Reproductive Health Bill is NOT Abortion Bill.
No one is going to die like how you chose to dramatically imagine the entire scenario with innocent lives being trashed to nothingness. In fact, the reason the bill is there is to actually prevent that to happen. With it, unwanted pregnancies will be minimized, if not totally eradicated.
Logically, no one is taking anything from anyone because nothing is lost when nothing was even there to begin with. It's contraception we are talking about, not abortion. All points with regards to the doctrines of the Christian faith are very well considered in the premise at hand and these aren't mutually exclusive with anything.
The battle for RHB isn't about who GOES FOR and who GOES AGAINST GOD.
Please stop dragging His name here. It's very un-Christly to desperately invoke Him just because you're now running out of principled contentions. More so, isn’t using His name in vain a mortal sin against the Decalogue itself? Think about it.
The RHB does not deprive the RIGHT TO LIFE.
Contrary to the construction that RHB deprives the "RIGHT TO LIFE" and all other unfounded assumptions that can be derived from that, the former actually operates on that very principle.
When parents just irrationally and irresponsibly spring children to existence without any pronounced capability of raising them and providing their most basic needs, does it mean they've already upheld the value of life?
When they just, intentionally or negligently, watch their children famish to death, shiver from the coldness and grow ignorant because of the lack of education, do they promote life in its truest sense? The question we have to resolve is whether or not mere giving birth is already tantamount to the promotion of life.
Life is more than just being born. By being born, you merely EXIST. But the moment you get to enjoy the things that this world has to offer, that is when you start to LIVE.
If we can empower the families by providing the parents options to plan for their family and by educating the children of the pros and cons of their actions, we can ensure a better life for the next generation.
Compliance to the RHB is not MANDATORY.
Even if the bill gets passed, no one will be compelling anyone to do anything. It would still be the people who will decide for themselves. If they choose to utilize, they will be provided for. If not, then they will be respected. It's a matter of an INFORMED and RESPONSIBLE CHOICE.
RHB is NOT a WASTE of RESOURCES.
The millions of pesos are not worth comparing to the benefits they're aimed to bring. RHB isn't just meant for short term goals alone but for long term ones.
Because of the bloating population, livelihood programs will always remain inadequate, public educational institutions will always remain overcrowded, housing programs will always be ineffective, and conditional cash transfer program will always be insufficient.
RHB is not an "end all, be all solution" to all the problems of the society but it would leap us far enough from where we are standing now.
RHB will NOT make you lesser Christian.
It doesn't make you lesser of a Christian to plan for your family. The odd thing about the teachings of the church and how believers construe them is the inconsistency when they say that any form of contraception is immoral just because it hinders life from springing after coitus because the latter for them is only for procreation purposes and anything out of that context is deemed immoral, and yet they allow natural methods still which run on the same principle of hindering life from springing by hampering the meeting of the sperm and egg, exactly the way condoms, IUD and the likes work, it's just that they are artificial in nature. Looking on the universal principle that "life begins at conception", still we can deduce that most, if not all, of the artificial contraception aren't in violation of the said principle since conception being tantamount to fertilization will not occur with the usage of such. Ultimately, even if a family bloats with 8 children, as long as their parents can support them by providing them their most basic needs like food, shelter, education etc., it will be permissible. If not, they do not have any right to bring poor souls into this world and just be negligent of their needs.
The bottom line of this is very simple, when people start to act responsibly the way they are expected to do so, that is the triumph of humanity. And since such would never be possible without first empowering the people themselves. Considering our seemingly deplorable situation, empowerment will only be possible with State intervention.
I just lament the fact that there has been an extensive misinterpretation of the RHB throughout these months about its provisions, its goals etc. Little knowledge is dangerous. Therefore, I suggest that before we indulge with these kinds of matter and start firing stray bullets, we must equip ourselves first with the necessary ammo. Simply speaking, READ THE BILL. Let us empower our decision. We should not just be tagged along with a side that we have yet to know and yet to understand.
If you keep doing what you've always done, you will always get what you've always got. So if you want something you have never had, you have to do things you have never done. What is the point? Philippines must take a step towards a path that it never trod before in order to achieve something it has never attained before.
Be Informed. Be Empowered. PASS THE RH.
God Bless Philippines!
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