I’ve been posting my pro-RH bill stand on my Facebook page for the past few days as I can’t help but feel sorry for those who are misinformed and misguided about what is the importance of approving the Final Consolidated Reproductive Health Bill, also known as House Bill 4244 (HB4244) or The Responsible Parenthood, Reproductive Health and Population and Development Act of 2011.
I am for it not because I want people to have freedom to have sex with everyone… but I am for it because I don’t want any more abandoned children to live in the streets or be deprived of proper care (education, shelter and nourishment).
The Consolidated Reproductive Health Bill enumerates a dozen of very important factors that will not just benefit those who are active in sex, wants to be active with sex or wants to abort a child. That is the worst misconception of the RH bill. The RH Bill does not want to kill, it wants to save lives and give quality life to everyone not just a few.
May I just remind those who are anti-RH bill not everyone in this country are Catholic, so please don’t make them subscribe to your ancient interpretation of the bible and what God wants for us. God wants everyone to be happy, healthy and safe. The devil likes suffering , sickness, despair and pain.
HB 4244 talks about the following:
SEC. 5. Midwives for Skilled Attendance
SEC. 6. Emergency Obstetric Care
SEC. 7. Access to Family Planning
SEC. 8. Maternal and Newborn Health Care in Crisis Situations
SEC. 9. Maternal Death Review
SEC. 10. Family Planning Supplies as Essential Medicines
SEC. 11. Procurement and Distribution of Family Planning Supplies
SEC. 12. Integration of Responsible Parenthood and Family Planning Component in Anti-Poverty Programs
SEC. 13. Roles of Local Government in Family Planning Programs
SEC. 14. Benefits for Serious and Life-Threatening Reproductive Health Conditions
SEC. 15. Mobile Health Care Service
SEC. 16. Mandatory Age-Appropriate Reproductive Health and Sexuality Education
Age-appropriate Reproductive Health and Sexuality Education shall be taught by adequately trained teachers in formal and non-formal educational system starting from Grade Five up to Fourth Year High School using life skills and other approaches. The Reproductive Health and Sexuality Education shall commence at the start of the school year immediately following one (1) year from the effectivity of this Act to allow the training of concerned teachers. The Department of Education (DepEd), the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), the DSWD, and the DOH shall formulate the Reproductive Health and Sexuality Education curriculum. Such curriculum shall be common to both public and private schools, out of school youth, and enrollees in the Alternative Learning System (ALS) based on, but not limited to, the psychosocial and the physical wellbeing, the demography and reproductive health, and the legal aspects of reproductive health.
Age-appropriate Reproductive Health and Sexuality Education shall be integrated in all relevant subjects and shall include, but not limited to, the following topics:
(a) Values formation;
(b) Knowledge and skills in self protection against discrimination, sexual violence and abuse, and teen pregnancy;
(c) Physical, social and emotional changes in adolescents;
(d) Children’s and women’s rights;
(e) Fertility awareness;
(f) STI, HIV and AIDS;
(g) Population and development;
(h) Responsible relationship;
(i) Family planning methods;
(j) Proscription and hazards of abortion;
(k) Gender and development; and
(l) Responsible parenthood.
The DepEd, CHED, DSWD, TESDA and DOH shall provide concerned parents with adequate and relevant scientific materials on the age-appropriate topics and manner of teaching Reproductive Health and Sexuality Education to their children.
SEC. 17. Additional Duty of the Local Population Officer
SEC. 18. Certificate of Compliance
SEC. 19. Capability Building of Barangay Health Workers
SEC. 20. Ideal Family Size
SEC. 21. Employers’ Responsibilities
SEC. 22. Pro Bono Services for Indigent Women
SEC. 23. Sexual And Reproductive Health Programs For Persons With Disabilities (PWDs)
SEC. 24. Right to Reproductive Health Care Information
What’s so evil and devilish about the above provisions of the RH Bill?
For the complete text of the House Bill 4244 or Final Consolidated Reproductive Health Bill click here
I pray that God will open the minds of those who have close minds and are blinded by their faith and are misinformed. Ignorance is not a bliss in this situation.
How about you, what is our stand on the RH Bill?
Stay gorgeous everyone!
UPDATE:
- Sen. Teofisto Guingona III filed an appeal against this bill at the Supreme Court today (Sept 27, 2012)
- Because of this post I was invited to be a guest in the pilot episode of “The Blogger” show on Solar News TV
- Several gov’t websites were hacked as a protest against RA10175
15 Comments
i agree with you about the RH bill though I also think that there are other issues that are equally important that can be addressed at the same time as the RH bill like health care, flood control, proper waste management, preservation of clean air
i am in support of rh bill to prevent teenage pregnancy, abortion and overpopulation. i hope the church sees the importance of this bill
Rovie
I am on this bill too. i hate to see children on the street asking for money,begging for food, working on the streets and specially those abandoned by the irresponsible parents.
there may be a lot of other problems but the government and charity groups cannot just keep feeding or giving jobs to the many people who haven’t even learned that they need a job to feed their kids. The RH bill will help Filipinos learn responsible parenthood and not just to keep getting pregnant and letting their children starve thinking after all, they have kept their babies well thru pregnancy anyway because the church do not support contraceptives. It’s the awareness Filipinos need more than supplying them with food shelter and jobs.
I am not anti-rh bill and i dont see anything evil about this but i think we have more issues to prioritize – like flood control/waste management and job for all. with discipline and right management, that a-l list will still be followed.