Reproductive Health Bill 5043 [MERGED]

[chua_riwap]

Biglang bawi si father........
hayyyyy....naku father!



http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/re...-sorry-rh-rant

Priest says sorry for RH rant

BAGUIO CITY – A priest at the Our Lady of the Atonement Cathedral in Baguio City has apologized to former Akbayan party-list Rep. Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel over his remarks on the reproductive health (RH) bill during a Mass.

Fr. Jose Ilano said it was not his intention to hurt Hontiveros-Baraquel’s feelings.
“Ang ganda-gandang babae niya. Ang ganda-ganda niyang magsalita pero ang pangit-pangit ng stand niya, Risa Hontiveros,” he said during the Mass.

Ilano clarified that he looks up to the former lawmaker for her principled stand on issues, particularly against graft and corruption, during the Arroyo administration.

"In fairness to Hontiveros, gusto ko siya sa paglaban niya. Dito lang kami [sa RH bill] hindi magkatugma," he said.

Ilano, however, said he does not regret having asked people who support the RH bill to leave the cathedral and stop hearing Mass.

He also denied that people walked out of the Mass. "Ang sabi daw maraming nagwalkout. Ang sabi ko, parang nadaragdagan pa nga.

Ilano said he will continue to press his stand against the RH bill.

Hontiveros-Baraquel, meanwhile, said on Twitter on Wednesday that she has forgiven the priest.

“Di naman ang pagtukoy sa akin ang nakakasakit, kundi ang di pakikinig ng pari sa kagustuhan ng karamihan ng mga Katoliko,” she said.

“Maging inclusive kayo, Father, huwag mag-exclude.”

She also proposed a “ceasefire” between the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines and RH bill supporters.

“Let's hold a ceasefire during Holy Week to allow us to worship in peace and reflect on the renewal of our Church,” she said.

“Bacolod Bishop Vicente Navarra says priests may order pro-RH bill supporters out of church? Bishop, [I] have proposed a ceasefire. Don't declare war,” she added.- Report from Hadji Rieta, ABS-CBN News North Luzon; ANC

[Lucius]

Balimbing na badingspo

[ghosthunter]

Ano ba yan ...

Ilano, however, said he does not regret having asked people who support the RH bill to leave the cathedral and stop hearing Mass.

Sorry daw pero no regrets sa actions and sinabi niya.

His "flock" should boycott his church for making it part of the political pawn of the CBCP.

[marg]

Balimbing na badingspo

Spineless creature

[Lucius]

Pa-print ko kaya to and padala sa mga simbahan?



http://thejesusgang.net/?p=972

http://articles.cnn.com/2002-05-02/u...abuse?_s=PM:US

For sure, those animals did not use condoms.

[jonski]

Mababawasan kita ng simbahan n Pilipinas kung merong RH Bill.

[chua_riwap]

Balimbing na badingspo

na-interview ng TV Patrol si father ilado.......yung boses nya parang :gayfight: ang dating eh.......

[kitsons]

Mababawasan kita ng simbahan n Pilipinas kung merong RH Bill.

Can you prove what you assert here?

Anyway, you probably cannot since you do not even know how the Catholic Church operates given your comment manifesting your lack of knowledge on the matters of income. Perhaps best to see first by checking out the CBCP website and the Catholic Relief Services to see where such income are spent so as to clarify the implied slur with your comment..

Much digression in this thread. Let's go back to the RH Bil:


Statement of Bro. Rolando Dizon FSC and the Good Citizenship Movement against the RH Bill


Statement of the Good Citizenship Movement on the RH Bill




The Good Citizenship Movement strongly rejects the Reproductive Health Bill on the following grounds:


Once it becomes law –


1) It will turn mothers’ wombs into killing fields because the contraceptive devices and substances it promotes are abortifacient or abortive in nature (Lagman HB 96: Sec. 2, par. 3 and Sec. 4 – 15), per the authoritative Randy Alcorn documentation and admissions of pharmaceutical manufacturers [please see attachment].


This bill is unconstitutional in that it violates Art. II, Sec. 12 of the Philippine Constitution.


It also violates the natural moral law contained in Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948 and Article 6 of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child adopted in 1989 because Lagman HB 96 subverts the spirit of its preamble.


2) Children aged 10–12 shall have the legal right to satisfying *** with full access to all types of contraceptive devices and substances, and parents who stop them will be imprisoned or fined or both [please see attachment].


The bill will also legalize in effect child prostitution and pedophilia.


Worst of all, children and adolescents will become the jailers of their own parents who will refuse them their ***ual “rights” supported by the new RH law. (Lagman HB 96: Sec. 22, a, a-3 & e; Sec. 3b; Sec. 4 – 1 & 19d, Sec. 23)


These are all brazen violations of Art. II, Sections 11 and 12 of the Philippine Constitution.


3) The mandatory *** education program from Gr. 5, 6 to 4th year high school obliges parents to have their children undergo it or face penalties if they refuse. Also, teachers, principals, school administrators, priests, pastors, ulamas, journalists or anyone who oppose this program or any part of the passed RH law , face the same penalties. (HB 96: Sec. 13; Sec. 22-e; Sec. 23)


Again, these are blatant violations of Art. II, Sections 11 and 12 of the Philippine Constitution and Art. 26-1 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights and Art. 29-c of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child.




These three valid grounds are compelling enough to reject the RH Bill with fullness of conviction and finality. Any attempt, therefore, to force the passage of this unjust and immoral bill into law is clearly a legal hocus pocus because it will be a maneuver to “smuggle” into a law a constitutionally flawed bill. On this account, every Filipino citizen will have every right and duty to disobey it should this unconstitutional bill become law.


Finally, having rejected the RH Bill, the Good Citizenship Movement strongly endorses the Golez HB 13 and the Enrile SB 2497 because these uphold and protect the life and the rights of the unborn child as mandated by the Philippine Constitution and the abovementioned UN declarations on the preservation and protection of authentic human rights.


Only by defending and protecting human life in its most helpless state, when yet unborn, and in safeguarding the natural rights of parents over their children will our nation discover the first true and sure step to authentic human development.


It is with much hope and prayer, therefore, that the Good Citizenship Movement respectfully calls on all the members of Congress and the Senate to consider and heed the wise words of a great man of law:

“Every act of a delegated authority contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal, that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that man acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.”

- Alexander Hamilton,
The Federalist

(Sgd.)
Bro. Rolando Dizon FSC
Chairman
Good Citizenship Movement


References cited in Statement of Good Citizenship Movement on Lagman HB 96:

1) Lagman HB 96: Sec. 2, par. 3:

(References to be continued as text too long for submission)

[kitsons]

Can you prove what you assert here?

Anyway, you probably cannot since you do not even know how the Catholic Church operates given your comment manifesting your lack of knowledge on the matters of income. Perhaps best to see first by checking out the CBCP website and the Catholic Relief Services to see where such income are spent so as to clarify the implied slur with your comment..

Much digression in this thread. Let's go back to the RH Bil:

...

These three valid grounds are compelling enough to reject the RH Bill with fullness of conviction and finality. Any attempt, therefore, to force the passage of this unjust and immoral bill into law is clearly a legal hocus pocus because it will be a maneuver to “smuggle” into a law a constitutionally flawed bill. On this account, every Filipino citizen will have every right and duty to disobey it should this unconstitutional bill become law.


Finally, having rejected the RH Bill, the Good Citizenship Movement strongly endorses the Golez HB 13 and the Enrile SB 2497 because these uphold and protect the life and the rights of the unborn child as mandated by the Philippine Constitution and the abovementioned UN declarations on the preservation and protection of authentic human rights.


Only by defending and protecting human life in its most helpless state, when yet unborn, and in safeguarding the natural rights of parents over their children will our nation discover the first true and sure step to authentic human development.


It is with much hope and prayer, therefore, that the Good Citizenship Movement respectfully calls on all the members of Congress and the Senate to consider and heed the wise words of a great man of law:

“Every act of a delegated authority contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal, that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that man acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.”

- Alexander Hamilton,
The Federalist

(Sgd.)
Bro. Rolando Dizon FSC
Chairman
Good Citizenship Movement


References cited in Statement of Good Citizenship Movement on Lagman HB 96:

1) Lagman HB 96: Sec. 2, par. 3:

(References to be continued as text too long for submission)

“The State likewise guarantees universal access to medically-safe, legal, affordable, effective and quality reproductive health care services, methods, devices, supplies and relevant information and education thereon even as it prioritizes the needs of women and children, among other underprivileged sectors…”




HB 96: Sec. 4-15: Modern Methods of Family Planning - refers to safe, effective and legal methods to prevent pregnancy such as the pill, intra- uterine device (IUD), injectables, condom, ligation, vasectomy and modern Natural family planning methods which include mucus, Billings, ovulation, lactational amenorrhea, basal body temperature, and Standard Days methods.




Philippine Constitution - Art. II, Sec. 12: The State recognizes the sanctity of family life and shall protect and strengthen the family as a basic autonomous social institution. It shall equally protect the life of the mother and the life of the unborn from conception…


Note: Randy Alcorn’s “Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions?” is a separate attachment. (You can read this book here. -- CAP)


Universal Declaration of Human Rights Art. 3: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.


UN Convention of the Rights of the Child: Art. 6: States Parties recognize that every child has the inherent right to life.

Preamble of the Rights of the Child: ….”the child, by reason of his physical and and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection before as well as after birth”,

2) Lagman HB 96: Sec. 22 Prohibited Acts – The following acts are prohibited:


a: Any healthcare service provider, whether public or private, who shall:


a-3: Refuse to extend health care services…..on account of the person’s ……AGE!.....(capitalization and underscoring supplied)


Sec. 3. Guiding Principles – This Act declares the following as guiding principles:


Sec. 3-b: Respect for, protection and fulfilment of reproductive health and rights seek to promote not only the rights and welfare of adult individuals and couples but those of adolescents and children as well. (underscoring and italization supplied)


Sec. 4. Definition of Terms. – For the purposes of this Act, the following terms shall be defined as follows:


Sec. 4-1: Adolescence – refers to a life stage of persons aged 10 to 19.


Sec. 4-19: Reproductive Health Care – the access to a full range of methods, techniques, facilities and services that contribute to reproductive health and well-being by preventing and solving reproductive health-related problems. It also includes ***ual health……The elements of reproductive health care include:


d) adolescent and youth reproductive health;


Sec. 23: Penalties – Any commission of the foregoing prohibited acts or violation of this Act shall be penalized by imprisonment ranging from one (1) month to six (6) months or a fine of Ten Thousand (P10,000.00) to Fifty Thousand Pesos (P50,000.00) or both.


Philippine Constitution: The State values the dignity of every human person and guarantees full respect for human rights (Art. II, Section 11). The State recognizes the sanctity of family life and shall protect and strengthen the family as a basic autonomous social institution. It shall equally protect the life of the mother and the life of the unborn from conception (Art. II, Section 12).




3) Lagman HB 96: Sec. 13 – Mandatory Age-Appropriate Reproductive Health and ***uality Education …….starting from Grade Five up to Fourth Year High School…


Age-appropriate reproductive health and ***uality education shall be integrated in all relevant subjects and shall include, but not be limited to, the following topics:


d. Children’s and women’s rights;


Sec. 22. Prohibited Acts. – The following acts are prohibited:


22-e: ANY person who maliciously engages in disinformation about the intent or provisions of this Act.(Capitalization and underscoring supplied).


Sec. 23: Penalties – Any commission of the foregoing prohibited acts or Violation of this Act shall be penalized by imprisonment ranging from one (1) month to six (6) months or a fine of Ten Thousand (P10,000.00) to Fifty Thousand Pesos (P50,000.00) or both.


Please see above cited articles of the Philippine Constitution.


UN Declaration of Human Rights Art. 26-1: “Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.”


UN Convention of the Rights of the Child Art. 29-c: “1. State Parties agree that the education of the child shall be directed to…..(c) the development of respect for the child’s parents, his or her own cultural identity, language and values, for the national values of the country in which the child is living, the country from which he or she may originate, and for civilizations different from his or her own.” .

[projector]

Pro rh. Bill ako. Para tumigil na ang pabrika ng mga bata.
Mga pari dapat nga sunugin yan lalo na si bishop cruz

[Monseratto]

22-e: ANY person who maliciously engages in disinformation about the intent or provisions of this Act.

Hinde pa law pero number one violator yung SIMBAHAN KATOLIKO. Spreading among the simpleton flock yung gospel of lies against contraceptives.

Reading through the Lagman HB 96, I see NOTHING wrong with it. Universal access to contraceptives FOR FREE to anyone is what the church really against...

[marg]

Hinde pa law pero number one violator yung SIMBAHAN KATOLIKO. Spreading among the simpleton flock yung gospel of lies against contraceptives.

Reading through the Lagman HB 96, I see NOTHING wrong with it. Universal access to contraceptives FOR FREE to anyone is what the church really against...

Italy had Universal access to contraceptives for 40 years already. Wala masabi ang pope.

Dito TRYING HARD mga obispa.

[ghosthunter]

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/218395/n...hem-on-rh-bill

[SIZE="4"]Cardinal advises PHL bishops: Befriend lawmakers, enlighten them on RH bill[/SIZE]
04/21/2011 | 12:17 PM

A Catholic cardinal urged Philippine bishops to befriend lawmakers and enlighten them about the controversial reproductive health (RH) bill which the Church opposes for promoting the use of artificial contraceptives.

Retired Cardinal Jose Sanchez recalled that when he was a bishop in Bicol, he would make friends with lawmakers and initiate discussions on any bill that may contradict Catholic doctrine.

“If there are bills contradictory to the Catholic teachings, I would go to these congressmen one by one to enlighten them with the Catholic teachings and they would easily agree with me. And as friends, they would find it hard to go against the bishop," Sanchez said in an article posted on the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) news site.

Sanchez said the government should try to improve the family and not destroy it.

The cardinal also said the needs of families should by addressed by improving their livelihood and earnings.

Threat of excommunication

On Palm Sunday, President Benigno Simeon Aquino III told graduating students of the University of the Philippines that he would push for the responsible parenthood (RP) bill even under threat of being excommunicated by the Catholic Church.

Aquino said he had to follow his conscience in curbing poverty, which he linked to a high population growth.

The Catholic Church, however, is opposed to the RP bill and RH bills for their provisions allowing artificial contraception.

The Church allows only natural means of family planning.

Politics over religion

Sanchez lamented that Aquino seemed to be giving greater priority to politics instead of religion.

“He is now losing his popularity. He has no firm idea on marriage. It is too much politics now and no longer religion. (His) mother (the late former president Corazon Aquino) and her sisters have more faith than him," he said.

As Aquino loses public support, Sanchez said Congress would probably fail in passing the controversial bill.

Aquino's popularity had dipped in recent months, according to surveys by pollsters Pulse Asia and Social Weather Stations.

Non-Christian legislators

Sanchez admitted it may be difficult to convince lawmakers to side with the Church on the RH and RP bills because many legislators are non-Christians.

He cited Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman, the proponent of the RH bill, who studied in Russia, which has a communist form of government.

Sanchez said Lagman was “affected totally by the communist way of looking at things."

Protecting Catholic doctrine

Earlier, Sanchez, who has served in Rome for a long time, said he returned to the Philippines to help ward off the “tendencies that threaten to destroy the Catholic Church," including the RH bill.

“I did not come here to fight the RH Bill; I came here to protect the Catholic doctrine ... (The RH bill) is insignificant as far as the problems of the world are concerned. But I’m happy that it is being faced seriously by the Philippine Church," he said.

“The world is changing, and the evil doesn’t stop. I hope the Philippines will remain a Christian country. But I know the [Filipino] Christians are not sleeping, they keep on fighting," he said. - VVP, GMA News

It seems the CBCP is taking out their dirty tactics book.

So... is someone making deals with the devil now?

[Monseratto]

Carrot and stick method...unfortunately when the future of our nation depends on it, no way will it work. Especially in this day and age where people can see through the deception of Church's teachings.

[andywesteast]

[SIZE="3"]Aquino is Bad Catholic, says Laguna Church official [/SIZE]
[SIZE="1"]By Romulo Ponte, PDI 04/19/2011[/SIZE]

SAN PABLO CITY, Philippines—President Benigno Aquino III is a bad Catholic and his conscience is not well-formed, a Catholic leader in Laguna said Tuesday in response to the President’s declaration last Sunday ascertaining the passage of the controversial Reproductive Health bill by his administration.

“He is misled," Fr. Jerry Oblepias, Laguna diocesan director of the Family Life Ministry, said of the President. "What he is thinking as ways to solve poverty are the easy and lazy ways. He must face the real issue, that we are poor because of bad governance and bad economic policies.”

This stupid catholic church is getting Desperate. Resorting to Name-calling because they can't argue the issues.

[CoDer]

Malakas parin impluwensya ni Padre Damaso sa mga pinoy.

[buriroy]

Our Church officials really still have this "Damaso" mentality harking back to the old days when priests still delivered sermons from pulpits and spoke of "fire and brimstone" about how God will punish the multitude if they do not follow their "laws". The RH Bill is long overdue and the Bishops should wake up from their time warp and rejoin the 21st century.

[kitsons]

Our Church officials really still have this "Damaso" mentality harking back to the old days when priests still delivered sermons from pulpits and spoke of "fire and brimstone" about how God will punish the multitude if they do not follow their "laws". The RH Bill is long overdue and the Bishops should wake up from their time warp and rejoin the 21st century.

Apparently some guys in this thread is not attuned with the present realities and still talk of the character-type as Fr. Damaso which was then perhaps maqny a type of the priest during the 18th and 19th century but is now perhaps exception to the rule or simply non-existent if one would care to look into how the priest and bishops in our present day and age operate in running their parishes, dioceses and Archdioceses.

Not know how the Catholic Church officials make decisions in fact makes guys assert non realities but such assertions are based on figments of their own imagination with no sound basis of verifiable facts.

The mudslinging certainly is horrendous.. I talked with many priests and a couple of bishops of them and their perspective is really deep and wide and they do not make sweeping statements that have no sound basis of verifiable facts..

The considerations made are based on human development and not destruction as the RH Bill proposes.

There are many non-Catholic sources of the basis of the Bishops decision as medically proven facts as the contraceptive pills are truly abortifacient and that up to 90% of the users do get cancer and much too many die of such cancer and actual statistics of deterioration of societies of countries that embraced the UNHR Population Control agenda formulae as what the RH Bill also is promoting to impose on the Filipino people.

The agenda of the RH Bill actually is a political one.

Within the article pasted below are hard evidences of such a political agenda:

The American Drive to Export Contraception

Anthony Zimmerman
EWTN News
Opinion/analysis
October 8, 1996
Adjusted, April 17, 2000
Reproduced with Permission


In light of the debate in the US Congress, on whether to fund or defund the $410 for population-control activities, it is instructive to review the original ideology which conceived the movement and gave it birth.

The American Establishment which launched an anti-population movement in the 1960s did not stop to ask whether it was better for additional humans to be or not to be. Their concern was that vigorous population growth in the developing world might threaten the welfare of Americans who were losing the battle of the cradle. It was not primarily Margaret Sanger nor Marie Stopes who mobilized the funds to feed the birth control colossus. Ideologues in academe teamed up with the Ford, Rockefeller, and other foundations, and eventually tapped into tax funds, most notably through the US Agency for International Development (AID), to launch a worldwide birth-control drive.

Academe and the media have so conditioned us to consider that "world population growth" is a threat to our welfare, that we tend to forget the novelty of this worry. Our grandparents lived in the same world as we do, but no Ford nor Rockefeller Foundation had yet conjured up alarming news about alleged overpopulation.

The population movement (so writes an insider who is a member of the Rockefeller Foundation), started in the 1960s. It "had its origins in the twenty square blocks around the Rockefeller Center as well as on the campuses of Princeton, Harvard, Berkeley, and Chicago." Steven Sinding so identifies the American Establishment which fathered this ghost of "overpopulation" in the latter part of our century (see Population and Development Review, March 1996, 159-161-- a review of Oscar Harkavy's book Curbing Population Growth.)

Ford Foundation funding kept a semblance of balance between funds for "family planning" and "development." The "family planning funding" should suppress demographic growth directly, whereas "development" funding should facilitate the unfolding of economies to shift cultural bias away from family life and toward consumerism.

(To be continued in a separate post to allow submission)

[kitsons]

Apparently some guys in this thread is not attuned with the present realities and still talk of the character-type as Fr. Damaso which was then perhaps maqny a type of the priest during the 18th and 19th century but is now perhaps exception to the rule or simply non-existent if one would care to look into how the priest and bishops in our present day and age operate in running their parishes, dioceses and Archdioceses.

Not know how the Catholic Church officials make decisions in fact makes guys assert non realities but such assertions are based on figments of their own imagination with no sound basis of verifiable facts....

...There are many non-Catholic sources of the basis of the Bishops decision as medically proven facts as the contraceptive pills are truly abortifacient and that up to 90% of the users do get cancer and much too many die of such cancer and actual statistics of deterioration of societies of countries that embraced the UNHR Population Control agenda formulae as what the RH Bill also is promoting to impose on the Filipino people.

The agenda of the RH Bill actually is a political one.

Within the article pasted below are hard evidences of such a political agenda:

The American Drive to Export Contraception

Anthony Zimmerman
EWTN News
Opinion/analysis
October 8, 1996
Adjusted, April 17, 2000
Reproduced with Permission
...

...Ford Foundation funding kept a semblance of balance between funds for "family planning" and "development." The "family planning funding" should suppress demographic growth directly, whereas "development" funding should facilitate the unfolding of economies to shift cultural bias away from family life and toward consumerism.

(To be continued in a separate post to allow submission)

The Ford Foundation trained and supported thousands of scholars and government officials from developing countries who would return to their native lands to "act to modify the population trends in their countries" (Sinding, ibid.). The Population Council of New York also grew and flourished with the help of the Ford Foundation. This Foundation was also instrumental in creating and supporting the group of pre-eminent university-based population centers which have for years been serving as "the training ground for virtually every subsequent significant contribution to the field" (Sinding, ibid.). In other words, when you read about an "overpopulation problem" you read about a deception, a lie, originally sold under a glittering garb of academic dressing by salesmen in the pay of the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations.

Academe was already well financed, but it was the power generated in Washington which rocketed the population movement into orbit, where it now circles the globe. Washington fixers of global demographic politics now tapped into funds from US taxpayers to promote their agenda.
The US AID leadership focused its funding, sharp as a laser beam, on family planning. Their's was and is a frontal attack against the birth of babies. Ships loaded with Pills, IUD's, condoms, sterilization knives, and suction pumps are dispatched to the ports of developing countries. Field workers, with enormous supplies, eagerly fan out into cities and rural areas to put dampers on the springs of life. Their wages, coming from abroad, tend to nudge them upward in local society, like a coterie of jack pot winners.

For example, containers with 49 million condoms, courtesy of US AID, lay in the harbor of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania when I visited there in 1993. Administrators moved quickly to make accessibility to condoms mandatory in all restaurants and sleeping quarters frequented by truck drivers on Tanzania's trunk roads. Failure to provide condoms meant closure of the restaurant.

Never before in the history of the human race, I believe, has one nation seduced so many sister nations voluntarily or semi-voluntarily to encourage practices of ***ual perversion. US AID administrators make it their unblushing business to entice recipient nations into increasing the unhealthy and immoral practices of contraception, abortion, and sterilization.
History abounds with smaller-scale examples of one group luring rival parties into orgies of ***ual sins, of course. War lords in Japan, for
example, were reputed to have sent prostitutes into the army camps of the enemy until their enervated troops were open to assault and defeat. Moabite women invited Israelite men to indulge with them, and by the time Moses put an end to the play, 24,000 Israelites lay dead, victims of a plague (cf.Num 25). Jacob's sons used another ruse: they deceitfully induced Hamar and his son Shechem to have all the male townspeople be circumcised. Three days later, while the deceived opponents were still in pain, the sons of Jacob "took their swords and attacked the unsuspecting city, killing every male" (Gen 34:25).
The intentions of US AID in spreading birth control abroad may not be so clearly defined and focused as in the above examples, but there is nonetheless a clear, set, and officially articulated purpose in doing this, for the alleged benefit of the United States. The tactic of serving America first by spreading birth control in developing countries is revealed in a U.S. State Department document created under the direction of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the early 1970s.

The now de-classified document proposes massive population-control programs in developing countries for the purpose of achieving supposed long-range advantages for the USA. As described by the Population Research Institute (P.O. Box 2024, Baltimore MD 21298), the National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM 200) argued that rapid population growth in less developed countries jeopardized future US access to minerals and other raw materials and therefore threatened our economic and political security. The proposed solution? Massive population-control funds in the first place. In addition, other US aid and development loans should be tied directly to each country's willingness to implement population-control measures under the tutelage of the US: "Do you want our dollars? Then do our thing: spread contraception and abortion."

The same NSSM 200 document cautions that its agenda should remain hidden. Leaders in the target countries should not suspect that foreign pressure for family planning is "a form of economic or racial imperialism; this could create quite a serious backlash" (No. 106). The meaning of that phrase, jargon aside, is that recipient nations should not discover that the emperor who struts in their territory, though he is greatly acclaimed by all, is stark naked. Such a discovery must be avoided. Consequently, continues NSSM 200, "It is vital that the effort to develop and strengthen a commitment on the part of the Less Developed Country leaders not be seen by them as an industrialized country policy to keep their strength down or to reserve resources for use by the `rich' countries" (114). Appearances of good will should be cultivated with care. Birth-control programs must wear the trappings of "concern for the right of individuals to freely determine the number and spacing of children, as well as concern for the development of poor countries (cf. 115). Thus "choice" and "development" should be camouflage slogans behind which birth-control tanks can overrun the countries with impunity. Sweet-talk should open doors to deceivers who carry knives.

Congress has been asked again to allocate $410 million for AID this year. Such funding now obviously plays into the hands of ideologues who intend to spread *** perversion abroad, in order to serve imaginary national purposes. Is that what American citizens really want to do?
(Used with permission) (c) Copyright EWTN 1996. Presented by EWTN News Service under exclusive agreement with CWN. For permission to redistribute electronically, contact sysop*ewtn.com. For permission to redistribute in print media, contact cwnews*pcix.com.
Philip F. Lawler Editor:
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Reprinted in the January 1977 issue of a new magazine, AGAINST THE GRAIN,3894 Nantasket St., Pittsburgh PA 15207. Sorry to say, Congress approved the funding in February at the request of President Clinton.

[ghosthunter]

There are many non-Catholic sources of the basis of the Bishops decision as medically proven facts as the contraceptive pills are truly abortifacient and that up to 90% of the users do get cancer and much too many die of such cancer and actual statistics of deterioration of societies of countries that embraced the UNHR Population Control agenda formulae as what the RH Bill also is promoting to impose on the Filipino people

Any scientific data or link that supports your claim or are you just fabricating so-called facts?