Gift for nothing

On the eve of the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin, it is appropriate to ponder on the sanctity of human life, from its beginning to its end.

But to understand this sanctity, one must accept that life is God’s gift and that we are nothing if not for this gift of life. We are but dust until God breathed into us a living soul.

We cannot accept one and reject the other as many pro-RH bill people want us to believe. They deceive themselves and would inflict upon us their deception.

We must also accept that we are nothing but God’s creation and that without this gift of life, we really are nothing. Life is thus a gift from the Creator to creatures that are nothing until God breathed life into them.

Admitting our nothingness is an admission of the Creator, the first act of humility. Conversely our rejection of the Creator is an arrogant stand that we are something apart and without need for a creator. To admit a creator is to admit God and to admit God is to admit that life comes from Him and therefore nobody has the right to cut short, to curtail or terminate life at any phase of it development because life belongs to the Creator.

Our existence and termination on this earth thus proves that we are not something. No wealth or power, even senator and congressmen and presidents for theirs is a borrowed time, space and circumstance. If we are something of our own, then how come we cannot prevent disease and death or for cabinet men and women, senators, congressmen and presidents, they cannot stay in power forever?

World and our own history is replete with examples of those who inflict on us their unbelief (admitted or not) and they did not last longer than what they wanted to.

But leaders then and now never learn.

Only the Giver has that power of life and death. No one has yet made it to live as long as he pleased. All must die and that death is a proof that we are nothing.

President Benigno Aquino is being pressured to push for the RH bill. Why should the pro-RH have to run to uncle if indeed they are right and that majority of the people support their stand? Why are they afraid to take the risk of going against the “minority”? Should they not be so bold as to just approve this bill since most Filipinos, so they claim, are behind them? If they have the votes, what are they afraid of?

To say that the Catholics support this bill and would go against the teaching of their faith should thus not prevent them from voting for this bill. Their votes will not make any difference to the Giver of life but will make a difference for those who think they are gods.

There are claims that “majority” of the people support the bill and that “half a million women die each year from maternal death for lack of the RH”. So far nobody has validated these claims.

Perhaps by the time this column comes out the pro-RH members of Congress have approved this bill, even the so-called watered-down bill which the bishops still oppose for many reasons that need no detailing here.

Threats to the Church will not make her budge, even if all the business groups and all the economic experts say these are good for all. Their stand tends to paint the Church as anti-people when in truth these businessmen are not pro-people but pro-business. If they were, should they not lower the cost of goods, pay the right wages and right taxes for starters?

A speaker even said that if there are less Filipinos we would have a budget surplus. True indeed, but who gets the money? The economy is said to be improving and businessmen are happy, but why are the rest of the people sad?

The answer is simply this, as it is in the so-called economically profitable economies (India and China for instance) – the money stays with big business while poverty festers.

This economist proposes that if there are less people then the pie will be bigger. They are already cornering 90 percent of the pie and although it has become bigger, they want to reduce the 90 percent who shares the remaining10 percent of the pie to get more.

That is actually the principle of the population control advocates. The RH bill, even in its watered-down version, is nothing but a population control measure.

What they are not telling us is what is happening today to the economies that embraced population control (control of the poor population). The Giver of the gift of life needs no defense.*

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