Voice out your concerns and opposition to the Reproductive Health Bill being proposed in the Philippines by sending an email to the members of the congress.  Not only it will mandate sex-education that promotes artificial contraception to 10yr olds but would also force all citizens to be responsible in education, promotion, and distribution of artificial method of contraception.  It is against our constitution.   -Reynor

To our Honorable Members of the Congress:

Given our position on The Reproductive Health Bill authored by Representatives Edcel Lagman, Janette Garin, Narciso Santiago III and Ana Theresa Hontiveros-Baraquiel, we, as citizens of the Philippines, hereby affix our signatures to register strong opposition to its passage.

• We stand by the Church as she respectfully signified her strong objection to the contraceptive program the Bill promotes, considering the practices which it shall engender.
• We call the attention of lawmakers to the knowledge about the abortifacient nature and effects of contraceptives that violate the provisions in the Philippine Constitution on the protection of the life of the unborn from the first moment of fertilization/conception.
• Moreover, the Church also poses serious objections, in that this contraceptive program, while supposedly championing the cause of women, ignores the proven harmful side effects of contraceptives and the instances where woman’s rights are violated.
• We fault the Department of Health for the disregard of, and mere “lip service” it pays to, Natural Family Planning (NFP).  Greater promotion of the more scientific and unarguable morally superior option for the NFP must be done.  Both Sacred Scripture and Reason propose that the best form of birth regulation is self-discipline.
• The six years of value-free sex education that the Bill proposes violate the rights of the parents to keep watchful guard over the moral education of their children.  The modules are not an education to sexuality, which is what is needed, but are information on how to have sex and use contraceptives.
• The Church also strongly opposes the use of the term Reproductive Health as defined in the proposed Bill, as the bottom line is that Reproductive Health is made synonymous with abortion packaged as a method of family planning.
• Finally, the proposed Bill as well as the Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2009 is setting aside more than 2 Billion Pesos of tax payer’s money for the purchase of contraceptives.  This is money that could instead be used to provide education, livelihood and basic public services.

In view we commit:

1. to pray for the lawmakers who champion life, as we pray even more for those who  we ask not to look upon the rational being that is the human person as a mere being;
2. to engage ourselves in intensive catecheses on the family, enshrined in Paul VI’s “Humanae Vitae” and John Paul II’s “Evangelium Vitae”; and
3. to appreciate “the discipline of the desert” that we may be strengthened to withstand the fleeting attraction offered by a materialistic-oriented lifestyle.

We reiterate that we are against the passage of the Reproductive Health Bill.

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