Insane reaction from the left against abstinence message from Brazil’s Bolsonaro administration to teenagers
By Julio Severo
Making a stir, the New
York Times said “Brazil’s minister for women and families, an evangelical
pastor, formulated a new abstinence campaign in consultation with a religious
group,” adding, “Brazil’s far-right government has a message for adolescents as
the nation grapples with a stubbornly high teenage pregnancy rate and rising
H.I.V. infections: Save sex for marriage.”
Basically, their message was that
teenagers should be taught that they could make lots of sex — but only
contracepted sex. And they promised that by following their enlightened
guidance, there would be lots of contraception devices and information for
teenagers to make sex and there would not be stubbornly high teenage pregnancy
rate and rising H.I.V. infections in the future. We are in the future.
Their promises were fully fulfilled. Since
1992 Brazilian schools have been inundated with comprehensive sex education,
with teenagers having access to every kind of birth control you can imagine and
not imagine. And what does Brazil see today as result of such contracepted free
sex policy for teenagers? By the own admission of the New York Times,
“stubbornly high teenage pregnancy rate and rising H.I.V. infections.”
They failed. Now do they want fight a
Pentecostal minister who is just offering another option to teenagers? On her
Facebook, Minister Damares Alves made it clear that abstinence “would be the
complementary policy, and not the only or the main one.” So Alves is being very
democratic: She is allowing the old failed left-wing options and putting
abstinence as just a complementary and secondary policy. Why are not
left-wingers satisfied with such democratic approach?
The New York Times was not honest by
presenting abstinence as a policy of “Brazil’s far-right government” because
Bolsonaro has no history of abstinence advocacy. On the contrary, his history
is directly connected to the advocacy of family planning as a way to reduce
poor populations. Bolsonaro believes that the smaller the families, the better.
Even being historically a strong birth
control advocate, Bolsonaro allowed his evangelical minister to introduce
abstinence among birth control options. Isn’t this democracy?
Government
officials would not expose teenagers to birth control devices if they were
properly informed that many of them are micro-abortive and that their origins
are suspicious. The individual responsible directly and indirectly for many of
the birth control devices today is Margaret Sanger, who coined the term “birth
control.” She was a theosophist with a Catholic background and Nazi
connections. She also founded Planned Parenthood, the largest family planning,
sex education and abortion network in the U.S. and around the world.
What advocates of free contracepted sex
for teenagers want is big money to fund their expensive sex education and birth
control devices. Coincidentally, the international congress I attended was
sponsored by contraceptive industries. They have much to profit from increased
teenage sex.
Why is the left so angry at the abstinence
message? Damares Alves is not removing the traditional left-wing policies that
have failed for decades — including contraception for teenagers and including
the failed policy of equating teen pregnancy with sexual diseases. Conservative
Christians have disagreements with her for keeping the old failed left-wing
policy disguised as “health policy,” just as they have disagreements with her
policy of keeping the same homosexualist officials from past left-wing
administrations.
The New York Time said:
President Jair Bolsonaro and his allies
accused their leftist rivals of encouraging teenagers to have sex at a young
age. He also condemned a school campaign against homophobia that was designed,
but never implemented, by his leftist predecessors. He called it a “gay kit”
intended to “pervert” students.
His message was powerfully effective at
mobilizing evangelical voters, a growing and politically powerful constituency
in Brazil.
The government’s abstinence campaign is
being led by Ms. Alves, an evangelical pastor who calls herself “extremely
Christian” and is among Mr. Bolsonaro’s most popular and visible cabinet
members.
The
New York Times did not add the important information that the school campaign
against homophobia, which was essentially homosexual indoctrination for schoolchildren,
was never implemented because conservatives, especially the Evangelical
Parliamentary Caucus in the Brazilian Congress, did fierce opposition.
Then the New York Times said, “Experts say
the [abstinence] campaign could undermine the progress Brazil has made in
curbing teen pregnancy.”
It is a very strange progress, because the
New York Times recognized that today Brazil has a “stubbornly high teenage
pregnancy rate and rising H.I.V. infections.” So is the New York Times implying
that the “progress” of left-wing policies is indeed “stubbornly high teenage
pregnancy rate and rising H.I.V. infections”? I am not surprised. When I
attended the international congress with Latin American and U.N. officials, I
knew that the result would be “stubbornly high teenage pregnancy rate and
rising H.I.V. infections”! It does not take a genius to foresee the obvious.
The Bolsonaro administration is not
abandoning the failed policies of the past left-wing administrations. According
to the New York Times, the abstinence policy of Alves “would complement, rather
than replace, existing initiatives, which include providing access to
contraceptives and condoms,” including messages putting pregnancies and sexual
diseases as evils to be avoided.
To equate teen pregnancy, or any other
pregnancy, with sexual diseases, as left-wing campaigns do, is immoral, because
each of us was born not like a disease or in the same level as sexual diseases.
While diseases are created in the image and likeness of demons, we, through a
teenage pregnancy or not, are created in the image and likeness of God.
If teen pregnancy is like a disease, as
propagandized by left-wing fanatics, do Christians worship a “disease”? Jesus
Christ, who is worshipped by Christians, was born from a teenage mother.
Following the United Nations, the
Brazilian Congress approved
in 2019 legislation banning marriage before 16. The approval happened under the
Bolsonaro administration. So if God did today what he did 2,000 years ago — to
impregnate, by the Holy Spirit, a Jewish teenage girl with Jesus —, would
law-enforcement agencies go after the Author of this “criminal” pregnancy?
While leftists blatantly promote free sex
for teenagers, in no way I am promoting teenage pregnancies. But teenage
marriages and pregnancies were not crimes in the Bible and in the Christian
history.
What the Left does is vastly harmful to
teenagers. The Left promotes lots of free sex and contraception for teenagers
(contraceptives paid by taxpayers), and there is no law to ban these. But the
Left promotes only sex without marriage and without pregnancy.
Answering to the law banning teenage
marriages, Minister Alves said, “Children do not date and adolescents do not
marry, not even for fun.” This commentary is so inconsistent as the left-wing
“progress” that includes stubbornly high teenage pregnancy rate and rising
H.I.V. infections. If children do not date, why do they need comprehensive sex
education with lots of contraceptive information? Is not this a powerful
motivation for sexual activity? If adolescents do not marry, how to explain
teenager Mary pregnant with Jesus?
Adolescents should never get involved in
sexual activity. But if do they need such activity, they should be taught that
the only option is marriage.
The U.N. policy, which Brazil and Damares
Alves are following, of banning teenage marriage is actually intended for
population control purposes. NSSM
200, a U.S. government document produced by the CIA, stipulated that the U.S.
government should use the U.N. system to keep teenage and young women
involved in studies to stop marriage and pregnancies. The clear purpose of the
CIA was population control. Teenagers and young women studying long years
cannot think in marriage, even though they cannot avoid sexual activity!
It is very immoral that the Brazilian
government, even under Bolsonaro (called “far-right-wing” by the New York
Times), is providing contraceptives and condoms to teenagers.
The international congress I attended
in 1992 addressed exclusively “adolescent reproductive health.” One of the
speakers was the Brazilian representative of the International Planned
Parenthood Federation, the largest abortion group in the world. My participation
in this congress provided material for Catholic pro-life leader Dr. Humberto
Leal Vieira and Human Life International, of Fr. Paul Marx. The representative
of the Brazilian government in the congress said that teenagers should be free
to have sex — without the constraints of marriage and pregnancy. She was
representing the Collor administration. Collor was elected as a right-wing president
by a Brazilian people who defeated pro-abortion socialist Lula who could do…
the same things Collor eventually did about teenage sex!
Often I wonder why we vote for
right-wing candidates who, in a lesser or bigger degree, do the same things
left-wingers do. Sex education and contraception are just two examples.
If Mary lived today, the United Nations
and governments, including the Bolsonaro administration, would say to this
Jewish teenager: “You cannot marry and you cannot definitely be pregnant with Jesus.
But you can have lots of contraceptives and condoms at the expense of
taxpayers! Or you can practice abstinence today and say to God to wait years
for you be pregnant of Jesus!”
Even though the New York Times has
criticized the abstinence policy of Damares Alves, it touted in the same report
Women on Waves, a Dutch feminist group that offers free abortions for women in
Third World nations. The New York Times saw lots of problems in the Bolsonaro
administration offering abstinence, but no problem in offering abortions to
teenagers.
The New York Times to Mary: “Do not
practice abstinence. Get an abortion!”
Answer of Mary to the New York Times:
“Sorry, abortion is the destruction of an innocent life! I will follow God and
I will keep, as a God’s teenager, my pregnancy.”
Answer of Mary to the Bolsonaro
administration: “Sorry, I cannot use contraceptives and condoms. I cannot also
get involved with abstinence, because God called me to be pregnant of Jesus!”
The New York Times said, “emphasis on
abstinence blurs the line between church and state.” This is a very extremist
ideological stance. For the New York Times, it is ok for the government to
offer contraceptives, condoms and abortions to teenagers, but does abstinence
“blur the line between church and state”? Is the New York Time suggesting that
the State belongs exclusively to pro-abortion left-wingers?
When left-wingers rule, they impose their
failed dogmas — including contraception and abortion. And when they do not
rule, do they want also to impose their same failed dogmas?
The Bolsonaro administration and Damares
Alves should promote education for marriage and pregnancy and Bolsonaro should
abandon his left-wing contraceptive mindset. It is time to abandon the failed
left-wing propaganda portraying pregnancy and marriage as diseases. It is time
to value marriage and pregnancy as special blessings from the Creator.
Portuguese version of this article: Reação
insana da esquerda contra a mensagem de abstinência do governo Bolsonaro para
adolescentes
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