Position Paper on Rh Bill
POSITION PAPER ON POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE WITH PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION (POLIGOV) REGARDING THE RH BILL
Submitted to:
Mr. Rene Villanueva
Poligov Professor
Submitted by:
Loise O. Morada
BS Accountancy - A1A
May 15, 2013
The Responsible Parenthood, Reproductive Health and Population and Development Act of 2011, popularly known as the RH Bill, is a Philippine bill aiming to guarantee universal access to methods and information on birth control and maternal care. According to the Explanatory Note of the Bill, the main concern of the Bill is to control population growth through family planning, including both the natural and artificial contraception methods; hence, the Bill will allow citizens’ access to contraceptives and justify that such act is not against the law.
The focus of the Bill into contraception, as described above, made me raise a brow to the people who had the idea of passing such bill. Personally, I think that the use of different methods of contraception, specifically the artificial one, will just bring negative effects to the people’s health, morality and sense of responsibility. It was also stated that the aim of the bill is to control population growth. These certain factors made me stand against the bill.
One reason why I don’t find contraception good for our nation is that I see contraception as abortifacient; I see it just like abortion in a way, but with a little more sense of conscience, since it doesn’t technically kill a life, but it deprives a life from the chance of living. But still, for me, the fact that a life was suppressed for the sake of the “economic growth in the country” is not parallel. It is not justifiable that a developing country’s economy problems be blamed to the population, and be solved through the sacrifice of the lives that should have been given the chance to live. I don’t agree to the fact that our country’s population is too large that the government thought
Submitted to:
Mr. Rene Villanueva
Poligov Professor
Submitted by:
Loise O. Morada
BS Accountancy - A1A
May 15, 2013
The Responsible Parenthood, Reproductive Health and Population and Development Act of 2011, popularly known as the RH Bill, is a Philippine bill aiming to guarantee universal access to methods and information on birth control and maternal care. According to the Explanatory Note of the Bill, the main concern of the Bill is to control population growth through family planning, including both the natural and artificial contraception methods; hence, the Bill will allow citizens’ access to contraceptives and justify that such act is not against the law.
The focus of the Bill into contraception, as described above, made me raise a brow to the people who had the idea of passing such bill. Personally, I think that the use of different methods of contraception, specifically the artificial one, will just bring negative effects to the people’s health, morality and sense of responsibility. It was also stated that the aim of the bill is to control population growth. These certain factors made me stand against the bill.
One reason why I don’t find contraception good for our nation is that I see contraception as abortifacient; I see it just like abortion in a way, but with a little more sense of conscience, since it doesn’t technically kill a life, but it deprives a life from the chance of living. But still, for me, the fact that a life was suppressed for the sake of the “economic growth in the country” is not parallel. It is not justifiable that a developing country’s economy problems be blamed to the population, and be solved through the sacrifice of the lives that should have been given the chance to live. I don’t agree to the fact that our country’s population is too large that the government thought
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