Bolsonaro defends birth control and says that “more educated people have fewer children”
By
Julio
Severo
Brazilian
President Jair Bolsonaro underwent a vasectomy on January 30, 2020, a
sterilization surgical procedure for men who wish to have no children or stop
having children.
For
Bolsonaro, who considers himself a Catholic, sterilization is problematic, as
the Catholic Church prohibits this procedure. Maybe that’s why he asked for secrecy
about his new vasectomy.
If
example is the greatest of all sermons, Bolsonaro only did regarding his
personal birth control procedure what he has defended for a long time.
It
is not the first time that Bolsonaro’s attitudes clash with Catholic
conservatism. In 2019, the Brazilian president defended family planning
policies saying that “more educated people have fewer children.”
He
said:
“It
is not control… Family planning. You see that more educated people have fewer
children. I am an exception to the rule, I have five, okay? But this is the
rule.”
Bolsonaro
has a history of defending birth control, which he calls “family planning,”
ignoring that Margaret Sanger, who founded the International Planned Parenthood
Federation (the largest family planning, sex education and abortion organization
in the world), coined the term “birth control.” There is therefore no
difference between family planning and birth control. Both came from the same
source.
As
a congressman, Bolsonaro is the author of Bill 4322, of 1993, which proposes
“the realization of tubal ligation and vasectomy for the purposes of family
planning and birth control.” If he hadn’t been serious about it, he wouldn’t
have had a vasectomy himself.
At
least, even though Bolsonaro is a contraceptive-minded Catholic, he is
democratic. He has allowed his administration, amidst the constellation of
birth control methods offered in health services and sex education for
teenagers, to also present the option of sexual
abstinence.
Typical
propaganda by population control activists is to show images of wealthy
Europeans and Americans with two children compared to poor Africans with ten
children. If population control were not so loved by left-wingers, it would not
be difficult to see racism in the comparison between rich white Europeans and
poor black Africans.
Probably,
seeing the propaganda of the population control promoters Bolsonaro came to the
conclusion that having many children is synonymous with poverty. But, as he
made clear, he is an exception — although his exception was having 5 children
with three different wives, which means he practiced a lot of birth control.
However,
why use poor Africans as a standard of large families? Are Africans the only
example and standard? Of course not. American Christian families historically
had an average of 8 children, and were not poor. They read a lot, especially
the Bible, and worked hard. Large families in the U.S. helped to preserve their
culture and religion, which was predominantly Protestant. The U.S. Republic was
founded by a 98 percent Protestant population.
Large
families have always been the norm and standard of the U.S. for centuries. The U.S.
of the past, with large families who read the Bible and worked hard, created today’s
U.S. with its enormous wealth. You don’t create wealth without work. And you
cannot have blessings on your work without God and the Bible. All the wealth
accumulated today in the U.S. is the result of generations of large families
from the past who, in large part, valued the Bible and hard work.
With
the growth of the contraceptive mindset and the consequent decrease of
families, the U.S. was getting farther and
farther from its old big family pattern
and became more and more dependent on immigration, with an increasing number of Muslim
immigrants taking advantage of the space left
by millions of Americans who were prevented from being born by birth control or
deliberately killed before being born in abortion clinics.
The
obvious consequence of the decline of American families is that the original
culture and religion of the U.S. is declining. Today Protestants are less than
50 percent of the U.S. population while Catholics are less than 25 percent.
So,
instead of comparing today’s rich small American families with numerous poor
African families, you should compare modern American families, who are no
longer large enough to preserve their culture and religion, with American
families of 100, 200 and 300 years ago who were numerous enough to preserve
their culture and religion.
The
men and women who built the United States with their best values and wealth had
large families. Therefore, it makes no sense to accept population control
propaganda that chooses only large poor families from India or Africa when the
best example is the millions of large families that built the United States,
lifting their nation out from spiritual, cultural and financial poverty and making
it great and Christian.
Despite
having a lot of wealth, the United States is already facing demographic problems
with low birth rates. But Brazil, which has not even reached the level of
wealth in the United States, is also already facing similar demographic
problems.
“Brazil
has undergone a demographic shift so dramatic that it has astonished social
scientists. Over the past 50 years, the fertility rate has tumbled from six
children per woman on average to fewer than two — and is now lower than in the
United States.”
NPR
mentioned preference changes, especially of women, as the cause of the
Brazilian low birthrate, but it did not explain what caused them.
What
happened 50 years ago, according to NPR, that changed Brazil so much
demographically that it reduced its population?
In
the 1970s the CIA created a document called NSSM
200 for the U.S. government, classifying
Brazil as one of the main nations that should be the target of secret
population reduction policies. Among these policies were widespread
dissemination of birth control and cultural stimuli so that girls and women
might spend as much time as possible studying, as a way to avoid marriage and
pregnancy.
The
CIA plan worked so perfectly that today even a Brazilian president defends and
practices birth control without the slightest pain in his conscience. President
Jair Bolsonaro does exactly what the CIA planned 50 years ago.
Brazil
is already in the process of a demographic crisis, but Bolsonaro and other advocates
of birth control do not realize the danger. Sooner or later Brazil will be forced
to import millions of immigrants, as the Brazilian population is already
suffering demographic aging, and the nations that have these millions of
immigrants to send are the Muslim nations.
From
the point of view of demography and Catholicism, it is a mistake for Bolsonaro
to accept birth control policies for himself and for Brazil.
As
a follower of Jesus, what do I think? Those who follow the Bible know that
children are blessings. A large family is God’s will. From this perspective,
any method of birth control disrupts God’s plans to multiply blessings in
Christian families.
However,
whoever does not follow Jesus and the Bible seriously is obliged to see
children as blessings and have a large family? No. In fact, the Bible says that
the offspring of people who do not know God will disappear. From this
perspective, birth control in these people’s lives only helps to fulfill God’s
will.
Christians
should follow the beautiful model of the large families in the Bible and the
United States in their past Protestant generations who were hardworking,
ethical and had many children.
Portuguese version of this article: Bolsonaro
defende controle da natalidade e afirma que “pessoas que têm mais cultura têm
menos filhos”
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