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Date Posted: 21:04:31 07/30/12 Mon
Author: IMRD
Subject: July 31, 2012 news

http://businessmirror.com.ph/home/nation/30607-bishops-set-rally-vs-rh-bill

Bishops set rally vs RH bill
Monday, 30 July 2012 20:21 Claudeth Mocon / Correspondent

THE Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) is set to hold a prayer rally against the controversial reproductive-health bill on Sunday.
Dubbed “Prayer Power Against the RH Bill,” it will be held at the Edsa (Epifanio de los Santos) Shrine on Ortigas Avenue in Quezon City.
Fr. Melvin Castro, CBCP-Episcopal Commission on Family and Life executive secretary, encouraged all pro-life advocates to join the activity to show their strong opposition on RH bill. The prayer rally is scheduled from 1 to 8 p.m.
On Wednesday, the second death anniversary of the late President Corazon Aquino, the CBCP will also hold a prayer rally at the Edsa Shrine to be attended by pro-life groups, Sangguniang Laiko ng Pilipinas, Knights of Columbus, Soldiers for Christ, bishops, priests, nuns and students, teachers and nonacademic personnel of Catholic schools.
Castro said that the prayer rally aims to enlighten congressmen that are supportive of the bill and strengthen the conviction of those who will vote against the bill on August 7.
On August 6 a prayer vigil will also be held at the House of Representatives in Quezon City.
“Sa bisperas ng pagbobotohan sa ika-6 ng Agosto, araw ng Lunes, kapistahan ng Pagbabagong Anyo ni Kristo, mayroon pong prayer vigil na gagawin sa House of Representatives mula alas-otso ng gabi at dire-diretso na iyon at doon na rin isasagawa iyong human chain for life and against the RH bill sa ika-7 ng Agosto. Ito’y tuluy-tuloy na pagkilos dahil napaka-kritikal na nito,” Castro said.
Meanwhile, the CBCP president, Archbishop Jose Palma of Cebu, said that the prayer rally is the bishops’ way to show their sentiments on their advocacy for life, believing that: “Every birth is a gift from God. Every new life is a blessing. Every birth a cause for rejoicing and praising God who creates new life only out of love. ”


http://www.malaya.com.ph/index.php/news/nation/9666-anti-rh-forces-ready-big-push

Anti-RH forces ready big push
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OPPONENTS of the reproductive health bill are set to stage rallies at the Edsa Shrine in Quezon City and in dioceses nationwide on Saturday.
“Ito ay magiging pagpapakita lamang ng ating sentiments tungkol po sa ating advocacy for life,” Archbishop Jose Palma, president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, said over Church-run Radio Veritas.
“Sana nga po ipakita natin, lalo na yung mga lay people, kasi more than anybody else, kayo yung mga target ng RH bill. Ipakita natin yung pinaniniwalaan natin ay yung nakakabuti,” he added.
The House is scheduled to put the measure to a vote on August 7.
Palma, in a statement he read over Radio Veritas, said the RH bill would not solve the problems being raised by proponents of the bill.
“The population control policy of the reproductive health bill would only stall our economic growth. The problem of countries with former robust economies is the lack of young workers for their industries and inadequate support for their aging population,” he said.
He said the problem of maternal deaths being raised by the proponents is indeed a serious “but the solution does not lie in suppressing birth.” He said providing proper and adequate maternal care could be done without passing the RH bill.
“There is a grave reason to worry when the government would rather suppress the population through RH bill instead of confronting the real causes of poverty,” he also said.
The CBCP is strongly opposing of the RH bill because it promotes the artificial method of family planning. The Church wants couples to use only the natural method. – Gerard Naval


http://opinion.inquirer.net/33521/catholics-condoms-and-the-rh-bill

Catholics, condoms and the RH bill
By: Rina Jimenez-David
Philippine Daily Inquirer
10:11 pm | Saturday, July 28th, 2012
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Well, what do you know… It seems that President Benigno Aquino III’s brief mention, almost in passing, in his State of the Nation Address of the importance of “responsible parenthood” lit a fire under the bottoms of the House and Senate leadership.
Now the long-delayed Reproductive Health bill is “on the verge” of passage, at least according to the long-suffering lobby groups, and it’s all hands on deck!
Tomorrow, the plenary debate in the House of Representatives begins and will end on Wednesday, after which voting is expected to commence. Supporters are urged to show up en masse at the House, wearing purple shirts or white shirts with purple accessories (purple is considered the color of the women’s movement). They are also asked to “tweet or Facebook pro-RH legislators to attend sessions” and otherwise badger all those who signed on as cosponsors to show up and make their presence count.
Of course, the Catholic bishops and their adherents, all those who believe in keeping Filipino women “barefoot and pregnant,” can be expected to wage their own counterattack. But since everything that can be said has been said on this long-delayed bill, I think the House and the Senate are more than ready to finally vote on the measure.
Just a reminder, though: The Filipino public has long made its sentiments on reproductive health heard and loudly articulated. The only question remaining is: Who do our legislators listen to? Will it be the Filipino people, as expressed in public opinion surveys dating back to well over a decade? Or will it be a small elite composed of Church folk and their supporters?
Congress is reaching the crossroads, and let’s hope it proceeds in the right direction.
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While we’re on the topic, I do still hold out hope that our Filipino bishops and their followers on the issue of reproductive health will come around to changing their minds and easing their vociferous opposition to the idea of giving women (and men) the means to decide their reproductive fate.
I say this because Pope Benedict XVI did say in 2010 that using condoms to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS can be “a first step in a movement toward a different way, a more human way, of living sexuality.” This was, wrote Jon O’Brien in a recent issue of “rd” or Religion Dispatches, a daily online magazine, “a great leap forward for the Catholic Church,” which previously condemned the promotion of condom use (deeming condoms “immoral”) even to prevent the spread of disease.
Before I go on to discuss O’Brien’s article, titled “The Truth About Catholics and Condoms,” let me clarify here that O’Brien (whom I have met personally) is the president of Catholics for Choice and a leader of the “Condoms4Life” campaign, just so you’d know where he’s coming from. And that “rd” says it provides “a forum for journalists, scholars and advocates to share their expertise and inform the conversations that shape our lives and our democracy.” Judging from its lineup of articles, “rd” seems to cover a wide range of beliefs and opinions.
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The Pope’s statement, says O’Brien, could have meant “not only that Catholics could feel comfortable using this tried-and-tested HIV prevention method, but that many Catholic-run health care centers might start incorporating condoms into their official HIV prevention programs.”
But even after the Pope affirmed the use of condoms to help prevent the spread of HIV, “we still hear some members of the Catholic hierarchy trying to take back the Pope’s words and doing their best to prevent condoms from reaching people who need them.”

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