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Date Posted: 23:03:09 11/18/12 Sun
Author: IMRD
Subject: Nov 18, 2012 news

http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/commentary/item/6989-rh-renewed-hush

RH (Renewed Hush)
• Written by Larry Faraon
• Sunday, 18 November 2012 00:00
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There is an obvious renewed enthusiasm and with more intensity on pushing the Reproductive Health (RH) bill at all levels — all because of an Obama victory. Every uncle and nephew in this country and the world know quite well that both the United States and its puppet, the United Nations, are all up their sleeves in imposing this First World panacea to poverty to the Third and Fourth worlds such as our country of more than 90 million.
President elect Barack Obama never winked or faltered on his anti-life policies internally in his own country and to the global expanse through its mouthpiece, the United Nations. This country is being asked to gulp this whale, hook line and sinker, even if Malacañang feigns distance to the issue.
For instance, there is a revived interest on the plagiarism issue against Sen. Tito Sotto with no less than the daughter of the late Robert Kennedy, Carry Kennedy demanding a public apology from the senator on social networks. The Kennedys, despite their Catholic background, have always been pro-abortion which explains the reason for the ire on Sotto.
Sen. Pia Cayetano, on the other hand, is out to picture Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile as “anti-woman” in her dead set efforts to floor the bill into the discussion of the revisions as Enrile adamantly refuses to calendar the deliberations.
She was quoted as saying, “I find it offensive to the Filipino women. I find it offensive that women’s needs and women’s rights are no longer important. I find it offensive that what is considered a human right — access to reproductive health, access to contraceptives — can be put aside in one of the highest government bodies, in fact elected officials as if bale wala naman yung buhay naming mga kababaihan.”
Adding emotional spark to her speech, she added, “I can fight for myself, but what about the women who have no voice? What about the women who need access to these services so that they can be responsible parents? I owe it to them to fight for legislation that will protect their right and so I am offended in behalf of these women.”
In the United States, Obama’s “women” lent a big hand in his victory when he took the cudgels of the women over the issue of Mitt Romney’s co-republican senatorial candidate, Richard Mourdock’s comment on rape, pregnancy and abortion. Obama adroitly dragged Romney into the corner unable to counter punch as the gleeful feminists dragged their champion into another four years.
Cayetano could be wallowing into political feminism to which women in the Philippines may not be disposed to, being a predominantly matriarchal society. While her incursions into the feminist threshold could portray the likes of Senators Enrile, Sotto and Recto as male masochists, still the Filipino female may not bite into the feminist bullet. Men in this country are respecters and lovers of women. How could you ever explain the six and nine years of presidential rule by the late Corazon Aquino and Gloria Arroyo, respectively?
Besides, in this country, reproductive health is seen by women not as “rights” but as a natural obligation or duty of a mother. There is no need to fight tooth and nail for that right. What is needed is an efficient government and governance that would facilitate the fulfillment of such obligation which of course are already in place. The maternal instinct cannot be dictated unless the mothers themselves are brainwashed into believing that pregnancy is a “disease” that can be prevented by medicines such as pills and contraceptives. Abortion is definitely against the maternal instinct.
The global partnership of the United States and the United Nations is fully aware that the promotion of reproductive health aka contraception and abortion would encroach into the woman’s basic maternal instinct. Hence, the issue has always been transformed into a feminist issue of rights, especially when abortion is named “choice” and contraceptives as “preventive medicine”. The RH bill only needed one requirement in order to pass through the legislative’s eye of the needle, namely, truth and honesty.
Since however, it has none of those it would definitely sail roughly into oblivion.

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