What the Catholic church has done, and continues to do, in the Philippines, is a crime against humanity.
From the New York Times:
He compares the Philippines to Thailand.
In 1975 both countries had similar population sizes of 41 to 42 million. Then Bangkok launched a major family planning effort.
Now Thailand has a population of around 64 million and is the world's top exporter of rice. Meanwhile, the Philippines with a population of 90 million is the world's top importer of the grain.
Thailand had a gross annual income per capita of $7,880 in 2007, while in the Philippines it was $3,730.
"Our studies show that if the Philippines had followed the (population) growth trajectory of Thailand between 1975 and 2000 the per capita income would have been at least 22 percent higher and there would have been 5 million less poor people," said Pernia. "That is a conservative estimate."
Yet the proposed reproductive health bill will likely never see the light of day as the influential Catholic Church is staunchly opposed to artificial birth control as a violation of its religious tenets.
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Couples attending compulsory family planning seminars before their weddings are often warned off using artificial methods.
"One of the women leading our workshop told us the pill had given her varicose veins, diabetes and made her deaf in one ear," said one newlywed, who declined to be named.
Catholic clerics say natural family planning methods such as abstinence when the woman is ovulating are effective.
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A lack of artificial contraception means that many women literally burst into tears when their period is even one day late as the only recourse for an unplanned pregnancy is an illegal abortion or giving birth to another child they can ill afford to feed.
Without an effective birth control policy, the Philippines, already the world's 12th most populous country, is projected to have a population of over 140 million by 2040. This will put a huge strain on its creaking health system, schools and other services, and its ability to feed itself.
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''5 million less poor people'' ;
how bout '''5 million les Jews'', etc. ?
You can help the poor by killing them in the womb ! The real genocide comes from abortion.
What you're advocating is that poor women be *forced* to give birth. Not only does that place the life of the woman at risk, in a poor country with a terrible healthcare system, but it places the life of the woman's existing children at risk, both through the possibility of losing the mother and through the fact that the family cannot afford enough food and the existing children will suffer from under-nutrition as a result. No-one in that situation has an abortion when they don't want or need one. Your attitude in advocating forced childbirth is absolutely despicable, and your thinly-veiled attempt to compare abortion with genocide and/or eugenics does nothing for your credibility, given that people who support a woman's right to a safe abortion support it as HER choice and her choice alone, not some vast conspiracy to put poor people to death. You would condemn millions of women to a lifetime of unnecessary misery in your quest to inflict your religion on everyone else. Disgusting.
Abortion is almost a religion on its own : it's called satanism and wichcraft (cf witch doctors, ritual sacrifice of children, etc).
Abortion is a threat to all of humanity, not just women and children. They want to kill everything through the culture of death, a deadly poison created by politicans who are are often willing and practicing executioners.
For a female to advocate abortion is a total betrayal of the human race, to the guilty mother, the murdered child and the forsaken husband.
Because of this, the female becomes the bride of Satan and releases demonic energy into the whole world.
It has in effect been revealed by practicing satanists that abortion is a required ritual in order to achieve the liberation of evil souls from the gates and shackles of hell, then fullfilling a diabolical prophecy.
See, the problem with anti-abortionists is that their views are so extreme that I can't even tell if that's a parody or if the person writing it really is just batshit insane.
Interesting article Sarah.
What the previous posters fail to realise is that the best prevention for abortion is proper contraception.
You were talking about contraception in your article and they started condemning abortion.
But proper contraception truly is the answer. And your point is valid, that the Catholic Church won't allow it, and that's a crime against humanity.
Tracy
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