Sunday 18 April 2010

Rolling out a subterfuge

by Roger B Rueda

In the Visayas, there is really an enduring promotion to bring into disrepute the reproductive health bill through half truths. As if the reproductive health bill were really so dreadful and thus it must be damned. Clear-cut responses to the off-putting cant will help alert and make clear to people on this.

Essentially, the bill is not dead set against life. It is in favour of quality life. It will guarantee that children will be lucky possessions for their parents seeing as their births are premeditated and sought after. It will authorise couples with the information and chance to plan and space their children. This will not only brace the family as a unit but also optimise concern for children who will have more opportunities to be cultured, in good physical shape, and fruitful.

The bill does not sanction abortion. It explicitly provides that abortion stays put as a transgression and deterrence of abortion is indispensable to fully put into practice the reproductive health care programme. While managing of post-abortion complications is provided, this is not to discount abortion but to prop up the compassionate dealing of womyn in grave circumstances.

The bill does not get in the way with family life. If truth be told, it boosts family life. The family unit is more than an innate centre of the whole lot; it is a societal foundation whose defense and advance are impressed with public significance. It is not impervious by legislation.

It will not go in front to the legalisation of abortion. It is not true that all countries where contraceptive use is promoted in due course legalise abortion. Many Christian and/or Marian countries criminalise abortion even as they strongly support contraceptive use like Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua, and Ireland amongst others. The Moslem Indonesia and the Buddhist Laos endorse contraceptive use nonetheless make abortion illegal—too. Perhaps, what is needed is the acceptable and expected use of contraceptives in order to trim down abortion rates and the need to legalise abortion will no longer be crucial.

Contraceptives do not have severe side effects. Substantiation shows that riding a car or motorcycle can give us greater risks of dying. And one reason that reproductive health bill must be pushed through is that because in recent times we all have very high-quality contraceptives. The pill is for sale. It has been developed.

The bill will not prop up contraceptive state of mind—womyn can anytime be heavy with child. Detractors are in the wrong in claiming that because contraceptives would be gamely available, people would have a preference to have no brood at all. Couples will not stop wanting children basically because contraceptives are to be had. Contraceptives are used to prevent unwanted pregnancies but not to impede pregnancies all told.

The bill does not inflict a two-child policy. It does not encourage an enforced course of action sternly off-putting a family to two children and no penalising action shall be forced on parents with more than two offspring.

Sex education will neither frogspawn a cohort of sex maniacs nor rear a civilisation of licentiousness. It will not only infuse realisation of responsible exercise of one’s civil liberties. With sex education, our adolescents can be aware of proper sexual values; their early start into sexual dealings can be deferred; their moderation before marriage is encouraged; they can keep away from multiple-sex partners; and sexually transmitted diseases is prevented.

It does not claim that family planning is the cure-all for dearth this country is facing. It purely recognises the provable linkage between a vast populace and paucity. Rampant population escalation turns in the air socioeconomic expansion and exacerbates poverty. The correlation between population and development is well-documented and empirically well-known.

The campaign of these propagandists is deeply larger-than-life, and using it as a disagreement against a levelheaded population guiding principle is a plain and simple alarm scheme.

“The basic purpose of development is to enlarge people's choices. In principle, these choices can be infinite and can change over time. People often value achievements that do not show up at all, or not immediately, in income or growth figures: greater access to knowledge, better nutrition and health services, more secure livelihoods, security against crime and physical violence, satisfying leisure hours, political and cultural freedoms and sense of participation in community activities. The objective of development is to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy long, healthy and creative lives,” said Mahbub ul Haq, founder of the Human Development Report.

So, how our imaginings as a people can be arrived at when the reproductive health bill to carry out all progress has been barred as if it were the line of attack that could wreck the entire nation. For me, it is an intellectual idleness in terms of knowing the full truth—I mean to those who are just advocating their very warped stand without really knowing how it is to be through and what effects it has on all of us.

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