Campilla, Aivan Dale B.

SS 111- 3A

Reproductive Health Bill

The Reproductive Health Bill, popularly known as the RH Bill, is a Philippine bill aiming to
guarantee universal access to methods and information on birth control and maternal care. The
bill has become the center of a contentious national debate. There are presently six bills with the
same goals, the most prominent of which is the one proposed by Congressman Edcel Lagman.

While there is general agreement about its provisions on maternal and child health, there is great
debate on its key proposal that the Filipino taxpayer and the private sector will fund and
undertake widespread distribution of family planning devices such as birth control pills
and IUDs, as the government continues to disseminate information on their use through all health
care centers. Private companies and the public and private elementary and secondary school
system will be required to participate in this information and product dissemination as a way of
controlling the population of the Philippines.

Reaction:

The Philippines is facing again a very serious issue that affects moral values and its culture. This
is really a very serious issue and could really change the life of every Filipino, Issue pertaining to
Reproductive Health Bill. Many Filipinos are very naive about this and most probably has no
idea of what possible effects that could destroy our true Filipino morality with the concern of
reproduction and sex. Religious groups and organizations opposed this bill, and so with the few
conservative Filipinos, but for those whose minds were twisted by only on politics and business,
they thought that to reduce poverty is through population control. Believing that the country's
resources can now be segregated evenly to the country's population.

Negative effects of RH Bill:

1. If the Bill will be approved then we are permitting the people of the program to tell our young
kids about condoms, pills and ways to prevent pregnancy.
2. If the Bill will be approved then we are opening the minds of our children that sex is
something to try. Even they are not that ready for it. And because they are thought how to use
condoms, then curiosity would force them to sex.

3. Because their minds are now tainted with sex education, the respect of having sex to the right
girl or the right guy for the right time would be abolished. Probably raped cases would increase.

4. Sex should be discussed by home by the parents not through government programs, approving
this bill affects the right of the parents in teaching their young ones about morality.

5. If the Bill will be approved, HIV cases would increase! There is no such thing in this world
as Safe condoms ( they might advertise it as safe, then why they don’t have COMMERCIALS of
using their condoms with an AIDS VICTIM). In Thailand, when they started to have a bill
regarding sex education and birth control, their HIV cases increasing and so with other countries.
Why? Sex is Holy and be respected, when you educate people about it and with
condoms.....They will try it and want it so badly, believing condoms would protect them.

6. If the Bill will be approved, you cannot expect that your daughter will be still a virgin at the
age of 15. The bill sounds good, but they're educated about sex and believing that sex is no holy
and be respected anymore, but consider it as a wonderful part of the body.

7. If the Bill will be approved, Prostitution will increase!

8. If the Bill will be approved, it will be rear to find a virgin and concervative girl to become
your wife. Like in America and in Europe that there is no such girl who is 18 and still a virgin.

9. Filipinos are conservatives in nature, If our country will become less concervative because of
the Bill, thus it affects our culture and our way of showing respect to the women.

10. Filipinos by nature is a solid Christian and a believer to Gods way of giving new life, we all
want the natural way, God's way. But with this bill it probably could change our faith.