Freedom of choice: Biggest corporate conspiracy against individual’s health
Dr. Javed Jamil | Clarion India
THE forces of globalisation commercialise every human weakness irrespective of its disastrous effects on health in the name of “freedom of choice”. Nobody has the guts to shout that “human rights” at the cost of human security and life cannot be defended.
They use four-tier formulas to commercialise human weaknesses: Normalisation, Institutionalisation, Legalisation; and Commercialisation. First, they try to prove that these are normal practices and exist since time immemorial. Then NGOs and other groups are used to campaign for their institutioanalisation, which is then followed by legalisation. Once it is achieved, they are free to commercialise and globalise them. All these “choices” bring trillions of dollars and after commercialising these, once they bring problems to society in the form of diseases, deaths and crimes, the healthcare and law industry are there to commercialise the solutions, which again generate trillions of dollars. “Freedom of women” has, in effect, proved to be nothing but the freedom of men and men-dominated markets to enjoy, exploit and commercialise their beauty and “services”.
Society and culture all over the world are now being shaped in varying degrees by the so-called modernism. It is nothing but a market-sponsored system to trade not only human needs but also human susceptibilities. They first market the “causes of the problems” and then market the “solutions of the problems”. They first started working on a God-free society because “fear of God is the largest impediment in the way of succumbing to weaknesses.” They used theoretical physicists to convince the world that the universe got created without God. They tried to make the world believe a huge plan without a planner, a hugely vast construction without a builder, a massive design without a designer, a vast system without anyone governing it, the emergence of highly advanced physics and mathematics without anyone knowing mathematics and physics, then chemistry, biology, and cosmology without any biologist, chemistry expert and cosmologist anywhere. Then they started a systematic disintegration of the family system, which they thought was the biggest obstacle in the commercialisation of sex and other addictions.
Around 100 million babies are killed by way of abortion every year; and yet rather than this genocide becoming a big human rights issue, the “right to abortion” is defended as a “human right”. While the death sentence for a mass murderer is opposed in the name of the right to life, these babies do not have the right to live because they are the biggest hindrance in the commercialisation of sex and the so-called “freedom of women”. Ironically, while babies are killed in the mothers’ wombs, ventilators are put even on 90-plus people who have hardly any chance of surviving and are often already dead. Both ventilators and abortions bring huge profits to the healthcare market. On the one hand, drugs are openly sold and then drug rehabilitation centres are established because both will bring money. If there are no diseases, the healthcare market will not prosper.
‘Freedom of Women’ Nothing but
Freedom for Men to Enjoy and Exploit Them
Surely, the family system is the biggest safety wall against diseases and killings like abortions and rapes. “Freedom of women” is nothing but freedom for men to enjoy them and freedom to market to exploit them, women and children being the major sufferers. It is women who have to become pregnant and then abort and, in most cases, they are the single parents looking after their children. “Freedom of choice” has become the biggest tool in the hands of the market forces. In principle “freedom of choice” is a good concept but giving dangerous choices to people is the most lethal abuse of this concept.
In my works, I have already developed the outlines of the paradigm of health consistent with the teachings of the Noble Qur’an. I have given a new definition of health, which stresses “the establishment of a health-protective and promoting family system and a health-protective and promoting social system”.
Health Protective Family
System Upsets Markets
Developing a health-protective family system is something that threatens the interests of the economic fundamentalists. They have sought to disregard, in fact, destroy the family system.
Economic fundamentalism envisaged that the institution of marriage had to be weakened, preferably altogether shattered, to enhance various markets including that of fashion, tourism, entertainment and sex. Family for them was what drought is for farmers. Unless drought is encountered, farming would not prosper. Market-sponsored feminism has become one of the biggest movements in modern history. The market fundamentalists reckoned that a man in the safe arms of his charming wife would be harder to trap; and a woman in the benign custody of the loving husband or other members of family would not be easily available for her services in various markets. In order to derail the marriage system, a number of steps were initiated.
The minimum age limit for marriage, for instance, was increased making it legally impossible for a man and woman to marry before the specified age. The rapid growth of the population was presented for public consumption as the ground for this amendment in the law. Boys and girls, denied marriage, were however always welcome to have sex before the specified age, which did not attract any legal action. Polygamy was abolished, and an animated, outrageous, multi-pronged campaign was orchestrated against it. On a rapid exchange of legal positions, promiscuity got legal and polygamy illegal.
The irony is that it was done in the name of women’s rights. Women themselves, not properly realising the motive of their “benefactors”, were jubilant in accepting a system wherein they could easily become wretched mistresses or casual partners (without, of course, any legal rights against their paramours) but not second wives (having full conjugal rights). Still another step was the complication of divorce rules. As even after a divorce was granted by the court women would receive maintenance from their estranged husbands, and this would deter both from remarrying. Extra-marital relationships and self-dependence in financial matters combined to result in an increasingly large number of marriages culminating in divorces.
Anti-marriage campaigns did not stop here. To make the institution of marriage unpopular, it was incessantly degraded as an unnecessary burden. Marriage was steadily substituted by live-in companionship, which most of young men and women gradually accepted; this Western trend is now hitting India also. The ever-increasing rate of divorce further persuaded the people to think that if the marriage was destined to come to a gruesome end followed by legal wrangling why it should not be avoided altogether.
Decreasing the popularity of marriages and increasing sexual liberty, however, posed certain intricate problems. The threat of pregnancy always hovers over the heads of women. Unless this was nullified, women would resist sexual advances. Guidance was sought from medical sciences that came to their rescue with the idea of condoms. Soon a number of other contraceptive devices were developed and became instantly popular. The contraceptive pill revolutionised the scene. Women had now practically no problem in sleeping with friends of their choice. But no contraceptive method was absolutely free from failure. Women would often conceive in spite of them. This necessitated legalisation of abortion, which was promptly done — in the name of yet another right, the reproductive right of Women. Abortion clinics boomed.
Artificially induced miscarriages were not, however, medically advisable in every case. Women might report late or might be physically too weak to withstand the attendant risks. Occasionally, the mother inside the woman would overwhelm her, and she would not let her child be slaughtered by an obstetrician. But it was not easy for a woman to introduce society to a child whose father was unknown. She would find herself facing a gruelling ordeal. But the corporate world was behind her. Her plight would be overcome by glorifying unwed mothers. To have a baby without undergoing the “travails” of marriage was declared a historical advance in the reproductive rights of women. It hardly bothered them that women who used to share the onus of grooming their children with their husbands would now have to perform the onerous task all alone. Children would be deprived, perhaps forever, of the affection of their fathers that is so essential for their normal healthy growth. But the economic fundamentalists had nothing to do with the children and old women because they were less important in their game plan.
Religions Need to Unite
If the world has to be saved from the destructive designs of the forces of globalisation, the only hope lies in religion. All religions, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism included, will have to unite on the grounds of common morality rather than keep fighting for religious identity. Let all those ideologies and organisations that care for life and health more than economics follow and enlarge the campaign against dangerous economics. Let health reign supreme and not economics! Let the World Health Organisation stop playing in the hands of the market forces and prepare an agenda for truly achieving the “highest standards of health” for mankind!
Dr. Javed Jamil is an India-based thinker and writer with over 20 books to his credit. He can be contacted at doctorforu123@yahoo.com
