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Birth Control and Reproductive Health
Why No to RH Bill?
Lissa Poblete posted in Filipinos for Life.
Lissa Poblete created a doc “POSITION PAPER ON THE RH BILL by Christian Pro-life Resources for the Philippines “.
POSITION PAPER ON THE RH BILL
By Christian Pro-life Resources for the Philippines
These are the reasons why we say NO to the RH bill:
1.The RH bill carries with it an oppressive punishment for people who will not comply with it, making disagreeing with it and teaching something contrary to it a crime. Section 21 of the RH bill says that“the ff. acts are prohibited: any health care service provider, whether public or private, who shall knowingly withhold information or impede the dissemination thereof, and/or intentionally provide incorrect information regarding programs and services on reproductive health including the right to informed choice and access to a full range of legal, medically-safe and effective family planning methods” BUT- who defines what is correct or incorrect here?
The RH bill and its proponents. If the RH bill proponents says that an IUD is not abortifacient, and abortion is not wrong, and that life does not begin at conception, all of which are totally wrong and against Christian principles, so when Christian health workers will teach about the sanctity of life and that life begins at conception, and that sex should only be between married couples, we will be violating the RH bill and committing crimes once it becomes law.
2. The RH Bill undermines the institution of marriage. As Christians do not have any doctrine prohibiting ligation, you may think it may not be of concern to many Christians, but the RH bill considers a prohibited act (Sec 21) if a health worker ” refuses to perform voluntary ligation and vasectomy and other legal and medically-safe reproductive health care services on any person of legal age on the ground of lack of spousal consent or authorization”. The Catholic and Muslim nurses and doctors who refuse to perform ligation or vasectomy, will
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