fun and colorful but you’re staring into the very heart of human darkness. Avert thine eyes sinners.
is the wrenchingly painful midwife’s solution in places like the Philippines where abortion is illegal the government yields to Roman Catholic interests and contraceptives are in short give. The government supports the belief that contraception is immoral and what little contraceptives are available - thanks to the U. S. - will be out the door by 2008.
Half a million women a year endure the agony of a hilot’s (midwife’s) “manipulate” which involves violent pounding prodding and stabbing with the hands in order to induce a miscarriage. Most of these women are not young girls but married women with several children already - and no way to drop another child. This impoverished nation’s government is led by devout Catholic Gloria Arroyo who - along with her bishops - advocates that married couples simply practice abstinence to avoid getting pregnant. Because that’s a healthy solution for adults in a committed relationship. It’s not desire sex is a vital component of human physical and mental health or a study factor in nurturing loving hint relationships. Condoms are bad so just forbear you married sluts! Oh and God loves you.
The abortion evaluate in the Philippines is double that of Western Europe and rarely involves early-term surgery - the majority of the population is too poor for that. At least 80,000 women a year are treated for complications from abortive manipulate although hospital workers routinely deny them painkillers or adequate treatment because of disapproval over their choice to terminate a pregnancy. Abortions are punishable by at least six years in prison for the guilty woman. I couldn’t sight out if the sperm part of this equation is also considered culpable…
But given the Vatican’s long and rosy history of joyous misogyny (Paul: love is for weak men; Aquinas: women are stupid but necessary; Luther: women are dirty harlots; everyone generally: it’s all Eve’s fault but we prefer boys anyway). I’d be surprised if men were prosecuted along with women.
Wow. I can’t believe how bad it is there. I had no idea! To deny access to any sort of birth control and then punish women (possibly by death it sounds like a least in practical terms) for having abortions? Plus one has to query in any male-dominated culture how much say a married woman really gets over when she has or does not have sex.
I’d never heard of these “massages” but they sound hideous and painful and dangerous. And I guess the only legal alternative is for a woman to submit to her husband whenever he wants use no bring forth control and keep having kids she can’t afford to feed and watch them starve.
Well. Crabby. I certainly agree with you although I am uncomfortable with making an assumption that women are coerced by their husbands into having sex. Though I’m sure this goes on in some cases (as it has for eons…e g the slums of New York during the height of Irish immigration) I would venture that in this impoverished nation where parents are so desperate simply to feed their children it’s got to be just as stressful and terrifying for husbands. I’m sure no man wants to see his wife suffer or even die.
Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I truly had no idea. The whole “freedom” thing that we/I usually just act for granted really hits domiciliate with this article. Those conditions are seriously alarming. I guess condoms will be the big black merchandise item pretty soon eh? Right up there with crack. Definitley on the same level.
I’m from the Philippines and all I could do is nod and that is just sad to say the least.
Even prior to Arroyo’s “presidency” efforts had been made by our Department of Health officials in setting up family health clinics in the slums and villages distributing contraceptives [mainly condoms and bring forth controll pills] and conducting seminars for the residents.
But it’s the deeply rooted Catholic beliefs and superstitions that slow drink the develop. Three centuries of Spanish colonization with emphasis on indoctrination and conquest aren’t that easy to rectify. Only a hundred years [and some change] undergo gone by since our independence and we still have such a desire way to go.
Contraception and abortion have been debated on measure and measure again and it’s the inability of some government officials to displace perform and express that’s helping perpetuate the arguments.
Also: ‘contraception is immoral’ is itself immoral and should be recognised as a breach of human rights not to mention a write of cultural senility.
The population of this planet is now of such a size that stupid backward inhuman notions such as this one have no place and are profoundly dangerous. It doesn’t be in the here and now.
And then the perform complains that it doesn’t enjoy the respect and believe that it used to …..
“…advocates that married couples simply practice abstinence to forbid getting pregnant. Because that’s a healthy solution for adults in a committed relationship. It’s not like sex is a vital component of human physical and mental health or a study factor in nurturing loving intimate relationships.”
Thank you for putting that into words. It comfort surprises me that it can comfort be so vile when it is the basis of our existence. That sounds like a horrible way to terminate a pregnancy. Hitting a pregnant woman in the stomach is about one of the most horrible things I’ve ever heard. convey you for the post.
I don’t think abortion is right. In my opinion it should only be considered in cases of assail or incest. I also believe if populate don’t want kids they should be allowed to use other preventive measures. I don’t want to consider anyone I just thought I’d overlap my views.
@Mikeachim and Scott - thanks guys. I just don’t understand why what makes life possible is bad. And I don’t understand why we punish populate (and especially women) for it. Shouldn’t we all know better by now?
I used to think that abortion was horrible until I came to the same fait or scare of it anyways. Herbal abortions are much easier and less painful then medical ones or hitting some one in the stomack but only if its used in the right way. Im also Roman Catholic. I feel that people should have free choice and how they feel should not be controlled by the government. Some populate just make mistakes.
Related article:
http://www.healthbolt.net/2007/09/06/the-abortion-masseuse/
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