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Hi again, been away for awhile

To answer your questions:

"why is it that rich western countries who use funds to encourage their womenfolk to reproduce some more are now using their funds to support countries such as mine to do the opposite?"

first , we are not in the risk of being overpopulated, but in the Philippines this is a growing problem.
second, dont you think its a good thing that we help?

"are you aware that it's big western pharmaceuticals that are behind the birth control (now euphemistically called "reproductive health") lobby and that they stand to gain the most in terms of sales?"

That may be, but does that make them wrong? their motives for wanting the bill to pass are questionable. i for one believe that philippines will face a huge problem in the future unless something is done. lets say it is the pharmaceuticals companies that are behind the bill, and you dont pass the bill for that reason, then what will you do about this problem? Or maybe there never was a problem? It was all made up by the big pharmaceutical companies?

so you've taught those girls in leyte how not to be pregnant.  would that you also taught them how to be disciplined human beings by emphasizing the importance of curtailing human desires during periods of fertility.

so you mean that people should not be able to enjoy sex without becoming pregnant?

ok, so you have read the bible then i guess?
and what i was trying to state was that the majority of christians probably never read the bible therefor my question: Why does people belive in this when they havent even read the book?

I think you Islander got offend by my post and for that i apologize.
but i work for a helporganisation here in the philippines and see all these unwanted pregnancies on young girls who come to us for help. and very poor families that dont have enough food for themselves, but getting more children that they can, no problem. you have a responsibility towards the children you intend to put on this earth, and sorry but the church has a big part in this weather you like it or not. for instance we were in leyte with a nursing program to do health checks in this small town. we also gave out free condoms and teached girls about contraceptive pills and how to prevent unwanted pregnancies, it was all fine and the intrest among the people was big until the local priest found out about it and came screaming and yelling that we were not welcome there anymore, apparantly its a sin to use birth control, "prevent life from happening" he said. so he would rather have children born into poverty which is for me very strange.

yes, you are right. the problem still remains thoug doesnt it.
philippines is now also the last catholic country( together with vatican city) in the world to ban divorces.
i would say that the biggest problems we have here are the corruption (not only within the goverment, but also among common people) and the curch, the curch and the goverment has to separate and be 2 individual forces.
we had a discussion the other day in our family hat was about why people are christians or religous. me myself was a christian up until i turned 13, thats when i started to question what the priest said and i also asked him to explain certain things in his speak (privatly offcourse) and when he couldnt i decided to turn to our holy book the BIBLE surely i have to be able to find answer to my questions in there. i read the bible cover to cover, it took me a long time, but when i was done i knew enough to actually walk away from christianity and i can not believe that any sane person that has actually read the bible will make any sense out of it. anyway, our discussion was about how many people here in the philippines have read the bible? none in our family have read it except from me, and none of our relatives have read it, and none that they know of have read it. So it makes me wonder WHY does people believe in this book and the priest who live by it. one conclusion is that pople are just so gullible that they believe what ever people tell them, but i dont think so there has to be something more to it than that, but what is it?

So if you are a christian you should have common sense?
Christianity is a religion and is not to be mistaken for intelligens.

So if you are a christian you should have common sense?
Christianity is a religion and nis not to be mistaken for intelligens.

anyone know how many children the mother has, and with how many different men? I´m sorry but i have lived here in bohol for now 6 years and seen how easily philippinos get pregnant, with not even thinking about how they will afford a child. There is no wonder that the philippines is the 10th most populated country in the world, and if you look to the size of the country i think philippines is the most densely populated country in the world. its easy to blame goverment officials and corruption for the poverty of the country, but YOU, the people also have a BIG responsibility to think before you bring a child into this world and think even more if you going to bring 7.
im not saying you should have a one baby policy like China but something has to be done to stop the overpopulation that is going on in your country otherwise there will be no country for our children to inherit.

Even though this was a heart warming story, i think it was even more scary to know how easily the mother just brings babies into this world.

Hi
in this forum Martin is nearly beeing declared a saint, im not saying hes not a saint. but sometimes not even the people close to you, really know you. No one off Ted Bundys friends or relatives could even imagine Ted doing something like he did, I am not meaning that Martin was a psycopat running around raping and killing young women but it just showes that u can actually know somebody your whole life and he can still have dark secrets that not even the best friend knows about. However the case is he doesnt deserve to get murdered, so i really hope justice will prevail.