Hole of Justice
by Peter G. Jimenea
Excommunicate Me!
In August 1969, Jerome
Lejeune, a French doctor and world-renowned expert in human genetics was
awarded by the American Society of Human
Genetics the William Allen Memorial Award, the highest distinction that can be
granted to a geneticist
It is credited to his
major work on “mongolism” in 1959, a condition that affects one in every six hundred
fifty children called “Down Syndrome.” Learning about this discovery, thousands
of families from all over the world with kids suffering from Down Syndrome come
to him for treatment.
He helped them to
understand and accept the kids created from God’s image that despite their
serious mental handicap, they overflow with love and affection. Unfortunately,
the American medical establishment at that time has the tendency to resort to
abortion to prevent affected babies from being born.
The pretext was that
it is cruel and inhuman to allow these poor creatures to come into the world.
Great Britain followed the lead of the United States which had legalized
screening for Down’s syndrome and its “treatment” by abortion. The media battle
in France extended to the abortion of “unwanted children.”
These countries are
sharing the theory that “A baby does not legally become a person until it is
born. The woman has also the right to do what she wants with her body.” It was
molded under the pretext of scientific rigor, a point of view in which God has
no place.
The good they say is that
although it does not conform to the Law of God, it is efficient. The bad is that which interferes with material
progress. For them, the mongoloid is no longer a person created from the image
of God to see and love Him for all
eternity.
The embryo is a living
thing in its early development formed by the inter-action of the male’s sperm inside
the woman’s womb through harmonious relationship or in some cases, by-forced
sexual intercourse. Contraceptives and condom can prevent its development.
.
But what is to argue
with the passage of RH Bill? People had long been using oral contraceptives and
condoms. They merely prevent the development of embryo in a woman’s womb by disallowing
the man’s egg which may penetrate to form as such. This belies abortion as what
the opposition’s earlier claim hinted at.
If we consider the
Constitutional doctrine in the separation of the Church and the State, this RH
Bill deals more on the latter’s problem for the welfare of its citizens. Other
than the widening economic disparity between the rich and the poor, this is a
primary concern of women.
The scenario in the
pedia-ward of public hospitals in this country bleeds out hearts. The numbers
of sick and dying infants are counting. The church-led opposition should ask
from the government free or affordable and accessible health services for the poor
families rather than to consent on their production of unwanted kids.
And we have yet to
know about the unreported cases in slum areas. Presuming that these unwanted
children of poor families survived, what good promise of tomorrow awaits them
in the future? Now you know why I am for the RH Bill. If Church leaders resent
this then …… see the title!
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