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Date Posted: 03:02:17 06/13/12 Wed
Author: IMRD
Subject: June 9-13, 2012

http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php/news/national/31488-pia-miriam-press-rh-crusade

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Pia, Miriam press RH crusade
Published : Saturday, June 09, 2012 00:00
Article Views : 63
Written by : Bernadette E. Tamayo

FOR lack of time, the Senate failed to approve the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) Bill before the upper chamber adjourned Wednesday for a month-long break but the two lady senators pushing for its eventual passage are not losing hope that it will be passed in August, or a month after Congress resumes session.

After nearly one year of plenary debates on the measure, the Senate Tuesday night ended interpellations on Senate Bill No.2865, or the Reproductive Health Act. The bill co-sponsored by Senators Pia Cayetano and Miriam Defensor-Santiago moves on to the next stage, the period of amendments.

“It has not been certified as urgent by the President, and today is our last session day (before sine die adjournment). So even if we approve it on second reading—meaning to say, after all the amendments have been acted upon—still, we have to wait for three days (that is the rule), before we can vote on it,” Santiago said in a chance interview.

“Apparently, since there will be no more sessions after this—unless the Senate decides otherwise this afternoon—it cannot be passed anyway. As I have predicted, we may have to pass it after the SONA, by August. That is our best hope,” she said.

Santiago added: “We will be very relieved if that happens because the RH Bill has been pending for decades in Congress. I think the general benefits will outweigh the doubts if they are still lingering in the minds of people who have been influenced by the theology and members of the religious.”

“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, chairperson 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,” she said.

Senate President Juan Enrile, a known critic of the bill, withdrew his intent to resume his interpellation after all other interpellators were done with their. This prompted Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III to manifest 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 nearly one year ago on June 7, 2011. Since then, a total of nine senators had taken the floor to interpellate her. “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 said.

“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 andconcerns.”

“I’d like to reassure everyone that we’ll continue to work hard on this measure with the end in view of passing an RH Bill at the soonest possible time while also taking into consideration the valid points raised by some of our colleagues,” Cayetano said.


http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php/news/national/31649-rh-backers-urge-passage

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RH backers urge passage
Published : Monday, June 11, 2012 00:00
Article Views : 38
Written by : Jester P. Manalastas

ADVOCATES of the Reproductive Health (RH) bill are now calling on the members of the House of Representatives to act swiftly on the passage of the bill.

The Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development Foundation, Inc. (PLCPD) issued the statement following the decision of the Senate to terminate the period of debates and proceed to the period of amendments when session resumes on July.

Romeo Dongeto, Executive Director of PLCPD, said that advocates and supporters of the RH bill, have long been waiting for the day that the long debate and repetitive questions will finally end.

Dongeto challenged members of the House to do as the Senate did which, despite differences of opinions and much heavy load because of the Corona impeachment trial, managed to do their job to move forward a highly contentious bill.

The official said it is ironic that the House of Representatives, who first passed the measure on the committee level and started the plenary debates in 2011, is still stuck in debating with the delaying tactics of the anti-RH district representatives.

The PLCPD commended the Senate for finally ending the debate on the proposed measure to give way to the period of amendments.

Since the RH bill is a joint referral from three committees of the Senate, the period of amendments will allow the Committee on Health and Demography, Committee on Finance and the Committee on Youth, Women and Family Relations to introduce the amendments based on the results of the interpellations and individual suggestions of the Senators concerned. It will then move towards voting on the final form of the bill.


http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php/news/top-stories/31809-rh-bill-delay-hurt-aquino-popularity

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RH bill delay hurt Aquino popularity?
Published : Wednesday, June 13, 2012 00:00
Article Views : 31
Written by : Jester P. Manalastas

THE delay in passing the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill is one of the reasons for the dipping trust rating of President Benigno Aquino, according to Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman, a staunch advocate of the RH bill.

Lagman lamented that despite the President’s endorsement of the RH bill, the measure is pending in the House of Representatives.

Both the Legislative Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) and Congress included the RH bill in their priorities.

“The bill’s enactment has been temporized as it has to pass a gauntlet of repetitive and lenghty yet intermittent and protracted plenary interpellations and debates,” Lagman said.

He stressed that since the impeachment agenda has been achieved, the President has to be more proactive in his support for the RH bill.

“Like what he has done to guarantee overwhelming and successful support for his other priority concerns, the President should marshal the power and resources of his office to ensure the immediate enactment of the overdue and vastly anticipated legislation which is rights-based, health-oriented and deelopment anchored,” Lagman said.

He believes that the passage of the RH bill when Congress resumes session in July will help prop up the President’s approval rating.

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