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Date Posted: 22:07:20 11/07/12 Wed
Author: IMRD
Subject: Nov 8, 2012 news

http://www.malaya.com.ph/index.php/news/nation/17182-anti-rh-forces-vow-fight-to-the-last-line


Anti-RH forces vow fight to the last line
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Published on Thursday, 08 November 2012 00:00
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OPPONENTS of the reproductive health bill will do everything to block the passage of the new version of the measure in the plenary.
Paraphrasing Winston Churchill when he rallied the British to steel themselves against the Germans in World War II, Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez said the House leadership should follow procedures under the rules when they reach the period of amendments, and all amendments “should be done line by line, page by page.”
Rodriguez said the new version of the RH bill, or the watered-down substitute bill, will have to go back to the committee level if the House leadership really wants an “omnibus amendment” to the measure.
Manila Rep. Amado Bagatsing insisted the “omnibus amendment” introduced by the RH bill’s authors is prohibited under the rules.
The substitute bill was the offshoot of a compromise reached by RH authors and critics.
The substitute version of House Bill No. 4244 (An Act Providing for a Comprehensive Policy on Responsible Parenthood, Reproductive Health, and Population and Development, and for Other Purposes) is being offered by authors to appease critics of the RH bill.
Iloilo Rep. Janette Garin, one of the bill’s authors, earlier said that while remanding the bill to the committee level may be an option under the rules, the same allows them to replace it with a substitute one on a majority vote in the plenary or “amendment by substitution.”
A group of lady lawmakers composed of Reps. Luz Ilagan of Gabriela party list, Emmeline Aglipay (Diwa party list), Bernadette Herrera-Dy (Bagong Henerasyon party list) and Kimi Cojuangco of Pangasinan said it is high time that the measure be voted upon.
“We are calling on the House leadership to put it to a vote already and calling on our colleagues to ensure quorum whether they are supporting the RH or not,” Herrera-Dy said.
Cojuangco said: “I know the numbers, and we have the numbers.”
She also said she already spoke to Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. to finally set the ground rules for the second reading approval of the RH bill.
Aglipay said their group is now “focused on getting our colleagues to put the RH bill amendments on the agenda so that we can discuss it.”
She said the RH bill would be able to provide the services for care of mothers and decrease of maternal deaths.
Congress has about a month until it goes on Christmas break from December 22 to January 20.
Under the substitute bill, the RH campaign will be focused on the poorest of the poor who are mostly beneficiaries of the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s conditional cash transfer program.

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