POPULATION BOOM! This is the issue now in connection with Health Rep. Bill..

Again we have come to the age old debate of separation of state and church. Now each has its own ideas of the health bill and granted both have their own reasonable reasons to stand firm for or against the said reproductive bill. The State and the Church has both responsibilities toward the people. The state has to ensure that it can sustain the population, sadly the government fails at this. Partly because it has not implemented any population control measures and lets the Church influence the government about birth control measures. The Church too has its points mostly biblical but sad to say in these hard times, impractical. The Church simply has to accept that some measures have to be taken to give the ordinary families the knowledge and most importantly the choice and voice to decide how big or small of a family they want to have. IMO, smaller families equals a happy family that has no trouble in providing for the basic needs of the small family. And that bigger families don't always mean a big happy family.

I have not read the entirety of the bill itself. But I guess its about birth control and protection of women's right to choose what to do with her fertility to avoid being impregnated at the wrong time. I do nto see anything wrong with it actually except of course the Church's objection on the use of artificial contraceptives to control or prevent unwanted pregnancies. Also I heard about abortion in this bill, but the congresswoman who espoused this bill denied that it is a pro abortion bill which the Catholic church is implying why they are not supporting the bill. As for me, I think we should first know what the details of the bill is before we finally judge if we would support. I have nop full knowledge about the bill so I think I would not give my opinion on this matter as of the moment.

I am in favor of the said bill advocated by Senator Noynoy. With our country's current situation, we cannot supply all the needs of the growing number of Filipino people. Our resources is scarce and not well utilized. If we will help control or prevent our increasing population, we can provide our youngsters enough (if not plenty)materials, care and attention and we can be sure of a bright future for our next generations.

Hello, I believe this is one reason why our population is still growing because the church kept interfering with this kind of solutions simply because it's against gods will, and the rhythm method seems to be out of style already.and i believe the church have plans to turn against him(noynoy) because they found out that he supports this bill. damn, church kept on interfering with politics, and it's really getting ugly now a days.

well i'm not from the phillipines but i do know that population control should be done with great caution. There are many problems that come from a country population control measures, fewer kids equals to lower economic growth. Couple that with a higher percentage of senior people (because fewer people are having kids to take care of them) who need health care and pension benefits equals a great drain on society. This is currently a big problem in Japan and would only worsen in Canada and the US as the baby boomer population reaches retirement.