MANILA, September 14, 2011–If contraceptives are only meant for birth control, then why are they tagged as “essential medicines” under the RH bill?
Senate President Juan Ponce-Enrile asked this and other questions as the Senate resumed the period of interpellation for the controversial “reproductive health” (RH) bill Tuesday.
Enrile cited Section 9 of Senate Bill No. 2865 titled “An Act Providing for a National Policy on Reproductive Health and Population and Development,” which orders the inclusion of hormonal contraceptives, intrauterine devices, injectables, and “other safe, legal and effective family planning products and supplies” in the National Drug Formulary.
“These products and supplies shall also be included in the regular purchase of essential medicines and supplies of all national and local hospitals, provincial, city, and municipal health offices, including rural health units,” the Senate version of the RH bill states.
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For many years, pro-abortion advocates in the Western world have tried, and failed, to get the Philippines to pass the so-called Reproductive Health (RH) bill.
If passed, the RH bill would, among other things, massively expand the presence of contraception and force medical professionals and businesses to provide them in spite of any conscientious objections. In this largely Catholic country, that hasn’t gone over well, and that’s why Filipinos continue to overwhelmingly oppose it.
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MANILA, September 13, 2011 – “Even those of us in the supposedly ‘developed’ world are happier if we have intact families with all of the children with whom we are blessed, and if we keep faith and family and community close to our hearts,” said Stephen Phelan, Communications Director of Human Life International (HLI), the world’s largest international pro-life organization.
“If Filipinos want to be happy and not just more ‘accepted’ by people who think there are too many Filipinos for their comfort, then they will continue to value faith, life and family,” he added.
“They will embrace authentic human development programs that lead toward independence – not more dependence on foreign dollars.”
Recent revelations
Phelan was referring to recent news reports that had even reached international media about billions of dollars being poured into the Philippines for the implementation of family planning programs.
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RH bill about population control, not health–Enrile
By Cathy Yamsuan
Philippine Daily Inquirer
3:13 am | Monday, September 12th, 2011
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile has warned that proponents of the reproductive health (RH) bill have “cleverly” packaged it as a health measure when it is clearly about population control.
“RH is a deception. They are calling it a health bill when health should discuss sickness and medicines. What is the therapeutic or medicinal value of a condom? Or that of a birth control pill, an intrauterine device or an injectible (contraceptive),” Enrile said in an interview.
Enrile also wondered why these were the terminology being used although what was being discussed was a health bill.
“I think the real purpose is to control the country’s population through birth control that’s why they (proponents) are advocating this in the guise of a health bill,” he said.
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an article that appeared Sunday on the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) for Life website, two U.S. based pro-life advocates blasted wealthy Western governments for forcing an anti-life population control agenda upon the Philippines and the developing world.
“The [reproductive health] promoters do whatever they have to do to get these things passed — they spend their money in promotion, in getting journalists on their side, opening clinics to circumvent pro-life laws, wooing politicians who value their own power more than they do the families and culture of the nation they represent,” said Stephen Phelan, Communications Manager for
Human Life International. “If they can’t get what they want — which is free-of-charge and full access to contraception and abortion — passed democratically, they will use the courts or other non-democratic means to get what they want.”
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By Christian V. Esguerra
Philippine Daily Inquirer
4:25 am | Sunday, September 11th, 2011
His prolife opinions may not be to the liking of certain parties, but Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III declares he’s no “iskul-bukol” when it comes to the issue of reproductive health.
Sotto on Saturday cried foul over personal attacks against him over his vigorous campaign against the approval of Senate Bill No. 2865, which seeks to establish a national reproductive health framework and allow wider access to contraceptives.
Sotto, a 12-year Senate veteran, has been ridiculed by supporters of the RH bill, particularly in social media. He has been portrayed as being intellectually challenged, largely because of his occasional hosting job at the popular “Eat Bulaga” noontime variety and entertainment show and his background as a comedian and musician.
“It’s because they only know me from ‘Iskul Bukol,’” he said, referring to the popular TV 1980s sitcom featuring a bunch of mischievous, overaged and underachieving schoolboys played by Sotto, his younger brother Vic Sotto and Joey de Leon.
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by Adam Cassandra | Manilla, Philippines | LifeNews.com | 9/9/11 10:08 AM
A diplomatic cable recently published by the controversial website Wikileaks confirms the depth of support by the U.S. government for population control initiatives in the Philippines over the past 40 years, including support for the highly contested Reproductive Health (RH) Bill currently under consideration in the Philippine legislature.
“Landmark appropriations and draft legislation reflect increasing commitment within the Philippine Government to further expand and sustain programs started forty years ago with U.S. Government’s assistance through USAID,” former U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenny said in
the cable. “The U.S. Government continues to be the largest donor in the Philippine population sector supporting efforts to improve local government service delivery and increase private sector contributions to family health outcomes.”
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MANILA, September 7, 2011–One of the Senate sponsors of the controversial “reproductive health” (RH) bill admitted Tuesday that statistics being used by pro-RH advocates are merely “extrapolations” and are therefore not exact.
Tuesday’s floor debates brought into the open how pro-RH lobbyists have been calculating the supposed number of abortions in the country, which Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago claims is at 570,000 annually.
Under interpellation by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, Santiago — a sponsor of the RH bill — revealed that the figure came from 2008 extrapolations by the Guttmacher Institute and the UP Population Institute. The New York-based Guttmacher Institute is the former research arm of the pro-abortion group Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortion services in the US.
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06-Sep-11, 6:39 AM | Karl John C. Reyes, InterAksyon.com
MANILA, Philippines - Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III revealed Monday that $617,000 (about P26 million) in lobby funds were being used by foreign organizations to fund local organizations campaigning for the enactment of the Reproductive Health (RH) bill now pending before Congress.
In an interview before the start of session Monday afternoon, Sotto said that the Family Planning Organization of the Philippines (FPOP) received a total amount of $617,000 in 2010 to fund activities and campaign for the passage of RH bill.
“It ($617,000) was released to FPOP in 2010, from International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF),” Sotto said.
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