| America: Where the Unwanted Die Young |
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I invited a friend who just returned from the U.S. to write this. I don’t think I have the strong heart needed for this article. An aborted fetus is not a pretty sight. Observe the oversized head, a blackened skin so translucent you could see the fragile skeleton, fingers and toes developed in the minutest detail, eyes closed in eternal stillness, a well-formed body, arms and legs curled in a restful position. Just a few hours earlier, this “thing” was nestling in someone’s womb, its tragic fate having been decided some weeks, days or, perhaps, hours before by the woman who unwanted it. I was visiting a friend in a U.S. hospital when I accidentally opened a garbage bin and saw not only one but several freshly aborted fetuses awaiting disposal. Were all these women raped? Maybe, but judging from the number of aborted fetuses, there must have been a raging maniac loose in the city. Or did the birth control methods fail? Perhaps, which means pharmaceutical companies and condom manufacturers are scamming lots of people. Maybe they tried natural family planning and it didn’t work, but why abort after the natural method fails? Disillusionment? Or maybe tests showed this “thing” to be retarded, genetically flawed or worse (imagine a philandering white wife with a black boyfriend). In America, even women have affairs. Since family planning is widespread in America, why are there still abortions? Why are there still unwanted pregnancies? Is it possible that the Promised Land is really a poor country in disguise that needs a Reproductive Health or RH Bill? This much I know, that the RH Bill supporters are ramming down our throats the scientific fact (so they claim) that birth control methods like condoms, pills, IUDs, injectables and sex education are effective at lowering birth rates and making people more responsible when having sex. We don’t need abortion, which is a crime (check the RH Bill; it’s there for the skeptics). They are telling us that economic development is only possible if artificial birth control is legalized and if the State discourages poor people from procreating. In America, where birth control and abortion are legal, there is an economic crisis and there are poor people. I’m sorry, but can you please explain to me the RH Bill’s twisted logic? After abortion was legalized in America in 1973, the number of abortions went up. That’s good, because abortions were finally getting out of the closet. And more good news, they say now after more than thirty years, is that abortions have since gone down. So instead of 180,000 abortions a year, they just have around 150,000. Hurrah. That’s 30,000 fewer unwanted babies each year. In America, when a woman is less than three months pregnant, she can terminate an unwanted pregnancy. It’s her right to unwant. Each year in America, 150,000 women decide to murder the “thing” in her womb, for one reason or another. I’m sorry. In America, abortion is not murder. To unwant is her right. In the land where birth control and abortion have been every woman’s legal right for many decades now, the worst thing that could happen is to be unwanted by a woman. Watch out immigrants, the old and the sick, and genetically inferior whites that will soon be in the minority. You’re next! Once the unwanting unwant themselves to extinction, we’ll take over. Manoling de Leon Senior Citizen Republic of the Philippines |
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