1. Leading Science Experts and
Non-Religious Reason
on the
Reproductive Health Bills
By Dr. Raul Nidoy
Parents for Education Foundation
Science and Reason for Human Beings

2. Positive aims of the
Reproductive Health Bills
Lower maternal deaths
5.7 per day (WHO) not 10-11 per day
Proven method: birthing centers and improving
birthing services
Maternal, infant and child health and nutrition
Fostering breastfeeding
Elimination of violence against women
Covered by existing law: Magna Carta for Women

3. Key Questions
Medical Questions
 Do the pill and IUD kill human beings?
 Is the pill good for the health?
 Will condom use help stem the AIDS epidemic?
Soci0-Moral Questions
 Does availability of contraception lead to more
premarital and extramarital sex?
Ethical Question
 What’s the moral difference between contraceptive sex
and Natural Family Planning?
Economic Questions
 Will population control improve our economy? The
plight of the poor?
Historico-Political Questions
 Where does this come from?
 Does RH have a eugenics and racist background?
 Is it imperialistic?

4. BBC: 15 secular moral arguments
vs contraception
1. is unnatural
2. is anti-life
3. separates sex from reproduction
4. allows people (even married people)
to have sex purely for enjoyment
5. prevents potential human
beings being conceived

5. 6. prevents people who might benefit humanity
from being born
14th of 16 children 7th of 11 children

6. 7. is a form of abortion
8. carries health risks
9. The "contraceptive culture" is dangerous
10. makes it easier for people to have sex outside
marriage
11. leads to widespread sexual immorality
12. may lead to depopulation
13. can be used as a eugenic tool
14. is often misused in mass population control
programs in a racist way
15. Mass population control programs can be a
form of cultural imperialism or a misuse of
power

7. In a debated issue, one position is
true and the other false.
Impossible for two contradictory positions
to be both true.
Since the questions are crucial (social morality
or immorality, life or death, health or sickness,
family stability or destruction), it is a grave
obligation for the nation to arrive at the
truth.

8. Resolving questions: leading experts
Expertise in the specific technical question
Unbiased
 Not advocates with an agenda
 Not political groups, e.g. United Nations agencies
 If conclusions go against convictions, more credible
If experts disagree, choose:
 Most authoritative expert
 Most corroborated or comprehensive studies
Since the questions are crucial, seek out the
greatest , unbiased world experts who are
after the truth to resolve these questions.

9. Science Experts and World
Authorities to answer questions
 Medical Questions
 Harvard Medical School / Mayo Clinic
 American Medical Association 2000
 American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2005
 International Agency for Research on Cancer 2007
 Harvard Director for AIDS Prevention, Edward Green, agnostic
 Social-Moral Questions
 Social Science - George Akerlof, Nobel, behavioral economics
 Contraception, an international reproductive health journal
 Economic Questions
 Simon Kuznets – Nobel Prize
 Michael Spence – Nobel Prize
 Historical and Political Question
 Matthew Connelly. Columbia University. Harvard University
Press
 US National Security Study Memorandum – primary document

10. Do the pill and IUD kill human
beings?
When does human life begin?
These sources agree: Ampatuan Massacre
 Medical Dictionaries – at least 7
 Oxford Butterworths Gould Stedman Harrup Mellon Pearce
 Medical Textbooks - at least 13
 Moore Larsen Sadler Rahilly and Miller Langman Potter and Craid
Vannillsen Cosidine’s Van Nostrand Turner and Helms Clark Scarr
Thibodeau and Anthony Decoursey
 57 international experts called to eight day hearing at US Senate
 Harvard Medical School
 Mayo Clinic
 Dr. Jerome Lejeune – Father of Modern Genetics

11. “Overwhelming agreement”: at fertilization
when the sperm penetrates the egg
US Senate Report 1981: There is overwhelming
agreement on this point in countless medical,
biological, and scientific writings.
Gordon, Hymie., Chairman of Medical Genetics,
Mayo Clinic: “By all criteria of modern molecular
biology… as soon as he has been conceived, a
man is a man.”
The Developing Human: Clinically Oriented
Embryology, 6th ed. Keith L. Moore, Ph.D. & T.V.N:
“Human development begins at fertilization”
"Father of Modern Genetics" Dr. Jerome Lejeune: To
accept the fact that after fertilization has taken
place a new human has come into being is no
longer a matter of taste or opinion...it is plain
experimental evidence.

12. Do the pill and IUD kill human
beings?
Highly important question.
 If just one person is going to be killed outside, we
will all do something to stop the killing.
 If I step on an ant, there is no problem. But if I am
going to step on a baby, everyone in this room will
shout with horror.
This has to be resolved clearly and
definitively, because Filipino citizens cannot
knowingly be accomplices of a law that
deliberately kills human beings.
Story of Walter Larimore

13. Do the pill and IUD kill humans?
The pill has a secondary “post-
fertilization effect”, according to the
scientific journal of the American Medical
Association.
 Larimore and Stanford (2000).
"Postfertilization effects of oral contraceptives and their relationship to infor
Arch Fam Med 9 (2): 126–33.
IUD brings about the “destruction of the
early embryo.”
 Stanford and Mikolajczyk (2005).
"Mechanisms of action of intrauterine devices: Update and estimation of pos
. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (W.B.
Saunders Comp) 187: 1699–1708.

14. Is the pill safe?
The pill causes cancer - the highest
level of carcinogenicity, the same as
cigarettes and asbestos
Confers the risk of stroke
Significantly increases the risk of heart
attacks.
 "Combined Estrogen-Progestogen Contraceptives" IARC Monographs on the
Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans 91. 2007.
 Kemmeren, et al. (2002).
"Risk of Arterial Thrombosis in Relation to Oral Contraceptives (RATIO) Study: Oral Contraceptives and the Risk of Ische
. Stroke (American Heart Association, Inc.) 33: 1202–1208.
 Baillargeon, McClish, Essah, and Nestler (2005).
"Association between the Current Use of Low-Dose Oral Contraceptives and Cardiovascular Arterial Disease: A Meta-Ana
. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (The Endocrine Society) 90 (7):
3863–3870.

15. Will condom use lower the
rate of HIV/AIDS in a country?
"There is a consistent association shown
by our best studies between greater
availability and use of condoms and
higher (not lower) HIV-infection rates.”
Harvard Director for AIDS Prevention, Edward C.
Green. Availability of condoms makes people take
wilder sexual risks, thus worsening the spread of
the disease.
Green (2003) Rethinking AIDS Prevention.
Praeger.

16. Case of Thailand and Philippines
Thailand Philippines
AIDS Cases AIDS Cases
1987 112 135
Strategy 100% condoms NFP and chastity
580,00 12,000
2005
UN Description High incidence Low incidence
(UN is perplexed)

17. What are the socio-moral effects of
contraception?
 George Akerlof, Nobel Prize winner in behavioral economics.
A liberal. Economist of President Clinton.
Wide contraceptive use leads to more premarital
sex, more fatherless children, more single
mothers, more poverty, more abortions
- decline of marriage, less domesticated men,
more crimes, more social pathology and
poverty
 Akerlof, Yellent and Katz (1996),
"An Analysis on Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing in the United States", Quarterly
Journal of Economics (The MIT Press) 111 (2): 277–317
 Akerlof, “Men Without Children,” The Economic Journal 108 (1998)

18. Lionel Tiger
Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University
and Co-Research Director of the Harry Frank Guggenheim
Foundation.
McGill University. London School of Economics
Consultant of the US Department of Defense on the future of
biotechnology.
Anti-Catholic
Contraception has led to the:
trouble in the relationship between the sexes
breakdown of families
single motherhood
female impoverishment

19. Contraception leads to more
abortion (no to new human life)
Contraception, an international reproductive
health journal (Jan 2011)
 10-year period
 Increase of contraceptive use: from 49.1 % to 79.9%,
 Increase in abortions: from 5.52 to 11.49 per 1,000 women
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.”
Guttmacher Institute: “levels of abortion and
contraceptive use rose simultaneously” in six
countries: Cuba, Denmark, the Netherlands, the United
States, Singapore and the Republic of Korea.

20. Why is contraceptive sex bad while sex
within natural family planning good?
CONTRACEPTIVE SEX SEX WITHIN NFP
Willfully prevents human Abstaining from sex or
beings having sex during infertile
period
Lie: I give myself totally but I Sincere total self-giving:
keep my fertility from you I give myself to the other as I
am, fertile or infertile

21. CONTRACEPTIVE SEX SEX WITHIN NFP
Trivializes the sacred origins Shows reverence for the
of human life. Sex like drug sacred origins of human life,
taking: only for pleasure. and the real purpose of sex.
Partner is a sex object, used Partner is a spouse, treated
for pleasure. One becomes a with love based on mastery
user of persons . of passions.

22. CONTRACEPTIVE SEX SEX WITHIN NFP
Treats human beings as Treats human beings as
machines without voluntary responsible beings, capable
control, freedom and sense of of moral self-control and free
morality. self-giving; and teamwork
with spouse.
Irrational, selfish, pleasure-
seeking. People used for
enjoyment.
The end
Abuse of natural processes, does not
like vomiting in order to pig justify the
out more. means

23. Jose Rizal: Importance of Morality
Only virtue can save!
If our country has ever to be free, it will not be
through vice and crime, it will not be so by
corrupting its sons, deceiving some and
bribing others, no!
Redemption presupposes virtue, virtue sacrifice,
and sacrifice love!

24. Founders of the American Nation:
On religion and morality
George Washington: Of all the … habits which
lead to political prosperity, religion and
morality are indispensable supports… great
pillars of human happiness.
John Adams: It is religion and morality alone
which can establish the principles upon which
freedom can securely stand. The only foundation
of a free constitution is pure virtue.

25. Will population control
improve our economy? The
plight of the poor?
Is there a correlation between
population growth and economic
growth?
Simon Kuznets, Nobel Prize winner: no
clear association appears to exist
between rates of growth of population
and of product per capita

26. Later studies confirm Kuznets
1986 US National Research Council
1992 Ross Levine and David Renelt. Studied 119
countries over 30 years (vs UP study of few
countries over a few years)
2003 RAND Corporation – associated with 30 Nobel
Prize winners: little cross-country evidence that
population growth impedes or promotes
economic growth; with good fundamentals it can
promote growth
2007 Eric Hanushek and Ludger Wommann study

27. Concrete Examples
Julian Simon – Ultimate Resource
North Korea and South Korea
East Germany and West Germany
China and Taiwan
Philippines
1961-2000: Population increased almost
three times, poverty decreased from
59% to 34%
78% to 90% of the poor households had
heads with no high school diploma

28. Thailand and Philippines
Thailand Philippines
Agriculture Model of Neglected
agricultural agriculture in
development favor of capital
intensive
industrialization
Next Eleven No. Aging
No Yes. “Rapidly
Yes
Economies (after population growing
BRIC) growing faster populations”
than labor force.
HSBC Largest Rank 23 Rank 16 (Large
Economies 2050 Population)

29. Family and poverty:
The poor want more children
Big families are poor
Not because more children means more poverty
But because poor parents want more children
90% of the time the poor want the children they
have
-Lant Pritchett, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Children for the poor are:
Investments for secure old age
Helpers in the farm

30. Hierarchy of priorities of a
society
Morality - God Money – economic
Family prosperity
Life Health and fitness
Health and fitness Life
Money – economic Family
prosperity Morality - God

31. Use of 3 Billion pesos: which
will you choose?
1 year of pills for 366,300 women
OR
2053 classrooms P 1.548 B
2053 teacher salaries .493 B
1663 skilled
birth attendants .399 B
4000 low cost houses .566 B
 From Dr. Roberto de Vera, Economist of UA&P

32. Where did the idea of population
control come from?
NSSM 200 or National Security Study
Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide
Population Growth for US Security and
Overseas Interests 1974
 “U.S. economy will require large and increasing
amounts of minerals from abroad”
 “The young people… are likely to be more
volatile, unstable, prone to extremes… can more
readily be persuaded to attack the legal
institutions of the government or real property of
the ‘establishment,' ‘imperialists,' multinational
corporations, or other -often foreign- influences
blamed for their troubles"

33. NSSM 200
Give "paramount importance" to population
control measures and the promotion of
contraception among 13 populous countries
US leadership to "influence national leaders" and
that "improved world-wide support for
population-related efforts should be sought
through increased emphasis on mass media and
other population education and motivation
programs by the U.N., USIA, and USAID."

34. Where did the idea of population
control come from?
Thomas Malthus (+1834) - population
growth always outstrips food production
Margaret Sanger, the eugenicist founder
of Planned Parenthood (1942) - birth
control for the "unfit“
Adolf Hitler (+1945) - extermination of
the Jews Belknap Press,
Hugh Moore (1954) Population Bomb – Harvard University
2008
influence on US policy
Paul R. Ehrlich (1968) The Population Matthew Connelly
Columbia University
Bomb – bestseller

35. What do we do?
Spread the truth widely : family, community, office,
parish, associations, media, facebook, blogs, email, etc.
 Echo what you learn, organize forums, give talks
Express your stand publicly and use the means for political
campaigning: stickers, rallies, etc.
Convince your legislators and their staff
 Personal talk: call 931 5001
 Through their staff or email: http://www.senate.gov.ph/contact.asp
 Tell them of the objectively harmful consequences of RH
 If they are strongly in favor of RH, you will campaign against them
in the next elections
Fight for our lives and future
 Not business as usual Phnom Penh
before the Killing Fields

36. I remember watching a TV news broadcast
from Phnom Penh. People were coming and going,
cars passing by, men riding bicycles. It looked like
normal city life. But in the background there was
persistent thunder. Only it wasn’t thunder. It was the
sound of artillery -- the final battle between the
government and the Khmer Rouge.
 If all those people had only known what was going to
happen to them – that within the next few years, one in
every three or four of them was dead by murder or
starvation – they would have stopped what they were
doing, and made every effort to prevent the Khmer
Rouge from taking over. They would have run to the
government and begged for a rifle to go into battle.
 It is the same with the battle over contraception: if the
people only knew what is going to happen to the Filipino
family and society if contraception becomes the way of
life here, they would do everything in their power to
stop it.
 Tim Laws, Chairman of Alliance for the Family (ALFI)

37. THANK YOU!
SPREAD THE TRUTH!
ONLY THE TRUTH SETS FREE.

38. Annex

39. One-page summary:
Science Facts on the RH Bills
 Manila Bulletin, Bernardo Villegas: http://www.mb.com.ph/node/307797/not-de
 Inquirer News/ Cebu Daily News: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/37073/hard-facts-vs-hardened-wills
 Manila Standard, Emil Jurado:
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideOpinion.htm?f=2011%2Fmay%2F6%2Femiljurado.isx&d=2011%2
 Leyte Samar Daily Express:
http://leytesamardaily.net/2011/02/science-facts-on-the-rh-bill-in-plain-language/
 Documentation Service, May 2011: http://cbcpforlife.com/?p=1750
 CBCP for life: http://cbcpforlife.com/?p=164
 Archdiocese of Cebu: http://www.coycebu.org/programs/prayerandsacrifice_science.php
 Filipino translation:
http://filipinosforlife.com/2011/03/23/mga-siyentipikong-katotohanan-tungkol-sa-rh-bill/
 http://tuklasinnatin.com/2011/ang-mga-katotohanan-sa-siyensya-na-may-kinalaman-sa-rh-bills-2/
 Cebuano translation:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/54920641/CEBUANO-Scientific-Facts-on-RH-Bills
Latest and complete English version:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49512128/Science-Facts-on-the

40. Other considerations on the RH
Bills: Rallies
Pro-life/Anti-RH rallies: Moslems and Christians in
Manila (25 March) – 40,000– 200,000, Mindanao – 50,000, Manila (13
Feb) – 10,000– 50,000, Bacolod – 20,000, Cebu – 10,000 to 12,000,
Balanga – 10,000, Mindanao - 10,000 Manila (Dec 2011) - 10,000, Lucena
– 8,000, Dipolog – 10,000 and Pagadian – 8,000, Maasin, Leyte – 6000
to 7000, Manila Knights of Columbus March (March 2011) – 7000,
Legazpi – 4000, Iloilo – 4000, San Pablo, Quezon – 2000, Quiapo
(Oct) – 1500, Tagaytay – 2000, Batasan – 3000.
Pro-RH rallies: Batasan – 1500, CBCP complex – 1000.
Mendiola - 1000.
Each pro-RH participant receives 350 pesos - Inquirer

41. Debate and Polls
ABS-CBN Debate
69.58% - anti-RH
30.42% pro-RH
TV5 Debate
100% of studio audience- anti-RH
0% -pro-RH
58.7% of the viewers – anti-RH
41.3% - pro-RH
Philippine Star
56% - anti-RH
44% - pro-RH

42. Non-Catholic constituencies
Imam Council of the Philippines, the top leaders of the
Moslem population which at 4.5 M constitutes 5% of the
Philippine population: Use of contraceptives "underestimates
God," and "makes one lose morality in the process.“
 Chairman Eleem Said Akmad Basher: There are so many verses of the
Koran that state about pro-life [principles]. Sabi sa Koran, don’t kill
your children by fear of poverty. Huwag matakot because Allah will
sustain you.
Baptist Bishop Reuben Abante: Children are gifts from
God, not accidents to be avoided.

43. Philippines is not a welfare state:
 Taxpayer's money - not for personal practices
(combs and lipstick)
 Much less for objectively harmful and immoral
devices – Government must not distribute these
even if it is the “choice” of many
Freedom. Information. Access.
 No opposing law restricting access and information
 Contraceptives available in family planning NGOs,
stores. International Planned Parenthood has
hundreds of workers here. Also PH Government.
 The poor can afford condoms as they can afford cell
phone load.

44. Surveys - objective measure of Filipino preference is
the consistent top electoral success of party-list
Buhay Hayaan Yumabong (Let Life Flourish).
 Social Weather Stations 2008 Pro-RH Survey was commissioned
by the Forum for Family Planning and Development (FFPD), a
pro-RH advocacy.
 SWS did not inform people of the penal provisions – Mangahas
admitted
 Survey commissioned by pro-family groups - 92% in Manila reject
the survey when fully informed of the bill.
Penalties - private companies (including faith-
based) and public institutions - forced to provide
contraceptives to employees.
 Jail: 1-6 months; Fine- 10K to 50K
 Totalitarian. A violation of free choice and conscience, and
establishes religious persecution

45.  The Leading Causes of Death in the Philippines (DOH): Daily death toll per
100,000 women:
 1. Heart diseases - 80
 2. Vascular diseases - 63
 3. Cancer - 51
 4. Pneumonia - 45
 5. Tuberculosis - 23
 6. Diabetes - 22
 7. Lower chronic respiratory diseases – 16
 9 Filipinos die of heart disease per hour
 75 die of tuberculosis per day
 5.7 die of maternal deaths per day (solution is birthing centers not
contraceptives)

46. End
Thank you!