
Originally Posted by
raski
Take note of how many incidents like just what you described have occurred where the perpetrator is a baby-monger pro-life "activist" and the victim is an abortion doctor/nurse/patient.
I knew math wasn't one of your better skills. There are more violent incidents caused by pro-RH/abortion types than by pro-lifers.
Human Life International has documented more than 8,519 acts of violence and illegal activities by pro-abortionists. These crimes include: 1,251 homicides and other killings, 157 attempted homicides, 28 arsons and firebombings, 904 assaults, 1,908 *** crimes (including 250 rapes), 106 kidnappings, 420 cases of vandalism, 290 drug crimes, 1,616 medical crimes.
Your pent-up prejudice and hatred is truly dangerous and it has been manifesting itself in obsessive expressions of vulgarity. Have you called Kahupayan Center? They address problems of women and children in crisis. You should talk to them.
Liar liar pants on friar!
Kindergarten shenanigans don't pass for an argument. You know Kahupayan Center's number now. Call them.
After handling yet another childish rant from the peanut gallery, let's get back on topic
Experts: RH bill doesn't address reproductive health problems
http://www.cbcpnews.com/?q=node/5967
MANILA, November 22, 2008—The controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill now being deliberated in Philippine Congress does not address “reproductive health problems,” say bioethics experts.
“We commend efforts to improve the quality of life of the Filipino people. We agree that there is a need to address the present problems in reproductive health. This bill (An Act Providing for a National Policy on Reproductive Health, Responsible Parenthood and Population Development and for other purpose of House Bill No. 5043), however does not address these problems in a holistic manner. It focuses mainly on pregnancy prevention,” said a group of bioethics groups of the country in a press statement.
The press statement titled, “Consensus statement on Reproductive Bill 5043) was signed and approved by Southeast Asian Center for Bioethics represented by Fr. Fausto B. Gomez, OP, president and Angeles T. Alora, MD, executive director; Edna Monzon, MD, president of Catholic Physicians’ Guild of the Philippines and chairman of Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of Dominican-run University of Santo Tomas (UST), Mayumi Bismark, MD president of Bioethics Society of the Philippines, and Mrs. Lucia V. Soltes, Catholic Nurses Guild of the Philippines.
Bioethics is the philosophical study of the ethical controversies brought about by advances in biology and medicine. Bioethicists are concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law, philosophy, and theology.
The "consensus position paper on RH bill" reflects the Catholic teachings of the Church, current theological trends and bioethics principles, said Father Gomez, professor of bioethics at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of UST, the oldest univeristy in Asia.
The RH Bill 5043, which is in substitution to House Bill Nos. 17, 812, 2753 and 3970, were introduced during the first regular session of the 14th Congress by Edcel C. Lagman, Janettte L. Garin, Narciso D. Santiago III, Mark Llandro Mendoza, Ana Theresia Hontiveros-Baraquel and Elandro Jesus F. Madrona.
Population control is a highly politicized issue in the country, where more than 80 percent of the 90 million population are Catholics.
“We commend efforts to involve different sectors of society,” said the statement which was issued after lengthy deliberations of a colloquium held on November 14, 2008.
The RH bill seeks to establish a national family planning program that would include *** education and use of on birth control, which the Catholic Church considers "immoral." The Church has objected on any artificial form of birth control and has been waging a strong campaign to block the passage of the bill.
With regard to family planning, the group of experts on bioethics said, “The family planning agenda should use natural rather than artificial methods.”
“Sex education is an important part in the integral development of the child. The responsibility lies first with the parents. Their role should be stressed. It should also involve the school with teachers who should be educated. The absence of content regarding values in the way *** education is taught gives an impression that there is no universal value, human sexuality, not *** education, should be taught,” said the bioethics groups that comprised of medical doctors, nurses, health professionals and teachers of health sciences and others.
They (bioethics groups) further reiterated saying, “The (RH) program should provide information and definitions which are accurate and free of contradictions: the antiabortion stance of the bill is contraindicated by the promotion of contractive agents (IUD and hormonal contraceptives) which actually act after fertilization and are potentially abortificient agents.”
“Clinical decisions,” as permeated by RH, “cannot be mandated (in the need refusing to refer patients to family planning services based on conscientious objection is penalized) but must be left to the informed conscience of the health practitioner,” the statement said.
“Human freedom is a universal right. Health professionals and educators should be free to conscientiously object without fear of penalty and sanction,” the statement stressed.
International aid agencies and economists have supported the RH bill saying it is crucial if the Philippines is to curb its annual population growth rate of 2.04 percent, one of Asia's highest.
“We are all of the same intention in protecting the mother during her reproductive years but we must also consider the rights of others involved: specifically the unborn and those tasked with their care,” the statement said.
“In the pursuit of the authentic common good, let us appreciate the obligation to ensure that no other aims or goals, no matter how pressing, obscure or overshadow our value of and respect for life and the dignities of person and family,” the press note said.
“The bill should be re-shaped into a fully comprehensive RH bill after all the voices are heard,” the bioethics teachers and practitioners said.
Many points of RH Bill such national agenda policy to control population, use of contraceptives, and *** education provisions go against established church doctrine and puts the social fabric of the mainly Catholic Philippines in peril, according to Fr Melvin Castro, executive secretary of the Episcopal Commission on Family and Life of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).
"We can't simply follow what the world wants us to do," the priest said in a separate press briefing.
The Church hopes it has adequate support in Congress to defeat the RH bill promoting *** education and the use of contraceptives.
"The bishops are confident they have the numbers," said Maria Fenny Tatad, executive director of the church lobby group Bishops-Legislators Caucus of the Philippines.
Meanwhile, despite its tough campaign against the RH bill, CBCP has said that it will not take the battle against the bill to the streets.
CBCP Family Life Executive Secretary Fr. Melvin Castro said that instead of holding mass protests, they want to dialogue the issue with the lawmakers who authored the bill.
"We are not contemplating of any mass actions or mass protests because we view that it's not necessary," he said. (Santosh Digal)

"The greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion, which is war against the child. The mother doesn't learn to love, but kills to solve her own problems. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want." -- Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Please sign the petition AGAINST the RH/Abortion Bill (HB5043)
http://www.petitiononline.com/xxhb5043/