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Date Posted: 19:43:26 02/16/12 Thu
Author: IMRD
Subject: Feb. 17, 2012 news

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/351560/rh-bill-authors-welcome-dialogues
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RH Bill Authors Welcome Dialogues
By CHARISSA M. LUCI
February 16, 2012, 3:25pm
MANILA, Philippines — The proposed “enlightening sessions” with Catholic Church leaders to discuss the Reproductive Health bill has gained the nod of three principal authors of the highly-debated measure.
Gabriela party-list Rep. Luz Ilagan who remains optimistic that the measure will be passed within the 15th Congress Thursday agreed with Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman’s call on the Church to have a face-to-face dialogue with them to discuss the “core provisions” of the consolidated House Bill 4244, which has yet to be passed on second reading by the House of Representatives.
“I agree that the doors to enlightened and rational dialogues should be kept open. A fresh air of objectivity will be helpful for both sides,” she said.
She said Gabriela party-list continues its campaign to urge their fellow lawmakers to support the measure. “This will make them understand the bill, to see the principles behind it, to enlighten them on its wisdom,” she explained.
She disclosed that they organize a forum with the pro-and anti-RH congressmen on Feb. 21.
Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) party-list Rep. Antonio Tinio also said, “why not? more dialogue will hopefully bridge some of the gaps in the understanding.”
“However, it is a fact that there are non-negotiables for both parties, for example the contraceptives,” he said.
Akbayan party-list Rep. Walden Bello said the talks with the Church leaders, particularly with the bishops should be pursued “since most other denominations and religions feel contraception is right ethically.”
Iloilo Rep. Janette Garin said the Church-congressional leaders-Executive encounter “can be tried,” but she expressed doubt on the outcome of the proposed “enlightening sessions.”
“I don’t think it will make much difference as their opposition is based on the dictates of the Vatican, which is highly inflexible,” she claimed.
Just like Ilagan, Garin expressed hope that HB 4244, which has been languishing in the legislative mill for almost a decade, amid the preoccupation of both chambers of Congress with the ongoing impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona.
“We are not losing hope (that the bill will be passed within the 15th Congress,” she said.
House Majority Leader and Mandaluyong Rep. Neptali Gonzales II earlier said the Lower Chamber is targeting to pass the proposed Responsible Parenthood, Reproductive Health and Population and Development Act of 2011 in June as they also seek to approve 22 other measures within the year.
Lagman set an eight-point agenda for the RH dialogues, which include the discussion of the RH’s “central concept” of freedom of informed choice on the use of family planning methods from the natural to the modern which are legal, medically safe and truly effective and that “there shall be neither compulsion nor bias in favor of a particular family planning method.”
He said they would raise the proponents’ concern about the growing population, which is aggravated by limited resources and a precarious carrying capacity.
The former minority leader said there is a need to institutionalize and codify related statutes and policies on reproductive health, women’s rights, child nutrition and protection, prevention of violence against women and allied concerns, and allot funding.

http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/news/nation/17324-rh-bill-unnecessary-manila-archbishop


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