Closing My RH Page

Hole of Justice

by Peter G. Jimenea

Closing My RH Page

A geneticist’s book on “Mongolism” published in 1959 sparked a non-stop debate between scientists and Church devotees in France. But in August 1969, its author Dr. Jerome Lejeune, was awarded by the American Society of Human Genetics the highest distinction ever granted to a geneticist.

Mongolism, also called “Down-Syndrome,” affects one in every 650 new born children around the world. The doctor told the thousands of families with affected child that their kids are created from God’s image and they badly need love and affection. But the American medical society during time has already resorted to abort affected babies from being born.

They say it is inhuman to allow the poor child to come into this world. Britain followed the US in legalizing the screening for down-syndrome and its “treatment” by abortion. Thus, the media battle in France has extended to abortion of “unwanted babies” in the two countries.

These countries shared the theory that “a baby cannot legally become a person until it is born, and the woman has also the right to do what she wants with her body.” This was based on the pretext of scientific rigor, a point of view in which God has no place.

The good they say, although it does not conform to the Law of God, it obviates future child problem of the family. It also stops the birth of unwanted babies. The bad is that it interferes with material progress that a mongoloid is not created from the image of God who could love Him to eternity.

Church leaders disagreed with this theory on the premise that life is sacred. This is shared by devotees who believe that sperm has already life in it. In essence, it is half-true because a television remains an idle TV set unless driven by a power or energy to show the pictures on the screen.

They argue that veterinarians can send dozen of cattle from Australia to Argentina using an envelope as carrier. True, but in that envelope are the bull’s sperm for “artificial insemination,” that is, to give birth to a dozen calves. It disproved the theory that the bull’s sperm alone has life in it.

That sperm will remain a sperm until it is injected into a cow’s womb for the development of an embryo. An embryo is a living thing in early stage formed by the inter-action of the male’s sperm inside the womb of the opposite sex by harmonious relationship or by-forced sexual intercourse.

Contraceptives and condom prevent an embryo’s development. This is not abortion as what the oppositions’ earlier claim hinted at. It only disallows the man’s egg to penetrate into the woman womb and form into an embryo. There is no murder here!

The increasing population is not the problem of the government. The only clear factor is the widening economic disparity between the rich and the poor because of the unequal distribution of wealth controlled only by the few rich clans in this country.

Worse, every time the poor ask from the government the delivery of basic services they rightfully deserved, these people always end up badly-disillusioned. The sick and dying infants of poor mothers in the government hospitals are counting why? Simple, lack of medicine and affordable health care.

If the sickly children of poor families survived, what promise of tomorrow awaits them? Unemployment is getting worse. Corruption is another. Worse, proliferation of illegal drugs is unstoppable because a hungry stomach knows no law. This is not a problem anymore but a national crisis and we’re getting close to Mexico!

We have awakened the citizens’ awareness to consequences of having too many kids they cannot afford to raise. It is not yet too late. I stood pat as pro RH Bill since it is yet to be debated as I know that the prize at stake in this trouble is worthy of the battle I am fighting for!