CFC-FFL CANADA STATEMENT ON HB5043
(Reproductive Health and Population Development Bill)

To: The Members of the Congress of the Philippines

We, members of the Couples for Christ Foundation for Family and Life in Canada (CFC-FFL Canada), strongly oppose the passage of the Reproductive Health Bill (HB5043). We are very much concerned for our relatives, friends as well as all the citizens of the Philippines, which we still consider our homeland. We are therefore calling all members of the Philippine Congress to stop the deliberation and totally scrap the HB 5043.

While you deem that this bill is intended to improve the lives of women, children and the poor and address the Filipino’s need to manage fertility, pregnancy and childbirth, there is no known evidence to support it.

Moreover, we see that countries who have enacted a law similar to HB 5043 have failed miserably to attain such objectives.

If this law is enacted, we can be guaranteed that we are headed for a culture of promiscuity. There will be more and more broken families in our society and this will make the women, children and the poor among us the outright victims.

Medical findings tell us that all methods of contraception at a certain time may fail to prevent pregnancy because of flaws in method or through misuse. This will only lead to many unwanted pregnancies and the outright victims are our women especially the young. In addition, hormonal methods of contraception may actually cause abortion at the earliest stage of pregnancy due to the chemical interaction of the drugs on the lining of the uterus. This could result in surgical abortion which endangers the very life of women. We therefore conclude that “contraception kills life and it promotes selfishness and sexual irresponsibility!”

We are afraid that medical practitioners who will be at the forefront of promoting and implementing this bill will not give proper education to their subjects about the ill effects of contraception to their bodies.
If this bill is passed, we are also afraid that in the next year or so, another law that will be detrimental to the citizens such as legalization of abortion, will be presented again to the Philippine Congress. Hence, one law leading to another that violates life and a person’s freedom to a dignified life will ensue.

We strongly urge you to use government resources and power to enact laws that respect life from its inception and promote the dignity of a human person instead of using them to implement HB 5043.

We strongly urge you that, as lawmakers of our country, to leave us a legacy of a government and a constitution that will promote, protect and respect each and every Filipino’s right to live a dignified life based on our faith in God.