When the news broke out about the RH bill being passed in the Philippine senate and congress, one sector was the first to express their outcry against this. The Catholic Church is the biggest and most vocal opponent of the Reproductive Health Bill. The Catholic Church is against a lot of things in the government, but this one may possibly be the biggest issue they are against with. The Philippines being a country dominated by Catholics, the Church’s protest regarding the RH Bill is making headlines all over. In this post, I will try as hard as I can to enumerate and discuss some reasons why the Catholic Church is greatly against the turning of the Reproductive Health Bill into a law.
First of all, the main reason why the Catholic Church is against the RH Bill is because it is anti-life. The Catholic Church even dubbed the RH Bill as an Anti-life Bill. When the RH Bill was first introduced, one of their reasons for its creation is to help control and eventually alleviate the country’s problem of overpopulation. The Catholic Church, however, thinks that this reason is a complete and utter lie. According to them, the government should not use this, overpopulation, as an excuse to cover up for the fact that the reason why our country is actually poor is because of the government’s never ending corruption.
Another reason why the Catholic Church is against this bill is because it is trying to hide the fact that if this were passed into a law, it will attack the Filipinos’ religious beliefs, morals, and family values. When it was presented to the Philippine House of Representatives, it had the description of a health bill and at the same time an antipoverty bill. According to the Church it is neither. This is because the title of the bill has the word health on it. If the bill proposes the use of contraceptives, the Church argues then that it does not promote health in any way. The Church enumerated a number of side effects that will greatly affect a person’s health in a negative way when he or she uses a contraceptive.
The Church is also against the RH Bill because according to them, it promotes pre-marital sex among Filipinos, especially the youth. It is in the Catholic Church’s teachings that sexual intercourse should only be between to people bounded by the sanctity of marriage. If the RH Bill becomes a law, then a lot of Filipinos will go against this particular teaching of the Catholic Church.
There are a lot more other reasons why the Catholic Church is against the RH Bill but it will not fit in a single blog entry. I personally, support the RH Bill and though I agree with some of the points presented by the Church, I still think that some of their reasons are just absurd. The RH Bill does not necessarily promote abortion but that is the way the Church is presenting it.
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