Adam and Eve Banished from Paradise-
This modern debate on the RH between pro-lifers and pro-choicers all starts with this simple historical thought:
It all begins with Margaret Sanger (1879-1966), an American birth control activist who was Catholic who later became an atheist who has three major thrusts for population control...
a. free sex or sex liberation.
In her own words, she said, "Every normal man and woman has the power to control and direct his sexual impulse. Men and woman who have it in control and constantly use their brain cells thinking deeply, are never sensual." (from her book, What Every Girl Should Know). This means that all men and women are to engage and enjoy in sex freely, even extra or pre-marital ones as long as it does not create unwanted pregnancies. If it fails it comes to the second thrust...
b. Birth control
Though Sanger opposed abortion, she proposed contraceptives that it "was the better way, the safer way—it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun." Her belief states that life begins at implantation not at fertilization. Note that her opposition to abortion stemmed primarily from a concern for the dangers to the mother rather than moral issues. But we know that contraceptives are indirect abortions...
c. Eugenics
Sanger was a proponent of negative eugenics, a social philosophy which claims that human hereditary traits can be improved through social intervention. Her eugenic policies ran to an exclusionary immigration policy, free access to birth control methods and full family-planning autonomy for the able-minded, and compulsory segregation or sterilization for the profoundly retarded. She saw birth control as a means to prevent "dysgenic" (or simply means defective or a possible threat or liability to the future of the society) children from being born into a disadvantaged life. She believed that women with the power and knowledge of birth control were in the best position to produce "fit" children. She rejected any type of eugenics that would take control out of the hands of those actually giving birth.
Based on these three thrusts, the foundation of Edcel Lagman's RH bill is in full thought.
I would warn that the RH bill will be a foundation bill for future "DEATH" bills if we don't act soon...
AD MAJOREM DEI GLORIAM!
--from Bajalina (an anonymous reader and commenter of this site)
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