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Date Posted: 19:21:46 09/13/12 Thu
Author: IMRD
Subject: Sept. 14, 2011 news


http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/09/14/house-vows-okay-of-rh-bill-in-oct/


House vows okay of RH bill in Oct.
By Maricel Cruz | Posted on September 14, 2012 | 12:01am | 156 views

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The head of the House of Representatives said on Thursday they will pass the Reproductive Health bill with or without recommendations from the technical working group composed of the members of Congress and the Catholic Church tasked to break the impasse on the highly-divisive measure.
House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. said they would proceed to the period of amendments and possibly approval on second reading of House Bill 4244 when Congress resumed session in October.
“My hopes are that we can have a definite bill that can be voted on yes or no. As it is there is no bill to talk of because it’s still subject to amendments and we don’t know how it looks,” Belmonte told reporters.
The Lower House officially ended the debates on the measure last month and was scheduled to go into a period of amendments. But anti-RH lawmakers, mostly from the majority party, sidetracked the bill by delivering long privilege speeches on floods and other issues.
At the Senate, the counterpart measure met the same fate. The measure is yet to go through the period of amendments, which can go on indefinitely.
The Senate’s most vocal anti-RH proponents are led by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and Majority Floor Leader Senator Vicente Sotto III, whom Senator Pia Cayetano, a co-author of the bill in the Senate, accused of deliberately delaying the passing of the bill.
So far, Belmonte said, there is no certainty yet on whether or not the technical working group that will propose a compromise version of the measure would push through with the process.
He said there were no other sectors other than the members of the Catholic Church who have expressed their willingness to listen to the explanation of the advocates of the responsible parenthood bill.
Belmonte said that the proponents of the RH bill would want a version that is acceptable to all.
Earlier, House Majority Leader and Mandaluyong Rep. Neptali Gonzales and Deputy Majority Leader and Marikina Rep. Miro Quimbo urged supporters of the bill in Congress to show their guts by providing not only “moral and spiritual support” but also “physical” support for the immediate passage of the bill.
The two leaders said the deadlock over the RH bill would continue if the proponents themselves failed to show strong conviction.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/270250/belmonte-pushes-amendment-period-for-delayed-rh-bill


Belmonte pushes amendment period for delayed RH bill
By Leila B. Salaverria
Philippine Daily Inquirer
3:10 am | Friday, September 14th, 2012
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Speaker Feliciano Belmonte. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO
Lawmakers must push through with the period of amendments to House Bill No. 4244, or the reproductive health (RH) bill, to be able to come up with a definite version of the measure, according to Speaker Feliciano Belmonte.
Belmonte on Thursday said it is difficult to speak of a definite RH bill because so many amendments have already been introduced and people may actually be referring to different versions of the bill when they talk about the controversial measure.
“I want to see the period of amendments progress so we could come up with a definite bill, not just a measure that is described any way a person wants to describe it,” he added.
The RH bill has hurdled a long-winded period of debates in the House of Representatives, but earlier attempts to begin the period of amendments were stalled because opponents of the measure had invoked their right to hold privilege speeches.
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In an attempt to defuse growing tension over the bill, lawmakers agreed to form an informal working group composed of supporters and opponents of the bill, as well as Catholic bishops who are among those who are very critical of the measure.
The group would try to come up with a compromise version of the RH bill that the House would put to a vote after it returns from its break next month. The group would also exclude hard-liners who find it difficult to compromise.
The RH bill seeks to provide contraceptives and family planning service to Filipinos in order to reduce maternal deaths and allow families to determine the number and spacing of their children. It also provides mobile health clinics, barangay health workers and emergency obstetric care.
One of the proposed amendments to the measure is to limit the distribution of contraceptives to the poorest of the poor families identified by the National Household Targeting System, who are believed to be the ones who need them the most.

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