What's wrong with HB 3773? A LOT!!! (New Online Petitions added!)

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Prolife Congress Bulletin # 2-06

These bills are presently pending in the Committee on Revision of Laws. Pro-life Philippines believe that these two bills
should be passed as early as possible. We can write letters and petitions of support and requesting them to pass the
bills the soonest possible time.

1. HB 4643 or "The Anti-Abortive Drugs and Devices Act" principally authored by Buhay party list Representative
Rene Velarde. The bill intends to regulate drugs use as abortive drugs (e.g. prostaglandin) for therapeutic purposes only
and banning abortive devices.

As the pro-HB 3773 congressmen are bragging that they have the support of 120 congressmen and will pass the bill
before Congress ends session this April, the more we need to hasten the passage of HB 4643. This is to make HB 3773
inutile since HB 4643 will ban the main method of population control.

HB 4643 is pending with the Committee on Revision of Laws and waiting for a committee hearing to be scheduled.

2. HB 216 or "Amending Article 16 of the family Code, Making it mandatory for Couples to undergo Counseling Prior to
the Issuance of a Marriage License" authored by Hon. Rozzano Rufino B. Biazon. “The bill aims to provide for
mandatory marriage counseling given by priest, pastor or imam for all couples intending to marry.” amending the present
law that only requires marriage counseling in cases where parental consent or advice is needed.

The author asserts that "an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure" by requiring marriage counseling
to properly prepare the couples. The author believes that by properly preparing the couples will prevent future marital
problems. According to the author, divorce is not the answer to troubled marriage but rather proper preparation of
couples and the youth. Note -- counselors come from one’s religious affiliation, not from Population Commission or City Hall.

The bill is presently pending with the Committee on Revision of Laws.

Pro-life Philippines believe that these two bills should be passed as early as possible. We can write letters and petitions of
support and requesting them to pass the bills the soonest possible time.

You may write and send letters and petitions to:

• Hon. Orlando A. Fua, Jr. b.
  Chairman, Committee on Revision of Laws Speaker
  3/F Ramon V. Mitra Building Rm. MB-2
  House of Representatives House of Representatives
  Quezon City
  Phone: 932-0217
  
• Jose De Venecia
  Speaker
  Rm MB - 2
  House of Representative
  Quezon City
  Phones: 931-5071 to 73
  
• Hon. (name of your congressman)
  House of representatives
  Quezon City

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Abortion-Breast Cancer Link
Abortion increases the risk of developing breast cancer.

How?

Abortion interrupts the natural process of breast development, leaving the breast with more cells that can become cancerous. Elevated levels of estrogen, starting early in pregnancy, cause normal and pre-cancerous cells to multiply and stimulate the breasts to swell. Third trimester hormones of a full-term pregnancy change cells into cancer-resistant, milk-producing tissue and turn off their growth (and cancer-forming) potential.



Talking about ABC. Denise Mountenay, Canada Silent No More founder/president (far right), with
Ederlinda Austrial, Breast Cancer Society of Manila Inc. (BCSMI) president (2nd from right), and
BCSMI members during Feb. 17’s Relay for Life in Quezon City, which gathered hundreds of
breast cancer patients and survivors. Mountenay spoke about the ABC or abortion-breast cancer
link, citing 28 studies that prove the connection.

Breast cancer has a proven link to abortion, say medical groups and a bioethics journal.

Breast cancer rates climbed more than 40% between 1987 and 1998. Among three age groups, only the youngest generation, ages 50-64, which had access to legalized abortion (the Roe v. Wade generation), experienced the increase, not the two older groups, ages 65 and older. Holly Howe et al., Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1973 through 1998, featuring cancers with recent increasing trends. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2001; 93:824-842, figure 3

“As far as breast cancer is concerned, the risk-reducing effect of full-term pregnancy has been well-known literally for centuries, and is universally acknowledged…It is hardly difficult to connect the dots here: Having an induced abortion leaves a women with a higher long-term risk of breast cancer, compared to not having the abortion; i.e., compared to childbirth…Despite the worst efforts of scientists, doctors, politicians, journalists, and judges to quash public knowledge of the (abortion-breast cancer) link, the fact that published evidence of it abounds would make it a daunting task to convince a jury of its nonexistence, given a well-presented case.” Joel Brind, Ph.D., whose landmark report accused government agencies and biased scientists of publishing fraudulent research to cover-up a half-century of evidence linking abortion with increased breast cancer risk. National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly (Summer 2005) p. 303-329

“Among women who had been pregnant at least once, the risk of breast cancer in those who had experienced an induced abortion was 50% higher than among other women.” “Highest risks (more than double) were observed when the abortion was done at ages younger than 18 years…or at least 30 years of age or older.” Dr. Janet Daling, lead author of a study specifically commissioned by the National Cancer Institute to investigate the link between abortion and breast cancer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1994; 86:1584-1592

Source:

Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
An international women’s organization
www.AbortionBreastCancer.com
Email: response@abortionbreastcancer.com
P.O. Box 957133, Hoffman Estates, Il 60195-3051 U.S.A.

The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer is a women’s organization founded to protect the health and save the lives of women by educating and providing information on abortion as a risk factor for breast cancer.

Need more resources? Find more here:

http://www.abortionbreastcancer.ca/
http://www.togetherforlife.ca/
http://www.realwomen.bc.ca/index.cfm...mid/3/home.htm

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The PLCPD: Purveyors of the Culture of Death

The Philippine Legislators Committee on Population and Development Foundation is a special
interest lobby group that has somehow managed to get an office within the Philiipine
Congress itself. It receives foreign funding to promote artificial contraceptives and
abortifacients in the Philippines. The PLCPD actively promotes anti-life bills such as HB 3773.

To help you know the politicians supporting the anti-life bills, here is a list of members from the PLCPD's own web site.
(http://www.plcpdfound.org/trustees.asp)

The Philippine Legislators' Committee on Population and Development Foundation Inc.
Board of Trustees, 13th Congress
Executive Officers

Sen. Rodolfo G. Biazon
Co-Chairperson for the Senate

Rep. Juan Romeo Nereus O. Acosta
Co-Chairperson for the House of Representatives

Rep. Edcel C. Lagman
Board Secretary

Rep. Lorna C. Silverio
Board Treasurer

Vice Chairpersons

Rep. Gilbert Cesar C. Remulla - Vice-Chairperson for Luzon
Rep. Nerissa Corazon Soon-Ruiz - Vice-Chairperson for Visayas
Rep. Darlene Magnolia Antonino-Custodio - Vice-Chairperson for Mindanao

Chairpersons of the Special Committees

Rep. Loretta Ann P. Rosales - Special Committee on Constituency
Rep. Emilio C. Macias II - Special Committee on Advocacy
Rep. Josefina M. Joson - Special Committee on International Relations

Board Members

Rep. Robert Ace S. Barbers
Rep. Del R. De Guzman
Rep. Francis Joseph G. Escudero
Sen. Juan M. Flavier
Rep. Ma. Imelda R. Marcos
Rep. Liza Largoza - Maza
Sen. Manuel A. Roxas III
Rep. Cynthia A. Villar
Rep. Janette L. Garin M.D.

Now you know who NOT to vote for in the next election!

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Listening to their pain…and their recovery

Pro-Life’s guests for the Pro-Life Month celebrations have gone back to
North America, but the lessons from their experiences remain.
By Diana Uichanco

What’s it like to listen to a woman talk about her abortion and the painful consequences
of her choice? One thing’s for sure -- listening to the account first-hand and reading
about it are poles apart.


Luana Stoltenberg, Denise Mountenay and Molly White -- Pro-Life's
guests from the US and Canada -- visit the South Cemetery.
Behind them is the burial place for aborted babies.

Molly White, Denise Mountenay, Karen Bodle and Luana Stoltenberg -- our guests for
Pro-Life Month 2006 who made the rounds of different communities and spoke before
thousands who wanted to hear their message -- related the abortion experiences they
had all undergone earlier in their lives. Their Philippine visit, however, and the advocacy
work they have been doing in their countries for years now, are not limited to informing
people about the damaging consequences of abortion. Theirs is also a message of healing
and recovery from the trauma -- physical, psychological and spiritual -- that comes with this
allegedly safe procedure.

Through Operation Outcry (Karen and Luana), Redeemed for Life Ministries (Molly) and Canada
Silent No More(Denise), these women reach out to others who have been hurt by abortion
and help them along the process of healing. Denise has also chosen to zero in on the abortion-breast
cancer (ABC) link when she holds speaking engagements in and out of her native Canada, citing
the 28 studies that have established the connection between breast cancer and induced abortion.

"It’s so wonderful to be in a nation where abortion is actually illegal, and I’m just so thankful for your
strong fight for life!”

“I want you to be proud of organizations like the Breast Cancer Society of the Philippines because in
North America it’s politically incorrect to say anything negative about the abortion breast cancer link,
despite the 28 studies,” Denise said during a training seminar on Post-Abortion Healing & Recovery
organized together with Hope Alive Counseling. “It’s the same way the tobacco companies denied any
link between smoking and lung cancer because it would hurt their business – even at the cost of
people losing their lives, which is appalling. But yesterday we made a breakthrough and the Philippines
through the cancer society here is the first country in the world to acknowledge the abortion breast
cancer link!”

Getting on the road to self-destruction



Denise spreads awareness about the link between cancer and induced abortion
at a Breast Cancer Society of Manila event at the Amoranto Stadium, Quezon
City, attended by hundreds of breast cancer survivors and patients.

When Denise talks about her story, tears well up -- and not just her own. Local audiences
were no exception, rapt and sympathetic as the Canadian wife and mother of one talked
about her traumatic experience at age 13 and the inadvertent cycle of self-destructive behavior.

“At the age of 13, something very terrible happened to me. It was something my parents had
no authority to stop or prevent,” she narrates. “I was raped. I was having a sleepover at a
girlfriend’s, and my virginity was stolen. I never gave it away, it was stolen from me. And
immediately I turned to alcohol and other drugs because I never told anyone that I had been
defiled, that my virginity was stolen. Inside I felt like a piece of garbage. And so looking for love
in all the wrong places, under the influence of alcohol and other drugs, I found myself pregnant
the first time at the age of 16.”

Doing what she was told

Denise was in Switzerland at the time she found out she was with child. Her mother was in
Canada. A phone call disclosed the dilemma and conveyed some advice that the teenager had no
idea would damage her further -- let alone kill a child she was already carrying.

See, most women do not want to have an abortion, but we’ve been pressured into it by boyfriends,
or husbands, and many of us by parents, and shame and guilt..."

“She said, ‘Denise, you’re only 16 years old. Why don’t you come back to Canada with me and
you can have this operation? And you can forget about it and get on with your life.’ I said,
‘Oh I can become unpregnant?’ I thought they were going to bring me to the hospital, put me
to sleep, have an operation and forget about it! I thought, if it was okay with my mother, it was
okay with the doctors, it was okay with the government, well it must be okay.”


Denise and Karen Bodle (Operation Outcry's Int'l Director) tour
Payatas and talk to some residents as part of their Philippine visit.

Needless to say, the unwitting teenager was unable to just "forget about it and get on with"
her life; in fact, she continued the cycle of drug and alcohol addiction, then ended up dealing
with a second pregnancy several years later. This time it was the boyfriend who pressured her
to get rid of the baby (“you’ve got to have an abortion”) and then all of a sudden hated Denise
and didn’t want to have anything to do with her anymore.

“See, most women do not want to have an abortion, but we’ve been
pressured into it by boyfriends, or husbands, and many of us by parents, and shame
and guilt. And I think one of the number one causes women think they need to have
an abortion is fear. Fear of ‘how am I going to take care of my child?’ Fear of ‘is it
going to hurt?’ Fear of the unknown.”

'Clump of tissue'

Like any woman who was expecting a child, Denise was curious as to what was actually
happening inside her body. So at an abortion clinic she went to, she asked the doctor
"what was developing there."

“I was about 8, 9 weeks at the time. He took out a pen and wrote a dot on a piece of
paper and said, ‘Nothing. It’s just a clump of tissue.’ Had I known that by three weeks
after conception my baby had a beating heart, at eight weeks all the organs were formed
and by nine or 10 he had those arms and legs and fingers and toes, I would never ever
have done it! Women are not being told the truth about fetal development.”

“Women who are in a pregnancy crisis need support. They need help. Yes, they’ve
made a mistake by having *** out of wedlock or not using natural family planning. But
for whatever reason, at that moment of conception, God has a purpose and a plan for
that child. And God has allowed that conception to take place.”

Denise went ahead with the abortion -- and she was wide awake during the entire procedure.
She recounts her experience, her voice cracking as she does so.

“I remember when they began the suction aspiration – it’s like a vacuum that was 29 times
the power of a regular vacuum – I felt like my whole insides were being ripped out. It was
excruciating and I actually felt like I was being raped again. That’s how an abortion feels.

“It was so traumatic to have this abortion that when it was over I curled up in a fetal position
on the table,” she continues tearfully. “The nurse slapped a pad between my legs and I
thought my brain had snapped! I couldn’t talk, I felt like a vegetable. There was no compassion,
the nurse said ‘hurry up, get out of here, we have other patients.’ It was just so, so traumatic,
and women are suffering.”

Looking up



Denise Mountenay: motivational speaker and freelance writer who
is reaching out to women hurt by abortion through Canada Silent
No More.

When Denise was 30, she made a complete turnaround. Her lifestyle began to change after
she let God touch her heart. She expressed sorrow for all the transgressions she had
committed, especially her abortions. She finally put a stop to the denial.

“First, we go into denial. Then we try to justify it, saying well, I was only 16…but one day it
hits you and when it hits you, it’s so crushing and devastating. But I thank God that he
healed me, and forgave a wretch like me,” she says with a smile.

And not only that. Through her journey of healing, Denise saw more sunshine after the rain,
so to speak.

“What was so amazing was that God blessed me with a wonderful husband and we had no
hanky-panky before our wedding night! And then, God blessed us with a son, Shawn,” Denise
tearfully relates, flashing a picture of an adorable little boy. “He’s 14 now. I love being a mother!
There is no greater joy...I think there is no greater love on earth than the love between a
mother and her baby."

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February 2006: Prolife Month
http://www.prolife.org.ph/article/articleview/619/1/91/

Thank God for human ingenuity, for through it man has found ways to capture moments in images that can be
viewed long after those moments have passed. With human inventiveness, too, we can now enjoy the benefits
of mass media -- info dissemination across geographical borders, and at a rate that's faster than you can say "pro-life"!


So, even if you weren’t there to spend the Pro-Life Month events with us, you can catch glimpses of what actually
happened during the different activities…starting with a peek into the Feb. 11 National Convention, which had
among its speakers actor Mat Ranillo III -- always a crowd-drawer not just for his apparent fine celluloid-quality looks
but also for his candid and thought-provoking testimonies about parenthood and family life -- including the ups and
downs of being dad to a child with a physical disability.


Together with Carribean priest Fr. Linus Clovis, former DOH administrative officer Dr. Ligaya Acosta, Rep. Rene
Velarde and Rep. Ed Zialcita, the affable family man provided a further boost to the pro-life crusade during the
bi-annual event held at the San Carlos Seminary in Makati City.




And then for once, being “all chained up” was a good thing, for it was done sans metal shackles. Here, the
participants of the Human Chain for Life, Decency & Morality still shuffling into place as east-bound motorists on
Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City drive by. Cops even pose for a souvenir shot as they provide assistance
during the Feb. 15 event, with participants getting more organized in front of St. Peter Parish. Sr. Pilar is all
smiles as her companion rallies for the kind of peace that’s easily forgotten.


While American pro-lifer Molly White (on Sr. Pilar’s left) talked with a TV reporter, students from the School
of the Holy Spirit walked out of St. Peter Parish and got ready to join the Chain. Right before the Chain was a
dialogue between pro-life congressmen, members of grassroots communities and American pro-lifers, who
shared their abortion experiences and rallied the Filipinos to hold on firmly to their traditional family values and
to cherish their children -- not letting anybody dictate how many children they are to have!






In between the month’s major events, our guests had speaking engagements and paid visits to such places
as Home for the Angels, a child-caring institution in Manila which accommodates the needs not just of
abandoned children but of post-abortive women in the process of healing as well (Molly cuddles up with one
of the kids).


Denise spoke emphatically about the damage that abortion does to women during the training seminar on
Post-Abortion Recovery & Healing, organized together with Hope Alive Counseling and which drew together
some 100 participants, most of them counselors. With Manila Mayor Lito Atienza having established institutions
supportive of the pro-life cause, our foreign guests of course couldn’t go back home without calling on him
and wife Beng.




During the closing Mass of Pro-Life Month at Perpetual Help Church (better known as Baclaran Church), Sr.
Pilar had a few minutes to tell the congregation of Pro-Life’s pregnancy counseling services and the need to
protect persons of any age or condition -- especially the preborn children -- from danger (showing them the
plastic model of Baby Joshua -- the 3-month old preborn baby -- always gets them thinking). Outside the
church, people milled around the fetal development exhibit, as always, fascinated by the photos.


Hopefully, with all that went on during Pro-Life Month, people realized just how precious human life is. We
need to protect it so that those who will make up the next generations will be allowed to see the light of day.

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NOTE: This is an old one, but the issue has never been resolved

Are New Vaccines Laced with Birth-Control Drugs?

During the early 1990s, the World Health Organization (WHO) had been overseeing massive vaccination campaigns against tetanus in a number of countries, among them Nicaragua, Mexico, and the Philippines. In October 1994, HLI received a communication from its Mexican affiliate, the Comite' Pro Vida de Mexico, regarding that country's anti-tetanus campaign. Suspicious of the campaign protocols, the Comite' obtained several vials of the vaccine and had them analyzed by chemists. Some of the vials were found to contain human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG), a naturally occurring hormone essential for maintaining a pregnancy.

hCG and Anti-hCG Antibodies

In nature the hCG hormone alerts the woman's body that she is pregnant and causes the release of other hormones to prepare the uterine lining for the implantation of the fertilized egg. The rapid rise in hCG levels after conception makes it an excellent marker for confirmation of pregnancy: when a woman takes a pregnancy test she is not tested for the pregnancy itself, but for the elevated presence of hCG.

However, when introduced into the body coupled with a tetanus toxoid carrier, antibodies will be formed not only against tetanus but also against hCG. In this case the body fails to recognize hCG as a friend and will produce anti-hCG antibodies. The antibodies will attack subsequent pregnancies by killing the hCG which naturally sustains a pregnancy; when a woman has sufficient anti-hCG antibodies in her system, she is rendered incapable of maintaining a pregnancy.(1)

HLI reported the sketchy facts regarding the Mexican tetanus vaccines to its World Council members and affiliates in more than 60 countries.(2) Soon additional reports of vaccines laced with hCG hormones began to drift in from the Philippines, where more than 3.4 million women were recently vaccinated. Similar reports came from Nicaragua, which had conducted its own vaccination campaign in 1993.

The Known Facts

Here are the known facts concerning the tetanus vaccination campaigns in Mexico and the Philippines:

• Only women are vaccinated, and only the women between the ages of 15 and 45. (In Nicaragua the age range was 12-49.) But aren't men at least as likely as young women to come into contact with tetanus? And what of the children? Why are they excluded?
• Human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) hormone has been found in the vaccines. It does not belong there -- in the parlance of the O.J. Simpson murder trial, the vaccine has been "contaminated."
• The vaccination protocols call for multiple injections -- three within three months and a total of five altogether. But, since tetanus vaccinations provide protection for ten years or more, why are multiple inoculations called for?(3)
• WHO has been actively involved for more than 20 years in the development of an anti-fertility vaccine utilizing hCG tied to tetanus toxoid as a carrier -- the exact same coupling as has been found in the Mexican-Philippine-Nicaragua vaccines.(4)

The Anti-Fertility Gang

Allied with the WHO in the development of an anti-fertility vaccine (AFV) using hCG with tetanus and other carriers have been UNFPA, the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank, the Population Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, and a number of universities, including Uppsala, Helsinki, and Ohio State.(5) The U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (part of NIH) was the supplier of the hCG hormone in some of the AFV experiments.(6)

The WHO begain its "Special Programme" in human reproduction in 1972, and by 1993 had spent more than $356 million on "reproductive health" research.(7) It is this "Programme" which has pioneered the development of the abortificant vaccine. Over $90 million of this Programme's funds were contributed by Sweden; Great Britain donated more than $52 million, while Norway, Denmark and Germany kicked in for $41 million , $27 million, and $12 million, respectively. The U.S., thanks to the cut-off of such funding during the Reagan-Bush administrations, has contributed "only" $5.7 million, including a new payment in 1993 by the Clinton administration of $2.5 million. Other major contibutors to the WHO Programme include UNFPA, $61 million; the World Bank, $15.5 million; the Rockefeller Foundation, $2.5 million; the Ford Foundation, over $1 million; and the IDRC (International Research and Development Centre of Canada), $716.5 thousand.

WHO and Philippine Health Department Excuses

When the first reports surfaced in the Philippines of tetanus toxoid vaccine being laced with hCG hormones, the WHO and the Philippine Department of Health (DOH) immediately denied that the vaccine contained hCG. Confronted with the results of laboratory tests which detected its presence in three of the four vials of tetanus toxoid examined, the WHO and DOH scoffed at the evidence coming from "right-to-life and Catholic" sources. Four new vials of the tetanus vaccine were submitted by DOH to St. Luke's (Lutheran) Medical Center in Manila -- and all four vials tested positive for hCG!

From outright denial the stories now shifted to the allegedly "insignificant" quantity of the hCG present; the volume of hCG present is insufficient to produce anti-hCG antibodies.

But new tests designed to detect the presence of hCG antibodies in the blood sera of women vaccinated with the tetauns toxoid vaccine were undertaken by Philippine pro-life and Catholic groups. Of thirty women tested subsequent to receiving tetanus toxoid vaccine, twenty-six tested positive for high levels of anti-hCG! If there were no hCG in the vaccine, or if it were present in only "insignificant" quantities, why were the vaccinated women found to be harboring anti-hCG antibodies? The WHO and the DOH had no answers.

New arguments surfaced: hCG's apparent presence in the vaccine was due to "false positives" resulting from the particular substances mixed in the vaccine or in the chemicals testing for hCG. And even if hCG was really there, its presence derived from the manufacturing process.

But the finding of hCG antibodies in the blood sera of vaccinated women obviated the need to get bogged down in such debates. It was no longer necessary to argue about what may or may not have been the cause of the hCG presence, when one now had the effect of the hCG. There is no known way for the vaccinated women to have hCG antibodies in their blood unless hCG had been artificially introduced into their bodies!

Why A Tetanus Toxoid "Carrier"?

Because the human body does not attack its own naturally occurring hormone hCG, the body has to be fooled into treating hCG as an invading enemy in order to develop a successful anti-fertility vaccine utilizing hCG antibodies. A paper delivered at the 4th International Congress of Reproductive Immunology (Kiel, West Germany, 26-29 July 1989) spelled it out: "Linkage to a carrier was done to overcome the immunological tolerance to hCG."(8)

Vaccine Untested by Drug Bureau

After the vaccine controversy had reached a fever pitch, a new bombshell exploded; none of the three different brands of tetanus vaccine being used had ever been licensed for sale and distribution or registered with the Philippine Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD), as required by law. The head of the BFAD lamely explained that the companies distributing these brands "did not apply for registration."(9) The companies in question are Connaught Laboratories Ltd. and Intervex, both from Canada, and CSL Laboratories from Australia.

It seemed that the BFAD might belatedly require re-testing, but the idea was quickly rejected when the Secretary of Health declared that, since the vaccines had been certified by the WHO -- there they are again! -- there was assurance enough that the "vaccines come from reputable manufacturers."(10)

Just how "reputable" one of the manufacturers might be is open to some question. In the mid-`80s Connaught Laboratories was found to be knowingly distributing vials of AIDS-contaminated blood products.(11)

Epilogue

At this juncture, evidence is beginning to appear from Africa.(12) HLI has called for a Congressional investigation of the situation, inasmuch as nearly every agency involved in the development of an anti-fertility vaccine is funded, at least in part, with U.S. monies.

NOTES:

(1) "Abortifacient vaccines loom as new threat," HLI Reports, November 1993, pp. 1-2.

(2) World Council Reports, 28 November 1994, pp. 4-5.

(3) A call placed by this writer on 5 May 1995 to the Montgomery County (Maryland) Health Department, Epidemology Division -- Infectious Diseases -- Adult Immunizations, elicited the following information:

Q. For how long a time does the tetanus vaccination offer protection?
A. 10 years.
Q. Have you ever heard of any adult requiring three tetanus vaccinations within a 3 or 4 month time
period, and a total of 5 vaccinations in all within a year or so?
A. Whaaaat! Never. No way!

Reports from the Philippines appear to confirm the 10-year immunity afforded by tetanus toxoid vaccinations: prior to the campaigns begun in 1993, the so-called booster shots were given only every 10 years.

(4) More than a score of articles, many written by WHO researchers, document WHO's attempts to create an anti-fertility vaccine utilizing tetanus toxoid as a carrier. Some leading articles include:

"Clinical profile and Toxicology Studies on Four Women Immunized with Pr-B-hCG-TT,"
Contraception, February, 1976, pp. 253-268.

"Observations on the antigenicity and clinical effects of a candidate antipregnancy vaccine:
B-subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin linked to tetanus toxoid," Fertility and Sterility,
October 1980, pp. 328-335.

"Phase 1 Clinical Trials of a World Health Organisation Birth Control Vaccine," The Lancet,
11 June 1988, pp. 1295-1298. "Vaccines for Fertility Regulation," Chapter 11, pp. 177-198,
Research in Human Reproduction, Biennial Report (1986-1987), WHO Special Programme of
Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (WHO, Geneva 1988).

"Anti-hCG Vaccines are in Clinical Trials," Scandinavian Journal of Immunology, Vol. 36, 1992,
pp. 123-126.

(5) These institutional names are garnered from the journal articles cited in the previous footnote.

(6) Lancet, 11 June 1988, p. 1296.

(7) Challenges in Reproductive Health Research, Biennial Report 1992-1993, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1994, p. 186.

(8) G.P. Talwar, et al, "Prospects of an anti-hCG vaccine inducing antibodies of high affinity...(etc)," Reproductive Technology 1989, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1990, Amsterdam, New York, p. 231.

(9) "3 DOH vaccines untested by BFAD," The Philippine Star, 4 April 1995, pp. 1, 12.

(10) "BFAD junks re-testing of controversial shot," Manila Standard, 7 April 1995; "DOH: Toxoid vaccines are safe," The Philippine Star, 7 April 1995.

(11) "Ottawa got blood tainted by HIV." Ottawa Citizen, 4 April 1995.

(12) A nearly two-year old communique from Tanzania tells a familiar story: tetanus toxoid vaccinations, five in all, given only to women aged 15-45. Nigeria, too, may have been victimized; see The Lancet, 4 June 1988, p. 1273.

Credit: Copyright June/July 1995 by James A. Miller, special correspondent for Human Life International. This article was originally published in HLI Reports, Human Life International, Gaithersburg, Maryland; June/July 1995, Volume 13, Number 8. Permission to reprint granted to Thinktwice/New Atlantean Press.

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International Case Studies Showing Condom Ineffectiveness Against HIV/AIDS (Part 1)
http://www.hli.org/condom_expose_complete.html#18

Uganda. In 1986, President Yoweri Museveni took office and immediately started an intensive campaign to change the widespread incidence of risky sexual behavior in Uganda.

In 1991, Uganda had one of the highest adult HIV infection rates in the world. Fifteen percent of all adults in the country were infected. Ten years later, Uganda had cut its HIV infection rate by two-thirds, to only five percent. It was the only nation in Africa that cut its HIV infection rate during this time period, and its decline in HIV prevalence was the greatest of any country in the world.

The key to this tremendous decline was an approach that other nations declined to embrace: The ABC Program, or Abstain from *** until marriage, Be faithful to your partner, and use Condoms if you do not practice abstinence or fidelity. The entire focus of the message was not simply to “condomize” the population, but to reduce risky sexual behavior.

The consistent broadcasting of the ABC message through all governmental, educational, religious and communications networks, in time, built up what researchers called a “highly effective social vaccine against HIV,” or a massive behavioral change among the people of the nation. The 2000-2001 Ugandan Demographic and Health Survey found that 93 percent of Ugandans had changed their sexual behavior to avoid HIV/AIDS.

According to the Heritage Foundation, the primary lessons learned from the Uganda experience are;

(1) High‑risk sexual behaviors can be discouraged and replaced by healthier lifestyles.
Ugandans gradually accepted what they call “zero grazing,” or faithfulness to one partner.

(2) Abstinence and marital fidelity appear to be the most important factors in preventing the
spread of HIV/AIDS. Contrary to all expectations, young Ugandans widely embraced the
pro-abstinence message. From 1989 to 1995, the percent of unmarried young men having
*** plunged from 60 percent to 23 percent, and the percent of unmarried young women
having *** dropped from 53 percent to 16 percent.[37] This proves that teenagers are not
mere animals who are helpless slaves of their “raging hormones.”

(3) Condoms do not play the primary role in reducing HIV/AIDS transmission. As President
Museveni himself remarked, “We are being told that only a thin piece of rubber stands
between us and the death of our continent. Condoms have a role to play as a means of
protection, especially in couples who are HIV-positive, but they cannot become the main
means of stemming the tide of AIDS.”[38] The Ugandan government targeted only
extremely high-risk groups, including prostitutes, with condoms. The vast majority of
Ugandans rejected the use of condoms. Anne Peterson, M.D., USAID’s Director of Global
Health, says that “Condoms play a role. They are better than nothing, but the core of
Uganda’s success story is big A, big B, and little C.”[39]

In stark contrast to Uganda, the countries with the highest rate of condom availability still
have the world’s highest AIDS rates -- Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa and Kenya.[40]

(4) Religious organizations are crucial participants in the fight against AIDS [41]. Most
condom-promoting organizations believe that purely secular organizations should have a monopoly
in the battle against HIV/AIDS, and that religious organizations have no place in the fray. From
the very beginning of the ABC program, Christian, Jewish and Muslim faith-based organizations
played a central role.

The ABC program has been intensively studied and deemed effective by many leading international health organizations, including;

• the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which says that “This dramatic decline in [HIV/AIDS] prevalence is unique worldwide, and has been the subject of intense scrutiny;”[42]
  
• the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS);
  
• the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO); and
  
• the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.[43]

Despite the obvious success of the Ugandan ABC program, which has undoubtedly saved hundreds of thousands of lives, condom promoters continue to discount abstinence in favor of programs that have been proven ineffective.

For example, the Global HIV Prevention Working Group issued a July 2002 report entitled Mobilization for HIV Prevention: A Blueprint for Action, which emphasizes *** education, condom distribution, needle exchange programs and increased availability of and access to anti-retroviral drugs in its program. It briefly mentions Uganda’s success story, but attributes its drops in HIV infection rates primarily to massive condom promotion and distribution programs, which did not actually occur in the country [44].

In reality, condoms do not impede the spread of AIDS. In 2004, the journal Studies in Family Planning concluded that “No clear examples have emerged yet of a country that has turned back a generalised epidemic primarily by means of condom promotion.”[45]

[mannyamador]

Below is an excerpt from:

POPULATION AGEING 2002
United Nations Population Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs

(http://www.un.org/esa/population/pub...eing/Graph.pdf)

It shows how the Philippines will suffer from population ageing because of our drastically dropping
Total fertility Rate (TFR). Population control programs can only worsen this already dire situation!

[mannyamador]

New Planned Parenthood Fund Will Promote Abortions Worldwide, Bash Bush
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
March 10, 2006
http://www.lifenews.com/nat2139.html

New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- President George W. Bush's pro-life policy prohibiting the taxpayer funding of groups
that perform or promote abortions in other nations is under fire again from abortion advocates. Now they have decided
to create a new worldwide fund to promote supposedly "safe" abortions in nations where abortion is illegal.

On the first day President Bush took office in 2001, he reinstituted the Mexico City Policy first put in place by President
Reagan and revoked by President Clinton. Bush later expanded the policy to ensure that no State Department monies
were used to promote or perform abortions.

Since then, abortion advocates have bashed the policy because they have been denied the use of federal funds to
lobby other nation's to change their pro-life laws.

Now, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has created a new fund meant to promote legalized
abortion in countries, such as those in Africa and South America, where abortion is illegal.

The abortion business had already enticed one nation to contribute millions of dollars to get it off the ground.

Norway's Minister of International Development Erik Solheim has pledged $1.5 million annually to build the IPFF bank
account.

“Because this is an urgent matter, we will do our utmost to speed up the establishment of the fund. Norway's
support will amount to at least NOK 10 million (about USD 1.5 million) per year from 2007, or perhaps even from
2006 if the fund is established in time,” Solheim told Norwegian press.

"There is no reason to hide that our position on this matter is the opposite of that of President Bush and his
administration," Solheim added.

Solheim explained that norway will work with Planned Parenthood "to secure women’s reproductive health and to
promote the decriminalisation of abortion."

Meanwhile, in the U.S., abortion advocates are also putting forward new legislation in Congress. Introduced by
Democrat Rep. Betty McCollum and Republican Jim Ramstad, both Republicans, it would partially counteract Bush's
executive order.

The bill, HR 4188, would spend $600 million next year on family planning efforts, including contraception and
anti-AIDS activities, though the money could not be used to promote or perform abortions.

Members of the pro-abortion Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice support the effort and claim the money
would reduce the number of abortions.

Rabbi Scott Sperling, director of the Union for Reform Judaism Mid-Atlantic Council, told the Cybercast News Service,
"For over 40 years, the United States has included family planning services as part of the aid we provide in the
developing world."

Earlier this year, Bush reduced the amount of money the U.S. spends on family planning by $79 million from the $436
million appropriated for 2006. His 2007 budget calls for only $357 million.

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[mannyamador]

Debunking the Overpopulation Myth

This letter to the editor was lifted from BusinessWorld Newspaper on 17 March 2006.
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I disagree with the premises raised in the article “ADB economists say population management key to realistic strategy in
addressing unemployment” (BusinessWorld 13 March 2006). Consider these three points:

1. The National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) contradicts the claim that the Philippine population might hit 100 M
by 2014 if the current population growth rate of at least 2% persists. Assuming all things constant, government
estimates show that population growth is dropping steadily below 2%.

2. It is true that, in absolute terms, 2.6 million (M) were unemployed as of October 2005. But it is also true that, in
percentage terms, there has been an improvement. The unemployment rate in October 2005 is down to 7.4% from
12.7% in April 2005. This is the lowest rate since the National Statistics Office started collecting data based on the new
definition of unemployment in April 2005.

3. The suggestion for the government to implement a “sensible” population management plan to temper unemployment
does not make sense since it would limit the potential supply of workers in the employment-generating sectors The recent
National Manpower Summit spearheaded by the Department of Labor and Employment and the United Nations Development
Programme identified the following key employment-generating sectors -- cyber services, aviation, agribusiness, health services,
mining, creative industries, hotels and restaurants, medical tourism, and overseas employment. The demand for workers in
these sectors is bright. The demand for cyber services workers, for instance, is projected to jump to 1.1 M in 2010, from some
163,000 employed as of 2005.

Because of these considerations, I believe that there is no significant relation between population growth and unemployment
rate. The government has more important things to do than create a population management plan that is pointless.

Sincerely,
Jose Leo Lemuel G. Caparas Jr.
11 Luis Sianghio St., 1103 Kamuning, Quezon City