Long Night of Solace

AGAIN WITH THE RH BILL:

HOW MANY TIMES MUST I REMIND YOU PEOPLE, IT’S NOT GOOD. I’M NOT OVERZEALOUS, IT’S JUST BAD. 

You don’t know what you’re supporting until you’ve read this. YOU want mass-abortions? You want AIDS and other STDs to spread faster? It’s like they’re saying: “Here’s some condoms and pills for everyone; now go have sex all you want. problem, overpopulation?”

IF YOU DON’T WANT TO WEAR A CONDOM AND KILL BABIES WHILE HAVING HIV FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, REBLOG! SPREAD THE WORD SO THE IGNORANT WILL REALIZE THE TRUTH.

Well, fuck that shit. READ THIS:

The ongoing debate concerning the Reproductive Health bill fails 
to even consider most of the consequences that would flow from 
its passage. If passed, this bill will change our Filipino society 
forever. Contraceptive Societies, such as that which will be 
created by HB 5043, have characteristics in common. Some of 
the major ones are described here, along with relevant aspects of 
the bill itself: 

1. The oral contraceptive was introduced in the U.S. – and 
contraception subsequently became accepted and popular 
there – in 1960. In the years since then, out of wedlock births 
there have gone from about 6% per cent of all births to about 
37%, a more than 500% increase, and more than one-third of 
all births. Similar results have occurred in the other countries 
which have adopted the contraceptive society. 

2. During the twenty years following the introduction of the 
contraceptive world view which came along with the oral 
contraceptive, the rate of family dissolution in the U.S. reached 
250% of what it had been previously, despite having been fairly 
stable in the preceding decades. Similar results have occurred 
in other countries which have adopted the contraceptive 
society. 

3. After the adoption of the contraceptive society, marriage as a 
way of life greatly declines. Britain, for example, now has the 
lowest rate of marriage since records began there in 1862. 
Other countries which have adopted the contraceptive society 
are experiencing similar declines. In the U.S., the number of 
couples living together without being married increased by 
865% in less than 40 years after the introduction of the 
contraceptive society. Yet numerous scientific studies have 
proved that women in such relationships are several times 
more likely to be physically abused than married women, and 
so are their children. Moreover, the children are not as healthy, 
do not do as well in school, are more likely to drop out of 
school, are more likely to be in poverty, and are more likely to 
commit crimes than children living in married families. 

4. During the thirty years following the introduction of the 
contraceptive society in the U.S., the rate of violent crime 
increased by 500%, largely as a result of the destruction of 
marriages. This increase in crime necessitated increasing the 
prison population by 500%, as well. 

5. Countries which adopt the contraceptive model of society 
eventually legalize abortion, because their people come to 
believe in its necessity to deal with contraception failures, 
where a baby is conceived “by mistake.” This has occurred in 
almost all contraceptive societies already, and there is strong 
pressure to legalize it in the remaining ones. 

6. Contraceptive societies experience an explosion of Sexually 
Transmitted Diseases (STD’s), particularly among young 
people. This is because no contraceptives provide any 
protection from STD’s except for the condom, and its protection 
is significantly limited. As a result, for example, there were 
almost 400,000 NEW cases of sexually transmitted diseases in 
Britain in 2007, the highest number since record-keeping began 
thirty years ago. Despite widespread condom usage in the 
U.S., which has a population less than four times as large as 
ours, there are nearly 19 million new STD cases there each 
year, more than half of them among 15-to 24-year-olds. To 
take just one of the more than twenty STI’s in circulation, it is 
estimated by medical authorities that three million new cases of 
Chlamydia occur in the U.S. each year, 1.2 million of them 
among teenagers. While the U.S. has the most extensive 
medical establishment in the world to deal with this serious 
disease, which can be treated effectively if diagnosed in time, 
we do not have that advantage, and timely diagnosis is unlikely 
here —since it is often asymptomatic —let alone treatment. 
Direct medical costs associated with STD’s in the United States 
have been estimated at up to 14.7 billion dollars annually. We 
can expect equally devastating health and financial 
consequences here if the Reproductive Health act becomes 
law. 

7. In 1991, Thailand had a total of 642 reported cases of AIDS 
since the epidemic reached there in 1984. In that year, its 
government embarked upon a nationwide campaign for 100% 
condom use to prevent transmission of AIDS. This program 
was widely accepted and implemented by the people of 
Thailand. Nevertheless, by the end of 2003, Thailand had 
570,000 people infected by HIV, the virus which causes AIDS, 
and 58,000 of its people died from AIDS that year alone. The 
Philippines, which had a comparable number of AIDS cases in 
1991, but did not institute a condom campaign, by 2003 had 
only 9,000 people infected, and 500 deaths. The HIV infection 
rate of Thailand was 8,000% higher than ours by that year. 
With a national campaign to encourage condom use under this 
bill, we can expect to make rapid and substantial progress to 
catching up with Thailand in HIV infections and AIDS deaths. 

8. In 1960, the average number of children per Filipina in her 
lifetime was seven. By 1980, it was five. By the millennium 
year 2000, it was 3.5. By next year, in 2010, it was projected 
by the NSO to be 2.05. This is below the level required to 
replace population, and therefore after this time our population 
is destined to eventually fall. However, the number of children 
per Filipina will itself continue to fall after 2010 – it is projected 
to be about 1.7, on average, by 2020, further exacerbating this 
trend toward a declining population. All this will occur 
WITHOUT passage of the Reproductive Health bill – with 
passage, it will happen sooner, and to a somewhat greater 
degree. While some observers will welcome the prospect of a 
declining population, it is obviously very difficult to maintain 
economic growth with declining population, the more so in a 
less-developed and non-industrial economy. Thus, Philippine 
business faces the eventual prospect of fewer customers for its 
products and services: fewer cell-phone customers, reduced 
bank deposits, lower foot-traffic in malls, fewer motor vehicles 
purchased, and so on. The fact that this will not happen until 
decades from now doesn’t mean that we can pretend it won’t 
happen at all – and if we care about the future of our country 
and our people, we must take it into account. Once our 
population passes below replacement fertility, long before it 
begins to actually fall, the process becomes irreversible –
nothing short of massive immigration can prevent it from falling 
eventually and indefinitely – this has been the experience of all 
the countries which are facing this predicament. The question 
becomes, are we willing to accept massive immigration? We 
will have to make that decision very soon, since we will soon be 
below replacement fertility. 

9. A long-term consequence of enacting Reproductive Health will 
be the impoverishment of our elderly, particularly women. As 

family ties become weaker, and fewer children are born, there 
will be many elderly with no one to support them. Given the 
state of our public finances, the government will not be able to 
assume this role, as it does in some countries. (In fact, most of 
the developed countries, with their own contraceptive societies, 
are already facing severe difficulties in funding their pension 
systems, for the same reason.) Both the Asian Development 
Bank, in its 2002 annual report entitled Population And Human 
Resource Trends and Challenges, where the authors state that 
the bank’s “Developing Member Countries are aging faster than 
they are developing,” and the United Nations, for example in a 
press release by UN ESCAP News Services dated May 15, 
2002, where it states “The combination of a declining birth rate, 
and lack of adequate provision for senior citizens in many Asian 
and Pacific countries, could result in future destitution for many 
people, especially women,” have essentially admitted this. 

10. The contraceptive society and sex education have 
produced a culture of promiscuity and sexual libertinism in the 
developed world. In the U.S., during a typical week according 
to an authoritative polling firm, 38 per cent of adults younger 
than 25 engage in sex outside of marriage, and 33 per cent 
view pornography. Over half of all babies born to girls younger 
than 18 in the U.S. are fathered by adult men. The situation is 
similar in Britain, and in other countries. We cannot avoid the 
same result here. 

11. The contraceptive society has fostered the growth of the 
commercial sex industry, which is at unprecedented levels the 
world over. The largest growth area of the commercial sex 
industry has been child prostitution, which, like the adult 
version, is based on coercion and abuse. One small but telling 
illustration of this is a U.S. Department of Justice joint report 
that about 240 underage girls are transported into the Kansas 
City metro area every month to be prostituted. Kansas City is in 
one of the most conservative areas of the U.S., and it is not 
even in the top twenty-five largest U.S. cities. 

12. According to Lant H. Pritchett, writing in the authoritative 
academic journal, Population and Development Review – which 
is published on behalf of the Population Council, one of the 
foremost advocates of artificial contraception in the world –
government contraceptive programs do not play a very 
important role in fertility reduction, accounting for only 10% of 
the massive reduction in fertility that occurred in the 20th 
century. This same finding was reached by Grant Miller, writing 
about the effect of contraception on the demographic transition 
in the nation of Colombia for the National Bureau of Economic 
Research in the U.S. Much more important than contraception 
are urbanization, education and employment for women, and 
later age of marriage related to these. But contraceptives are 
extremely effective at breaking up families and societies, as has 
been noted. In view of this small effect, but high costs in 
money and damage to society, we should invest the people’s 
money in economic development projects such as 
microfinance, which can actually provide additional income to 
the poor, rather than in contraceptives, which do not – it is 
obvious that no family has ever contracepted its way out of 
poverty. 

13. A recent study in the UK revealed three leading potential 
“triggers” for serious mental health problems in girls, the first 
being premature sexualization. The report reveals a loss of 
childhood innocence and says girls today experience high 
levels of “stress, anxiety and unhappiness.” Sexual advances 
from boys, pressure to wear clothes that make them look too 
old and magazines and websites directly targeting younger girls 
to lose weight or consider plastic surgery were identified as 
taking a particular toll. Two-fifths of the 10 to 14 year old Girl 
Guides surveyed know someone who has self-harmed, a third 
had a friend who suffered from an eating disorder and almost 
two in five know someone who had experienced panic attacks. 
Many feel strongly that self-harm could be within the spectrum 
of “typical teenage behaviour.” Providing contraceptives and 
sex education to our children will certainly have the same result 
here. 

14. The bill mandates a full range of contraceptives, many of 
which cause very early abortions by preventing implantation of 
the zygote, a developing human being, into the endometrium of 
the uterus. This directly contradicts the Constitutional 
protection of the life of the Filipino child from the time of 
conception. On the other hand, the bill affirmatively maintains 
the existing prohibition on abortion. These conflicting 
provisions cannot be reconciled, unless the sponsors deny the 
existence of these abortions, which are described in the 
standard textbooks on embryology. The bill mandates prison 
and/or fines for persons disseminating disinformation 
concerning the contents of the bill. Will these penalties apply to 
persons who point out the fact that abortions occur when using 
many types of contraceptives? 

15. Will these same penalties apply, once the bill takes effect, 
to persons who continue to point out the various harmful 
consequences that result to individuals and society from its 
implementation? If they will, what happens to the freedom of 
speech guaranteed by out constitution? 

16. Religion, especially the Christian religions, withers in a 
contraceptive society. The developed world has seen 
observance of religion diminish almost to a point of 
insignificance in society. Today, for example, 16 per cent, 14 
per cent, and 13 per cent, respectively, of the British, French 
and Germans consider religion as very important. Researchers 
estimate that the percentage of adults in the U.S. who actually 
attend religious services during the previous weekend dropped 
from 42% in 1965 to 26% in 1994, a period roughly beginning 
with the introduction of the contraceptive society there. But all 
morality ultimately stems from religious belief. As both George 
Washington and James Madison, among the leading founders 
of modern democracy, observed, it is essential to the success 
of democratic government. How will our society survive the 
loss of religious belief? 

17. A typical child born today in Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan 
or the largest cities of China has no brothers, no sisters, no 
cousins, no aunts and no uncles. This is the future of the 
contraceptive society. Not to mention that such typical child 
does have four grandparents whom it must eventually support 
through taxes, or directly – unless grandpa and grandma are 
euthanized to eliminate the burden they impose. What will 
happen to the Filipino family, the crown jewel of our culture, in 
this society of the future?