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SANIB-SINAG 4
May-June 1998
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Two synergetic fusions are said to take place.
One is the synergetic fusion of an ovum and a sperm cell -- neither one a living organism, and both would disintegrate and be discharged as waste if they had not fused in fertilization.
The other, dependent on the first, is the synergetic fusion of the sperm-egg combine with the Spiritual Force, said to be an individual soul needing a body for soul-growth experiences in earth life. Both these synergetic mergers occur in that one moment of conception.
Although it may not feel as "heavenly" as the ecstatic synergy in copulation, let alone in simultaneous orgasms, this quiet occurrence is no less than the very Miracle of Human Life! For nine long months, the womb nurtures and protects the new human life, passing on later to the next miracle: Childbirth. And then, finally, on to the mother’s caring and nurturing arms and nipples.
This is the Miracle in the Womb, the Glory of Motherhood.
(From this point, on, other synergies would combine so that the new human life would have a conducive setting for growth and self-actualization—the parents’ teamwork as enabled by their marriage synergism, and the broader family and home synergy. And later on, the social synergy in nationhood and humanity. But this message is about motherhood where it all begins.)
Here’s a Salute to All Mothers, and Would-Be Mothers!
Feedback:
May i comment on your topic, motherhood? Your assumption, I take it, is that of choiceful motherhood. In that regard, I am missing the synergetic part of fatherhood. What in the case of forced motherhood?
(Luchi e-mailed this feedback to the Saniblakas Center and to all of her fellow e-mail recipients of our "Statement on Motherhood". Underscoring ours)
(Hopefully, we will receive more feedback, to our "Motherhood Statement" and to what Luchi and Rudy are saying. Unless the sender tells us not to, we will share each one with readers of Sanib-Sinag like we are doing in this issue.) FRESH RESPONSES HAVE BEEN ADDED BELOW... To see MOTHER'S DAY 2002 Message, click here.
INITIAL RESPONSES TO THESE COMMENTS (BY DING REYES, SANIBLAKAS PRESIDENT):
(These responses were prepared and uploaded on Mother's Day, May 12, 2002, no less than four years after the comments from Ms. Piczon and Mr. Liporada. But these are preliminary responses because they are personal opinions of a SanibLakas Foundation officer who is not a woman, much less a mother. We'd rather await the comments of the Lambat-Liwanag paradigm groups on Gender Sensitivity, Equality and Harmony (paradigm 8), and of the paradigm group on Human Dignity and Harmony: Human Rights and Peace (paradigm 14), as well as of the Foundation's other officers and members, especially the women. before we issue our official SanibLakas responses. The SanibLakas-convened Lambat-Liwanag Network of Centers for Empowering Paradigms is a mainly-academe-based multilateral mechanism for research and discourse. It will convene its first paradigm-specific conference on Paradigm 8 on July 20, 2002 hosted by the Polytechnic University of the Philippines Human Rights Office (PUP-HRO).
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HALF-SEEDS NOT BEING ORGANISMS:
An organism has to have in the cell of its nucleus a pair of chromosomes, and its all basic living systems (i.e.. digestive, excretory and reproductive) functioning. A sperm cell has only half a DNA; so does an egg cell. Locomotion alone is not an established basis to make for an organism and a freshly cut lizard tail will keep moving until its death shortly (the body can regenerate a tail but a tail cannot regenerate a body). Coelenterates and other types of worms, can regenerate entire bodies from a single cut segment and such segment can be considered an organism. The plant kingdom's equivalent of the sperm cell is the spore. A plant seed is an organism even if it is completely dry and waiting to be "awakened" by water; but a spore is not.
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MOTHERHOOD AND CHOICE:
I am against forced motherhood, as i am against anything else that is forced. But the course of action/redress is a distinct matter. I would uphold Free Will for all. One may choose to do anything to one's own body or within one's own body or one's own life or anybody else's, and be prepared to be frustrated in the attempt or to face whatever consequences a consummated act can cause.
I would bat for freely choosing Life, as we all have to recognize that, for any reason, including personal convenience, any person has the right to choose to refuse to host in her body any incarnation of Life. Still, i believe that the sperm-egg combine -- from fertilization, through all development up to childbirth -- is (1) a distinct Life incarnation from her/his mother (the DNA of the fetus is different from that of the mother), even though s/he depends on the latter's bloodstream for oxygen and sustenance (as all the parasites in the mother's body also do); and (2) a distinct HUMAN incarnation, with a distinct HUMAN-species DNA. Some spiritual/religious groups hold that "ensoulment" occurs four months after conception (and therefore abortion before this has no ethical implications), but other spiritual/religious groups see the Life Force and the Soul as one, and still other spiritual/religious groups would "Love all Life (incarnations)" and generally frown on all killings (even of animals for their meat) that are not clearly necessary.
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