Bishop vows to lobby against pending reproductive health bill

The primary cause of poverty in the Philippines is the government’s neglect in the issues of reproductive health brought by the pressures from the CBCP. The present administration of PGMA does not have a proper reproductive health program. PGMA, a devoted catholic once declared that her administration will not deal with the issues of birth control. She instead advocated a natural method which is proven to be a futile process. The responsibility of reproductive health now lies in the hands of the LGUs.

The ballooning population of the Philippines must be curtailed in order for our economy to grow. Below average Filipino income earners tend to have more children than the above average income earners. In layman’s term, ‘Kung sino pa ang mahihirap, sila pa ang maraming mga anak”. The poor man’s children will remain poor because their parents could not afford to send them to school. This will create another cycle of poverty that would last for generations. This is why it’s very important for our government to have a concrete reproductive health program so that poor and illiterate people will be educated and will have an opportunity to choose which birth control process is suited for them.

However, the greedy priests (CBCP) do not want our government to have a concrete reproductive health program. They expressed their displeasure of the pending reproductive health bill in the congress stressing that it’s an anti life bill. Reproductive health must be a choice. People must have the right to choose which family planning methods they want to use. The CBCP advocated a more natural method which is often a failure. They (CBCP) want more children since more children mean more business opportunity for their thriving church. Catholicism is the number one cause of poverty in the world. All of the catholic countries including the Latin America, the Philippines with the exception of France, Italy, Spain & Portugal are poor.

A concrete reproductive health is the only way for our country to move forward. Let’s support our government so they will not back away from the pressures of the CBCP (the hypocrites).