Posted on 04/21/2008 11:49:39 AM PDT by Pyro7480
The day after Pope Benedict XVI departed the U.S..., Blaine Harden of the Washington Post lamented the Catholic Church’s influence in the Philippines, specifically, the government of Philippines "acceding to Catholic doctrine" by "supporting only what it calls ‘natural’ family planning," rejecting "modern contraception" as part of family planning." Throughout his article, titled "Birthrates Help Keep Filipinos in Poverty," Harden painted a bleak picture of "the fastest-growing segment of the Philippine population," which is "very poor people with large families," and sought to blame their poverty and backwardness on their following Catholic teaching, brushing aside corruption and other factors that contribute to poverty. A photo accompanying the article in the print-edition of the Post showed a poor Filipino mother in her shack with her four children, two of whom are naked.
Harden described the Church’s influence throughout the article, hinting that it had created a climate of fear in the country "An organization that is helping Espinoza [a poor Filipino woman who plans to get a contraceptive intrauterine device] agreed to introduce this reporter to her on condition that it not be named. The group’s health workers said they fear retaliation and harassment from officials in the national and city government, as well as from the Catholic Church." He immediately mentioned after this that in 2005, the "Catholic bishops in the southern Philippines announced that they would refuse Communion to government health workers who distributed birth control devices."
The article seemed to be prompted, at least partially, by the fact that the "[d]istribution of donated contraceptives... ends this year, as does a contraception-commodities program paid for by the U.S. Agency for International Development." ...This means the U.S. taxpayers, millions of whom who are opposed to contraceptives, are paying for these contraceptive programs in the Philippines...
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Catholic and pro-life ping!
And I fault liberal narcotic-welfare for creating the utterly humiliating liberal plantation in New Orleans called the 9th Ward.
Better title: “WAPO laments birth of so many brown people.”
Is it a good thing that poor Filipinos have lots of children they can’t really afford to raise?
Sure the Filipinos should create more government and raise taxes. /sarcasm
Is it a good thing to treat God’s gift of sexual intercourse as a pleasure toy to be used at will with the aid of artificial hormone pills
(egad - hormones! we can’t drink milk or eat beef with hormones, but we expect women to ingest them for decades to avoid the natural effects of sexual intercourse?)
or abortion?
Wait a minute...I thought Democrats wanted Big Governement OUT of the bedroom? You can’t mean to say that sodomy between concenting, same-sex couples is government-sanctioned legal behavior, but the Liberals think that it is their business to tell normal humans what they can and can’t do!
Let’s not forget that “the Pill” can act either as a contraceptive or an abortifacient.
I wonder if the Filipinas being “helped” here are being told that.
So it’s the Catholic Church’s fault that the poor Filapinas have nothing better to do than have sex? What about personal responsibility? Oh STFU WaPo
If they use birth control within marriage I have no problem with it. And if they choose not to and have more kids than they can afford to raise well, they to a significant extent have themselves to blame for their and their families’ continued poverty.
Clearly, in you the dictatorship of relativism has a supporter. The pope warned us about you.
Speaking of brown people with white Spaniards at some of their roots..... what is the excuse for Mexico’s overpopulation/ poverty rates? Mexico tossed out Church teachings in the latter half of the 19th century. Why do these people always blame the Church for the destruction/failures of secular governments? /mini-rant off
Then you have no problem with abortion.
And if the pope has in decided to warn about this, why should I care?
Best bet for the Post when it comes to world population growth is to get the staff sterilized ~ even the lesbians!
I come from a parish with many families having many children. Those who cannot afford more, do not use artificial birth control.
NFP and Daddy on the couch makes for families one can afford.
Abortion is the killing of a life. A sperm =/= a fetus.
Sometimes the Pill acts as a contraceptive. If conception nonetheless takes place, the Pill acts as an abortifacient by preventing implantation.
Are you opposed to abortion or not?
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