Real Needs of Filipino Women and our Countrymen

1. Real Needs of Filipino Women and our Countrymen 30 July 2011 Venue: Iraya Study Center Speaker: Prof. Aliza Racelis

2. 1)Real Needs of Women:Morality and ConscienceReminders on: Loyalty & marital fidelity; chastity & abstinence education, sacrifice and self-control; etc. because these is the real, long-term solution to so-called “unwanted pregnancies” which seems to be the constant battlecry of RH proponents… 30 July 2011 Venue: Iraya Study Center Speaker: Prof. Aliza Racelis

3. 1)Real Needs of Women:Maternity Homes, crisis pregnancy centers, etc. 30 July 2011 Venue: Iraya Study Center Speaker: Prof. Aliza Racelis

4. https://sites.google.com/site/pregnancycenters/

7. An issue of Philippine Population Review: • "...women who had unintended pregnancies or births were older, not living together with a partner, had no previous birth or had a closely-spaced birth interval, had both sons and daughters, rural residents, not well educated and poor. Moreover, these women were ever-users of contraceptives, had three or more living children and whose ideal number of children was lesser than what they actually had.” • Note the profile of those having “unintended pregnancies”: • Ever-users of contraceptives; • Not in ‘correct’ situation of getting into marital act [legitimately married; monogamous/faithful relationship]. [Note that, for unmarried, chastity = complete abstinence from sexual activity.]

8. Chap. 3 "What's Big About Big Families”: Section 'The Myth of Unmet Family Planning Needs' Some businessmen have been completely misled by the myth of ‘unmet family planning needs’ of poor women. Research all over the world has shown that women, including the poor, have the number of children they actually desire. Data from the National Demographic and Health Survey 2008, which some businessmen are using to propose an alternative bill to the failed RH Bill of the past, are subject to the errors of statistical inference and interpretation that have been unmasked by studies of Harvard economist Dr. Lant H. Pritchett (http://www.jstor.org/stabl e/2137629).

9. Chap. 3 "What's Big About Big Families”: Section 'The Myth of Unmet Family Planning Needs' Dr. Pritchett starts by reminding those involved in population management that there are three foundations of successful voluntary programs to supply and encourage the use of effective planning services: (a) A deep respect for the persons to be reached as unique individuals embedded in their own particular social context, approaching their lives, beliefs, hopes and desires without patronizing or condescending attitudes; (b) An ethos in meeting the wishes of the users, tailoring the products, presentations, and services so as to create satisfied users; (c) A sustainable flow of financing.

10. He points out that his research has demonstrated that there is no such thing as an “unmet need” for family planning services among women, including the poor. Attributing to women a “need” which is not their own, but is based on a “discrepancy… identified by the analyst through the comparison of responses to items in separate blocks of the questionnaire” and is “an inference on the part of the researcher, not a condition reported by the respondents themselves” undermines all the three foundations mentioned above. 

11. The International Youth Coalition's “Statement of Youth to the U.N. and the World” affirms young people's need for strong family and community bonds, and ties their rights to the “evolving capacities” developed in the process of maturing. The statement also speaks of the inviolable right to life at every stage of development, noting that many members of the last two generations “consider themselves survivors by virtue of our being born at all.” Its authors and signers affirm the naturalness and complementarity of the two sexes, and hold that a “proper understanding of sexuality and healthy relationships” is essential to society's common good.

12. World Youth Alliance (WYA) co-sponsored a side event at the meeting on July 26th called “Our Voices, Our Aspirations: A Youth Dialogue on Sustainable Development”… A WYA member from Nigeria, delivered a speech at the event, outlining his vision of sustainable youth development; …he pointed to the “context” in which sustainable development takes place, which is always “families and communities” first, and not governments. 

13. https://sites.google.com/site/compilationofrhbillarticles/ CANCER risks of CONTRACEPTIVES [Philippines study]: http://jjco.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/suppl_1/S52.full

14. Birth control pills (BCP) have been largely promoted as a panacea for womeninterested in family planning yet even its promoters agree that when they claimthat it is <safe>, it does not mean that it has no adverse effects. Indeed there are numerous side effects which unfortunately are not made known to the general public. For example on top of numerous studies showing its carcinogenic properties since the development of the synthetic estrogens in 1938 by Sir Edward Charles Dodds, finally the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on July 29, 2005 that… …after a thorough review of the published scientific literature, it has concluded that combined estrogen-progestogen oral contraceptives (and combined estrogen-progestogen menopausal therapy) are carcinogenic to humans (Group I category. This category is used when there is sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in humans.)

15. 2. Breast cancer Causation The Philippines through the University of the Philippines–Clinical Epidemiology Unit (UP–CEU) is a member of the Collaborative Group on Hormonal Factors in Breast Cancer and has contributed data (12,13) concluding that: (a) Women who are currently on combined oral contraceptives or who have used them in the last 10 years are at a slightly increased risk of having breast cancer diagnosed (current users, RR = 1.24, 95% CI = 1.15–1.33; 1–4 years after stopping, RR = 1.16, 95% CI = 1.08–1.23; 5–9 years after stopping, RR = 1.07, 95% CI = 1.02–1.13) and additional cancers diagnosed tend to be localized to the breast. There is no evidence of an increased risk 10 or more years after stopping use (RR = 1.01, 95% CI = 0.96–1.05)

16. https://sites.google.com/site/compilationofrhbillarticles/ MEDICAL ISSUES: http://www.quiverfull.com/birth_control/pill_abortifacient.html http://www.healthline.com/hlvideo-5min/high-blood-pressure-facts-97706149 http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/169/4/473.abstract http://www.scribd.com/doc/24580669/Medical-Primer-on-RH-Bill http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20101230-311651/Doctors-affirm-Life-begins-at-fertilization http://www.healingofcancer.com/inflammatory-breast-cancer-causes/ http://www.onenewsnow.com/Perspectives/Default.aspx?id=567964 http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/an_ecological_blind_spot/ http://www.all.org/article/index/id/MjQyNg http://en.gloria.tv/?media=54689 http://www.zenit.org/article-30799?l=english http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52585

17. Cont’d: http://ct4women.com/hiv_aids.htmlhttp://gerardnadal.com/2010/01/18/oral-contraceptives-who-class-i-carcinogen/ http://breastcancerbydrruddy.com/2009/05/29/who-declares-oral-contraceptives-highly-carcinogenic/ http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-09/birth-control-pills-shown-alter-structure-womens-brains http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2010/jul/10072806 http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/EdmontonHome/20100310/birth_control_100310/ http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/sex-without-condom-is-good-for-mental-health-study_100226871.html http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/sex-education-not-needed-in-malaysian-schools-deputy-education-minister_100355245.html http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/medicine_that_makes_you_sick/ http://www.jillstanek.com/by-barbara-hollingsworth-of-th.html http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2010/may/10050701 http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/fischer/100403 PILLS EFFECT ON WOMEN: http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=42520#ixzz1FdPTbNcb AND http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=38517#ixzz1FdPKwg8F

18. http://youniv.wordpress.com/category/blood-money/ “We take a critical look into the dark origins of abortion, and return with a deeply disturbing picture: how a movement based on racism and population control usurped the momentum of the women’s rights movement to create something truly despicable– a multi-billion dollar industry that literally thrives on the destruction of unborn babies and the traumatizing of young pregnant women. …” BUSINESS OF ABORTION + EUGENICS TIMELINE: PART I: http://filipinosforlife.com/2011/05/27/reproductive-health-bill-timeline-part-1-of-a-series/ PART II: http://filipinosforlife.com/2011/05/28/reproductive-health-bill-timeline-part-2-of-a-series/ PART III: http://filipinosforlife.com/2011/06/01/reproductive-health-bill-timeline-part-3-of-a-series/

19. In a paper read at the Home Renaissance Foundation ‘Renewing the Culture of the Home’ Conference, Prof. Dr. Michael-Burkhard Piorkowsky tells us that… “…Household production has its end in itself: maintaining vital functions, building human capital, and generating life satisfaction. … …Private households are the basic socio-economic units of the economy and society: Firstly, the private household is the most successful institution for providing personal goods which are strongly related to individual needs and small group life, at least cost and in the most satisfying way. The alternative -- that is, total provision by institutional households such as like boarding schools, boarding houses, and old people’s homes -- is not what people generally want…”

20. Second, the most important function of family households is to bring up children and maintain the latent pattern of society, which includes informal rules, like how to behave in relationships or at the table. In this way the family household produces human capital, starting from very basic and necessary knowledge and competencies. Capital is, after all, only human knowledge impressed upon the material world. The problem of transmission and expansion of knowledge is the crucial problem of any society.

21. Third, caring for the elderly is mostly done within enlarged family households or in close proximity with support by adult children. Institutional old people’s homes are very cost intensive and not desired by most of the elderly. • REGENERATION • PROCREATION • SOCIALIZATION • POLITICAL & • ECOLOGICAL functions. First, expenditure on private goods accounts for approximately 60% of GDP… Second, time use studies … show that … about 63% of total working hours are related to family and household production, and 37% are related to paid work. Third, enterprise start-ups start from very small housework related enterprise start-ups and businesses….