Filipinos
abroad voice opposition to RH
bill
MANILA,
Oct. 18, 2008 - A landmark family
planning bill continues to gain
opposition even from Filipinos
already living abroad.
One
group, for instance is the Couples
for Christ- Foundation for Family
and Life in Canada who stands
behind the Church’s stand
in promoting only natural family
planning methods.
They
are against the Reproductive Health
bill, the group said, simply because
they are very much concerned for
all the Filipinos.
“While
you deem (RH bill proponents)
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,”
they said.
Moreover,
the CFC-FFL Canada said, that
other countries that have enacted
a law similar to the RH bill “have
failed miserably” to attain
such objectives.
If
the bill is enacted, the group
added, “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,”
they said.
“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,”
the group added.
Members
of the CFC-FFL Europe, for their
part, said they are very “distressed”
about the contents of the RH bill
currently being discussed in the
Congress.
“We
in CFC-FFL Europe want to express
our conviction that the RH bill
is bad for the Philippines and
for the Filipinos,” the
group said.
Although
many of the provisions mentioned
in the bill may sound harmless
or even praiseworthy on the surface,
they said, “we know (based
on the experience of formerly
pro-life countries in Europe)
that these same points of law
will be the wedge used by anti-life
forces to drive a crack, and eventually
an irreparable breach, in the
rights which are currently enshrined
in the Constitution of the Philippines.”
“We
see how the culture of death is
running rampant in the cultures
of Europe. They have exchanged
secularity for secularism. There
is little respect for life, for
the Church, for family, for sexuality.”
“Europe
is now at risk of eventual annihilation
because of low birth rates, an
aging population, aggressive contraception
and legal abortion,” they
also said. (CBCPNews)
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