The Unwanted Child

Hole of Justice

by Peter G. Jimenea 

Unwanted Child and Abortion

It is imperative for us to know on how life develops in the woman’s womb though a wanted or unwanted child. The issue on Reproductive Health Bill (RHB) has an unfinished debate between the proponents and Church devotees, thus, this article.

A book on “Mongolism” 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 is also called “Down-Syndrome.” It affects one in every 650 new born babies around the world. Dr. Lejeune told thousands of families with affected child that their kids are created from the image of God and badly need love and affection.

But the American medical society during that 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 legalizing the screening for down-syndrome and its “treatment by abortion.”

Thus, the media battle shifted to abortion of “unwanted babies” in the two countries which share the same theory, that “a baby cannot legally become a person until it is born and the woman has the right to do what she wants with her body.” This is based on the pretext of scientific rigor, a point of view in which God has no place.

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

Church leaders disagreed on the premise that life is sacred and 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 Palawan to Mindanao using an envelope as carrier. True, but in that envelope are the bull’s sperm prepared for “artificial insemination,” to give birth to a dozen calves. This 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.” The 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’s womb and form into an embryo. There is no killing or murder here!
The increasing population is not the main problem of the government. The very clear factor is the widening economic disparity between the rich and the poor caused by unequal distribution of wealth controlled by the few rich clans in this country.

Every time the poor ask from the government the basic services they rightfully deserved, they always end up badly-disillusioned. The sick and dying infants of poor mothers in government hospitals are counting. Why? There is lack of medicine and affordable health care for the poor people!.

If the sickly children of poor families survived, what promise of tomorrow awaits them? Unemployment is getting worse. Corruption is another.  The K to 12 designed of DepEd (added 2 years) for elementary to high school education is an added burden to poor families.
With the perceived number of out-of-school youth, I fear we are only producing more criminals than responsible citizens with this DepEd design. Look, the proliferation of illegal drugs is unstoppable. Why? A hungry stomach knows no law. This is now a national crisis and we are getting closer to Mexico!
Let us open our citizens’ awareness in having too many kids they cannot provide good health and proper education. It’s not yet too late. I stood pat defending the RH Bill because I know the prize of this effort is what we have been searching for – the TRUTH that will set us free!