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Date Posted: 18:27:21 07/26/12 Thu
Author: IMRD
Subject: July 26, 2012 news

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=831314&publicationSubCategoryId=63


Senate vote on RH bill within the year
By Marvin Sy (The Philippine Star) Updated July 26, 2012 12:00 AM Comments (39)



MANILA, Philippines - The proponents of the reproductive health (RH) bill in the Senate will get their wish of putting the measure to a vote within the year with the blessings of one of their fiercest critics.
Sen. Pia Cayetano, chair of the Senate committee on health and demography, has been pushing for an end to the debates on the bill so that a vote can be taken on the measure soon.
Cayetano expressed her frustration over what she felt were unnecessary delays coming from the opponents of the bill, which has led to debates that lasted for more than a year.
Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III, the most vocal critic of the bill, does not believe the RH bill should be treated as a priority measure as its proponents have been insisting.
However, Sotto has indicated the bill would be put to a vote sometime between the end of August and the first week of September.
As majority leader, Sotto has some degree of power to determine the agenda for the legislative sessions of the Senate.
The period of voting on the RH bill predicted by Sotto was based on the fact that the period of interpellations for the measure has been concluded and it is well on its way for approval on second reading.
Cayetano welcomed the statement of Sotto, saying that it is about time that a vote is taken on the bill.
“It is the obligation of any senator not to delay the RH bill. We owe that to every single Filipino here. They can oppose the bill but the process must go through,” Cayetano said.
“To come up with reasons not to pursue this bill is a disservice to the Filipino people. Vote against it. That is what you do if you do not like the bill, or propose amendments,” she added.
But before the bill is put to a vote, it must undergo two more steps, namely the turno en contra, which is to allow the opponents of the bill to make their arguments against the measure, and the period of amendments.
Sotto has indicated that he would avail of the turno en contra, which is unusual but part of the legislative process.
Sotto vowed to expose the bill for what he claims is a backdoor to abortion, the proliferation of contraceptives and abortifacients.
Sotto said he has been preparing his arguments for the turno en contra for some time with the hope of convincing his undecided colleagues to vote against the bill.
He admitted the vote on the bill could go either way at this time, so he intends to enlighten the undecided senators about the dangers of the bill.
– With Evelyn Macairan, Aurea Calica



http://manilastandardtoday.com/www2/2012/07/26/aquinos-support-to-rh-spells-war/

Aquino’s support to RH spells ‘war’
By Joyce Pangco Pañares | Posted on July 26, 2012 | 12:14am | 5 Comments

Catholic priests on Wednesday said they considered President Aquino’s public endorsement of responsible parenthood bill as “a declaration of war” against the Church, but Malacañang deflected the challenge to go to battle over birth control.
“Where is the war? In fact, we have good relationship with the bishops,” presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda told reporters.
He said the Aquino Administration was waging a war on poverty and not on the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, which has been lobbying against the Reproductive Health bill, a population control program that contradicts the Church’s position against artificial contraception.
In his State-of-the-Nation address on Tuesday, Mr. Aquino made an oblique reference to responsible parenthood as a way of addressing the shortage of classrooms and books.
Prominent politicians and various groups supporting the bill welcomed Mr. Aquino’s endorsement and said it was a signal to legislators to pass the measure.
Lacierda said Mr. Aquino met CBCP members in Malacañang in August last year and they discussed the various issues on the bill after a consolidated version was submitted to Congress.
He said in previous meetings that the government accepted the concerns raised by the bishops, including the removal of a provision to put a limit on the number of children per family and increasing the age of children who will undergo sex education in schools.
The President also agreed to provide funds for natural family planning methods, which was not specified in the previous version of the consolidated bill, Lacierda said.
“The bishops were fully aware of the advocacy of the President … They were fully aware of our position and we took into consideration some of the concerns they raised,” Lacierda said.
But Lipa Archbishop Ramon Arguelles said they considered it an act of war against the Church when Aquino included a reference to responsible parenthood in his State-of-the-Nation address.
“Aquino declared an open war, a head-on collision against us and against the Catholic Church. So terrible, so blatantly Aquino missed the point,” Arguelles said.
“We in the pro-life movements are so disgusted with these vigorous pronouncements in support of responsible parenthood.”
Sorsogon Bishop Arturo Bastes said Mr. Aquino’s statement was “a bad omen” because “it is undermining the moral force of the Catholic Church. We have to move our people to vigilance and teach more our congressmen about the dangers of the bill.”
Malolos Bishop Jose Oliveros said President Aquino must listen to the voice of the people.


http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/news/nation/27674-aquino-urged-to-make-clear-stand-on-responsible-parenthood


Aquino urged to make clear stand on responsible parenthood
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Written by Camille Lopez
The Catholic Church urged President Benigno Aquino 3rd to make his stand on Responsible Parenthood bill clear.


While mention of responsible parenthood was the most applauded part of President Aquino’s 3rd State of the Nation Address, especially by the supporters of the Reproductive Health bill, the Catholic Church has voiced out concern over the confusion that may likely arise from the Aquino statement.

Msgr. Joselito Asis, secretary general of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, said the Church’s definition of responsible parenthood is different from those being pushed by RH bill supporters.

“‘What is really the meaning of responsible parenthood according to the mind of the President? Is it tantamount to the RH?” Asis said.

The CBCP official said that if Aquino if referring to the responsible parenthood according to the Church’s teachings, “then it’s good . . . The question is whether Aquino’s definition is the same with that advocated by the Church. The problem is that they didn’t submit the draft.”

Other church officials also voiced their opinions over the controversial statement.

“We, in the pro-life movements, are so disgusted with these vigorous pronouncements in support of responsible parenthood aka RH bill,” said Lipa Archbishop Ramon Arguelles.

“PNoy is undermining the moral force of the Catholic Church,” said Sorsogon Bishop Arturo Bastes stressing that the president’s brief remark on population control is a bad omen for what the church stands for.

For his part, Malolos Bishop Jose Oliveros called on lawmakers to listen to the voice of the majority of the Filipino people.

“May I also ask them to vote according to their Catholic conscience and to preserve our traditional Filipino values such as love for children and the family,” he concluded.

In his 3rd SONA Aquino remarked, “We are ending the backlogs in the education sector, but the potential for shortages remains as our student population continues to increase. Perhaps responsible parenthood can help address this,” which caused supporters of RH bill to applaud.

Confusion arose over what the president meant. Palace deputy Presidential spokesman Abigail Valte explained that “the President is in favor of giving couples the right to choose how best to manage their families so that in the end their welfare and that of their children are best served.”


http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/opinion/editorials/27705-beware-the-aging-population


Beware the aging population
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ADB says, “Asia’s aging population is a development challenge, since caring for the elderly can be costly and economic growth and productivity depend on a labor force regularly replenished with young adult workers.”

That is the serious problem being faced by Western Europe and Russia.

Japan and Korea, whose pensions and care for the elderly are among the world best, are suffering because they have overwhelmingly succeeded in the population-control programs. They now suffer from what experts call “the empty cradle” phenomenon.

Japan and Korea may have policies and laws to provide generously for retired workers and the elderly but they are facing the problem of where to get the money for the pensions and the benefits from.

The pension funds, like those of our SSS and the GSIS, need contributions from young workers and employees so that the pensions for the retirees can be paid. But if there are no more millions of young Japanese and Koreans entering the labor force and enrolling in the pension funds how can the pensioners be paid?

Japan is increasingly depending on robots to do the work that used to be done by salaried workers. Robots are getting to be more efficient and competent—sometimes even more so than humans. Robots however do not contribute to the pension fund.

That is why the population control desired by proponents of the so-called Reproductive Health Bill must be recognized as a threat to Philippine development, to the economy and to the common good.

Last April, a World Health Organization official, warned that the Philippines must be ready for older people constituting larger and larger parts of the population.

More money would be needed to care for the aged in our country.

The heart-breaking movie Soylent Green 30 years ago offered a solution. Governments would just give seniors who reach the appropriate age a quiet and happy death. Then, because food would be scarce, their bodies would be processed into edible soylent green.

For a better future than that we must reject the mistake that the Western Powers imposed on mankind—population control through contraception and abortion. Instead, the new world order should favor population replenishment and the florescence of the Culture of Love.

World Health Organization sees the population of people 65 and older outnumbering children younger than five in our Western Pacific Region by 2017. By 2050, says WHO, 65 and older adults will outnumber children under 14.

“The older age group is becoming the ‘new normal’ for the world’s population. Populations are ageing fastest in low and middle-income countries. A transition toward an older society took more than a century in Europe and might take place in less than 25 years in countries like Brazil, China and Thailand,” WHO said.

Contrary to the population control lobbyists’ words, our birth rate has been declining steadily. It is now approaching the replacement fertility rate minimum of more than two births essential to avoid the ageing population disaster the West, Japan, Korea and even China have.

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