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Population-control agenda hobbles Philippines’ RH bill

By James Cordova Tue, Jun 14, 2011 9:21AM UTC View Comments

The highly contentious Reproductive Health Bill now pending in the Philippine Congress is hobbled by its population-control agenda – an agenda that, in my – as well as in the view of such women’s groups as Gabriela – is misplaced and is a result of a misreading of the problems that confront the country. According...

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Philippines: To propel RH Bill, Gabriela seeks removal of population control provisions

By Tonyo Cruz Tue, May 31, 2011 5:03PM UTC View Comments

Gabriela seeks the removal of population control provisions in the RH Bill. (Photo from Bulatlat.)

The debate over the Reproductive Health Bill has been stalled for so long with the ultra-conservative Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) and the anti-Catholic flank of pro-RH Bill failing to agree on many points. Enter Gabriela, the Philippines’ leading and largest women’s alliance, suggesting a third way that, if adopted by all parties,...

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Philippines: Catholic split on Reproductive Health Bill looms

By Tonyo Cruz Tue, May 24, 2011 5:41PM UTC View Comments

The constitutionalist Fr. Joaquin Bernas SJ, former president of the Ateneo de Manila University and Constitutional Commission member, recently came out with his comments on the Reproductive Health Bill which shows a looming rift within the Catholic Church in the Philippines on the issue. Bernas comes forward as a middle-of-the-road and moderate voice capable of...

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Philippines: Aquino inaction harming Reproductive Health Bill

By Tonyo Cruz Wed, May 11, 2011 12:14AM UTC View Comments

As things stand, the Reproductive Health Bill may not become a law anytime soon due to a number of factors that have not changed. If unresolved, the seeming stalemate favors critics of the bill, because the bill is still a bill. First, President Benigno Aquino III has not fully and solidly backed the Reproductive Health...

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Aquino, Catholic cardinals talk politics as China executes three Filipinos

By Tonyo Cruz Wed, Mar 30, 2011 2:53PM UTC View Comments

Many Filipinos were wondering where President Benigno Aquino III was as China carried out the death penalty on three overseas Filipino workers. Responding to a similar query of University of the Philippines Prof. Ted Te, Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda tweeted: Yes, the President and the two resident Princes of the Catholic Church in the Philippines...

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