THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES STUDENT CATHOLIC ACTION-DILIMAN

STATEMENT AGAINST THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH BILLS

As both houses of the Philippine Congress convene for the resumption of sessions, our 75 years of undaunted vigilance as THE UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES STUDENT CATHOLIC ACTION calls us to proclaim and defend the values attacked by the Reproductive Health Bill in its various facets. WE CALL FOR TRUTH. Let the fiction of Reproductive Health needs be exposed for the fabrication that it is. Let there be an end to the safe sex myth that covers up the harms caused by contraceptives, ranging from carcinogenic to abortifacient effects. Let the underlying fear-mongering due to the population explosion hoax be stopped. Let the scientific, medical, economic, demographic, and constitutional facts that life begins at conception, that our population size is an asset, that our state enshrines protection of the unborn, that not people but corruption and improper government priorities are the main causes of our economic problems bring finality once and for all to the verbal engineering used to decorate the redundant population control deception. WE CALL FOR FREEDOM. Let the liberty that is enshrined in the constitution and which is fundamental in every human being be respected and protected. Let parents have, by virtue of their being proper guardians, the primary and decisive role in the formation of their children, free from unwanted intrusion of sex agendas integrated in school formation by the state. Let couples be not constrained from receiving marriage licenses shall they not comply with reception of contraceptive instruction that may be against their personal beliefs. Let homes decide and not be meddled with in determining their ideal family size. Let schools, especially the religious ones, be not compelled to teach mandatory contraceptive education to students. Let medical practitioners, in line with their conscience and promises declared in the Hippocratic Oath, be not coerced into performing or prescribing contraceptive procedures which may result to medical complications of patients. Let employers be not burdened, even if unwilfully, with entitling their employees with contraceptive services. Let the state, rather than penalizing with imprisonments and fines and crippling the rights of its citizens be guided by the principle of Subsidiarity, and not usurp powers and judgments rightfully delegated to parents, students, couples, families, schools, employers, and healthcare practitioners. WE CALL FOR JUSTICE. Let human rights be guaranteed for all people, especially the most small, the helpless, and the very young for that a human being is the size of a pinprick does not take away his or her humanity, and never would be a justification for the injustice of abortifacient murder of most innocent lives. Let distributive justice guide the proper appropriation of resources where such is most needed education, agricultural reform, employment generation, health and not for the mere satisfaction of lust through contraceptives which are after all widely available. WE CALL FOR LOVE. Let us look at the Filipino as a person of potential and not as a population problem. Let us see every offspring as a blessing to be nurtured and not exterminated. Let us reclaim the sexual faculty for its beautiful nature of procreation and union, and not of mere recreation, that is perverted by the contraceptive culture of the misnomer safe or protective intercourse. As members of UP STUDENT CATHOLIC ACTION - DILIMAN, we irrevocably stand for the ultimate foundation of Human Rights that is the Truth that men are created in the image and likeness of the Almighty. We pray that this dignity be upheld and be not compromised for the sake of purported economic development. May Love propel us to the realization that through safeguarding Life and Freedom, we practice the virtue of Justiceboth to ourselves and to our fellowmen. Urged on by the beacons of Truth, Freedom, Justice, and Love, we call for the immediate disposal of the Reproductive Health Bills and the prioritization of the pro-life bills HB 19 of Rep. RoiloGolez titled An Act Providing for the Safety and Protection of the Unborn Child , SB 2497 of Sen. Juan Ponce-Enrile titled Protection of the Unborn Child Act, and HB 3667 of Rep. Amado Bagatsing titled New Anti-Abortion Act of 2010. Let us not compromise Life and Human Dignity with undaunted liberalism, unsound freethinking, and unbridled modernization. NO TO RH BILL! EQUAL RIGHTS FOR ALL HUMAN BEINGS!

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OFFICIAL STATEMENT AGAINST THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH BILLS
THE WORLD OVER, a contraceptive-preoccupied sexual revolution has lowered societal moral standards and
consequently unhinged a Pandoras box of banes for individuals, families, and nations. The escalated propagation of contraception has led both to an increase in divorce, and illegitimacy of children and to a decrease in marriage and married fatherhood strongly linked to spread in poverty and social pathology. The contraceptive mentality that promised feminine liberation rather discharged males from sexual and marital responsibilities, and consequently shackled women through yokes of family breakdowns, relationship troubles, single motherhood, female impoverishment, wife and child abuse, teenage pregnancies, abortions, and abortion complications. Eugenics has taken an unprecedented maneuver as population and reproductive control policies have taken the guise of foreign assistance to lesser developed nations. The sexual act has been demoted as means of pleasure, of which childbirth, fertility, and life by syllogism, erstwhile seen as natural, healthy, good and desirable ends, have been demonized as threats or diseases to be treated with essential reproductive medicines.

HERE IN OUR BELOVED COUNTRY, the very terminology that originated from Church teachingsResponsible
Parenthoodhas been devalued by reproductive health proposals as a title to refer to the Contraceptive regulation of family size through regulation of unconstitutional statutes. As the House of Representatives and the Senate resumes the 2nd Regular Session of the 15th Philippine Congress, we do not tire to decry and divulge the dangers against and derision of Truth launched by the RH Bill.

IT IS ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL.The Philippine constitution declares that the unborn should be
protected from the moment of conception. The same states that parents have the primary right to the education of their children. Likewise, life and freedom are recognized as fundamental rights to be protected. The Reproductive Health Bill, by allowing and promoting the use of contraceptives, would harm the unborn due to its contraceptive effects. It would lead to murder of the unbornthe weakest and smallest who needs the most protection. By enforcing a mandatory contraceptive education integrated in all school subjects, the state trespasses on the rights of parents as the due educators of their children, especially when the contraceptive mentality is against their will. This also goes true with the bills requirement of employers providing employees with contraceptive services, and medical practitioners obliged to prescribe harmful contraceptive procedures or to refer other health care provider who can do the same.

IT IS UNSCIENTIFIC AND ANTI-MEDICAL. Human Life begins at conception. Contraceptives do have high
failure rates in preventing conception, and, preventing implantation, cause a very early stage abortion. Some contraceptives, further, are causes of ailments hypertension, myocardial infection, thromboembolism, psychological disorders among others and have been even declared as Class A Carcinogens by the World Health Organization. These are incontrovertible Scientific facts that RH advocates refuse to accept.

IT IS UNECONOMIC AND UNECONOMICAL.Underlying the bill is a Population Control agenda with the maxim
that the Philippine populace is a problem which must be curbed. However, studies have given results that properly utilized, our populationwhich is far from being oversized, contrary to scare tactics can provide us a window for a demographic dividend that will propel our economy. If the RH Bill is implemented, P13.7B will be allocated for contraceptive functions, among others, which could have otherwise been allotted for more necessary projects and services like public education, generation of jobs and development of agricultural resources. Pouring resources on contraceptive needs which are readily available, the allocations for top health problems which are causes of mortality in the country Diseases of the Heart, ailments of the Vascular system, Malignant Neoplasm, etc. are left with big financial holes to fill.

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IT IS UNETHICAL AND IMMORAL.The RH Bill packages contraceptives as harmless and necessary, and prevents,
through penalties, criticism of such products. This goes against the Bio-ethical Principles of Informed Consent for the patients, and Non-maleficence for the practitioner. Further, it goes against the Natural Law basis of morality in distorting the purpose of sexual intercourse as for pleasure rather than for union and procreation.

IT IS ANTI-FILIPINO. Filipinos, as children-loving people, see babies as blessings while a contraceptive mindset looks
down on them as problems. Filipinos, with their hospitality and Bayanihan values, see people as resources while a population-control perspective despises them as burdens. The Philippines, with its bountiful natural resources has to be nurtured by proper government policies and not destroyed by attacks on its basic institution, the family, through destruction of values brought about by contraceptive thinking.

Properly implement existing government laws and programs on genuine health concerns. Look at every Filipino as a solution and an opportunity, not as a disadvantage. Allocate the Filipino taxes to solving the real problems and not to worsening the nations predicaments.

With the onslaught of deceptive maneuvers to cover up the multi-polar errors of the RH Bill, we at STUDENTS CHOOSE LIFE call on everyone to personally have a vigorous, intelligent, and dedicated effort to examine the various proposals that pertain to human life, and to turn prejudiced disbelief of the timeless Truth of human dignity to a scrutiny of fabricated deceits undermining it.

DEFEND THE TRUTH.DEFEND LIFE.

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