The Bill is authored by Edcel Lagman. One of the biases about it is that it is legalizing abortion. If you will read the bill wholly, you won't see any provisions about it being pro-abortion. In fact, it reiterates that abortion is against the law.
We had this discussion last night and it turned out that 10 out of 12 provisions or main issues in the bill were good like promotion of breastfeeding, maternal care, prevention of STDs and infertility, etc. The only 2 mainstream issues where we had this separate views is that of the RIGHT TO INFORMATION AND ACCESS OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL CONTRACETIVE METHODS. and that of EDUCATION OF THE YOUTH ABOUT SEX.
The Church is saying that using contraceptive especially the artificial ones is immoral because it just "demonizes" the very purpose of the sexual act which is procreation and mutual self-giving between the married couples. ut one of us said that natural and artificial methods has the SAME PURPOSE that is AVOIDING PREGNANCY so basically both desecrate or violate the purpose of that act. So the question is, what the difference the two of them? Also, the bill is not foregoing the natural methods. It just offers an alternative if the natural ont work so use the artificial.
Another is about educating the youth from grade 5 to high school. The contention is it will just lead to the curiosity of the youth about it and so explore! But what will we choose AWARENESS or IGNORANCE?
The bill has many involved issues that you cannot say absolutely YES or NO.
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