Philippine REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH BILL...

The RH Bill must be passed as it provides the education and means for poor couples to manage their family sizes. But let us discuss the arguments against it. 1. It promotes abortion. Sec 3M of the bill specifically states that abortion is still a crime. 2. It is anti-life. It is actually pro-life as it gives the children of poor couples a better quality of life. Compare the life of 8 poor uneducated persons versus 2 educated persons. 3. The bill is a source of corruption. All bills need a budget to be able to enforce and implement it. All bills can be a source of corruption but we can not reject a bill based on this alone or else no bill would ever be implemented as all bills have an appropriations component. 4. The Philippines does not have a population problem/Overpopulation is not a problem. A well educated and skilled population is an asset to any country. Unfortunately, many poor couples have no means or inclination to educate their children. An uneducated populace is a liability and will stress social services and police services. The RH bill tries to solve this by helping poor couples manage their family sizes so that they can provide the education and time for their children. 5. RH Bill is not necessary to solve poverty/RH Bill cannot solve poverty. No single bill can solve poverty in the Philippines. But the RH bill is one step toward a more manageable future for our poor couples. If these couples are more educated about optimal family sizes and family planning methods, then they will be able to give a better life for their children. More educated/disciplined children means less government money will be needed for the poor people and less government money will be spent on crime prevention. 6. RH bill violates the rights of Catholics. RH bill actually protects people from forcible enforcement of artificial birth control methods and it protects health workers with religious objections. So any Catholic can still follow the Church teachings even with this law in place. 7. We must tackle corruption first. Partly true, because there is no one solution to eradicate poverty. The RH bill tries to solve one aspect of poverty which is that many poor Filipinos due to lack of education and lack of access to family planning methods keep having more children which they cannot care for. We, Filipinos can tackle corruption in our small ways. We must also reduce our reliance on our government by being good in school and by being good parents to our children and by being good workers/managers/bosses. Government must also keep strengthening the implementation of our current anti-corruption laws. 8. RH bill is against the law of God. Unfortunately, not all agree on this. If this was a universal belief then the bill would be rejected immediately. My personal belief is none of the provisions of the bill is immoral by itself. Many Filipinos agree with me and many Filipinos do not. What I can say for the Filipinos who do not, is that allow this bill into law but continue to live your own lives as to what your beliefs allow and let others live their life as to what their beliefs allow. 9. Money for RH Bill can be used for education instead. I believe that supporting artificial/natural family planning is much more economically feasible than educating 5 or more poor children from preschool to college. The government already provides free education up to 4th year high school but a high school diploma is not enough to get out of poverty. Even with free education, many of these parents will not send them to school as they need these children to work, and many of them will not be able to send them all to college. Also, with 5 or more children not spaced properly, the parental attention and discipline they receive will be much less leading to truantism and discipline problems, making them unproductive adults in the future.

there are now more than 90 million filipinos. however, i would like to point out that our population growth rate has been declining since 1995. there is no population boom in the philippines. please get out of overcrowded manila. our opposition of the bill is not only driven by our fear of God. it is based on facts, evidences and sound arguments. please take into context the verses in genesis. the words of God there was directed to the first couple, Adam and Eve, who lived in paradise. "subduing it" may mean that we need to tame, take care, and make use of our environment. that's why the word "it."

I am a pro RH bill citizen. Green peas already indicated the very important facts so I would like to share with my personal view. My grandfather has 13 children. He raised them successfully and was able to let them finish college. That was on 60s wherein most of the basic needs are not that expensive yet. My uncle, the 10th of my grandfather's children, was not really successful in his field. He ended up being financially dependent to my grandpa and grandma. Then he got married. Had a first child. His wife was not able to finish school and he didn't have a job. So the child ended up being supported by my aunts and uncles. Then the following year, they had another child. Then the next year another. My aunts and uncles advised them to have his wife, i forgot the term but the idea is to have herself be in something so that she could not bear child, since he and his wife could not support their children and it will not be forever that financial help would be aided since my aunts and uncles have their own families too. but he didn't listen. They had their fourth child and now, they are suffering. Because both of them could not raise their children well without getting financial help. So my say here is that quality always supersedes quantity. Yes, given that when you have more children, they could help you in the future. But what if you can't provide good quality such as education and etc to your children? It's just a small thought to be contributed but I hope most of us understands the case why it needs to be submitted and be granted. It's still a pro life bill but with firm and wise choice.

hi, but i think we should better to be practical now a days because due to over population and people will only get suffer because foods,shelter will lessen and lessen while population grow,this RH bill is not a kind of killing but controlling the growth pf population.

Hello mobhomeir! I am for Reproductive Health Bill too! Providing maternal health care and reproductive health education to the masses are one of the solutions to fight poverty.

They are pushing that RH Bill can alleviate Filipinos from poverty. But in my own opinion this bill doesn't actually help in fighting poverty. If our population is controlled, there will be a time that we will lose our workforce. This is because, after a decade or so, majority of our population would be old folks and retirees. Just look at Singapore who have too much birth control. Young adult population in their country is too low. In our budget allocation, the major cities get the most of government money. Government develop cities that are already developed. On the otherhand, provinces are neglected. So people in the provinces transfer to the cities to get better opportunities. As a result, cities get too crowded. Better budget allocation, developmental project and more job generating projects should be the focus of our government. If most of Filipinos are well-off, i think population growth is not much of a problem.

The contents of the bill are substantial and beneficial for those women who are married, have their children and for older women however my question is : "how does this RH bill affects the younger generation?" - this is what makes the bill controversial...