RH BILL 5043 is officially entitled “AN ACT PROVIDING FOR A NATIONAL POLICY ON REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD AND POPULATION DEVELOPMENT, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES”.
This Bill is now being deliberated in Congress.
As a private citizen I would like to register my opposition to this Bill, for the following reasons:
1. It gives us a license to kill people, particularly innocent babies.
The real issue that is being debated is: “WHEN DOES LIFE BEGIN?”
Promoters of this bill say that life begins at “IMPLANTATION”, that is, when the fertilized egg reaches the womb where it is to be housed and fed.
We, Christians of the Catholic Faith, however, believe that life begins at “FERTILIZATION”, that is, when an egg from a woman accepts a sperm from a man and is thus fertilized.
Since all the so-called “artificial contraceptives” actually prevent “implantation”, they in effect prevent a human being who has already been given life thru “fertilization” from being developed by depriving it of a place to live in and food to eat, and thus killing it.
Hence, artificial contraceptives kill people, particularly innocent babies.
2. It promotes the incidence of cancer and sexually transmitted diseases.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2007 reported that the pill causes cancer, giving it the highest level of carcinogenicity, the same as cigarettes and asbestos. It also causes stroke, and significantly increases the risk of heart attacks. The condom has likewise been blamed for the increase in the incidence of HIV/AIDS in countries that resorted to it, notably Africa and Thailand.
3. It encourages promiscuity and pre-marital sex.
People with a weak moral background can easily be induced to use artificial contraceptives, since it would assure them that a sexual intercourse with someone who is not a legitimate spouse could remain hidden, there being no child to be born.
I do hope and pray that our LEGISLATORS will seriously consider the abovementioned reasons and thus VOTE AGAINST THE PASSAGE OF THIS BILL.
by: Salvador 'Buddy' Cagurangan
Date: April 3, 2011
