the government found out that a woman is with a third child, they would force her to abort and if this failed the government would take that child away. What the government did to the child is unknown. But imagine the anguish of the mother!

Of course, the advocates of population control will deny that they would go to that extreme. What is their guarantee? Nothing! Power can make things happen as they would with the RH bill because they believe they have the numbers. The evil of this world are more cunning and since lies are the cornerstone of the advocates of the culture of death, they can lie and cheat to get what they wanted.

As I have written before, the advocates of the culture of death have been giving people plenty of lies, painting the wonders of women’s rights but not the health risks in the exercise of these rights.

Students of economics will remember the Malthusian theory that population growth would outrun production (of food). This idea has been cited time and again since the middle of the 19th century but as present situation shows his theory was all that – theory that some people took for inevitable law.

What was not given much attention, however, is his belief that food supply is being limited “by the breeding habits of the poor.” Although generally ignore because of is social and political implications in a world where workers are beginning to assert their rights, the fact is that government policy and programs are directed against the poor in the RH bill.

Note for instance. Without mentioning it, President Aquino’s solution to the problem of overcrowded classrooms is population control. Reduce the number of children and we solve the problem. It is as simple as that but government will not elaborate because of fear of backlash from the many poor.

And so government coats this same solution in sweet-sounding words as “reproductive rights” and “right to choose” and more laudatory phrases as “public health”.   

While I would like to believe in the claim of the CBCP that most congressmen would reject the RH bill and would want that to happen within the week, I still believe that the cunning advocates of population control will not let up.

 Senator Pia Cayetano bewails that her pet bill, the RH of the House, is not moving fast enough in the Senate. Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile is consciously sitting on it because he believes this measure is not a solution to our problems. On the contrary, it is divisive and dangerous.

Cayetano, of course, wants this bill passed, the only one that she has significantly worked on. She is a disappointment and I think her brother may find earlier supporters to avoid him. The anti-RH bill voters have listed her and her brother as among those to be rejected in the election.

I don’t know how the House will vote for this bill but one thing sure is it will remain in the House. Senators are not likely to vote on it with the election at hand. Senator Enrile’s son is running for the Senate and I don’t think he would risk several million votes for his son by pushing for the RH bill.

The prayer rallies that the CBCP has called to be held might appear to the unbelievers to be a waste of time or even ineffectual, at least among the pushers of the RH bill, but God in His own time decides. The anti-life people in this world might appear to have the upper hand but in the end God’s will triumph.

Old values? Right, but that is one of the targets of population control – reduce values into obsession for the secular and the material because once the “old values” and religion are deprived of influence the easier will the anti-life advocates gain control. Make no mistake about it. Population control is only its beginnings.*

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