No need for the Reproductive Health Bill

There is no need for Congress to pass the Reproductive Health Bill. The proposed measure is unconstitutional, inappropriate, inimical to the interests of the Filipino people and unnecessary.

Notwithstanding Section 12, Article II of the Constitution, which mandates the State to protect the life of the unborn, the proposed Reproductive Health Bill seeks to prevent the life of the unborn by making the State the main provider of contraception and sterilization services, contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution.

Several contraceptives are abortifacients (cause abortion), because their mechanisms include preventing the proliferation of the endometrium (the uterine lining of the woman) so it will NOT be favorable for the implantation of any fertilized ova. The RH Bill seeks to give these abortifacients for free to Filipino women; this goes against the constitutional guarantee for the protection of the life of the unborn.

The RH Bill also seeks to require all individuals to set aside their religious beliefs and support with their tax monies an RH agenda that runs counter to those beliefs, contrary to the Constitutionally-guaranteed freedom of religion. Under pain of imprisonment and/or fine, health professionals, health workers and other health service providers, as well as teachers and school administrators, among others, will be forced to perform services even if these go against their religious convictions and moral beliefs.

There are more important ways to spend taxpayers’ money. The State has no duty to use public money to cure pregnancy, which is NOT a disease. It is the State’s duty, however, to protect our people from real diseases, namely: heart diseases, vascular diseases, cancer, pneumonia, tuberculosis, respiratory diseases, diarrheal diseases, diabetes, pulmonary diseases, and the like. This is where we must spend our taxes for health.

On the issues of maternal death and infant mortality, these could be brought to zero by ensuring adequate basic and emergency obstetrics-care facilities and skilled medical personnel and health attendants all over the country. This is where our taxes must go.

Spending hard-earned taxpayers’ money on Population control will not be intelligent investment. Multiple studies have shown that there is no correlation between population growth and economic growth. There are countries with large populations that are prosperous. For our country to attain economic prosperity, government must spend on education and job generation. Besides, our country’s population growth rate and fertility rate have been steadily decreasing over the years, even without the RH Bill. This trend will continue naturally without massive government intervention, like the RH Bill.

The non-passage of the RH Bill will not prejudice nor have any adverse effect on any one. As it stands today, any person who wants to use contraception or sterilization in this country may do so, since everyone is free to use any method of birth control even now. Thus, it is unnecessary to enact an RH Bill.

Source: http://www.philstar.com/nation/article.aspx?publicationSubCategoryId=200&articleId=695829

My Personal Reaction about RH BILL

Nowadays, youth often engage themselves to 
premarital sex which later on causes to early pregnancy. According to Jordan Brown's article that  "Reducing  teen pregnancy and birth is one of the most effective ways of reducing child poverty in the country". Jordan Brown has a point about his article, but do we agree about this? Do you think that reducing early pregnancy will be the answer to the problems of our country? And do you think our country will be in progress if we apply this in our institution? Many questions had been asked but at the end of the day there will only be one answer.

The government and church had been arguing about the RH bill for many years. But do we see any progress? Do we see any results about their debates and argumentation's? Our government is trying to pass this bill to help us prevent the growing population in our country and also to prevent poverty from invading our country.

As a student, I strongly disagree to the Philippine Stars article about the RH bill issue not because I oppose the idea of our church, but because I know that it has the capacity to help our country prevent the growing population. Although I believe that overpopulation is not the only problem of our country because we can also cite our economies mismanagement: bad politics, bad governance, and most of all graft and corruption.

The problem appears to be that the Church seems to see that preventing pregnancy when it COULD HAVE HAPPENED is the same as denying the "possible" child the right to life. Personally, even though I myself am a Catholic, I do not see eye to eye with this. But there are indeed those who agree with this particular view.

But really, is it preferable that you give birth to a child when you have no means to support its needs, causing not only yourself but your child to suffer in poverty, struggling through each day and making do with the little that you have. I suppose that's why many resort to abortion, considering that they did not have access to artificial birth-control before.

I also believe that this bill is not anti-life. It is pro-quality life. It will ensure that children will be blessings for their parents since their births are planned and wanted. It will empower couples with the information and opportunity to plan and space their children. This will not only strengthen the family as a unit but also optimize care for children who will have more opportunities to be educated, healthy and productive.

Finally, this bill will not promote contraceptive mentality. The bill does not prohibit pregnancy. Critics are mistaken in claiming that because contraceptives would be readily available, people would prefer to have no children at all. Couples will not stop wanting children simply because contraceptives are available. Contraceptives are used to prevent unwanted pregnancies but not to stop pregnancies altogether. Timed pregnancies are assured.

            

Kaibigan?? Para saan?

Ano ba ang tunay na kaibigan? Ang tunay na kaibigan ay iyong tutulungan ka sa iyong oras ng paghihinagpis,yung hindi ka itatake advantage bilang isang tao, at yung alam kung paano ka nila sisirain pero hinding-hindi nila gagawin. Iyon naman talaga ang totoong kaibigan di' ba? Pero sa ating mundo ngayon, sadyang napakahirap na ngang makakita ng totoong kaibigan. Minsan nakaharap sau ng nakangiti ngunit pag nakatalikod ka'y agad kang sisirain. Mga kamalian mo ay palaging mapupuna sapagkat pakiramdam nila'y perpekto sila! Sadyang napakasalimuot nga naman, di' ba? Minsan pa nga'y natutuwa silang sisirain ka sapagkat pakiramdam nila'y sisikat sila. Grabe na pala ang kaibigan ngayon! Masira't masaktan ka ma'y wala silang paki-alam. Dapat ay matuto tayong mamili na totoong kaibigan. Iyong tipong nandyan hindi dahil may kailangan ngunit nandyan dahil gusto kang makita. Kaya kapag nararamdaman mong ika'y sinisiraan, wag kang matakot lisanin sila sapagkat ang tunay na kaibigan ay hinding-hindi ka sisirain at lalong hinding-hindi ka sasaktan.