"Without you or even against you, we will win this new revolution, too,"

So far, with all the research I have been doing being on the Pro-side of the RH Bill is what I think is the best choice. This blog will share what Akbayan spokesperson Risa Hontiveros think about the RH Bill.

There was a very controversial letter that was from the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) to Risa Hontiveros. Her reaction was posted on facebook.

In the letter, CBCP uttered, “RH Bill empowers women with ownership of their own bodies... without the dictation of any religion." And added that “"Whatever gave you the idea that we decide about our bodies or anything else in life without anchoring in our deepest inspirations, whether faith or humanism or the sheer sense of being a woman? As a conference of men located outside women’s experience, good bishop, could you not show a little more respect for us?"

In actual response to what the CBCP have stated that day which made "a prophetic and moral judgment on political leadership" during the 1986 People Power, Hontiveros said that "In 1986, you were advancing democracy; now, you are impeding democracy." As one of the young people then who went in our multitudes to EDSA (in 1986), I will always remember how our hearts were made even braver and our feet swifter by the CBCP's pastoral letter, But your pastoral letter of last month cannot be placed on the same plane... By misrepresenting the (RH) Bill as promotive of abortion and of adolescent promiscuity—with all due respect—you have not only been intellectually dishonest and ignored the good faith of RH advocates, but also failed to proclaim the life-saving and values-formation character of this public health measure”
public health measure."

Ms. Hontiveros stressed the point that once the RH Bill is passed, the reproductive health program will result in less number of fatality and abortion rate in our country. She also shared a data of how eleven women die each day because of complications in getting pregnant and giving birth, and how around 800,000 are engaged in abortion every year due to unwanted pregnancy.

Now, given these two statistics it is no joke that a bill the will help lessen this could solve it! We cannot just deny these data. What one should realize is that the RH Bill stresses on both health issue of men and women and that is not pro abortion, at all.

This bill has been prolonged for so long, it was first passed over a decade ago and until now its current state has not changed. I am a firm believer of the Lord and I feel like making this Bill as a law does not go against it. As a democratic country we have to acknowledge other people’s belief and the RH Bill is simply just an OPTION! That has been stressed out by many people who are for it! JUST AN OPTION! It is still everyone’s choice how they would like to go about their family planning.

Source:

http://www.spot.ph/newsfeatures/47620/risa-hontiveros-reacts-to-cbcps-anti-rh-bill-letter-you-are-impeding-democracy

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/04/19/10/hontiveros-tatad-debate-rh-bill