Healthy Reproduction
Misleading term to mask the claim through international agencies impose on poor countries’ anti-life mentality, to prevent human development, which threatens the supremacy of the rich world.
The term reproductive health is disseminated massively following preparatory documents for the so-called major conferences of the 90s “, organized by the UN: Rio de Janeiro, on the environment, in 1992, Vienna on Human Rights in 1993, The Cairo Population and Development in 1994; Copenhagen on Social Development and Beijing on Women in 1995, Istanbul on human habitat, and Rome on world food security in 1996.
As a consequence the term reproductive health has been ideological. Moreover, the fact of separating the right to health in general and to focus especially on the right to reproductive health aspects, is already making ideological stance.
Despite repeated statements that, among other things, seeks an improvement of reproductive health to prevent abortions, it is no less, at least, naive.
Given the stagnation of discussions during the preparatory meetings for the Cairo Conference (1994), the WHO representative at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Andrew J. Joseph, asked a number of clarifications to the then Director of the Division of Family Health WHO, Tormie Turmen. The consultations were on exactly what content is included in the term fertility regulation as part of reproductive health. The answer was that fertility regulation as part of reproductive health includes family planning, abortion, breastfeeding and delayed age of marriage.
Include reproductive health called human rights is part of the “reintrepretacion” of human rights for them at the service of a draft global power of the central countries. Only this will explain:
- The forced sterilizations (for example in Peru, among the refugees from Kosovo, etc.).
- Refusing to give information to women about the abortifacient effects of some contraceptives or negative side effects to the overall health of these or other contraceptives;
- Insisting purely ideological, as in the case of Mexico, to change the wording of medical codes, saying that pregnancy begins at implantation, not conception;
- The denial of the right to conscientious objection of doctors who do not want to prescribe certain contraceptives;
- The stubbornness to include reproductive health as a necessary step for access to credit from institutions such as the World Bank.
This explains, in part, the opposition of the three great monotheistic religions (Catholic, Islamic and large segments of Judaism) to accept fully and without reservation all matters relating to reproductive health. In fact, the representative of the Philippines in a UN meeting held in Canada in 1999, said: “Reproductive health is a term we use to fool Catholics, and thus able to work in abortion.”
It’s not ignore the negative consequences for individuals and society of teen pregnancy, but noted that in any country (eg USA, France, Spain) has decreased the amount of teenage pregnancies using reproductive health plans. And the number of surgical abortions has continued to increase, so that is not enough to avoid providing only the “morning after pill (levonorgestrel and etilestradiol), which is abortion, but also there are proposals to provide products based on mifepristone and misoprostol, which have an abortive effect more intense and extended in time.
Nor can we ignore the deaths from abortion, if that is punishable by law. But first, they insisted only and does not compare with figures of deaths where abortion is authorized by law (eg USA, Germany). Second, do not talk about the indiscriminate distribution of mechanical or chemical means to prevent conception, resulting in increased levels of other diseases, which can be fatal. Thirdly, it is reported that despite the distribution of contraceptives and the saturation of information on reproductive issues, the number of legalized abortions is increasing (eg Spain, USA). And fourth, do not take into account that each abortion or not followed the death of the mother always involves a death of the child.
As it is raised in today’s society it really violates human rights is the term reproductive health and what he brings. To find real solutions to the problems of the reproductive aspect of human health must be another way – education in general and in particular, the value of one person and “the other”;
- Strengthening the family, improved working conditions, especially women, assessment and status of motherhood.