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Date Posted: 00:48:40 07/30/12 Mon
Author: IMRD
Subject: July 28, 2012 news

http://manilastandardtoday.com/www2/2012/07/28/rh-group-to-junk-bishops-poll-bets/

RH group to junk bishops’ poll bets
By Macon Ramos-Araneta | Posted on July 28, 2012 | 12:05am | 1 Comment

A women’s group on Friday told the country’s bishops it will reject their political candidates who are opposed to the passage into law of the Reproductive Health bill.
“The bishops will make our work easier,” said Elizabeth Angsioco, president of the Democratic Socialist Women of the Philippines.
“Inclusion in their list is a guarantee that a candidate is anti-RH.”
DSWP is a national federation of 264 community women’s organizations with 40,000 members. Angsioco said to be against the RH bill was to be anti-women and anti-poor.
“With the bishops’ list, we will no longer need to do further research on included candidates,” Angsioco said.
“We will simply campaign against them and not vote for them.”
Angsioco made her statement even as the leaders in the House of Representatives scheduled on Aug. 7 the voting on the RH bill to decide whether or not it will pass.
In a statement on Thursday, Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. said that on that date, the House members would vote to decide whether to end or extend the period for debating the bill.
“If the vote is in favor of terminating the debates, then the period of amendments follow and put to a vote for passage on second reading,” Belmonte said.
“If the vote is against termination of the debates, then it is back to plenary interpellation.”
The RH bill was filed by Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman, and independent, in 2010, but the House has filed to pass it on second reading.
The proponents of the measure believe that the RH bill is one of the most feasible ways to arrest the country’s runaway population growth. The United Nations estimates the world’s population at 7 billion, and the Philippines as the 12th most populous country.
Belmonte has said the RH bill would have a good chance of passing, but the Catholic bishops had earlier said they will make a list of the lawmakers opposed to the bill and then support them in next year’s elections.
Angsioco said that would be a welcome move because it will help them know the candidates to reject.
“We are fully supporting the move,” she said.
Angsioco recalled that Catholic Church openly went against former Presidents Fidel Ramos and Erap Estrada and former Senator Juan Flavier, but all of them got elected.
“Even at the local level, priests went against the champions of the RH bill but virtually all of those re-electionists won,” she said.
The Catholic Church on Friday said lawmakers must vote for or against the RH bill according to their conscience and not according to the wishes of their political allies, but insisted that the country did not need a population control measure.
“It is about time to remind our congressmen and senators that they have a responsibility to our people to come up with a sincere evaluation of what they believe for the good of the nation,” Archbishop Jose Palma said. With Maricel V. Cruz and Vito Barcelo

http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/opinion/editorials/27845-the-president-did-not-endorse-the-rh-bill

The President did not endorse the RH bill
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PROPONENTS of the so-called Reproductive Health Bill are now marshalling their forces to call for a vote on it in both houses of Congress. Their zeal had noticeably been petering out in the weeks before the President delivered his SONA on Monday. But they got a morale boost when they thought they heard him endorse the RHB.

The bill is not as much about reproductive health as about empowering women and giving them the choice to terminate their pregnancy so that they may more freely concentrate on doing what they want without the burdens of the “sickness” they call pregnancy and the sacrificial work of caring for unwanted babies and raising unwanted children. The RHB is also about being able to end unwanted pregnancies that are the result of their drunken husbands lust. It is also about so many wonderful goals to help women become more fulfilled human beings.

But the bill will result in the killing of human embryos, the killing funded by government and made possible by government fiat, as ordered by the RH law (if, God forbid, the RHB gets passed and enacted.) This will surely happen because the law would command that medicines in pill and other forms, and various means and tools, to prevent pregnancies be made freely available for anyone who has the money to buy them and for the government to give these gratis to indigent women.

The reason human embryos will surely be killed is that these contraceptive pills have been scientifically proved to be destructive of them. They do not prevent pregnancies by preventing the fertilization of the female egg by the male sperm. What they do is snuff the life of the fertilized ovum, which is the beginning of a human being, the early embryo, the first stages of the baby, by poisoning it. Then, in case the embryo is not terminated by poisoning, the contraceptive medicines’ next effect is to coat the uterine wall with a toxic substance to keep the embryo from clinging to the wall of the mother’s uterus.

Killing tiny babies in the womb
The tiny baby, which some people would rather think about as just cells and a blob of blood, and not the human life that it is, must attach herself or himself to the uterine wall to go on living. This attachment is the way the tiny baby can get sustenance from the mother and grow an umbilical cord through which the mother’s blood containing life-giving substances flows to make the baby grow.

Opponents of the RHB have asked the proponents to make a list of contraceptive medicines that do not kill the fertilized embryo. They cannot supply a list. They say it is not the job of the law and the government to determine that scientific fact. It should be left to the pharmaceutical companies and the pharmacists dispensing the medicines to determine which contraceptives do what.

That reply is irresponsible. Why pass a law that will cause the death of babies?

Now killing babies, even in embryo form, is a crime. It is a crime NOT because the Catholic Church and other religions say so. It is a crime because the Philippine Constitution says human life begins at the moment of conception and it is the duty of the Philippine state to protect and nourish human beings from the time of their conception to the time of their natural death.

Therefore, the Philippine government would be committing genocide against Filipinos if the RHB is enacted. Doctors who prescribe contraceptive pills that kill and the pharmacists who sell them, the government nurse and public health officer and caregiver who are ordered by the law to distribute the abortion-causing contraceptive pills, will become murderers of little babies in the womb.

Most members of Congress in both houses understand this. That is why the RHB has not been passed despite years of campaigning by Filipino population control and pro-choice activists supported by the foreigners who bankroll them.

Responsible Parenthood is not the same as RHB
The President in his last SONA said nothing about supporting the passage of the Reproductive Health Bill. What he mentioned was “Responsible Parenthood.” He said: “Sa taon din pong ito, masisimot na rin ang 61.7 million na backlog sa textbook upang maabot na, sa wakas, ang one is to one ratio ng aklat sa mag-aaral. [This very year, we will wipe out the 61.7 million backlog in textbooks so that we will achieve the one to one ratio of books to students.] [Applause] Sana nga po, ngayong paubos na ang backlog sa edukasyon, sikapin nating huwag uling magka-backlog dahil sa dami ng estudyante. Sa tingin ko po, Responsible Parenthood ang sagot dito. [May it be, now that the backlog in education is about to end, that we strive not to face backlogs again because of the number of students. In my view, Responsible Parenthood is the answer. [Applause]”

Obviously, the President is asking Filipinos to do birth control and family planning. But he never said anything about genocidal artificial family planning methods proposed in the RHB. How can he endorse artificial birth control pills that not only cause abortions but also cause cancers on the women who use them?

RHB proponents have declared that they are not fighting the Catholic Church. They are saying that because a Catholic bishop has understood President Aquino’s mention of “Responsible Parenthood” in his SONA as the President’s and the RHB proponents’ “declaration of war” against the Church.

The RHB activists may not be waging war against the Church—only its values and moral teachings. But they are fighting common sense, scientific knowledge of what these abortifacient medicines do and the Constitution.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/238069/take-rh-bill-protest-to-the-streets-bishops-urge-faithful
Take RH bill protest to the streets, bishops urge faithful
By Kristine L. Alave
Philippine Daily Inquirer
1:20 am | Saturday, July 28th, 2012
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The powerful Catholic Church is calling on its millions of followers to hold prayer vigils in the streets or in the privacy of their homes before Aug. 7, when the House of Representatives shall decide on the fate of the controversial reproductive health (RH) bill.
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) urged the faithful through the media to hold protests and novenas to show the lawmakers their opposition to the bill, which aims to provide universal access to various birth control methods and reproductive health information to Filipinos.
The bill, which has spurred a culture war between the Church and reproductive health advocates, also mandates the government to fund modern contraceptives and information through health centers.
CBCP president Archbishop Jose Palma of Cebu, in an interview with the Church-run Radio Veritas, said bishops were supportive of street rallies against the RH bill in the hope that the show of force would convince the lawmakers to vote against the measure, which they claim is antilife.
Call for opposition
“People are free to manifest their own convictions—not only those who are in favor of the RH bill but also other people who certainly want to manifest that they are opposed to it,” Palma said.
Upon learning that the bill would be put to a vote on Aug. 7, Palma said they thought it was time “to remind our congressmen and senators that they have a responsibility to our people to come up with a sincere evaluation of what they believe will be for the good of the nation considering that many of us are Catholics.”
Advocates of the RH bill, which include the Department, of Health, say the measure would help reduce the number of mothers and infants dying in childbirth. It would also save teenage girls from unwanted pregnancies, allow families to choose how many children to have and help them raise healthier kids.
On Thursday, House Majority Leader and Mandaluyong City Rep. Neptali Gonzales II said they expected to end the period of interpellation and debate on the bill on July 30.
Catholicism is the predominant religion in the Philippines, with about 63 million followers, according to government data. The Democratic Socialist Women of the Philippines said surveys showed that majority of Catholics supported the proposed law.
Intensified campaign
CBCP Permanent Council member Bishop Leonardo Medroso called on the faithful to intensify their campaign against the bill, noting that Church officials might issue an oratio imperata (obligatory prayer) for the faithful.
“We need to continue our campaign, actions and prayers to awaken the conscience of the public, especially the lawmakers who are pushing for the RH bill. The oratio imperata is one of the ways we see that can shake their conscience,” he said.
Father Melvin Castro, executive secretary of the CBCP-Episcopal Commission on Family and Life (ECFL), said the faithful who oppose the RH bill should hold a novena.
“To the faithful, let us launch a countdown by holding a novena starting this Sunday until Aug. 6, the day before the voting,” he said. “Let us pray so that they’ll vote according to their conscience and that there won’t be any pressure from the party leadership.”

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