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Date Posted: 21:14:29 06/06/12 Wed
Author: IMRD
Subject: June 7, 2011 news

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/361302/interpellations-on-rh-bill-end

Please read above link below

Interpellations On RH Bill End
By ROLLY T. CARANDANG
June 6, 2012, 5:13pm
MANILA, Philippines --- After almost a year of intense debates, the Senate has ended interpellations on the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill.
The two sponsors of Senate Bill No. 2865 or Reproductive Health Act, Senators Miriam Defensor Santiago and Pia Cayetano, said after interpellation, they will to the next stage, the period of amendments to further scrutinize the measure before it is subjected to plenary voting.
“I’m happy and relieved that after almost a year of defending the RH Bill, we have finally terminated the period of interpellation,” said Cayetano, chairman of the Senate Committees on Health and Demography and on Youth, Women and Family Relations, “I’m now looking forward to starting the period of amendments.”
Last Tuesday, Senate President Juan Enrile, a critic of the bill, withdrew his intent to resume his interpellation after all other interpellators finished their turn. Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III then manifested that there were no more senators left to ask questions on the bill before moving to terminate the period of interpellation.
Cayetano delivered her sponsorship speech on the RH Bill on June 7, 2011. Since then, a total of nine senators had taken the floor to interpellate the sponsors.
“There have been a lot of points raised by my colleagues that we will be able to use to improve the bill, and I would like to thank them for sharing their inputs and concerns with me,” she pointed out. “I certainly hope that in that whole year that we’ve spent debating on the bill, my co-sponsor (Defensor-Santiago) and I have also been able to enlighten some of them on their questions and concerns.”
Cayetano concluded by thanking the ‘Pro-RH’ groups and individuals who had religiously attended the Senate sessions to follow the debates and provide inputs to support the sponsors.
“We’d like to thank the supporters, non-government organizations and individuals who patiently came here, sometimes almost every day, to assist us in the defense of the bill. Our work is far from done, but we should consider this a triumph on the part of everyone who values the lives of mothers," Cayetano said.


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