DIADEM PEARL R.
MANSAYON
LLB 1
I am against the RH Bill and the basis of my answer
is both personal and constitutional because it is
clearly stated that "THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH bill in
the House of Representatives is being presented as a
health bill and an antipoverty bill at the same time.
It is an ideological attack on human life, the family,
and our social and cultural values. The bill rests on a
flawed premise; it is unnecessary, unconstitutional,
oppressive of religious belief and destructive of
public morals and family values. Its enactment into law
will only deepen the already frightening ignorance
about the real issues and it should be rejected."
The religious sectors are not only the ones
opposing the bill but some intellectuals who viewed the
bill as an attack to the Filipino morals.
The author of the Bill stated the following
objectives:
1. To uphold and promote respect for life, informed
choice, birth spacing and responsible parenthood in
conformity with internationally recognized human
rights standards.
2. To guarantee universal access to medically-safe,
legal and quality reproductive health care services
and relevant information even as it prioritizes the
needs of women and children.
It thus really sounds good. The Bill as most
intellectuals would say is designed to protect the
rights of the women, medical people in the maternity
duty, promoting family and educating the youth for safe
sex starting from Grade 5 - 10 to 11 year old kids and
be responsible in life, with all of these for 3 main
goals, anti-poverty, population control, AIDS (HIV)
prevention. I may say a great cover up. But if the
Bill will be approved then we are permitting the people
of the program to tell our young kids about condoms,
pills and ways to prevent pregnancy. We are opening the
minds of our children that sex is something to
try. Even they are not that ready for it. And because
they are thought how to use condoms, then curiosity
would force them to sex. Because their minds are now
tainted with sex education, the respect of having sex
to the right girl or the right guy for the right time
would be abolished. Probably raped cases would
increase. Sex should be discussed by home by the
parents not through government programs, approving this
bill affects the right of the parents in teaching their
young ones about morality.
Second, if the Bill will be approved, HIV cases
would increase! There is no such thing in this world
as Safe condoms they might advertise it as safe, then
why they dont have COMMERCIALS of using their condoms
with an AIDS VICTIM, prostitution will increase and it
will be rear to find a virgin and conservative girl to
become your wife. Filipinos are conservative in nature,
if our country will become less conservative because of
the Bill, thus it affects our culture and our way of
showing respect to the women.
It violates the constitution because it builds the
legal framework supporting its mandate for the
promotion and distribution of artificial methods of
family planning particularly all forms of
contraceptives. It violates Article 2, Section 12 of
the 1987 Constitution which states that the state shall
equally protect the life of the unborn from conception.
Since life begins at conception, then any post-
conception act that prevents or stops the natural
development of the fertilized ovum is an essential
element of which is its implantation on the uterus is
an attack against that life. If the assault is done
deliberately and succeeds it may well qualify as
murder. In any case, the act falls squarely within the
legal meaning of abortion; it will legalize the mass
murder of innocent babies.
Filipinos are born intellectuals and I believed not
dumb, Filipinos loves the culture of the Filipinos. We
may say that many of the Filipinos wants to go abroad
to earn dollars and live in the U.S, but they are not
following the culture of the Americans or the
Europeans. We love our culture our way of valuing
Life, Sex, Family, Religion, etc. The Bill is like
making the Philippines like the western countries a
country with liberated people, a country that divorce
and abortion is legal. Filipinos never dreamt to have
a culture like that; the bill is the stepping stone of
bringing a western culture in the Philippines.
