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Date Posted: 21:35:35 11/20/12 Tue
Author: IMRD
Subject: Nov 21, 2012 news

http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/11/21/support-the-rh-bill/


Support the RH bill
By Nelson Forte Flores | Posted on Nov. 21, 2012 at 12:01am | 570 views
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This aggravating situation is unfortunately compounded by the local Roman Catholic Church leadership’s archaic dogma concerning population growth. It has opposed all measures to ease, if not correct, the economic suffering brought about by our burgeoning population through the sly manipulation of the facts.
OUR exploding population is among several major reasons that our nation is mired in poverty and ignorance.
I suspect that the Roman church’s opposition to the reproductive health bill is essentially not really about its being “anti-life” as the proposed law is clearly against such measures. I believe that it is the empowerment of women which it really is against.
This “enmity against women’s liberation” also led the Roman church hierarchy to prevent priests from marrying or women from being ordained priests. For this church, the woman apparently symbolizes corruption.
According to author Sara Ritchey in an article published in the New York Times early this year, by the time of the First Lateran Council in 1122-23, the priest’s wife had become a symbol of wantonness and defilement. The reason was that during this period, the nature of the host consecrated at Mass received greater theological scrutiny.
The author added that medieval theologians were in the process of determining that bread and wine, at the moment of consecration in the hands of an ordained priest at the altar, truly became the body and blood of Jesus Christ. The priest who handled the body and blood of Christ, should therefore be uncontaminated lest he defile the sacred corpus.
It is not far-fetched that this line of thinking, which was drilled in subconsciously, affects Filipino Roman church leaders of today, hence their consistent refusal to allow the empowerment of women.
For what is wrong in giving women the choice to practice or not family planning, to give state support to mothers or fathers who wishes to plan their family, to teach sex education to teenagers in schools, to promote the use of contraceptives like condoms to prevent accidental pregnancy, to ensure that all women needing care for post-abortion complications shall be treated and counseled in a humane, non-judgmental and compassionate manner?
Contrary to the lies being spread by the princes of the Roman church, the proposed law does not legalize nor encourage abortion (underground abortion clinics are already in existence long before the proposed RH bill). The RH bill does not promote sexual promiscuity or violence among the youth or prostitution. We already have the numerous television shows and movies that effectively do that.
Bishop Efraim Tendero of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches in the Philippines correctly stated that the “RH Bill is pro-life, pro-development and pro-poor. It protects the life of both the mother and the baby in her womb. Supporting the bill is more pro-life. Life begins at fertilization. Therefore if there is no fertilization there is no life. The use of artificial contraception is not taking away life because life has not yet started.”
Note that not all religious groups support the Roman church in its stand. The Interfaith Partnership for the Promotion of Responsible Parenthood which includes the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (Aglipay), Episcopal Church of the Philippines, Iglesia ni Cristo, National Council of Churches in the Philippines, United Church of Christ of the Philippines, Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches, United Methodist Church, Philippines for Jesus Movement, Christian and Missionary Alliance Churches of the Philippines, Seventh Day Adventist, Salvation Army and the Catholics for Reproductive Health support the RH bill.
* * *
Communication is the basis of human relations without which we would not have achieved what we have today. It is the foundation where human civilization was built. For the great and not so great men of our time, it is a blessing and a bane.
Apparently for Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista communication is a nuisance hence his consistency in ignoring calls and text messages especially coming from media practitioners and lowly barangay officials. It has become worse now (he is practicing a total interview blackout) when he learned that he would be unopposed in this coming election.
According to some people working in city hall, the mayor holds in contempt the media people covering his office and the lowly barangay officials because “they are nothing but favor seekers.” They quoted Bautista as saying “puro sila pakabig.”
I called many times and even sent him a number of text messages to elicit a reaction about the reports that I received. I even tried to set up a meeting with him since he is my daughter’s godfather so we can talk in private. I got no reply. I hate to think that perhaps for him, I have just become another “favor seeker,” the creature he loathes most.
Well, when I was a little boy, my mother always reminded me to give a polite reply whenever I am asked a question or when someone is trying to talk with me. That is good manners and right conduct, she said.
Nelson F. Flores is senior associate editor of Fil-Am Press. He is based in Houston, Texas.
By Nelson Forte Flores, LL.B., 3°
OUR exploding population is among several major reasons that our nation is mired in poverty and ignorance.
This aggravating situation is unfortunately compounded by the local Roman Catholic Church leadership’s archaic dogma concerning population growth. It has opposed all measures to ease, if not correct, the economic suffering brought about by our burgeoning population through the sly manipulation of the facts.
I suspect that the Roman church’s opposition to the reproductive health bill is essentially not really about its being “anti-life” as the proposed law is clearly against such measures. I believe that it is the empowerment of women which it really is against.
This “enmity against women’s liberation” also led the Roman church hierarchy to prevent priests from marrying or women from being ordained priests. For this church, the woman apparently symbolizes corruption.
According to author Sara Ritchey in an article published in the New York Times early this year, by the time of the First Lateran Council in 1122-23, the priest’s wife had become a symbol of wantonness and defilement. The reason was that during this period, the nature of the host consecrated at Mass received greater theological scrutiny.
The author added that medieval theologians were in the process of determining that bread and wine, at the moment of consecration in the hands of an ordained priest at the altar, truly became the body and blood of Jesus Christ. The priest who handled the body and blood of Christ, should therefore be uncontaminated lest he defile the sacred corpus.
It is not far-fetched that this line of thinking, which was drilled in subconsciously, affects Filipino Roman church leaders of today, hence their consistent refusal to allow the empowerment of women.
For what is wrong in giving women the choice to practice or not family planning, to give state support to mothers or fathers who wishes to plan their family, to teach sex education to teenagers in schools, to promote the use of contraceptives like condoms to prevent accidental pregnancy, to ensure that all women needing care for post-abortion complications shall be treated and counseled in a humane, non-judgmental and compassionate manner?
Contrary to the lies being spread by the princes of the Roman church, the proposed law does not legalize nor encourage abortion (underground abortion clinics are already in existence long before the proposed RH bill). The RH bill does not promote sexual promiscuity or violence among the youth or prostitution. We already have the numerous television shows and movies that effectively do that.
Bishop Efraim Tendero of the Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches in the Philippines correctly stated that the “RH Bill is pro-life, pro-development and pro-poor. It protects the life of both the mother and the baby in her womb. Supporting the bill is more pro-life. Life begins at fertilization. Therefore if there is no fertilization there is no life. The use of artificial contraception is not taking away life because life has not yet started.”
Note that not all religious groups support the Roman church in its stand. The Interfaith Partnership for the Promotion of Responsible Parenthood which includes the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (Aglipay), Episcopal Church of the Philippines, Iglesia ni Cristo, National Council of Churches in the Philippines, United Church of Christ of the Philippines, Philippine Council of Evangelical Churches, United Methodist Church, Philippines for Jesus Movement, Christian and Missionary Alliance Churches of the Philippines, Seventh Day Adventist, Salvation Army and the Catholics for Reproductive Health support the RH bill.
* * *
Communication is the basis of human relations without which we would not have achieved what we have today. It is the foundation where human civilization was built. For the great and not so great men of our time, it is a blessing and a bane.
Apparently for Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista communication is a nuisance hence his consistency in ignoring calls and text messages especially coming from media practitioners and lowly barangay officials. It has become worse now (he is practicing a total interview blackout) when he learned that he would be unopposed in this coming election.
According to some people working in city hall, the mayor holds in contempt the media people covering his office and the lowly barangay officials because “they are nothing but favor seekers.” They quoted Bautista as saying “puro sila pakabig.”
I called many times and even sent him a number of text messages to elicit a reaction about the reports that I received. I even tried to set up a meeting with him since he is my daughter’s godfather so we can talk in private. I got no reply. I hate to think that perhaps for him, I have just become another “favor seeker,” the creature he loathes most.
Well, when I was a little boy, my mother always reminded me to give a polite reply whenever I am asked a question or when someone is trying to talk with me. That is good manners and right conduct, she said.
Nelson F. Flores is senior associate editor of Fil-Am Press. He is based in Houston, Texas.

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