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E L I E FA bi-monthly pro-life newsletter : July August 1998
RFLI, C/o. St. Martha's Hospital,
Bangalore GPO 560 001, India. Tel: 091-080- 2246806 / 080- 2275081
THE WAY WE ARE
Life in today’s society is definitely a puzzle. We are continuously being pulled between two apparently different worlds : that of constant technological innovations, always straining toward the future, and a more conservative world of cultural values inherited from the past, which reflects our backgrounds.
It is sometimes difficult to maintain our balance. On one hand, we know that we would not now be enjoying the benefits of the present technological revolution were it not for the efforts of others before us. On the other hand, our attention is attracted by the novelty of new discoveries and their applications.
People react in varying ways. Some refuse to be tempted by the constant stream of new products like the Internet or computers. Others try to uproot from their souls values of the past which have guided people for generations, as if these were an obstacle to progress.
Here’s where we see some conflict. A typical example is when we pit man against the computer in a chess competition, forgetting that computers are also programmed by human beings, and that humans are not machines. Or the phenomena of surrogate motherhood and attempts to clone human beings, treating babies as just another commodity to be mass-produced, skirting inevitable ethical questions. Or giant corporations’ latest approach to economics, where what counts is to maximize stockholders’ returns on their investment, even if this means laying off thousands of employees.
We often forget that the human being is one entity - body and soul. We cannot set aside our culture, upbringing, and history just to swap it for an apparently easier life-style, or for greater efficiency. At the same time, we cannot always cling to the good old days as if present advances in technology were all to be shunned. Economic achievements , speedy communications, greater opportunities are just the means to build a better society, which means a community of people or of peoples who respect each other’s differences and freedom.
There is no need to be scared of the future, or of the past. Rooted in the past let us look to the future, maintaining our integrity and cultural values.
We can achieve this true balance in our everyday lives by going beyond first impressions and basing our choices not on nostalgia or dreams of the future, but on what really distinguishes us from animals, the possibility to profoundly affect one another’s lives for the better, as unique and rational spirits living in human bodies. We can do it by opening up our horizons, accepting the innovations of today’s society as a fruit of the creative spirit with which God has gifted the human race, and at the same time being rooted in a true vision of life, our traditions have wisely bequeathed to us.
Manuel D. Fesarillo, Chief Editor, Voices for Life.
I REMEMBER
I remember there was a woman who had twelve children, and the first was terribly disabled, terribly handicapped. I cannot describe what the child was like mentally or physically . I offered to take that child to our home, where we have so many like it. But she started crying and she said to me, "Mother, don’t say that ! She is to me and to my family the greatest gift of God. All our love is centered on her. Our lives would be empty if you take her from us." This is an understanding love!
Mother Teresa
THE PRECIOUS ONE
When a son is born, sweets are distributed to announce his birth. When a girl is born, the sound of tears rents the air.
Sons are considered as an asset, essential to light funeral pyres, to ensure the continuation of the lineage, and provide economic support to their parents in the latter’s old age. The girl is seen as a liability, a drain on the family’s resources. Naturally she herself grows up in this hostile environment and regards her own daughter in the same light.
The girl child is discriminated against from birth - and indeed, with recent technological advances, even before birth with prenatal sex determination tests, followed by abortions if the verdict is a girl. Those allowed to survive often meet their death soon after by strangulation, drowning or by being buried alive.
Every year, 12 million girls are born, 1.5 million die before their first birthday, another 8,50,000 before their fifth and only 9 million will be alive at the age of 15. Those who live are confronted with a world employment and even dignity and respect.
The girl child is given less breast milk and for shorter periods than boys. As a young girl, the cause of her malnourishment is not so much the lack of food as lack of access to food. She is given less food, eats last and often gets only the left-overs. The discrimination does not end there. A girls health is of minor significant and mortality among girls is higher, reflected in the abysmal sex ratio.
As young girls, they assist their mothers in house old chores instead of going to school. They are denied schooling and education, for as a liability why should scarce resources be wasted on them? As a result of warped culture notions that a girls place is in the home, helping with domestic or home-based work, that a girl needs ‘protection’ from the outside world, and that education is a waste, girls constitute more than half the illiterate children in the age group of 5 to 9 years and 65% in the 10 to 14 age group.
Young girls do not go out to play. Instead they argument the family income,
Despite the child labour (Prohibition & Regulation) Act of 1986, children, particularly girls, continue to work in hazardous and non-remunerative occupations. The work of girls is usually invisible, as it is primarily in the domestic which sphere, which is described as beyond qualification. Girls help with household chores of cooking, cleaning, caring for younger siblings and fetching fuel and fodder.
As domestic servants, girls are poorly paid and often work more than 10 hours a day. Her adolescent years are filled with the trauma of early sexual maturity, early marriage, precarious pregnancies and child births, when she herself is physically unfit as a result of the double burden : discrimination and work.
Despite the endless list of Acts - the Sharada Act, the Child Marriage Restraint Act, Property Right Act, Maternity Benefit Act, Anti-Dowry Act etc. The year of the girl child has drawn to a close, but her experience remains unchanged. It is evident that laws alone cannot reach the deep-rooted causes of the plight of the girl child. Changes in self-perception, also changes in attitudes, must be brought about for her to shake the shackles of discrimination. To do this, our strategies must involve the media, the community, the family, the government and voluntary organisations. We must recognise the fact, that the quality of future generations both male & female cannot be realised without first ensuring the all-round health, well being and dignity of our young girls and women.
T.Neerajakshi , Promotional Secretary, Voluntary Health Association of Karnataka, Bangalore.
HUMANITY A HOPE ……….. MY EXPERIENCES WITH SEX WORKERS
As an activist working with sex workers, I have been witness to the crudest human suffering; a suffering which has hardened every thread of sensitivity. But within this harsh reality, there are cherishing moments which rekindle and resurrect your trust and hope in humanity.
One such instance occurred a few months back when a young mentally retarded girl was sold to a brothel for less than five hundred rupees.
My shock knew no bounds when few of the sex workers came and requested me to admit this girl to an Ashram or in a Half-Way Home. I was just coming to terms with this request when a delegation of pimps and local rowdies also came with the same request. When asked why they where so interested in this girl, the common reply was that they were disturbed to see a girl who had no knowledge of what was happening to her, being exploited brutally by the customer. (As this was a street and girls mostly used a lodge for their business, there was hardly any control over the number of customers). One young sex worker broke down, narrating how she had seen a customer using this girl and walking away, throwing a Rupee coin at her. Some others who had noticed the sacred thread worn by the girl, felt it was their obligation to help her. (Lingayat which is an upper caste, have women wearing the sacred thread).
The events which followed were historic, being the first time when sex workers, pimps and local rowdies came together as a united front to help a helpless, innocent victim. Co-incidentally, the whereabouts and the address of the girl was found out by tracing the man who had sold her. During this time, a lodge-owner saw to the safety and security of the girl.
It was indeed a rejoicing moment when five autorickshaws of sex workers, pimps and rowdies returned the girl back to her village convincing her relatives of her purity. (Each one of them told the relatives how the girl had lost her way and how they had kept her in their homes).
Isn’t it encouraging to find such humane sensitivity in the most degraded, dehumanised side of humanity! So it is not surprising to have a realistic hope for a day when we will look beyond our shallow existence, not just to respect life but to cherish it!
-- By Miss K. Sunitha, B.Sc. Environ Science, MSW Psychiatrist Social Work - an activist working with sex workers in Bangalore.
SEX IS POWERFUL
Sex is powerful and mysterious,
It seems to have a power all its own
Strong enough to overcome Willpower and good sense
And make people mess up their lives.
Sex is fascinating
I like to talk about it with friends.
It’s exciting in a way no other subject is.
But it’s scary too.
I know something about sex,
From parents, friends and teachers,
But I don’t always know what’s true
And I’m too embarrassed to ask anyone.
Help me to understand about
sex and sexuality, Lord,
And give me a good attitude about it.
Help me to remember it’s not something
dirty or shameful or funny,
But that it is one of your gifts.
Because this gift is so powerful
You’ve set boundaries around it
So we don’t use it to hurt ourselves or
the other people.
Help me to know what the
boundaries are for me
At this time in my life.
Help me to enjoy this powerful gift
Within the boundaries you’ve set.
Amen.
(Source unknown)
R. F. L. I PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE JUNE - JULY 1998
Programmes on Self Awareness, Worth & Dignity of a Human Person, Growing in Love and Relationship, Human Sexuality, Respect For Life (RFL) & AIDS were conducted by Sr. Annunciata, Mrs. Barbra Naidu & Mrs. Phyllis Farias, Sessions on Marriage Preparation, Family Life Education Natural, Family Planning and Human Sexuality were conducted by Mrs. Kumari Baptist in Tamil & Kannada. Fr. Cruice Sanjivi CSsR proclaimed the Prolife message through his homilies.
6 . 6 . 98 - Don Bosco Centre, Bangalore - 84 Sexuality, RFL, 28 girls
7 . 6 . 98 - St. Joseph’s Church Pro-Life theme 500 people Lingarajapuram 12 . 6 . 98 & - St. Euphrasia’s High School Preciousness of Life, 122 students 13 . 6 . 98 Self Awareness, RFL Std. X Communication & Conflict in Family Human Sexuality, Peer pressure
13 . 6 . 98 - Devarajurs Colony Human Sexuality, RFL (slum) 25 girls
14 . 6 . 98 - St. Joseph’s Church Lingarajapuram, B’lore - 84. Pro-Life theme 500 people
17 . 6 . 98 - St. Euphrasia’s High School Pro-Life theme Child Abuse 130 students & HIV / AIDS, Human Sexuality Std. IX 18 . 6 . 98
19 . 6 . 98 - St. Euphrasia’s H. Pry. School Self Awareness, Growing in love & Relationship, Peer Pressure, Child Sexual Abuse, HIV / AIDS 180 students. Std. VIII
20 . 6 . 98 - Don Bosco Centre, Bangalore - 84 Human Sexuality, Relationships in family 25 girls
21 . 6 . 98 - Holy Ghost Church Pro-Life theme 800 people
27 . 6 . 98 - Stella Maris H. School Self Awareness, RFL, Growing in love & 190 students Relationship, Child abuse, Peer Pressure. Std. IX
27 . 6 . 98 - Devarajurs Colony Family Life, NFP 25 ladies
4 . 7 . 98 - Don Bosco Centre Family Life, Sex Education, Status of Women in India, AIDS 56 ladies
5 . 7 . 98 - St. Joseph’s Church Pro-Life theme 500 people Lingarajapuram
9 . 7 . 98 - St. Euphrasia’s M. Pry. School Preciousness of Life 86 girls Self Esteem, RFL Std. VII
11 . 7 . 98 - St. Charles H. School Human Sexuality, RFL 130 girls Std. X
11 . 7 . 98 - Devarajurs Colony Family Life, Sex Education 50 ladies
12 . 7 . 98 - St. Joseph’s Church Pro-Life theme 500 people Lingarajapuram
17 . 7 . 98 - Mariam Nilayam H. School Preciousness of Life, Relationships 150 boys & girls Human Sexuality, RFL
18 . 7 . 98 - Cluny Convent H. School Preciousness of Life, 130 girls Malleswaram Human Sexuality, RFL
18 . 7 . 98 - Don Bosco Centre, Bangalore - 84 Family Life, Health & Environment 55 ladies
19 . 7 . 98 - St. Joseph’s Evening College. Self- awareness, Peer pressure, 80 students Growing in love & Relationship, II & III year Degree Human Sexuality
23 . 7 . 98 - RFL Hall Growing in love & Relationship 20 persons
24 . 7 . 98 - Stella Maris High School Human Sexuality, RFL 180 students Std. X
25 . 7 . 98 - Devarajurs Colony Family Life, Sex Education 50 ladies
28 . 7 . 98 - Gnanaprakasam Vidyashala Preciousness of Life, RFL 40 boys & girls Human Sexuality Std. X
30 . 7 . 98 - RFL Hall Preciousness of Life, Abortions 20 persons
31 . 7 . 98 - Mary Immaculate H. School Preciousness of Life, RFL, 120 students Human Sexuality Std. X
UPCOMING
August 15 & 16 - Programme in St. Anthony’s Parish, Belgaum by Mrs. Phyllis Farias, Mrs. Barbra Naidu & Sr. M. Annunciata RGS.
September 15 & 16 - Programme in Diocese of Karwar by Dr. John M. Ipye & Sr. M. Annunciata RGS.
September 19 & 20 - Cultural Feste for Students Nursing, Teachers Training and Technical institutions and College.
October 1 & 2 : National Conference "Celebrating Life & Family Values" by CREST. Contact : 5453076
Within the Picture of a Heart *************************
In Bangalore we have been blessed to have many support groups for almost every affliction or social need. We do not have a support group to deal with women with P.A.S (Post Abortion Syndrome) and with UNWED MOTHERS except for St. Michael’s Home. Being Socially frowned upon, this vast section of women are left to picture of UNWED MOTHER find for / heal themselves with sometimes disastrous results. I strongly feel they need our support and help and this could be a project close to my heart . I would appreciate some responses on the idea. Any suggestions or volunteers would be most welcome. Do write in ! Sr. M. Annuntiata RGS.
I’d just like to say
WORLD WIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER
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MY EXPERIENCES …………. LIFE IS PRECIOUS AND UNIQUE !!
Only very recently have I perceived the psycho-social problems associated with AIDS and the need of imparting value based Sex Education to Teenagers. Hence I attended an awareness - cum - Training programme for Sex Educators in April 98 at St. Martha’s Hospital . This programme had been admirably arranged by Sr. Annuntiata, under the auspices of ‘Respect For Life - India’. The three day programme was very comprehensive and informative. The relevant topics were discussed by a team of well informed and committed speakers . The participants interacted very actively. There was much to be learnt from the personal sharing of the participants. I hope this programme will become for me and many others a small launching pad in our endeavours to become virtue - based Sex Educators.
Sr. Annunciata invited me to join her at a two - day seminar she was giving, on values and Sex education, to the std IX girls at St. Euphrasia’s H. School. It was my first experience, and I stood to gain a lot. It was so heart warming to see Sr. Annuntiata so deeply immersed in her joy of sharing her love and values with the eager young girls. I was touched to see them often rapt in attention with their faces expressing, curiosity, shyness, wonder, shock, enlightenment and happiness. Because of Sister’s warmth, simplicity and open heartedness the children were comfortable and very responsive, their initial hesitancy progressing to an uninhibited respectful curiosity.
Below are a few extracts from what the girls wrote at the end of the seminar regarding their impressions and suggestions.
There were two suggestions voiced by many of the students 1. To impart THE PRECIOUSNESS OF LIFE to those who were vulnerable due to ignorance, misconception and nonethical values. 2. To help people to realise the IMPORTANCE OF VIRGINITY / CHASTITY IN ONE’S LIFE.
I hope I have been able to evince a realisation of the need for value based Sex Education, as this experience did to me!.
By Dr. Henrietta D’Costa, Indiranagar
Zest For Life …..
It was purely by chance that I met him … let me call him Mr. M. He was sitting in a cosy corner of a popular restaurant in a large hotel where I went to meet a friend. My friend introduced him to me and we sat at the table. M was a cheerful, voluble chap, and chatted away about umpteen things under the sun. During the course of the conversation, I learnt that he was a computer whiz kid and talked about the computers of the future with great enthusiasm. I was impressed by his intelligence and tremendous grasp of the subject he loved. After a while we started talking about sports and he told us how computers can help train cricket batsmen of the future! I thought he was joking, till he explained, with the help of diagram’s, (written on paper napkins with the Hotel monogram !) that the bowling of a pace bowler or a spinner can be simulated and that a budding batsman can learn a lot about how to handle complex bowling skills armed with computer-based knowledge ! Yes, I was enthralled by this man who had such a vigour of thinking and so much to do in life. It appeared as though there was not a moment for him to lose, not a moment to waste. My friend was watching with amusement, and I thought that my evening was well spent. I was thinking also how life for this man was indeed a continual celebration.
It was getting late and I had to leave. I thanked my host and my new friend, and excused myself. As I was walking, something made me glance back at the table I was leaving. Then I caught a glimpse of the of the gleaming rims of the wheels of the chair in which Mr. M. sat ! I staggered into the cool night air, with a heart filled with mixed emotions …..
Dr. Om Prakash St. Martha’s Hospital.
REAPING THE FRUIT OF CONTRACEPTIVE MENTALITY
Contraceptive mentality is the "slippery slope" that endorses sexual indulgence without being conscious of consequences nor responsibilities. It allows men access to women’s bodies without being concerned about consequences and therefore contributed a great deal of the objectification of women. Feminist groups thought that by indulging and promoting "sexual freedom" they would be liberated from "the bondage of motherhood" but up to now they don’t seem to grasp that the problem of rape and child abuse are actually offshoots of these concepts expounded by secular humanism. They consider homosexual relationship as the ultimate in birth control since such relationships can never result to conception. Children are seen as "unnecessary burdens" of sexual indulgence. They are simply regarded as properties that one may or may not have, like a house or a car. Therefore, children are no longer regarded as "persons" made in the image and likeness of God to be loved and nurtured ….. they are treated like personal belongings that one can dispose of and used at will in and out of the womb. As Mother Teresa says "If a mother can kill the child in her own womb, what could stop us from killing one another ?" We worry and cry out to the high heavens for the current rise of victims of child abuse - the endorsement of this abominable crime actually started with the legalisation of ABORTION - the ULTIMATE IN CHILD ABUSE!. Angelita Miguel- Aguirre, M.D., F.P.C.P.
BAN VULGARITY AND OBSCENITY
The Sunday Times of India, some time ago, reported of a unanimous opinion of the MLCs that the Maharashtra government should nag the Centre to clamp a ban on obscene and vulgar TV serials and advertisements. This is not enough. Today, ninety-nine per cent of Indian movies are loaded with nothing but sex and violence. They should also be banned. In the old days, we used to criticise western films for showing too much sex and violence, harmful to the younger generation. Now, however, we are producing more nasty and brutal TV serials and feature films than other countries, little realising the irreparable damage they do to the moral fabric of our society. Can anyone deny that obscene films and vulgar advertisements are responsible for the ever growing increase in crime ?
According to figure released by the Mumbai police, 1995 saw increase in crime by 14 per cent (The Times of India, January 5, 1996) and the profile attributed this to proliferation of obscene literature, nasty and brutal films. There can be no two opinions on this finding of the Mumbai police. It is time that right-thinking people in our country worked towards the creation of a morally sound and secure society, so that their children will not be assaulted, raped and murdered in broad daylight.
Anthony Prakash, Malad, Mumbai
I’d just like to say -------
THE HUMAN GENETICS ADVISORY COMMISSION (HGAC) & Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) U.K are asking for public views before making fuller recommendation.
It is only 1 year since DOLLY - a clone from the udder cells of an adult ewe - hit the headlines from the Roslin Institute, Edinburough. Now we have Mr.Jefferson - ‘The latest clone’
The potentials, limitations and limits must be fully understood before any such legislation comes out - this announcement will open a crack/door towards some type of human cloning. Right now Sandra Thomas (Director Independent Council of Bioethics - U.K) says it is good to have public debate before any step is taken.
Mrs.Deech, Head (HFEA) emphasised that till date no one has asked for licence to human embryo cloning but says, future application will definitely come up. Of course she adds that these will meet strict rules structures which will include: (a) No cloning of the total human being (b) No implanting of a cloned embryo into a women’s womb, allowing it to develop into foetus.
However, there is no explicit law to prevent the process being carried out - This is a very serious ethical concern for the human race.
ILKA M. VARMA Chief Medical Officer & Gynacologist C.I.S.F, SECUNDRABAD.
Do you know if your child is "Educated" ?
Sex Education must be a serious concern for parents. If dealt with at home, careful planning, attention to details or terminology and soliciting advice may be essential.
If Sex Education is dealt with in schools, we have an obligation to find out just what is taught. Is it strictly clinical ? Are any sexually biased attitudes adopted under the guise of kind advice ? Are there any religious overtones ?
There are aspects one would want to know about. Too many people tend to brush aside Sex Education as something awkward and hope the child may "pick up" what it needs to know along the way. Our world today is far too dangerous a place to risk a random selection of information. You and your child may have to one day face the consequences of such a choice.
Children accept the facts of life amazingly well. Give them time to come back with a list of questions which you can go through and discuss one by one.
These home discussions also provide a platform to pass on social attitudes, personal thinking and religious belief associated with sex.
Dr. Olinda Timms Bangalore.
Pro-Life News
NEW DELHI - DRUG BANNED
Quinacrine, a dangerous drug used for female sterilization, will be banned in India, and those who distribute it will be prosecuted. This was announced by the head of the government’s Drug policy Enforcement wing and a pledge to India’s Federal Supreme Court. Women’s group had charged that more than 30,000 women had been given the drug without their knowledge or consent, many of them sustaining severe medical injuries from it.
QUINACRINE FOR BIRTH CONTROL ?
This is a new one for many people. It is a toxic chemical substance that is inserted from below up into the womb and placed next to the openings of each of her fallopian tubes. It causes acute inflammation and scarring and, in many cases, results in sterilizing her. Most of the work on this has been done by two doctors in Georgia who have been almost totally financed by Ford Foundation. Their experimentation has been on Third World women. To date, the World Health Organisation and International Planned Parenthood are not recommending its use. The pro-abortion Family Health International has confirmed that quinacrine can cause genetic damage in the animals used for experimentation. No word about the completely unauthorized experimentation in human women (guinea pigs ?) in Third World countries. IRLF newsletter May / June 1998
CHINA - ONE CHILD :
Due to China’s one-child policy, voluntary sex selection and female infanticide, a Harvard researcher has found that, among children born in the late 1980’s, there are 123 men for every 100 women. She warns that 20 years from now almost one-fourth of young Chinese men will be unable to find wives and predicts this will lead to increased crime, prostitution and divorce. World Magazine, Oct, ’97, Page 9
FETAL PAIN DURING ABORTION :
A Los Angeles Country lawmaker, California Assembly man George Runner, Jr., is introducing a bill to require that pain-killer drugs be given to an unborn baby before the unborn baby is killed in a late abortion. Quoting him : "These babies are old enough to survive pain?" He noted that the Royal College of OB & GYN had advised British doctors to administer anaesthesia to fetuses in late-term abortions and for certain testing.
CANADA : PRO- EUTHANASIA MOTION DEFEATED :
A motion aimed toward legalizing assisted suicide was voted down in the Canadian House of Commons on March 25 by vote of 165-66.
EUROPE : MORE COFFINS THAN CRADLES
Out of 35 nations (east and west), only Muslim Albania and little Catholic Malta still have reproductive birth-rates : Albania, 2.8 children per family, and Malta, 2.4, the highest in Western Europe. It’s shocking, but "Catholic" Italy has the world’s lowest birth-rate, a mere 1.2 children per family -one child per family below the replacement level ! (A nation needs 2.2 children per family just to replace itself.) HLI Special Report No. 161
JAPAN 1998
Continuing a report on the fate of elderly childless couples in Japan. Having opted not to rear children as it would affect their careers and productivity, they find old age a lonely experience. They now "hire" a family - young boy , girl or middle aged man who is paid to spend time with them, talk, attend to sundry needs and be present to celebrate festivals or birthdays. Family for a fee ? Dr. Olinda Timms.
We are glad to inform you that RESPECT FOR LIFE INDIA has secured Exemption under Section 80G of The Income Tax Act 1961, vide TRUST/718/10G/402/97 - 98/CIT - II valid up to 31 . 3 . 99
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