In Manila, pills and condoms go underground

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This report has all the marks of the DE-Population agenda.

Writer cannot even tell the Good Side from the Bad.

Hello… the Evil Empire is the Population Control / Family Planning / Contraception Promoting / Foreign Funded and Controlled empire.

Geezzz. Come visit Pro-Life and INTERVIEW US.
Write about the Good People who truly care, save lives, save families.

http://www.prolife.org.ph

Manila’s population growth is negative because people who can afford to leave, do. That is a sad statistic.

That government loses out on the privilege of informing a couple of the slew of options available to them to enjoy a healthy and safe sexual life, is a sadder (but unavailable) statistic. Health workers in Manila do not keep tabs of the people they have had to turn back because their options do not dovetail with that of the mayor.

Manila’s official website admits that the city’s minimal growth in population “seems to indicate that residents who have the means or find the city very crowded have moved to nearby areas like the CALABARZON in the South. This is reflected in the higher rate of increase during the same period by the so-called “subdivision municipalities” of Las Piñas, Taguig, Laguna, Cavite in the South and Marikina in the East.”

The end of the article quotes the Population Institute’s Raymundo: “Pangasinan’s program is ideal because it comes from the highest policy-making body, the governor. There’s support, there are no barriers, and the population units are very strong, with lots of activities. Most importantly, the people are free to choose.”

The report also says Atienza, who is only pro-NFP, admits that the number of his acceptors is dismal. Pangasinan offers all options available on the shelf, yet 23 percent of their women have “unmet needs” in family planning methods.

In doing the report, I was amazed at how Pangasinan was doing things based on the numbers. I had to ask Atienza twice how many his acceptors are, and he could offer no number. Other than saying that “the contraceptive mentality has been somehow effective in brainwashing the young generation.” Any seminar on management would tell you that any goal should be governed by tangible goals, with tangible results.

It takes a lot of work for a woman to approach a health center personnel, anytime of the week. In Manila, they are unable to get all the information they need. We cannot quantify how much money (and effort) they lost when thwarted. Or when they go the extra mile of looking for NGOs in other cities. In Pangasinan, health workers go to their homes. Pangasinan’s women are empowered by the information they acquire, most of the time at no cost to their pockets. There is no statistic on that, other than the reduced number in “unmet needs,” and the money set aside by the governor’s office for the women (and men) of the province in this concern.

In this day and age, information must be free. A government office should, and must, provide sane, scientific and rational options, when asked. Statistics can never quantify how empowering that can be.

Comment:

In doing your Contraceptive Report, you compared contraceptive acceptance rate, contraceptive like this like that.

What is your failing or passing grade? You do not specify.
Then you make your judgement.

You as the investigator believe that Contraceptive Acceptance = Good. Non-Contraception = Bad.

That is a wrong concept.

What you should look at is the TFR, then you know Contraceptive Culture and Contraceptive use is already very very very PREVALENT.

Simple arithmetic: From a high of 7 TFR in 1960 down to to 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 children per woman.

This, yes this shows CONTRACEPTIVE PREVALENCE!!!

And what proof do you have to recomment more contraception? None. Because we are looking at the same cold hard figures.

TFR ~ 3 in the Whole Philippines
TFR ~ 2 in Metro Manila

How much less do you want the numbers to go?

TFR ~ 2 in the Philippines? Sure, wait another 10 to 15 years.
TFR ~ 1 in Metro Manila? Sure, wait another 10 to 15 years.

See the trend, see the slope. See the same thing happening to ALL other countries here in Asia and the world.

And has 45 Years of Child Reduction / Population Control / Contraceptive Promotion made the Philippines RICH?

No, no no and no.

The problem lies elsewhere.

Do not be fooled by the population control agenda of NSSM 200.

The migration rate explanation was meant for sef.

Fr. Carroll himself recognizes the need to address the unmet needs of women, mostly poor, who want to space or limit their children. What the article pointed out is that information vital to wise decision-making in family planning is not available to these women. We are not pushing any agenda.

What is Pro-Life doing for the poor communities?

Call 911-2911, ask for Kuya Willy and set an appointment with him how poor Pro-Life communities are running.

Their Pro-Life communities and families are running exceedingly well.

Our other numbers are 421-7147 and 422-8877.

http://www.prolife.org.ph

I always thought the key to ending poverty was increasing the options for everyone — whether the options were in education, livelihood, and yes, sizes of families.

Of course, we should end international injustice. Go ahead, pressure the big MNCs and the White House, let’s see how far you get.

But in the meantime, there are already things we can do in our backyard, like enabling couples to choose the size of their families according to their ability to support them, helping women protect themselves by giving them the means to space their babies, etc.

It’s so ironic that a woman president who cannot seek re-election has catered to antiquated thinking and neglected this basic aspect of women’s rights.

“attykarol said,
May 25, 2005 @ 11:44 am
respect the difference of views and choices of women.”

Sure, smoking is good for your health and the tobacco companies should be allowed to go from house to house and tell them this is for their RESPIRATORY HEALTH!!!

Then use the Department of Health to Spread Respiratory HEALTH!

“attykarol said,
family planning is not evil.”

Oh yes it is. When you CRAM family planning on an ALREADY CONTRACEPTIVE SOCIETY, it is evil to the highest degree.

The LIE OF OMISSION from Family Planning and Women’s rights groups is they do not tell you that the Total Fertility Rate in Manila is around 2 children per woman.

That is already BELOW REPLACEMENT RATE.
That is a hard core CONTRACEPTIVE SOCIETY.

Did I open your eyes? Good.

“attykarol said,
imposing your views on others especially when it affects the health and lives of women is plain and simple sexism and misogyny.”

The ones imposing are the P 1,200,000,000 funding the DOH got to Impose the Imperial De-population agenda.

The ones imposing are those backing the bills like HB3773 that imposes fines and imprisonment on people like us who disagree with their LIES on contraception and population control.

It is the Contraceptive Lobby and the Family Planning lobby that is VICTIMIZING WOMEN, FAMILIES and CHILDREN.

Women are coerced to be Ligated and SUFFER a lifetime of hormonal imbalance and some death.

Women are pumped full of chemicals, hormones through patches, pills, injectibles, rod insertions… they become UNHEALTHY and not able to BEAR children and they are taught this is for their REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH.

Who is VICTIMIZING WHO? The contraceptive, family planning and population control lobby is the EVIL EMPIRE.

Huwag mag-pa-uto.
Jose Rizal was correct in his Noli me Tangere.
Nothing has changed in 100 years.
Indios are still naive and easily fooled.

Be informed.

http://www.prolife.org.ph

The Goodsamaritan is cordially invited to a forum called Talsik (www.talsik.com). Inform us about your side and let your nationalism be known to another community.

Beter, if you could present your agenda and educate us about your programs. We would be more than willing to have you in a discussion pertaining to population issues and give us a glimpse of compromises in the future.

Let it be known to your Mayor as well.

attykarol,

1. Prolifers are not necessarily Catholic. I am atheist. I have no Dogma. See http://www.godlessprolifers.org

2. Naaawa ka sa health workers? E hindi ka na naawa sa mga MAHIHIRAP na tao? Ang kayamanan at kaligayahan ng MAHIHIRAP ay magkaroon ng 1 to 3 children; tapos UUTUIN / LOLOKOHIN / IIPITIN / TATAKUTIN sila ng mga IWAS BUNTIS workers na mag-PASAKSAK ng IUD, mag-PA-TALI.

3. Rizal lamented the stupidity and gullibility of many Filipinos. Same as today. See the following DOGMAs the PCIJ report WORSHIPS:

Dogma #1 – Population Explosion… is a MYTH. Statistically proven. 45 years of population control and contraception promotion has reduced number of children per woman TFR from 7 children per woman nationwide to 3 children per woman nationwide to 2 children per woman in MANILA.

Dogma #2 – Population Explosion… Perception. People like you, Atty Karol are living in the old 1960s and 1950s, with the DOGMATIC BELIEF that Filipina WOMEN ARE TO BLAME for having too many children. You actually still believe that Filipinas are birthing left and right 5,6,7 children each. Dogma, Dogma, Dogma. Go to your precious WHO and see the stats. You will see that Manila has 2 children per woman TFR. Rich, Middle Class, Poor. Classes ABCDE. So your DOGMA of poor people have 5,6,7 children is very very very RARE. Most people are already contraceptive. Helloooo.

Dogma #3 – World Bank, IMF, ADB, WHO, Rockefeller Foundations, Ford Foundations, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations, USAID, UNFPA are all CHARITABLE institutions going out of their way to HELP the Filipinos by funding Population Control Programs!

What a load of DOGMA!

Population Control is WAR being waged on many countries around the world as planned by the US Government a long time ago right after WW2. The master plan is NSSM 200. http://forums.prolife.org.ph/yabbse/index.php/topic,78.0.html

Dogma #4 – Lessening children will make Filipinos Rich… FALSE. 45 years of children reduction has not made us rich. Now that Manila is down to 2 children per woman, DOGMATIC population explosion worshippers with the DOH Iwas Buntis program; will see to it that Manileneos HAVE NO FUTURE.

Eh ano pa ang babawasin mo sa 2 children per woman na pa-punta pa sa 1.5 down to 1 child per woman in 10 or 20 years?

Yeah, eliminate the downtrodden by eliminating ALL THEIR CHILDREN.

As usual, the mainstream media has swallowed the “overpopulation” myth, hook line, and sinker.

For example, it talks abiut “unmet needs” for contraception, which has no real basis. This ASSUMES that there is a need for contraceptives, which is in itself doubtful. The entire idea of overpopulation is already on very shaky ground. Thereis no proof that poverty is caused by population density (one of the definitions of overpopulation at the Merriam Webster Dictionary). In fact, in the Philippines, it can be shown that poverty is more likely caused by poor governance, corruption and unjust economic structures. Population has nothing to do with it.

The report also completely misses the boat on the nature of ABORTIFACIENT CONTRACEPTIVES. The IUD, the Pill, and RU-486, for example, are designed to cause early abortions when their main contraceptive function fails (in fact, with the IUD, it IS the main function). This is known as breakthrough ovulation. These abortifacients act to create a “hostile endometrium” wherein the already-ferlitized egg cannot implant (should there be a conception). This is obviously an abortion.

But of course the PLCPD and other peddlers of such abortifacients and manufactured statistics conveniently gloss over this fact. Maybe the manufacturer of Frenzy is making too much moeny?