Catholics Protest Pending Population Control Legislation in Philippine

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It's too bad that the RC church holds so much sway over people. This isn't really population control, it's just normal family planning, education and contraception. "abortifacients" of course are oral contraceptives which are increasingly under pressure from some groups who would deny women any choice at all. Peel back the layers of anti choice groups in N.A. and you'll find the same opposition.

http://www.c-fam.org/publications/id.1717/pub_detail.asp

MANILA, October 14 (C-FAM) Protests loom in the Philippines as Catholic leaders and lay groups monitor bills that would enact national population control measures.

Two measures pending in the Philippines promote “reproductive health.” They mandate dispensing artificial birth control, including potential abortifacients. Both bills contain substantially similar language.

The bills require the state to guarantee universal access to reproductive health care services, methods, devices, and supplies -- not only for adults but also for adolescents and children. Both bills promote “modern” methods of family planning, including birth control pills, intra-uterine devices (IUDs), injectables, and condoms.

In a country where medicines and services for ministering to serious diseases prove too expensive for many, the bills categorize “family planning supplies” as “essential medicines.”

The bills subject Filipino children in all schools to mandatory “age-appropriate reproductive health and sexuality education.” This would include children in Catholic schools.

The Senate bill claims it does not dictate any form of population control, saying it instead helps parents to “exercise their right to freely and responsibly plan the number and spacing of their children.” Yet the House version has a section entitled “ideal family size,” which says that two children per family is the ideal, and that the State should encourage this concept.

[grainfedprairieboy]

I think the Church's objection stems from the global shortage of maids as opposed to religion.

[Shady]

Personally, I think the state shouldn't be telling families what their ideal size should be. It should be none of their GD business. I also don't think children should be subject to fertility drugs. And so-called age appropriate sex education could mean different things to different people.

[laila the great]

I think the Church's objection stems from the global shortage of maids as opposed to religion.

Godspeed!

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[M.Dancer]

I think the Church's objection stems from the global shortage of maids as opposed to religion.

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Too obvious