Argumentative Essay Family Planning: WE Need It!
Septian Prasetyo 120222415481
Family planning is a governments program that is intended to increase the wefare of mothers and babies and also to create a harmony and wealthy little family by controlling the birth and the growth of the population. This program has reaped a lot of pro and contra. The ulamas, especially, disagree with the program because in al-Quran, the prophet suggested people to have many children. Contrary to the agument, I oppose the opinion against family planning because it has been a good solution for many crisises in our country. It is said, in an old proverb, that to have more children is to have more livelihood or fortune. This old aphorism is often used as a complement to support a contra argument against family planning. This is just a proverb. The reality is different. If we look at the daily society exposed in the media, we would find many evidences that having many children tend to make the familys life worse. It is also not good for our country. The statistic in Indonesia shows that many children are from poor families, said the head of the demography and family planning agency (BKKBN), Sugiri Syarief in Jakarta, Monday 5th December 2013. Family planning is not good for our economy, because if we look at China, Japan, and Phillippine, we will see many advantages of having a big number of population, some people say. Some say it should be wiped off our country. Personally, I admit the idea to follow the success of China, Japan, and Phillippine, but I disagree with the idea of deleting the family planning program. It is because the idea is baseless and unreasonable. Let us take a moment to look at the history. In the late 60, our country was stricken by a snare of poverty because of the overpopulated population. The population grew wild. There were many poor families
with many children. It was a misery for our country, until then a family planning program was introduced in 1968. The number of poverty was successfully reduced year by year. Some articles from the internet says that one activity in family planning tend to make the mother go fatter. It could risk obesity. Not only the article, but also people say that. People agree that the use of some tools of family planning can make the mother fatter than before using the family planning tools. This is also the answer of why people are not interested to have a family planning for their family. Contrary to all of those opinion and argument, I personally disagree with the idea. First, that is wrong. Family planning is not the cause of the mother growing fatter. It is the individuals cause. The KB capsule can make the mother healthier because it can control the menstruation cycle so that the period become 28 days. Also, instead of harming the mother, it can reduce the possibilities of anemia, endomentrium cancer, uterus cancer, pelvic inflammatory diseases, and cyst cancer. Thus, peoples belief and the articles are wrong. Family planning is not such harm, but a big benefit. The use of implants and injection sometimes is not safe for both the mother and baby. This is a statement that I found in the internet when I type negative effects of KB in the search engine. This, maybe a good reason for those who argue the family planning program, but still, this is not a strong reason. The safety of injecting and implanting could cause no risk if it is done carefully. However, in common the process always goes well without any risk. In a debate forum in [Link], I found an argument against family planning. Someone said that the program is apparently died. The expected outcome does not seem to appear. The number of poverty is still big. Where is the role of KB? some others said. For this argument, I would still say No for them. The program is not died indeed, but the awareness of the society about family planning is vanished. But how about the poverty? It is the common issue. The causes do not come only from the population, but the lack of education, the bad management of government, the environtment, and the society itself. Thus, no one has a good reason to blame only the family planning.
As what said in some paragraphs before, family planning does still reap pro and contra. The idea of deleting the program is not a good and reasonable solution. The main problem of our country is not only because of the population. The family planning is not to blame. It even helps to overcome that serious issue. Our country has been fighting against poverty and controlling the population density. The effort faces many challenges and so does one of the solution, the family planning. The ulamas and some people think it is not effective and apparently died. They think it should be deleted forever. They believe that a big number of population is good for our country. However, the reality is different from what they believe. The over-populated population is a problem instead of a benefit. Family planning, then, provides us not only a good solution for our countrys main problem, but also for our welfare. There is a new proverb; to have few children is to have more opportunity and possibility to get a good and quality life. Thus, family planning program should go on and the implementation should be evaluated again, so that the realization could be more effective.
