Reproductive Habagat

RH, given the availability of existing laws on family relations and parental authority and the presence of the DOH, DSWD, DOST, DEPED etc.and their budgets, has the proposed superfluity of offering a cup of expensive wine to a man submerged in a pool of distilled water -perhaps well-intentioned but an unnecessary and wasteful contamination.

The problem with RH is that it seems to propose working on the theory that sexual promiscuity is a casual right (the supposed right to freedom from stress through sexual, or orgasmic, relief). A Catholic, such as I wish to believe I am, regards sexual intercourse as a mere privilege, it being endowed with spiritual dimensions that should be treated with reverence; otherwise, the act would just be the vulgar clashing of tools and channels for urination to produce stimulation of nerves that

culminate in intense sensation not unlike the pleasures of defecation or the titillation of rubbing to neutralize athlete's foot!!

Contraceptives are not necessary for morally-safe sexual release since indeed mother nature provided man/woman with such release : "Wet dreams"; "windows of pleasure" ( non-ovulation periods); menopause; in-born infertility,etc. Mother nature provides us, rich or poor, with such harmless reliefs. All that nature requires of us is discipline patience and self-restraint, which RH seems not to encourage/prioritize.

There is not much debate on the fact that supposed RH goal-centered initiatives are already covered by existing laws and programs.Population-control policies have been tried since the '70s! .They only succeeded in MORAL DECONTROL!

When I want bread I go to the nearest bakery; for haircut, barbershop; for nails and screws ,Hardware store. I believe in the hierarchy of experience, expertise and excellence.So when I am faced with moral-value questions I seek the wisdom of the Catholic church. Our responsible parents taught us to obey priests( who can trace the origin of their spiritual authority through an unbroken chain of modern and ancient ordinations) and, even in these aging/hopefully-mellowing years, why not? If only to avoid the Rampaging Hurricane of deregulated morality!

Respectfully submitted, all for Almighty God ALways

Roberto Siccuan De Alban Sampaloc, for Tumauini, Isabela