IT’S SATAN’S SEMEN, STUPID!

By: Minyong Ordoñez

In the Birth Control Bill the devil is in the details.

In Humanae Vitae God is in the details.

That’s why Catholic men and women who follow the teachings of the

Magisterium of the Church are up in arms against the Birth Control Bill. In essence the

bill puts on the chopping block two fundamental rights, human and divine: the dignity of

women and the sanctity of life.

The title of the Birth Control Bill is an oxymoron: “Reproductive Health and

Population Development Act of 2008.”

KILL BILL

The bill is unequivocal about its true intent: the extermination of a living fetus in

the womb of a mother through aborticide using abortifacients in order to reduce birthrate.

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The oxymoron: How the hell can health result when killing is an integral part of the birth-

control plan? How can development happen when the scheme is premised on the

predestined failure of a future member of the population and therefore exterminated at

fetal stage? This is technocracy of absolute skepticism.

The Bill is surreptitiously anti-democracy, because it violates the right to live.

Let’s say if to-be-butchered creatures, a fetus and a piglet can express their true

sentiments on their imminent deaths, the fetus will say, “You can’t kill me. When I grow

up I want to be the first incorruptible congressman in the Philippines.” And the piglet

will say, “Great! It’s OK to kill me on my fifth month. My ambition is to be the most

succulent melt-in-the-mouth lechon de leche available in La Loma.” The fetus has rights.

The piglet has none.

WOMAN AS VICTIM

Central to birth-control managers is their clever idea labeled as: The Woman with

“Unwanted Pregnancy.” Who decides whether the pregnancy is unwanted or not?

Herself? Birth-control managers? Dark-alley abortionists? Critics of Humanae Vitae?

Indifferentist demographers and social engineers at IMF World Bank who incentivize

their loans to poor nations by tacking on birth-control funding?

It can’t be the Francis of Assisi type of priest. Or the Mother Teresa type of nun.

Or the God who is in the hearts of men.

It must be the devil disguised as a do-gooder.

Since a huge inventory of condoms (the modern version of onanism),

abortifacients, inclusive of easy access to invasive birth-control technologies such as

intrauterine device, ligation, sterilization, etc. are well funded, surely the educational

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campaign directed to the “woman with unwanted pregnancy” will be slanted in favor of

aborticide using abortifacients. The much ridiculed but Church-approved rhythm

method, sex abstinence and celibacy, has a poor chance, because to most birth-control

managers those methods are prone to failure, medieval and a big killjoy. Abortifacients

are safer and more effective. Safer for the killer. Fatal to the fetus. Isn’t it satanic?

The real villain here is Satan’s semen ejaculated by heartless rapists, brutish

abusers, happy-go-lucky fornicators, jilting boyfriends, two-timing husbands, slippery

lotharios, predatory DOMs and other closet perverts. It makes more sense for the

government to go after ejaculators of Satan’s semen than to warp a woman’s good

conscience.

Unwanted pregnancy does not belong to our mainstream life. It’s an

oversimplification and overexaggeration. Unwanted pregnancy is usually self-corrective

through the innate capacity of a woman to feel compunction, to learn from her mistake.

WOMAN AS LOVE

The concept of unwanted pregnancy is a slur on authentic feminism.

Consider the Filipina. Her spiritual, intellectual, physiological and physical

make-up contravenes the rejection of a baby (or fetus) in her womb. To verify, let

congressmen ask their grandmothers, mothers, sisters and daughters if their natural

instinct is to commit aborticide because pregnancy is hazardous, money is short and

raising their children sucks. If the answer is yes, there goes the honorable congressman, a

rotting fetus cadaver in a garbage pile. If no, there goes a congressman going great guns

and aspiring to be the next Speaker of the House.

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 Consider maternal instincts: to breastfeed, to hug, to cradle, to change diapers, to

bathe, to sing a lullaby. Consider her miraculous milk. Even by the law of physiology a

mother’s womb is an authentic and truthful organ for nurturing life, not a vehicle for

death. Genetic!

ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

The Birth Control Bill attacks our Christian culture.

Our woman culture cannot regard the Filipina as a utilitarian object, a machine for

retooling social engineering as Herod, Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot did.

For centuries Catholicism nurtured a culture of respect, admiration, honor and

love for the Filipina. This lofty woman positioning has roots going back to Sacred

Scripture when God chose a humble woman, Virgin Mary of Nazareth, to be the mother

of Jesus Christ. The Magnificat is God’s ultimate honor accorded to feminism.

Our regard for womanhood is holistic. Body and soul. Mind and heart. Mystery

and reality. Mortality on earth. Immortality in the after-life. She is worth all the

blessings and commitments only the sacrament of matrimony can give on the day when

she’s the most beautiful bride in the world: “to have and to hold, for richer for poorer, in

sickness and in pain till death do us part.”

MOTHERHOOD AS AGAPE

Motherhood is her crowning glory. Motherhood. This is the earthly spirit of

Agape. It means high truths of love, care, sacrifice, bliss, peace and joy directed to others

specially children. Even the greatest painters of the Renaissance marvel at this unselfish

kind of love. Botticelli, Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael painted awe-inspiring

mother and child Madonnas.

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 The task of fatherhood is for all men to safeguard and nurture motherhood.

Primordial!

Family. The basic cell that is formative for children is family. To acquire virtues

and values for excellent constituent of his country, and spiritual values as heirs of God’s

kingdom.

Procreation. The miracle and mystery of life creation whereby a mother in a

unitive act with her husband and God as author of life. A logical reason why Filipino

parents instinctively call their children gifts from God.

POPE SWIMS AGAINST THE CURRENT

With confidence and courage, Pope Paul VI in 1968 promulgated Humanae Vitae,

the encyclical on the transmission of life, condemning aborticide for birth control. In

spite of contrarian opinions inside and outside the Vatican circles. The good Pope swam

against the current of practical materialism. He chose the biblical and truth-based route.

He used his excathedra power, “the bind and loose power” given by Christ to St. Peter

and his successors. Today the widespread social malaise encouraged by state-crafted

immoral law vindicates Pope Paul VI’s promulgation of Humanae Vitae.

Fidelity to the Church is fidelity to Christ. For Catholics, the bottom line is

obedience to the teachings of the Magisterium. A difficult thing to do for those who

disagree with the supreme pontiff and vicar of Christ on earth. Without humility,

obedience is impossible. To be humble a Catholic should always strive to be in a state of

grace, by means of daily prayers, frequent confession and communion. Accepting God’s

will in the spirit of Agape.

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 Fr. James B. Reuter’s favorite advice is, “God draws straight with crooked lines.”

Hilaire Belloc, the Catholic historian who wrote books on the major role of Christianity

in building Western civilization, says, “Without authority, there is no life.”

THE PILL AS MOTHER EVIL

The Pill entered the scene in the sixties and it became the icon of the much touted

Sexual Revolution. My old and witty golfer friend laughs at the term Sexual Revolution.

He calls it irresponsible fucking! Hahahaha!

The Pill turned out to be a “mother evil” whose multiplier effects disabled

the moral compass of glitzy lifestyle in modernistic centers of the world. Multiplier

effects such as the increase in numbers of divorced couples, broken homes, loveless

children, unwed mothers, teen suicides, child abuse, sexually transmitted diseases and

drug addiction among others. Empirical data abound in the files of city police blotters,

vice-squad arrests, city morgue forensic files, psychiatric asylums, post-trauma rehab

centers, psychiatric couches and of course the cemetery.

Our late and beloved Pope John Paul II called the Pill’s domino effect a “culture

of death.”

ENLIGHTENED SELF-CONFIDENCE

To bring life of a human being into this world is not a pure science technocracy,

nor political governance. The miracle and mystery of faith is involved, therefore life

creation is supernatural and God-caused. Consequently the taking of life is not for man

to decide. Only God the author/creator of life can define the purpose and integrity of

death. We simply cannot play God. The Church is the duly appointed (Tu es petrus)

interpreter/teacher of the word of God.

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 Catholics, whether congressmen or constituents, are duty bound to continuously

enrich and deepen their understanding of the fundamentals of faith so that they can be

competent in judging morality issues that crop up as civilization marches on.

On the controversial points of birth control the following books will be helpful in

combining faith with reason in evaluating the Birth Control Bill, which raises issues on

the Sanctity of Life and Dignity of Women, issues that will affect our future as a Christian

and democratic society:

Brave New Family by G.K. CHESTERTON

Edited by Alvaro de Silva. Published by Ignatius Press, San Francisco

The God Who Loves You by PETER KREEFT

Published by Ignatius Press, San Francisco

The Essential Pope Benedict XVI edited by JOHN THORNTON and SUSAN VARENE
Harper San Francisco

The Vindication of Humanae Vitae by MARY EBERSTADT

Copyright © First Things (August/September 2008)

Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church

(Minyong Ordoñez is a retired chairman of the Paris-based Publicis Communications

Group. He is a free-lance journalist and member of the Manila Overseas Press Club.
Email: encarbordonez@yahoo.com.ph)

Contact: Minyong Ordoñez

Residence: 842-8272
Mobile: 0918-9237745

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