My Stand on RH BIll

This is my stand on the RH Bill long debated in the Congress.

At first, I don’t care what this bill is all about. Let-the-legislators-do-their-part was my stand before. But now, it has become so contentious that even laymen talked about it and lately, I became one of them – so eager to know the truths behind this controversial bill.

Reproductive Health Bill (House Bill 5043) was proposed by Rep. Edcel Lagman with the thesis statement “Reproductive and Population Development Act of 2008. He believed that this bill will be the answer to the country’s problem on overpopulation and quality living. With his supporters, they professed that contraceptives are not life-threatening and this bill will help improve the condition of the Filipino families specially those who are in the marginalized sectors of the society.

            This bill leads to many arguments and has opened-up discussions on the country’s culture, tradition, and even law. The Catholic Church stood against the bill because it introduces the legalization of the use of contraceptives which prevents reproduction or the creation of life. RH Bill has been peddling in the Congress for almost two (2) years now and still, the debate is not yet over.          

The latest studies in scientific journals and organizations show that ordinary birth control pill, IUD, and RU-486 are abortifacient: they kill human embryos, who as such, human beings worthy of respect. Secular reasons established that contraception is objectively evil; leading social scientists showed that it has deleterious social effects: abortion, female impoverishment, illegitimate children, spread of AIDS, etc. The bill is based on a wrong premise since there is no consensus among economists that rapid population growth constrains economic development. The penal provision constitutes a violation of free choice and conscience, and establishes religious persecution.

This bill does not protect the health and welfare of the women in the country, instead, worsen the situation. Our country’s problem is not on the population. Every human resource is a gift and a needed factor in a struggling society to move upward. It is the system running in the government that is defective and is badly calling for reform.

I am against with the implementation of this bill for it opposes to the principles of God according to His plan and purpose for human kind. Rapid population is not really the cause of poverty. Why they can’t blame the case of poverty to the government? I don’t believe that there are no side effects of birth control pills and other contraceptives. If we will have this bill passed and approved by the court, then we would be like Western Countries who have progressive economies but has low morality.

Our country is a Christian nation. We should retain the integrity Filipinos has been keeping for quite a long time, and God’s law, that is, the right to reproduce and multiply.