The bias of the Inquirer has become breathtaking

Full-length version of Letter to the Editor, which was later published in the Inquirer in abridged form here.

The bias of the Inquirer has become breathtaking.

Sorry for this dramatic beginning, but I just want to help wake you up from what what I see might be an RH infatuation, some kind of unreasoned bias which I believe may have led you to assert that the "best argument for the RH bill as it now stands is that it will help minimize the number of illegal or illicit abortions we suffer every year. Think of tens of thousands of innocent lives spared".

A cold shower of scientific findings might help.

First, one of the latest studies on the link between contraception and abortion is Spain’s study published early this year 2011, not in a prolife magazine but in the scientific journal, Contraception, subtitled An international reproductive health journal. The study conducted during a period of 10 years "was designed to acquire information about the use of contraceptive methods in order to reduce the number of elective abortions." Conclusion:
During the study period, 1997 to 2007, the overall use of contraceptive methods increased from 49.1% to 79.9%. ...The elective abortion rate increased from 5.52 to 11.49 per 1000 women.

Second, Nobel prize winner and liberal economist, George Akerlof, writing at the Quarterly Journal of Economics published by the MIT Press, described the effect of contraceptives: more premarital sex, and since the contraceptives sometimes fail, more fatherless children, more single mothers, more abortions. Because of the trauma it has caused in society, he called this phenomenon, The Reproductive Technology Shock.

Third, leaders of the abortion industry themselves have openly admitted the empirical link between contraception and abortion. Malcolm Potts, the first Medical Director of International Planned Parenthood, observed: “As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate”. Judith Bury, Coordinator of Doctors for a Woman's Choice on Abortion concluded that "There is overwhelming evidence that, contrary to what you might expect, the provision of contraception leads to an increase in the abortion rate.”

Fourth, the silent abortions due to the use of the pill amount to deliberate killings of innocent lives. Dr. Walter Larimore, who for decades prescribed the pill, tried to disprove the claim that the pill is abortifacient, only to find 94 scientific studies proving that "postfertilization effects are operative to prevent clinically recognized pregnancy." He published his findings in the scientific journal of the American Medical Association, and from then on stopped prescribing the pill. Shouldn't we as a nation also stop prescribing a drug that kills our youngest Filipinos?

Please take note that the basis of Lagman's claim of 85% reduction in abortion rates due to contraception is an unreferenced statement in a policy report of the Guttmacher Institute, which started as a division of Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortion services in the US.

It is significant that even the Guttmacher Institute itself found in their 2003 study that "levels of abortion and contraceptive use rose simultaneously" in six countries: Cuba, Denmark, Netherlands, the United States, Singapore and the Republic of Korea.

These are hard facts. And the rational explanation behind the link is clear: the anti-human mentality at the heart of contraception's falsification of sex, which can casually call some children "unwanted" rather than the gifts they are, has the very same root as brutal slaying called abortion.

Think of tens of thousands of innocent lives spared, if the Philippines will not legislate an RH bill.

Raul Nidoy

ranidoy@gmail.com

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The abridged form published at the Inquirer.

I just want to help wake the Inquirer up from what I see might be its “RH infatuation,” which I believe led it to assert that the “best argument for the RH bill as it now stands is that it will help minimize the number of illegal or illicit abortions we suffer every year. Think of tens of thousands of innocent lives spared.”

A cold shower of scientific findings might help.

First, from a study on the link between contraception and abortion (published early this year, not in a prolife magazine but in the scientific journal, Contraception, subtitled “an international reproductive health journal” and conducted through a 10-year period). From 1997 to 2007, the overall use of contraceptive methods increased from 49.1 percent to 79.9 percent. The elective abortion rate increased from 5.52 to 11.49 per 1,000 women.

Second, Nobel prize winner and liberal economist, George Akerlof, writing at the Quarterly Journal of Economics (published by the MIT Press), described the effect of contraceptives: more premarital sex, more fatherless children, more single mothers, and since the contraceptives sometimes fail, more abortions.

Third, leaders of the abortion industry themselves have openly admitted the empirical link between contraception and abortion. Malcolm Potts, the first medical director of International Planned Parenthood: “As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate.” Judith Bury, coordinator of Doctors for a Woman’s Choice on Abortion: “There is overwhelming evidence that … the provision of contraception leads to an increase in the abortion rate.”

Fourth, silent abortions caused by the use of the pill amount to deliberate killings of innocent lives. Dr. Walter Larimore, who for decades prescribed the pill, tried to disprove the claim that the pill is abortifacient, only to find 94 scientific studies proving that “postfertilization effects are operative to prevent clinically recognized pregnancy.” He published his findings in the scientific journal of the American Medical Association, and from then on stopped prescribing the pill. Shouldn’t we as a nation also stop prescribing a drug that kills our youngest Filipinos?

Please take note that the basis of Rep. Edcel Lagman’s claim of an 85-percent reduction in abortion rate due to contraception is a report of the Guttmacher Institute, which started as a division of Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortion services in the United States.

It is significant that the Guttmacher Institute itself found in its 2003 study that “levels of abortion and contraceptive use rose simultaneously” in six countries: Cuba, Denmark, the Netherlands, the United States, Singapore and the Republic of Korea.

These are hard facts. And the rational explanation behind the link is clear: the anti-human mentality at the heart of contraception’s falsification of sex, which casually call some children “unwanted” rather than gifts.
—RAUL NIDOY,
ranidoy@gmail.com