Pro-Life Activists Oppose Reproductive Health Care Bill

Pro-life activists headed by the Catholic Church thumbs down a proposed bill regarding population management which will slacken the growing populations of the Philippines.  Congressmen endorsed Reproductive Health Care Bill at the lower House of Representatives in the belief that their pet Bill will address the issue of HIV/AIDS, unwanted pregnancy, illiteracy, malnutrition, unemployment and poverty.

The Bill, according to the proponents who were called anti-life by some Catholic Bishops, guaranteed that it will not encourage abortion but will support artificial birth control methods to attain population management without breaking responsible parenting and the reproductive health of individuals engage in a relationship.

The Philippines has the highest birth rate in Asia and the country’s over population breeds poverty. The country has no population policy because majority of the politicians are afraid of the Catholic Church. To displease the church is a political suicide and so their hands tied and lips sealed when it comes to population management issue.

The Bishops have warned those who endorsed the Bill and promised not to give pols Holy Communion and thrashing in elections. But the congressmen who sponsored the Bill were steadfast in their resolve to pass the Reproductive Health Care Bill.

The pols questioned the intentions of the Bishops and throw the debate on why the church is not doing enough to help the growing problem of abandoned and unwanted children, street urchins and the illiterate and malnourished sons and daughters of urban and rural poor. And yet the Catholic Church is against population management where it could lessen social maladies and uplift the lives of millions of poor Filipinos trapped in poverty and absolute neglect.