http://unilabideaspositive.com/

Unilab Ideas Positive wishes to generate ideas that can be turned into tangible programs to promote community health and wellness.

The idea-generation competition seeks social marketing initiatives that address community issues like hygiene and sanitation, nutrition, disease prevention and intervention, and environmental care and protection.

Unilab has tapped the youth in its advocacy for a healthier Philippines in the belief that concerns are better addressed, and goals easier to achieve, when people work together, guided by the Bayananihan spirit.

Images taken from UIP Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/Unilab.IdeasPositive?sk=info

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Last Sept. 17, 2011, the five (5) Finalists for UIP 2011:

(1) High5 Team – Anti-TB campaign;

(2) Team AweEights – Eco Human Waste Management;

(3) KaBaLiKat – Hito (Catfish) raising;

(4) Team SEND – organic Fertilizer;

(5) PHATA Team – promote health and wellness.

presented their projects at the Unilab Bayanihan Center at Mandaluyong, to vie for the top 3 spots (grand prize = P100,000 seedmoney; 2 runners-up = P75,000 seedmoney each).

I’m delighted to inform you that the group I’m advising –Team AweEights– bagged one of the two runners-up awards, to receive the P75K seedmoney to implement our Cloud++ Project!

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Cloud++ Project is an Ecological Sanitation (EcoSan) cum Rainwater Catchment System that will be designed and executed for the benefit Pook DAANG TUBO in Quezon City (belonging to U.P. Parish of the Holy Sacrifice).

Pook Daang Tubo (Barangay Loyola Heights, Quezon City) is home to more than 1,400 families. But most of these homes are nowhere near like ours. No toilets, no kitchen sinks, no faucets even. A house without water within reach barely makes a home. Presumably the dwellers dream of a cleaner, healthier home so they could live better, more productive lives. They dream of more water, cheaper water at least.

The Cloud++ Project will help us and our friends build a rainwater catching system that will augment our community’s water supply and will provide facilities for proper waste disposal. We will develop the system and teach our community principles of proper hygiene and sanitation. We will engage partners and initiate linkages to expand the program to benefit nearby communities.

The Cloud++ Project is an awesome dream that counts on the true Bayanihan spirit to create for our friends at Daang Tubo a real experience of worth. Wanna join us in making this dream a reality for Daang Tubo residents? Drop us a line at the Project’s Facebook Page.

https://www.facebook.com/cloudplusplus

[This blog shall be updated as our project implementation progresses...]

[Note that the book was published in 1956: the “rhythm” (natural family planning) method has since been superseded by or replaced with much more accurate, more effective and easier to use NFP methods.]

…

…The above-mentioned couples are only two of dozens of couples who came to me each year asking about birth control.  Maybe they are not typical, maybe they seem extreme, but I deliberately singled them out because they can best illustrate the stand of the Catholic Church concerning this matter.

If my experience is any gauge, the majority of Catholic couples seem woefully ignorant about this stand.  Many of them, for instance, do not know that the use of contraceptives ―and these include drugs and syringes and what-have-you― is banned.  Many who know this, however, are not aware that withdrawal is equally condemned. They do not know that the only system permitted by the Church ―and this only for good reason― is the natural or rhythm method.  And this only with the consent of a priest.

Lest there be misunderstanding, the rhythm method is that which calls for sexual abstinence during that period in the wife’s cycle when she is supposed to be most fertile.  Doctors can explain more or less accurately when this period is.  Any other method which calls for external aids is prohibited under pain of mortal sin.

Now, what is the good reason when the rhythm method may be used? There are, actually, two.  Let us take them separately.

The first is the poor health of the mother and, to a certain extent, the poor health of the father.  If an honest, scrupulous doctor is convinced, for instance, that childbirth would seriously endanger a mother’s life, then there is every reason for the couple involved to abstain from using their matrimonial rights during the fertile periods.  There must, however, be a genuine danger.  It should be real and not imagined.

Far too often, couples come to me asking to be allowed to use the rhythm method because “another delivery would just about kill her, Father,” or “she’s not strong enough to stand up under strain of minding an infant.”  In all these instances, I always ask them if they have seen a doctor, a reputable, ethical Catholic doctor.  If they have not, I invariably tell them to see one and then come to me.  If they have been, then I satisfy myself that that, indeed, has been the doctor’s verdict.

When the health of the father is involved, my stand is this: if his condition seriously impairs, or completely nullifies, his earning capacity, then certainly there is good reason to practise natural birth control.  And that brings us to the second requirement―financial difficulty.

Financial difficulty, unfortunately, is a relative term.  When is a family presumed to be in “difficult” cirsumstances?  It is hard to say.  A man, for instance, who is used to living on an income of P1,000 a month, would consider himself in straitened circumstance if that income were cut in half.  On the other hand, a family used to making do with P200 a month would consider itself rich if made to live on P300.  It is all a matter of standards.

To my mind, a man is not in financial difficulty―insofar as birth control is concerned, that is― if he can give his family enough food to eat, a house to shelter them, clothes to put on their back, and maybe enough left-over for school expenses and other necessities.  There is a difference between being poor and actually being on the verge of starvation.

Just because a man thinks that if he has another child he will not be able to give him a college education, or maybe a new pair of shoes every three months, is no excuse for him to limit the number of his children.  A college education, after all, is not the most important thing in life.  One can go to heaven without having had an education.

God is good.  He will always provide.  I know of a man who has nine children and who conceivably may have more, since his wife is still young.  He told me once that whenever a new kid made its appearance, he didn’t know how he would manage.  But he always did; somehow, something good always happened with every addition to his family.  Maybe a raise in pay, maybe a scholarship for one of his older children.  “Perhaps we don’t have everything we would want to have,” he said.  “But we haven’t starved yet, and we are all very happy.  Big families always seem happier, aren’t they?”

Fathers who want to limit the number of their children to two―or three or even four―so that they can be sure of providing well for them, have no reason for practising natural birth control.  And wives who don’t want any more kids just because they can’t stand looking at themselves in those unflattering maternity dresses, or because they don’t want to go through the travail of childbirth and infant-rearing again, have even less reasons.  They are just being unmitigatedly selfish.

Selfish? Yes, selfish.  These unthinking fathers and irresponsible mothers have the wrong slant on marriage.  They don’t realize that in being conferred the right to have children, they have been given the privilege of opening the gateways to Paradise for these children.  How is this?  Every child that is born automatically becomes eligible for admission into heaven.  But first, he has to be born.  In denying them birth, therefore, parents are also denying them heaven.

In the face of this transcendental reality, all other considerations pale.  What if the children go without the things that make for a comfortable life?  What if, occasionally, they undergo privation?  At least they are afforded the chances to reach heaven.

In the face of this, are the two conditions imposed by the Church before natural birth control may be allowed still stringent? No.

…Why, then, must Catholics be … denied the use of contraceptives…?  Suppose it is sure death for a mother to have another baby, is it right that she be forced to adhere to a system which is undependable [sic]?

Very good questions, all demanding equally good answers.  It must be remembered that sex is a natural function.  God gave it to man so that he may reproduce his kind in the same way that he gave man the power of speech, another natural function, so that he may communicate with others.  Now, if sex is practised, it must be for the purpose it was intended―procreation.  If it is practised for any other purpose―for pure enjoyment, that is―that is an abuse of the natural function.  In the same way, we misuse a natural function when we utilize our faculty of speech to tell lies.

Abstinence from sex―and that is all that the rhythm method amounts to: partial abstinence―is not abuse or misuse, it is just non-use.  Man is under no compulsion to make use of his sexual function under all circumstances and notwithstanding all difficulties, just as no man may be forced to talk if he has good reason not to.

Suppose a couple resorts to the rhythm method not because of a desire to limit the number of children but simply to insure proper spacing, is it wrong?

I remember two young people who came to me with just this question.  I remember their case particularly because it was so unusual.  Ten months after they were married, they were blessed with a fine, healthy boy.  Eleven months after that, they were twice-blessed―with twin girls!  They loved children, all right, and they wanted to know if it was all right to take certain precautions so that the babies would not come one after another at such dizzying intervals.

“My boy is actually just a toddler yet,” the wife said.  “But now, with the twins around demanding all my attention, I cannot even baby him or cuddle him as I know he wants me to. He feels lost and unwanted.”

“We just want to make sure that there are decent intervals between babies,” the husband put in.  “Is it all right to use rhythm?”

My answer in this case was “Yes.”  But it need not always be “yes,” since each case must be judged on its own merits.  But before saying yes, I always make sure that the people involved understand that it is a conditional answer.  Yes, only if the intention is proper spacing for definite reasons.  No, if the intention is limiting the number of children.

Not all would concur with me on this point.  But I don’t see why it is wrong when many competent obstetricians are agreed that the ideal interval between children is somewhere between fourteen months and two years.  For the sake of the children, if not of the mother, the stork’s visits should sometimes be delayed.

I have noticed that today, people don’t do so much talkiing about the desirability of a small family of two or three children.  Somehow, they seem to have awakened to the fact that the happiest, most closely knit families are the big ones.  Who is to say when a family is too big?  No arbitrary standards can be set.

On the other hand, it may be argued that no law, ecclesiastical or otherwise, specifically orders couples to have as many children as they can.  That is true, too.  That is why, whenever confronted with a situation like this, I always adopt the approach I used in talking to the amazingly prolific couple I mentioned earlier in this piece.

“You say,” I began, “that you have six children?”

“Six in seven years, Father,” the man said.  “Don’t forget that.”

“In seven years,” I said.  “And how are they?”

“Wonderful, Father,” the woman said.  “You’ll never see any six children more wonderful.”

“And you love all of them?”

“Of course!”

“And they all give you joy?”

“Oh, yes, Father!”

“Do you have any reason to believe that if you have a seventh, he will not give you joy and that you will not love him?”

“No reason at all,” the man said.

“Why then deprive yourself of the joy of having a seventh child?”

“But you see,” he said, “my income is more or less constant while our expenses are not.  The more children we have, the higher the expenses.  If my income doesn’t grow, the time will come when there just won’t be enough to go around.  As it is now, things are already tough.”

“You mean you are starving?”

“Of course not, Father.  It is just that there are so many things I want my children to have, things I can no longer afford because our budget is strained to the limit.”

“Such as what?” I asked.

“Such as a tricycle.  I bought one for the eldest, and now the second eldest wants one, too, and I cannot give it to him.”

“Maybe it is best that way.  They will learn to share, to be unselfish.  As you know, children who are indulged too much quite often do not amount to much when they grow up.  If children early in life are taught to get along without a lot of things, they will learn to value these things more when they do get them later.”

Of course, if the mother’s health had been poor, or if the family was really in dire financial straits, my answer would have been, “Go right ahead and stop having children. You’ve done your share.” I did authorize them to use the rhythm method―for more judicious spacing.

They left convinced, however, that if the Lord should will that they have another child, so be it.  But if no new additions come, well, that would be all right, too.  (Incidentally, I saw this couple only recently.  It turned out that they had added three more to the brood.  They were both very happy about it.)

I first heard about the book being available at the U.P. Main Library from a blog post by ‘Digital Crusader’:

http://digitalcrusader.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/upscans-are-pro-lifers-vi-9th-of-a-series-of-upsca-related-posts/

More about the holy man, Fr. John P. Delaney:

http://digitalcrusader.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/what-him-a-saint-1st-of-a-series-of-upsca-related-posts/

U.P. Parish of the Holy Sacrifice

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Suggested U.P. Diliman tour beginning with this historic work of art:

http://sites.google.com/site/updilimantour/

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]]> http://youniv.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/fr-delaneys-book-the-sin-of-birth-control/feed/ 0 alizaracelis SinOfBirthControl_Delaney UP_Diliman_Church UP_Diliman_Church_marker http://youniv.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/accounting-ethics/ http://youniv.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/accounting-ethics/#comments Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:52:37 +0000 alizaracelis http://youniv.wordpress.com/?p=1143 ]]> Accounting Ethics, by Michael Pakaluk and Mark Cheffers

I was so glad and excited to have received my copy of ‘Accounting Ethics’! Image above is a shot of my copy

Allen David Press book review:

http://www.allendavidpress.net/accountingethics-andnearcollapseoftheentirefinancialsystemoftheworld.aspx

In their third book on this subject of accounting ethics, Pakaluk (one of the world’s leading Aristotelian scholars) and Cheffers (formerly one of the country’s leading accounting fraud investigators) have produced what could come to be seen as the best book on the topic ever written. Combining first-hand accounts of gross accounting ethics failures with deep discussions about the philosophical foundations associated with these failures, the authors have written a book on accounting ethics that in parts reads like a detective novel and in parts like an advanced seminar on philosophy. They begin the book by connecting the dots between the long standing and gross accounting ethics failures at AIG (American International Group) and AIG becoming the instrument for the near collapse of the entire financial system of the world (Fed Chairman Bernanke’s description). Added to this are chapters discussing gross failures at Enron and Worldcom. A chapter on Lehman Brothers is also included but interestingly this analysis concludes quite differently from previous chapters. Intermixed in the book are chapters dealing with some of the most difficult topics facing accountants. How do rules, principles and ethics interact? Is accounting a profession or a business? Are accountants trusted because they are competent and tell the truth or trusted because they are independent? How has the profession changed over the past century? Can accounting ethics be taught? What must be done?

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Excerpts of review from ‘Accounting News Report’:

http://accountingnewsreport.com/?p=223

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The aim of the book can best be summed up as stopping the next great scandal the only surefire way you can: before it starts. “Only ethical behavior can prevent the next scandal.”

The book’s focus on having an ethical foundation is apparent in its treatment of what many financial experts, Fed Chairman Ben  Bernanke included, viewed as the linchpin that could have caused the collapse of the world’s financial system, the impending bankruptcy of American International Group.  The book approaches the dealings at AIG not as a failure of people or institutions but as one of accounting ethics.

In addition to AIG, the book gives a good play-by-play account of other high-profile collapses including Lehman Brothers, Enron and WorldCom.

Pakaluk and Cheffers make the case that following the rules aren’t enough. In fact, in the Lehman Brothers play-by-play, the authors ask the troubling question, “What are an accountant’s professional responsibilities if the principles themselves seem to be misguided, or if an accounting standard itself seems to promote a purely rules-based approach?”

The book covers virtues, personal responsibility, the relationship between rules and principles, several influential but misguided, alternative approaches to ethics, professionalism, the aforementioned high profile cases, and ten cases taken from everyday practice.

“Accounting ethics lies at the intersection of accounting, ethics, and professionalism.”

The authors felt the area of professionalism was so fundamental to the subject of accounting ethics, they devoted three chapters to it and the subtle yet important shift from “Trusted because Truthful” to “Truthful because Trusted.”

If you are familiar with Understanding Accounting Ethics, either the second edition or the original, also written by the Cheffers and Pakaluk, you will immediately see the same passion for ethics evident in the latest book.

But just because the “feel” is familiar don’t mistake the relationship between the old and the new as just a refreshed edition, because it is much more, and not just because 11 out of the book’s 15 chapters are completely new.

In the RMN radio show last July 10, I asked Lance Katigbak the following questions:

“Lance, tama ba ako sa pagsabi na ang Kalinisan sa Buhay at Kadalisayan ng Puso ay isa sa mga mahalagang kabutihang asal na kailangan nating matutunan? Kung gayo’y: itukoy mo sa amin ang ibig sabihin nito.  Balita ko’y isa sa mahalagang paksa ni Ginoong Christopher West ang Chastity sa Freedom to Love Conference na kung saa’y dumalo ka noong ika-25 ng Hunyo. Ibahagi mo naman sa amin ang mga pangunahing leksyon na napulot mo sa talks niya…”

“Ipagpatuloy natin, LANCE, ang usapin ukol sa Chastity Education. Nasabi na rin ng tanyag na Ekonomistang si Dr. Bernardo Villegas sa Column nya sa dyaryo na “Chastity is possible among the youth”:

http://mb.com.ph/node/322015/cha

Batid ko’y sa grupo mo, may itinutulak na tinaguriang “LIVE PURE MOVEMENT”.  Maaari mo bang itukoy ito?”

The movement is now called 100% FREE MOVEMENT, which promotes chastity [for singles: complete abstinence until marriage; for married couples: monogamous relationship, fidelity to the spouse, unitive and open-to-life use of procreative powers] among the YOUTH.

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Live Pure Movement:

http://livepuremovement.com/

 Videos of activities of Live Pure Movement:

http://ourdesitv.com/video/BRhYFo_MTco/Live-Pure-Movement-in-Isabela.html

http://ourdesitv.com/video/InE2Mgk05jQ/LivePure-Join-the-movement.html

True Love Waits:

http://www.lifeway.com/Article/true-love-waits

True Love Waits challenges teenagers and college students to make a commitment to sexual abstinence until marriage. Created by LifeWay Christian Resources, True Love Waits encourages moral purity by adhering to biblical principles. This youth-based international campaign utilizes positive peer pressure by encouraging those who make a commitment to refrain from pre-marital sex to challenge their peers to do the same.

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Christopher West “Freedom to Love” Conference in Manila:

https://sites.google.com/site/christopherwestinmanila/

My slide presentation on “Ethics of LOVE” or “Sexual Ethics”:

http://www.slideshare.net/alizaracelis/ethics-of-love-6899320

Love and Responsibility:

Download summary of ‘Love and Responsibility’, here:

http://www.catholicculture.com/jp2_on_l&r.pdf

‘Theology of the Body’ essay (from Theology of the Body International Alliance):

http://www.tobia.info/essay_1.html

Abstinence Education:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/education/03abstinence.html?_r=1

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]]> http://youniv.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/100-free-movement/feed/ 0 alizaracelis ChristopherWest_TOB_Intro-pic EthicsOfLove_pic1 http://youniv.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/abby-johnson-unplanned/ http://youniv.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/abby-johnson-unplanned/#comments Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:49:49 +0000 alizaracelis http://youniv.wordpress.com/?p=1127 ]]> unPLANNED by Abby Johnson

Abby Johnson’s life was changed on October 6, 2009. That was the day that she resigned from the largest abortion corporation in the nation…Planned Parenthood.

Abby worked and volunteered for Planned Parenthood for eight years. For the last year of her employment, Christ had been working on her heart. Although she didn’t understand why, Abby had begun to question her work and the motivations of the company she had dedicated herself to for eight years.

In September 2009, she saw something that forever changed her mind on the issue of abortion. Abby was asked to assist in an ultrasound guided abortion procedure. On the ultrasound screen she saw a 13 week baby in the womb fight for its life…only to lose the battle in the end.

Not knowing where to go, Abby turned to a local pro-life resource group, The Brazos Valley Coalition for Life. She explained the events that she had witnessed and swore that she would begin to advocate for life in the womb, instead of destroying it. …

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Unplanned is a heart-stopping personal drama of life-and-death encounters, a courtroom battle, and spiritual transformation that speaks hope and compassion into the political controversy that surrounds this complex issue. Telling Abby’s story from both sides of the abortion clinic property line, this book is a must-read…

What happened in that clinic to cause this Planned Parenthood leader and Employee of the Year to take such drastic action? And how did Planned Parenthood react to her abrupt departure? Join Abby as she reveals her full story for the first time in “Unplanned”…

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Important Links:

“unPLANNED the Book” website

About Abby Johnson:

http://www.abbyjohnson.org/about/

“unPlanned by Abby Johnson” Facebook group

Coalition for Life website:

http://www.coalitionforlife.com/

My blog on the film “Blood Money: The Business of Abortion”:

http://youniv.wordpress.com/category/blood-money/

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http://cbcpnews.com/?q=node%2F16064

“U.P. Against R.H.Bill”:

UP faculty, students, staff and alumni successfully staged a silent protest rally against the “R.H.Bill” Friday, July 1, 2011, by “painting the UP town RED” –tying red ribbons around trees and objects, distributing and sticking “No to RH Bill” stickers, etc. They are basically the signatories to the Position Paper on the RH Bill signed by hundreds of UP constituents who are against the proposed law on the following grounds: government money is better channeled to jobs and creation, population is not a hindrance to economic development, condoms are not a wise investment, oral contraceptive pills are cancer-causing, etc. In sum, UP people are against a proposal that could only cause harm to the Filipino nation and its People. Kudos to UP Against RH! Ibasura, RHBill! Tutol kami sa RHBill!

Signed: Aliza Racelis, Faculty Adviser, UP Campus Ministry Office

https://www.facebook.com/upcmo?ref=ts

“Campus Ministry sa UP” FB group

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Ang Tunay na Iskolar ng Bayan

Ni: John B. Juat

Ang tunay na iskolar ng bayan

Na may pakialam sa kapwa nating mamamayan

Alam na hindi RH Bill ang tunay na kasagutan

Sa problemang hinaharap ng ating lipunan

Napakaraming problema ang dapat nating tugunan

Pagpapatatag ng edukasyon ang ating pondohan

Kung kulang pa tayo ng guro, libro at paaralan

Paano natin sila bibigyan ng wastong karunungan?

Pill at condom lang ba ang halaga ng ating katawan?

Kung hindi kaya mahalin, edi huwag na pakasalan

Tayo rin ang todong maaapektuhan, tayong mga kabataan

Kaya naman natin magtimpi, disiplina lang ang kailangan

Bakit ba ang pagbubuntis ay pilit iniiwasan?

Isa ba itong sakit na nararapat mabilisang gamutan?

Ang totoo, isa itong napakalaking karangalan

Na ang babae’y makapagdalang tao sa kanyang sinapupunan

Mga taga-UP, gamitin natin ang ating taglay na katalinuhan

Huwag tayo maging parang asong sunod sunuran

Hindi purkit uso at sinabing maganda ng mga taga-kanluran

Ay totoong makabubuti sa ating minamahal na bayan

Iskolar ng bayan, buksan natin ang ating isipan

Tingnan natin mabuti ang isyu sa kabuuan

Ibasura na natin ang RH Bill bago tayo magsisi ng tuluyan

At tinataguyod ng panukalang ito ay kultura ng kamatayan

Ang tunay na iskolar ng bayan

Na may pakialam sa kapwa nating mamamayan

Alam na hindi RH Bill ang tunay na kasagutan

Sa problemang hinaharap ng ating lipunan

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PLEASE JOIN “UP SCHOLARS CHOOSE LIFE COALITION”:

https://www.facebook.com/UPSCHOLARSCHOOSELIFE

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OTHER USEFUL LINKS:

Radio interview with Cong. Roilo Golez on the R.H.Bill:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4FFTCmNup8

Radio interview with Cong. Mitos Magsaysay (UPCBA alumna):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUS_tGAY-pE

Ang tunay na mga pangangailangan ng mga kababaihan:

http://filipinosforlife.com/2011/05/21/pangangailangan-ng-mga-kababaihan/

Filipinos For Life R.H.Bill forum at Sta. Isabel College, Manila:

http://bromarwilnllasos.blogspot.com/2011/06/filipinos-for-life-forum-on-rh-bill-at.html

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http://bloodmoneyfilm.com/

“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.

It’s not about hearsay. It’s not about political bias. We went right to the historical documents and got it from their own lips. We went directly to the women involved in the cases that made abortion legal. We went directly to abortion clinic owners. We spoke directly with women who’d had multiple abortions, and we let them paint the picture of how the industry really works…”

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SOME IMPORTANT RESOURCES (incl. experts interviewed on the film):

Brian Clowes (Human Life International):

Read his book “Facts of Life” here:

http://www.hli.org/index.php/the-facts-of-life

Lila Rose, President, Live Action:

http://liveaction.org/

YouTube channel of LiveAction:

http://www.youtube.com/user/LiveActionFilms

Exposé’s of: Abortion Clinics (abhorrent!), complete lack of simple mammogram tests, etc. etc.

Ruth Pakaluk (+1998), staunch Pro-Lifer in the State of Massachusetts:

https://sites.google.com/site/ruthpakalukprolife/

Bernard Nathanson, abortionist turned pro-lifer:

https://sites.google.com/site/bernardnathansonhandofgod/

Fr. Frank Pavone, ‘Priests for Life’:

http://www.youtube.com/user/FrFrankPavone

http://www.priestsforlife.org/

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Live Action’s “The Advocate”, a new media movement FOR LIFE:

http://liveaction.org/advocate

The connection between contraception and abortion:

https://sites.google.com/site/contraceptiontoabortion/

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/

When does life begin?

https://sites.google.com/site/lifebeginsatfertilization/

The BUSINESS OF ABORTION in the Philippines!

Planned Parenthood, Philippines Program:

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/international-program/philippines-country-program-19029.htm

Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights:

https://sites.google.com/site/wgnrrwomensglobalnetwork4rr/

Reproductive Health, Rights, and Ethics Center for Studies and Training:

http://reprocen.com/

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Recommended Pro-Life sites (in English):

ProLife.com

LifeNews.com

LifeIssues.net

Priests for Life

American Life League

Pro-Life FB group

BioEdge

(BioEthics channel of MercatorNet)

Jill Stanek

RuthInstitute.org

Ruth Institute blog

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Ang isinusulong namin sa grupong ito, at sa maraming pro-life groups, ay ang mga kabutihang-asal –tulad ng pagiging TAPAT ng mag-asawa, chastity education, pagtitimpi, pagsasakripisyo, atbp.– sapagka’t ito ang pangmatagalang solusyon sa tinatawag na “unwanted pregnancies”  na laging bukang-bibig ng mga pro-R.H.Bill.

Nakasaad sa isang artikulo ng 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."

Pagmasdan ang mga kataingan ng mga may “unintended pregnancies” – gumagamit ng kontraseptibo, wala sa nararapat na kalagayan ng nakikipagtalik –may lehitimong asawa at TAPAT sa asawa at sa asawa lamang kikilos ng ganito… [Sa mga single,  ang chastity ay pag-iwas sa anumang aktibidad sekswal.]

Sa mga kababaihang sa kasawiang palad ay nasa ganitong sitwasyon (“unwanted pregnancies”), imumungkahi namin sa kanila ang Pregnancy Support Centers o Maternity Homes, na magpapayo na iluwal sa mundo ang sanggol at arugaan ito o di kaya’y ipa-adopt ito (pero hinding-hindi imumungkahing magpalaglag dahil ito’y karumaldumal na krimen!).

May mga Maternity Homes sa Pilipinas na pro-life, katulad ng:

• Grace to be Born;
• Caritas Manila;
• Mas kumpletong LISTAHAN.  Sisikapin naming tularan ang mga pro-life na Women’s Centers tulad ng “The Haven” na makatao at makabuhay: aarugaan ang ina at sanggol.

Bilang pangmatagalang solusyon, aming isinusulong ang KALINISAN SA BUHAY at ABSTINENCE EDUCATION na napatunayan nang mabisa ayon sa mga pananaliksik:

Para sa iba pang pag-aaral, mangyari lamang na basahin ito: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2002/04/The-Effectiveness-of-Abstinence-Education-Programs

May matinding pangangailangan ang ating bansa na pairalin ang KULTURA ng KALINISAN SA BUHAY, KATAPATAN, PAGSASAKRIPISYO, PAGTITIMPI, at iba pang kaugnay na kabutihang-asal na bahagi ng KABIHASNANG PILIPINO.   

Mag-usap tayo: aliza.racelis@up.edu.ph

[Katesismo para sa mga Katolikong Pinoy, 1108 & 1109]

1108: Tungkol sa pagpipigil ng pagbubuntis, idinidiin ng Simbahan na ang “kasal at ang pinagsamang pag-ibig ng mag-asawa ay itinakda sa pagsusupling at paghubog ng mga anak.” Kaya, habang itinatakwil ang artipisyal na pamamaraan ng pagpipigil ng pagbubuntis at pagpipigil ng panganganak, itinataguyod ng Simbahan ang natural na paraan ng pagpaplano ng pamilya upang tiyakin na ang pagpaparami, pangangalaga at paghubog sa mga bata ay nagaganap sa isang paraang tunay na maka-tao at maka-Kristiyano. Hinihimok ng Vaticano II ang mga magulang na “gampanan ang kanilang mga tungkuling taglay ang makatao at makakristiyanong pananagutan.”  “Sa kahuli-hulihan, ang mga magulang mismo ang gagawa ng pagpapasya, sa harap ng Diyos”, at sa kanilang Kristiyanong budhi na naliliwanagan ng mga turo ng Simbahan, na nagtitimbang sa materyal at espiritwal na kalagayan ng panahon, gayundin sa kanilang katayuan sa buhay” (GS, 50).

1109: Sa Pilipinas ngayon, ang lumalakas na pagkilos para sa pagpipigil ng paglaki ng populasyon ay nagpasibol sa mga pagkabalisa at hinala sa maraming mga Pilipinong Katoliko.  Maliwanag na ang walang puknat na pagpaparami ng mga bata o ang pagpapalaki sa mga bata na batay sa sapalaran sa halip na pasiya ay hindi mga mapanagutang paraan ng pagkilos,  Nguni’t ang suliranin ng populsayon ay hindi lamang sa pagdami ng tao kundi sa pangangalaga ng pagkatao at sa pagpapabuti ng uri ng buhay ng tao.  Hindi lamang ito kinapapalooban ng pagkain, damit at masisilungan kundi kasama rin ang mga espiritwal na kaloob katulad ng budhi at kalayaan atmoral na karangalan.  Hindi kaya kasukdulan ng kahibangan ang sikaping matamo ang materyal na kasaganaan na ang kapalit ay karahasang idinulot sa personal na budhi, kalayaan sa pagpapasya, at sa pagsasabuhay ng moral na karangalan? Ang susi sa suliranin ay wala sa mga panlabas na paraan ng pagtitimpi sa pamamagitan ng pagpipigil sa pagbubuntis nang wala sa loob dulot ng kemikal, kundi sa pagpapaunlad at pagkaganap ng panloob na kasanayan sa asal na sekswal ng bawa’t isa – sa kalinisan at pagtitimpi sa sarili na kinakailangan para sa matatag na pagsasama ng mag-asawa (Tingnan, CBCP’s Pastoral Letter on the Population Problem and Family Life 1973).

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Inaanyayahan ang lahat na makilahok sa

“MARCH, PRAY, RALLY for LIFE!”

na gaganapin sa LUNETA sa darating na ika-25 ng Marso

Ibinabahagi ko po dito ang Liham ng Panawagan mula kay

CARDINAL GAUDENCIO ROSALES

SPAIN BY NIGHT: Palacio Real (Madrid)

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SPANISH GRAMMAR – LESSON 4:

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EXERCISES:

Translate to Spanish:

1. The king makes these laws.

2. Those Andalusian girls work in this factory.

3. I have to buy several books for my sister.

4. These rooms are bigger (=more big) than those.

5. “Has he any friends in this town?” “No, he hasn’t any.”

6. That lady is going to write a letter to the king.

7. We are going to read the first chapter of this new book.

8. This shop is very cheap but it is not bad.

9. That boy writes very interesting letters to my father.

10. The letters he writes to my father are the same ones he writes to Peter.

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