The Unwanted Kids

Hole of Justice

by Peter G. Jimenea

 

The Unwanted Kids

There are plenty of reported crimes committed by young people today, most of whom are children of poor families in squatter areas. They are products of the consenting wives who can do nothing against the will of the husbands despite their unwillingness to have another child.

 

Less-educated mothers resented their coming into this world not because they are physically or mentally handicap but being considered unwanted children. Their parents can now do nothing but to hope against hope that they will not become future problems of society.

 

By growing without the proper parental guidance, they are more burdensome to parents than mongoloid kids who just stay at home. This mental handicap among children was discovered by experts on Human Genetics. The children are called mongoloids but to be more humane, they call them victims of “down syndrome.”

 

This mental condition that affects one in every six-hundred-fifty children all over the world is resented by many parents who failed in their expectation of a normal child. Thus, in most cases, these kids who badly need parental care and attention turned out to be the most neglected.

 

A doctor who discovered this mental handicap of children advised parents to love them as they are created from the image of God. They may act differently from the other normal children but still, as he asserts, they overflow with love and affection towards their parents

 

The problem of poor parents is by having nobody to take care of their mentally handicapped child just in case they go. Thus, in Europe, the discovery of child’s defect while still in mother’s womb forced some parents to resort into abortion than to allow it to live and suffer a sad fate in this world.

 

In Catholic Church abortion is a mortal sin. But this is not what is being debated in Congress about the Reproductive Health Bill (RHB). The use of contraceptives is the epicenter of the issue.  It may have some consequences to the user but this issue belongs to women as a right on what to do to their bodies.

 

Reported mortality rate among Asian women during pregnancy or childbirth is alarming. It is also noted that abortion performed by illegal abortionists had took its among women with unwanted pregnancy. This is not from fear of having a mongoloid kid but from having an additional member of the family.

 

RH Bill deals more on helpful information for women about healthcare during pregnancy and also of the fetus inside their womb. Lacking capacity to provide adequate food, clothing, health care and education to the already big number of children at home, RHB can be of help to avoid unwanted kids.

 

Look at the widening economic gap of the rich and the poor.  Unemployment is a big problem for parents with many children. For most of them, the “K plus 12” program of DepEd is anti-poor. They can hardly support the need of their school children what’s more for the added two years to finish high school?

 

Scientists say you can send a cow to a far-away-place inside the bottle. True, by artificial insemination they had created an embryo – a living thing developed by the inter-action of male’s egg penetrating inside the female womb. In human beings, contraceptives prevent the development of embryo. This belies abortion as what the earlier claim of those opposed to the RH Bill hinted at. For how can we kill a non-living matter?

 

Let us empower our women’s right to choose what is best for them. They knew much better than us men on what to do with their bodies. Any motive for us men to stand up against the RHB is hypocrisy of the highest order. It is a women’s cause and they knew that the prize at stake in this war is worthy of the battle they are fighting for!