Filipinos, what is your stance on Reproductive Health Bill?

Question

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Answer 1

I think its the most positive thing that could  happen in Arroyo's reign. Giving the people a legal choice on how to raise a family is not bad at all. The church should also support it, since they cannot control some priests who contribute to unwanted pregnancies and abortions. :(

Answer 2

Understanding the Catholic Stand: Why Pills Cause Early Abortion

Here's a way to learn more why we should defend our Catholic faith's stand against the Reproductive Health Bill.

The Church is against the bill because, among other things, the Reproductive Health Bill will allow abortion. How? The Catholic Church has always taught that "Life begins at conception" that is, upon the union of the sperm and the egg.

Population Control groups are now insisting now that "life begins at implantation." This gives them the excuse to destroy the fertilized egg (3-5day old fetus/baby) before implantation which is what most contraceptive pills do.

Some 15 years ago, oral contraceptive pills had 400 mcg. of ethinyl estradiol to prevent ovulation (ovary's production of a mature ovum) but caused nausea and headaches, which made it unpopular. They reduced ethinyl estradiol to less than 10% (30 mcg), to make it more popular. Oral contraceptive pills today have reduced contents of ethinyl estradiol, which allows ovulation (production of a mature egg and the union of the sperm with the egg). BUT why won't you get pregnant? Oral contraceptives now have an added chemical, levonorgestrel, that prevents implantation of the fertilized egg ( 3-5day old fetus/baby). This causes early abortion.

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Answer 3

i'm in favor of it.

i don't see any problem with that.

our country is getting worse and worse.

and the major cause of all these problems is population explosion.

with reproductive health bill, we're hoping that we would be able to solve such crisis and be on the right track towards progress.

btw, i believe that there is something called secularity of government.

so then the church should not intervene with the government and just let this bill to go through.

Answer 4

I strenously object to the title of the Bill.  

I respectfully move that the word "Reproductive" be deleted and replaced with "Contraceptive".

Yeah.  The Contraceptive Health Bill.   That's much better.

With that,  there's no more going around with the intent.  No more magic to play around with.   We face it head on.

And I say if this gives the DOH more funds to work with,  give it to them so they can rehabilitate the General Hospital, hire more people, build more clinics, have more medical equipment and medicines.   If by chance while they're doing they main job, they happen to educate more women on enhancing their quality of life by limiting the number of their children,  it's an added bonus.

Answer 5

It's the business of the government to manage the economy no matter the population and not to infringe on the individuals' instinct from the waist down, though it helps that they should inculcate public awareness in population issues.

Answer 6

A catholic country like ours will always remain conservative with this issue of family planning. But With booming population, food scarcity, oil price hikes, poverty, unemployment etc..- perennial problems that seems to affect this whole equation, i think its high time that we open our minds and digest completely the good points of this bill not only for our own goodness but for the sake of future generations. I personally appreciate the concept of (h)family planning which i believe is the first step to (f) responsible parenthood.

Answer 7

soooz!  here are the catlicks again with their stance against birth control.  hey, numbnuts, god doesn't exist.

Answer 8

2 kids per married couple and then stop - if we want those already born to have a better future in the next 5-10 years - parents now should stop with two kids and enough already!

Answer 9

Its a great idea!

Answer 10

my personal view as a citizen - it's about time!  let it be passed and signed as soon as possible.

Answer 11

It's obviously a good thing to heap the responsibility of personal and familial decision making towards the individual/family and away from government.

But I wonder, why is a bill such as this, which in essence is just a basic human rights bill, still need to be proposed in, at least technically, a modern democratic society?  

Doesn't the constitution supposedly already guarantees this right to women in particular and families in general?

I'm being rhetorical, of course, because we are all aware of the destructive influence of pinoy general society (men and women) which often supports the dehumanization of 'sinful'  women, sometimes even promotes violence against them and other acts of general disprespect of a woman's  right to choose her own destiny.

Answer 12

i'm not filipino, but that seems like a step in the right direction for any country to take.

Answer 13

each to his own conscience and beliefs.

Answer 14

Its ok.  

But I hate what the Catholic church is doing, trying to derail legislation...

In a recent survey 70% of all Filipinos are in favor of contraceptives...

Yet the Church steps in once again and derails progress by forcing their medieval dogmatic mantras on the whole population.

Staging rallies and what not.

This sort of crime is nothing new to be expected from the evil catholic church. This has been ongoing since 600 years ago. It is by the sheer religious zealotry of Church, the original Philippine Civilizations where utterly erased from world records...

Even in Jose Rizal's time, the church continues to abuse and neglect.

The Catholic church has repeatedly committed crimes against the Filipino people, from  the establishment of vast friar Haciendas, rape of native women and the execution or excommunication of reformists and intelligentsia.

The church is now derailing progress again with these rallies and what not claiming that contraceptive is anti-life. I'm now sick and tired of their hollow calls for holiness.  

the church does not have the right to label something as pro or anti-life since majority of the Church's existence been dedicated to the ruination of the lives of sooo manny good people how then can it claim that it is  a holy force for good and their tenets moral? They can't.

And all these calls for holiness are typical of Pharisees...

More interested in preserving antiquated and obviously obsolete laws and traditions rather than the genuine well being of their constituency.

May God inflict doom and destruction to the unholy Catholic church and may their sins against the Filipino people be payed in blood.