The real and the big picture

The following is a letter I received from a group calling themselves as Alliance of Rizaleños for Integrity and Social Enlightenment (ARISE). It contains important information on the Lower House deliberations concerning HB 5043 or the RH Bill and its principal backer, the PLCPD. It is actually addressed to Congressman Roilo Golez but I am reproducing it in shortened and edited version for the public to get a clearer and true picture of this RH Bill.

“We are closely watching the deliberations on the matter of “Reproductive Health Bill” (HB 5043). You demolished the presentation of Rep. Lagman with his “loaded surveys” and cold “empirical data” from the United Nations as against yours which are actual warm-blooded human beings (both pobres and successful and distinguished people). Indeed, you are right that humans have dignity and are assets to our society. The HB 5043 author’s thesis of population growth as the cause of poverty which he proposes to resolve by birth control is absurd. You have proven that HB 5043 is logically apt for consignment to “reductio ad absurdum”.

HB 5043 is not only an absurd “Condom, IUD, Vasectomy, Ligation Measure”. In the previous debate with Rep. Del Mar, its author virtually distorted the true intention of the framers of our fundamental law when he insisted on a “redefinition” of conception in a desperate attempt to parry the Constitutional provision of the sanctity of life from conception. (Art II, Sec. 12). He insisted that ”conception of life begins not in fertilization, but rather from implantation, which is 1-2 weeks after fertilization” – a clear degradation of the factual Science of Embryology. Rep. Lagman refused to consider an embryo a human being, hence for him, use of contraceptives and abortifacients are not acts of abortion. Abortionists in the US and other countries resorted to the same legal gobbledygook and absurd gymnastics of terminologies to rationalize and legalize the evil that is contraception and abortion.

Founded on such ”philosophy,” HB 5043 is thus unmasked as a super killing machine to surpass much way beyond the genocide committed by the Nazi gas chambers in World War II. HB 5043 aims at exterminating the Filipino race, primarily the poor and marginalized masses, with the so-called “modern methods” of contraception and abortion on demand.

HB 5043 actually seeks to legislate population control. Rep. Del Mar called the House’s attention about the whole-page ad for by PLCPD clamoring for HB 5043 approval; that PLCPD is occupying a “very good office” (at Suite 611, Northwing Bldg.) in the Congress. In rationalizing PLCPD’s activities and presence in the corridors of Congress, Rep. Lagman retorted that CBCP also has an office in Congress. At one point, he irately denied being a foreign agent when he felt alluded to. However, he remained silent about his being a Board Member of PLCPD while he is also Vice-Chair of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. And take note that for the first time, a huge amount is up for grabs for LGU’s and NGO pushers of “contraceptive-abortion-reproductive health agenda” in and out of the legislative arena. P150 million was allocated solely for the procurement of contraceptive commodities which has been inserted in the 2007 General Appropriations Act (GAA) and another P2 billion in the 2008 GAA.

Rep. Del Mar asked about (David and Lucile) Packard Foundation and PLCPD, and what they have got to do with HB 5043. Please allow us to answer: these are the very same people and entities funding the “reproductive health” and “population development” agenda, mobilizing “women’s groups” and NGOs allied with the likes of Akbayan which is a co-author of HB 5043. PLCPD is but a conduit for funding population control campaign in accord with the pro-HB 5043 legislators and their allied beneficiary NGOs and feminist groups.

In defending PLCPD’s operations, Rep. Lagman quoted in part the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (UN-ICPD) Programme of Action (15.1) which states “…broad and effective partnership is essential between Governments and non-governmental organizations comprising of not-for-profit groups and organizations at the local, national and international levels to assist in the formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of population and development objectives and activities.”

Throughout his representation, Rep. Lagman consistently referred to the United Nations (UN) as the source of “his thesis” as regard HB 5043. This is undeniable admission that UN-ICPD is the origin of global population control campaign. The 1974 UN-ICPD (Bucharest Conference) was heavily influenced by the U.S. delegation that prepared the draft for its Program of Action. Same agenda has been carried through with the succeeding UN-ICPDs in Mexico (1984) and Cairo (1994).

Population control was linked with the (1974) National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for US Security and Overseas Interests (NSS 200) written by State Secretary Henry A. Kissinger. NSSM 200 launched the global population control with the view that “the world’s population growth is damaging to the internal stability and international relations of countries in whose advancement the US is interested, thus creating political or even national security problems for the US (Summary, #16)…Population control secures strategic interests of the US in the developing countries…the Philippines as among the 13 countries of special US political and strategic interest, are primary targets of population control (Summary, #30 [a]… and that, the US World Population Plan of Action will have to be added in further UN documents… (Chapter VI)”

Since then, in continuum, the US and UN global population control programs became “twin brothers” (NSSM 200 Summary, #16 & 31). This very same agenda is vigorously pursued by PLPCD, by the funding agencies with Packard among others, its NGO-beneficiaries and allies in the guise of “population development, sustainable development, women’s rights” or what-have-you”. PLCPD is operating in the country, primarily in the Legislative Halls, in behalf of the interventionist U.S. security interest through legislation of population control, e.g. HB 5043 and the “reproductive health” bills in the past Congresses including other local legislations like the recent Health Care Code of Antipolo City. Having PLCPD operate its command post right at the heart of Congress is a blatant act of infringement on our national sovereignty.”

The aggressiveness of foreign funded groups is really alarming. Obviously they know that with more than enough “funds” they can freely operate and “convince” our local and national policy making bodies to attain their sinister objectives.