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Date Posted: 01:19:30 03/09/12 Fri
Author: IMRD
Subject: March 9, 2012 news

Deputy House Minority Leader Ma. Milagros Magsaysay of Zambales province makes a case for the RH bill during an exclusive roundtable with The Manila Times on Thursday. PHOTO BY RENE DILAN









MAKING a firm stand on the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill could be the key trump card in the May 2013 midterm elections, Assistant House Minority Leader and staunch government critic Ma. Milagros Magsaysay of Zambales province said on Thursday.


During an exclusive roundtable with editors and reporters of The Manila Times, Magsaysay added that the Catholic Church would take off its kid�s gloves on the issue and might be flexing its muscles in a bid to maintain orthodoxy.

�Hindi na sila papayag [They will no longer allow it]. This time around, they might just throw in a hand in shaping the country�s future legislation,� she said.

But the House official emphasized that the �the Catholic Church would not promote anyone, but would promote against anyone.�

This is why she believes that some candidates in the 2013 polls may not receive support from the Church. �Those who are pro-RH would probably not gain support from members of the Catholic Church,� Magsaysay said.

Although some of her colleagues in the opposition backed the controversial measure, the lawmaker remained an ardent critic of the bill, which she said was unnecessary because most of its provisions were already in the Magna Carta for Women.

�What is lacking here is the implementation,� Magsaysay added, saying that she also rejected the plan to teach sex education, maintaining that education should be more on values formation.

Moreover, the legislator said that the P3 billion allotted for RH should be used for other projects.

�The money should be used to procure more birthing facilities. That is the government�s job, and not giving out condoms and contraceptives,� she added.

According to Magsaysay, the passage of the RH bill will contradict Catholic beliefs and the Church may have had enough of the lengthy debate that was already spent on the measure.

�Before, [the Church] was more passive. Maybe they will be more aggressive during the elections, because it has come to the point where the administration is already dictating the approval of RH,� she said.

The legislator described the measure as discriminatory because it suggests that it is all right for a wealthy woman to have more children but not for poor women.

�If it�s bad for women to give birth yearly, it will be bad on the bodies of both rich and poor
women,� Magsaysay said.

She also questioned why the House now wants to prematurely stop the plenary debate on the bill.

�Why are they in a hurry? Maybe the financiers are running out funds,� the deputy minority leader said, stressing that the bill was still in the interpellation phase.

Earlier this week, House Majority Leader Neptali Gonzales 2nd of Mandaluyong City (Metro Manila) said that he asked Speaker Feliciano Belmonte to put the bill to a vote before the chamber goes into recess.

Rep. Edcel Lagman of Albay province, the principal sponsor of the bill, also said that he and the measure�s other authors and supporters welcomed Gonzales� move.

�After 12 years of debate inside and outside the halls of Congress, all relevant and even irrelevant questions have been asked and answered about the RH bill,� Lagman added.
�There is absolutely no fresh argument or novel misconception against the bill,� he said.


source:

http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/news/top-stories/18850-rh-bill-key-to-2013-poll-success-lawmaker

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