14 Ateneo de Manila University professors express public support for the Reproductive Health Bill

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14 Ateneo professors: ‘RH bill adheres to Catholic social teaching’

Carmela Fonbuena, abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak | 10/16/2008 4:45 PM

Fourteen faculty members of Catholic school Ateneo De Manila University are out to prove that not all Catholics agree with the Catholic Church’s opposition to the controversial reproductive health bill pending

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[cindyg]

I ignored the Facebook invitation of a friend to sign an online petition opposing this bill. ::sigh:: Figured it would be better to agree to disagree, you know?

Read through the reasons the group doesn't want this bill to push through, and apparently one of them, in effect, is that employers don't want to be penalized for not providing free reproductive health care for employees if they can't afford it.

Augh. I really should go through the text of that bill - must make time to clear my brains out first, thought. Somehow I don't think trying to read through it on a tired mind is going to help any.

[dragonsigh]

Here's a link to the text of the Bill:

http://jlp-law.com/blog/full-text-of-house-bill-no-5043-reproductive-health-and-population-development-act-of-2008/

Yeah, don't read it with a tired mind. ^_^ As for me, I have to pry myself away from newspaper articles/news shows that air various opinions about this. Makes my blood boil! O____O Wah!

[twesha]

bobby guev!!

Did you see the statement released by CFC? It's kinda funny.

[dragonsigh]

Yes, THE Bobby Guev! (All the other folks who signed merit a THE before their names, too, having accomplished so much in their own fields. ;p)

I haven't seen the CFC statement but I've seen the newspaper ads. They've taken up a lot of space in the papers over the past month. The survey questionnaire-type with questions like "Do you want someone other than you, the parents, to be teaching your children about sex?" And then at the end of the ad, it says, "If you answered yes to all of the above, oppose the bill."

Do you have a link to the CFC statement?

[twesha]

i got a piece of paper with this link:

http://xavyniceday.multiply.com/journal/item/420/Should_you_support_Reproductive_Health_Bill_No._5043_Take_this_simple_test_to_find_out

Which is probably what you came across.

There's another link http://www.cfcffl.org

[dragonsigh]

Whew! High bloooood galore! >_<

*sigh* And I just read a statement by Father Ben, wherein he asserts that AdMU officially supports the CBCP stance. Not that AdMU has a choice, anyway, being a Jesuit and Catholic institution at that. That's what I don't like about the Jesuits--they're like the military. You may privately disagree with your institution's stance, but you can never say so. You have to give the illusion of agreement and compliance. "Remember that an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must growl, condemn and eternally find fault, why not resign your position?" >_<

I still like Fr Ben, though.