On the value of life in the womb, Thu, 24 Jul 2003

Dear friends,

I write a letter for all of you to register my position about abortion and my strong opposition to any form of abortion whatever explanation and rationalization that pro-abortionist groups are propagating to the media and to the public especially young people.

I believe that reproductive health is a right of everyone however, human rights and the right to life must put into a multi-dimensional perspective not only on the interest of the contraceptive-producing corporations and from the concern only of a single sector. I believe in the context of looking realities from the multidimensional understanding of truth. Pros and cons argument are only two-dimensional approach. I think every single child in formation in the womb of a woman is a human being waiting to claim her own contribution to life.

Every act and advocacy of abortion is also a manifestation of our advocacy to abort every equally capable child male or female to whomever mothers bearing it. If a woman doesn’t want to become a parent because she was molested or harm let the child rights to be born be respected and let us gave the child an opportunity to fulfill her own destiny as a human being in this planet. I believe that those pro-abortionist groups are equally concerned for the upliftment of the quality of life we have today and equally protectors of human rights.

But protecting our rights means guarding our own actions that we are not just protecting our lives yet destroying the lives of other and harming people on the other side, Especially the child in the forming stage inside the womb who are being killed in a notorious form of genocide. If we are genuine advocates of human rights, we must defend human rights from the humane actsAnd not for the expense of others. Sometimes we need also our heart in making our own advocacy.

I invite people to share their thoughts about what life is and what they have in mind with this topic. My positions here are just a few arguments I have and I have more but I think sharing ideas must be from the context of questions and preparedness of the listeners.

Dear friends in the light, (PART 2)

Many youth advocates share their same views as me against abortion. It is interesting that many of you still believe that life is not a piece of argument and every part of human being is important and worthy to defend with. I believe that life in any form have their own great and lesser function and therefore must be treated with kindness and special care even if they don't have any value to us on the basis of our understanding.

This is not to mention other life forms in the eco- system and beyond that is equally disrupted and harmed by pseudo advocates of development or social changes. It is remarkable that many of you are raising your little voices in the wilderness of modernity.

I guess in the proper time real culture of life will be realized by citizens of life and the culture of death will be slowly eradicated in the coming generations. But first, let us activate our conscience and not focusing our minds on the "Laws of men" but to the Cosmic Law in our Nature where conscience is truly belong. When conscience was forgotten by humanity, the” Laws of men" was conceived to debate and legislated. The moment our conscience become active and alive and recognized by many, laws, legislators and lawyers and others advocates of the laws of men will be meaningless at all.

Let us start within us. Conscience is the start to the genuine road of development and empowerment. Without conscience, our friends, and life it self will be reduce only to an object and not as partners and potentials of creative life. may your conscience within you speak to you!

-abet banico (manila 2003)