'Modern family planning same as genocide'

Using condoms, IUDs, and other modern family planning methods could mean committing genocide and being part of a global conspiracy to exterminate humanity, an opponent of modern family planning says.

Linda Valenzona, a consultant of the Vatican's Pontifical Council on the Family, believes that modern family planning is a form of voluntary genocide imposed by powerful groups upon the weak, and it will lead nowhere but to extinction.

"Let me ask you a question," Valenzona said on ANC's The Big Picture with Ricky Carandang. "If all cats in the world would come to an agreement that they will not have kittens, what will happen to the cats?"

They will become extinct, and the same will hold true for humans because of population control, she said.

But UP Economics Professor Ernesto Pernia, a former seminarian who supports modern family planning, could only laugh at this. "Kind of absurd," he said.

Citing a book by Columbia University historian Matthew Connelly, Valenzona said the population control movement traces its roots to eugenics, a social philosophy that advocates humanity's improvement by creating healthier people, saving resources, and lessening human suffering.

For some elite and powerful groups who advocated eugenics, controlling the population of poor races was the solution to the world's problems. This gave birth to the population control movement, whose targets were primarily Third World countries.

Valenzona said this movement grew and spread all over the world including the Philippines, where poverty has often been blamed on overpopulation.

"What happens is that the population is always used as a very nice way of covering up for the failure of government to solve the poverty problem," she said. "Overpopulation is a very convenient excuse, a scapegoat."

Valenzona, an economist and demographer, said poverty is mainly an economic problem, and should thus not be blamed on a demographic issue such as population.

Unfortunately, she said, many people are now misled into believing that overpopulation causes poverty, and that family planning is the solution.

Fr. Melvin Castro, executive director of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines' Episcopal Commission on Family and Life, said the Church has always been against modern family planning methods because they are anti-life.

He reiterated the Church's stand that any sexual act should be both unitive and procreative. The procreative aspect, which means the creation of new life, should never be disregarded and prevented, especially through artificial methods.

This is why the Church recommends only the natural family planning method, which does not prevent procreation on purpose unilike artificial contraception.

Castro also stressed that a "contraceptive mentality," which the Church tries to prevent, could lead to marital infidelity and a decline in morality. "And it has happened," he said.

But in a country where the number of mouths to feed is greater than the resources available, drastic measures must be taken to manage the population, Pernia said. Citing a study he made with colleagues at the UP School of Economics, he explained that rapid population growth worsens poverty.

Pushing for population control policies is not just an option but an essential part of good governance, Pernia added. He said that in other countries, population management is seen as a crucial responsibility of government and is even a "no-brainer" issue.

"You don't want the country to have more people that can be supported by the economy, that can be provided good healthcare and education," he said.

He also clarified that family planning does not mean a family should stop having children, but that it should have the right number of children given its resources.

"It's common sense," he said. "Why should a family have more children that they can properly feed, provide healthcare, and educate?"

Asked if he is part of a global genocidal plot because of his stand, he quipped, "I hope not."

For Social Welfare Secretary Esperanza Cabral, whose stand on family planning has drawn flak from some, it's all a matter of free and informed choice. As an experienced government official and doctor, she said the country's population really has to be managed -- artificially or naturally; it's up to the families.

"All families must be able to decide for themselves what is best for themselves," she said. "Should they decide that they want some other method aside from natural family planning, then we should give them access to these other methods."

The Church will not back down, however, especially with the reproductive health bill now pending in Congress.

"The Church will continue to speak out, not simply to influence or win them over but to form the conscience of our people," said Castro.

For those skeptical because of the “harshness” of the title, or the “conspiracy” vibe some might pick up: consider just one government program, an executive order NSSM 200, signed by Nixon and continued up until President Bush today. From a Christian perspective the abortion of 50+ million babies since 1973 in the US alone is a genocide. Sadly it’s all true.

From:

http://www.hli.org/nssm_200_exposed.html

On December 10, 1974, the United States National Security Council promulgated National Security Study Memorandum 200 (NSSM-200), also called The Kissinger Report. This document explicitly laid out a detailed strategy by which the United States would aggressively promote population control in developing
nations in order to regulate (or have better access to) the natural resources of these countries.

In order to protect U.S. commercial interests, NSSM-200 cited a number of factors that could interrupt the smooth flow of materials from lesser-developed countries, LDCs as it called them, to
the United States, including a large population of anti-imperialist youth, who must, according to NSSM-200, be limited by population control. The document identified 13 nations by name that would be primary targets of U.S.-funded population control efforts.

According to NSSM-200, elements of the implementation of population control programs could include: a) the legalization of abortion; b) financial incentives for countries to increase their abortion, sterilization and contraception-use rates; c) indoctrination of children; and d) mandatory population control, and coercion of other forms, such as withholding disaster and food aid unless an LDC implements population control programs.

NSSM-200 also specifically declared that the United States was to cover up its population control activities and avoid charges of imperialism by inducing the United Nations and various non-governmental organizations to do its dirty work.

While the CIA and Departments of State and Defense have issued hundreds of papers on population control and national security, the U.S. government has never renounced NSSM-200, but has only
amended certain portions of its policy. NSSM-200, therefore, remains the foundational document on population control issued by the United States government.

NSSM-200’s strategies have resulted in regional population growth rates decelerating so fast that they are already causing severe economic and social problems in Europe, the former Soviet Union,
Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong. Many developing nations are now aging even more rapidly than the developed world, which foretells of even more severe problems for their relatively underdeveloped economies.

Over the past 40 years there has been much disagreement over whether or not population control programs are necessary for those nations with the most rapidly growing populations. There can
be no disagreement now, however, except among those organizations whose incomes depend upon such programs.

From the very beginning, the “population explosion” concept was an ideologically motivated false alarm. The resulting push for population control in LDCs has borne absolutely no positive fruit in
its decades of implementation. In fact, population control ideologies and programs make it even more difficult to respond to the impending grave crisis looming in the form of a disastrous worldwide “population implosion.”

Therefore, on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the promulgation of NSSM-200, Human Life International calls on the Bush administration to repudiate this document, which advocates violating the most precious freedoms and autonomy of the individual through coercive family planning programs, and to redirect its foreign policy and funding towards family-friendly programs.

The citizens of the developed nations of the West treasure their right to privacy. It is hypocritical for these countries to routinely violate the right to privacy of the citizens of LDCs by telling families
how many children they should or should not have. No nation has the right to invade the bedrooms of the citizens of another nation. NSSM-200 represents the epitome of interference in a family’s most intimate decisions.

KISSINGER REPORT 2004

NSSM-200 does not emphasize the rights or welfare of individuals or of nations, just the “right” of the United States to have unfettered access to the natural resources of developing nations. The
United States and the other nations of the developed world, as well as ideologically motivated population control NGOs, should be supporting and guiding authentic economic development that allows the people of each nation to use their resources for their own benefit, thereby leading to an enhancement of
human rights worldwide and healthier economies for all.

Click here for complete version: Kissinger Report 2004: A Retrospective on NSSM (PDF) http://www.hli.org/nssm_200-kissinger_report.pdf

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