DEPARTMENT of Bioethics chair Dr. Victoria Edna Monzon of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery discourages the use of contraceptives since it “dehumanizes” human life and sexuality.
Monzon explained in a bioethics seminar at the Medicine Auditorium last Nov. 15 that several contraceptives are in fact abortifacients, like birth-control pills which make the ovum hostile to the implantation of a fertilized egg cell.
She said, medical studies have proven that in its single-celled stage, a fertilized egg cell already bears a distinctive genetic code that determines a person’s appearance. Monzon said life begins with the fertilized egg cell and intake of a pill during the fertilization stage will induce abortion.
“Contraception separates the sexual and the procreative aspects of marital love and prevents the wife from realizing her gift of motherhood,” Monzon said in the “Love and Sexuality in a World of Diversity” seminar organized by senior Nursing students.
She also said a mandatory sex education among elementary pupils as proposed by House Bill No. 3773, could result in more abortion cases.
“If violent sex education is injected on children through books, movies and television, then their perception of sex is manipulated. That is why we are contesting this House bill,” Monzon said.
Monzon added that the contraceptives, which were originally given to married people to prevent more pregnancies, can cause side-effects such as breast and cervix cancer.
