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Breaking
Point
By Rosette Correa
To a lot of people today, it’s
all about choices and freedoms. It’s
“my right, my choice” to just about
anything. It’s about MY food to eat, MY
movies to watch, MY clothes to wear,
MY ideology to pervade throughout
society even if others don’t agree to it.
Society has come to a point where it
doesn’t matter what others think, feel
and say about MY choice - it’s their
problem, not mine.
Abortion is a highly debated
topic in North America because of the
great divide that separates the pro-
choice from the pro-life advocates.
On a Netflix documentary recently,
the issue was reduced to one thing -
which Chief Justice of what political
party appointed him/her would
put down his/her signature on the
call to reverse the 1973 landmark
decision Roe Vs. Wade, which gave
women the right to seek an abortion
up to the second trimester. Since
1973, Republican standard bearers
have chosen to backup Evangelical
Christians who call for the reversal
of Roe Vs Wade and defund Planned
Parenthood, the biggest supplier of
abortions since the 1980s, as well
as artificial contraception and dead
baby parts for stem cell research.
To date, there is a stalemate as to
which way the vote for the reversal
would sway, as Democrats Clinton’s
and Obama’s presidencies put three
pro-choice justices in the SC, and it
is the hope of pro-life advocates that
Republican backed Brett Kavanaugh’s
appointment to the Supreme Court
Bulong
Pulungan
By Deedee Siytangco
Reprinted from Manila Bulletin
ANGEL THOUGHTS
‘Every Artist was once
an amateur.’ —Ralph Waldo
Emmerson
‘Creativity takes courage.’ —
Henri Matisse
On another “rare night out”
for this grandma, we went to Solaire
for “The Best of Aliw” concert.
The gaming tables were full as
with slot machines. We glided past
them to have dinner with September
celebrant, Alice de la Cruz, her
husband Joel, Cecile Patricio of the
SM Group, and Beth Sison Tagle,
with another September celebrant,
Charo Yu and her son Jay.
Then on to the musical, which
we learned, was a collaboration by
The Right to Choose Life
would finally be the signature
that would reverse the abortion
law. There are already many
states who have reduced the number
of abortion clinics, especially after
the exposure of partial late terms
abortions, and many are following
suit.
Do you notice anything?
While politicians and pro-
choice advocates talk about women’s
rights to reproductive health and
abortion, there is no mention about
the unborn child, or his/her right to
live. It’s all about science, healthcare
for women, and their right to choose.
One congressman from Texas asked,
“What if the mother had a conversation
with her unborn child? What would
the child tell his/her mother?” Still,
the angry crowd in Texas shouted,
“Women’s rights! Women’s’ rights!”
and nothing about the rights of the
unborn child. It doesn’t really matter,
as Hillary Clinton herself said, because
the unborn person doesn’t have
constitutional rights. I’m confused.
She used the word “person” to
describe what was inside the womb,
and if you are a person, you are a
citizen of a country, therefore, you
have rights. If the “thing” inside the
mother’s womb is not a person yet,
what is it that Hillary Clinton carried in
her womb for nine months before she
came out as Chelsea Clinton? In the
States, it’s a political battle for pro-
choice advocates, while it is a moral
one for pro-lifers. Who cares what the
child will feel, being torn apart , limb
by limb, while the abortion doctor
counts the number of pieces it has
on the tray beside the mother who is
both in physical and
psychological agony
over a decision
she had to make
because the state
said it was okay to
kill her own child?
Abortion
affects
both the mother
and child, and many
studies have seen its
effects on women
for many years. The
public just doesn’t
get to see it. They
only get the side
that says the rights
of a woman have
been upheld, even
though the rights
of the unborn baby
were not.
And
what
about
Canada?
While the States has
the “decency” to discuss and debate
on the topic, Canada has no law
on the termination of pregnancies.
A pregnancy can be terminated up
to the ninth month of pregnancy. In
more gruesome terms, a child can be
murdered until the time that it is about
to enter into the world. Canada has
no laws, either federal or provincial,
governing when abortion may not be
performed. If you phone the College
of Physician and Surgeons of Ontario,
they will tell you there is no abortion
regulation, but it is up to each
individual physician. To date, about
110,000 abortions are performed in
Canada yearly, and 77% of people
do not know that Canada has no law
on abortion. While the goal is not to
have it at all, to at least protect fetal
life in the late stages of pregnancy,
as Parliament was told by Canadian
Supreme Court in the 1970s , should
be enforced. While we waste time
working on laws on how to distribute
marijuana, and wondering who to vote
for in the next elections who would
ruin our dreams of owning a home,
hundreds of Canadians die every day
because they are aborted.
September 30 is Life Chain,
and will h appen all over Vancouver.
Families, individuals, and communities
who value life will let the city know
that it regards all human life as sacred
- from conception to its natural end.
Where will you be on that day?
MUSIC, POETRY, AND DANCE AT THE
‘BEST OF ALIW’
Aliw Awards Foundation, Inc., the
Inner Wheel Clubs of the Philippines,
District 381, and Solaire Resort
and Casino. Solaire, it seems, likes
encouraging OPM performances,
so we had a first class theater.
Established in 1976, the AAFI
started the practice of bringing
together its top awardees in one
show called the Entertainers of the
Year in 2006, to give the public
the opportunity to watch great
entertainment.
This year, Elizabeth Sison
Tagle, 381 District chairman of the
Inner Wheel Clubs of the Philippines
and former AAFI president, agreed
to co-produce the project, thus
hitting two birds with one stone by
helping the two organizations close
to her heart raise funds for their
projects and providing the public
with the best entertainment possible
in one magical night. Beth was
very millennially dressed that night,
shimmering in her denims and her
sequined rubber loafers—talk about
bling!
Solaire Resort and Casino, in
line with its objective of promoting
OPM and Filipino artists, offered
The Theatre as a venue for “The
Best of Aliw.” Since this was a first
for all three, it turned out to be not
so much a financial but an artistic,
creative success.
Freddie Santos, Aliw Hall
of Famer, is to be credited for the
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innovative presentation of combining
song, dance, instrument, and
poetry in a single show. From the
start, he wanted this concert to be
different from every other concerts
presented in the Philippines. And he
succeeded. So, kudos, Freddie!
The
talented
cast
enthusiastically agreed to recite the
poems chosen by Freddie in different
dialects and languages. Stars of
today and yesteryears took turns in
reciting the poems Direk Freddie
assigned to them. The concert was
truly unique, with the lovely young
dancers of the Halili-Cruz Dance
Company performing between the
stars’ numbers and Merjohn Lagaya
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