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The first time birth control was introduced to history was in the 1900’s.
Population had increased
rapidly. Margaret Sanger, a nurse, believed that the poor needed to control
the size of theirfamilies. In 1916, Sanger established the first birth control
clinic and in 1917, founded theNational Birth Control League.Although
widespread use of birth control is visible throughout the world, particularly
in Europeand the United States, where birth control methods are legally
available, not everyone is infavour of contraception. The Roman Catholic
Church forbids artificial methods of birth control,upholding the belief that
sexual love in marriage should never be separated from the chance of
conception.RESEARCH LITERATUREThe Reproductive Health Bill has two
goals: to promote responsible parenthood through the useof birth control
methods, and to assure widespread access to medically-safe, legal, and
qualityreproductive health care and relevant information. It stands upon
the assumption that manyFilipino women die of childbirth and abortion
every day, and that the ballooning population of the country is in fact,
contributing to the worsening poverty that millions of Filipino families
areexperiencing.Bernardo M. Villegas, Opinion writer for the Manila
Bulletin, wrote on May 14, 2010 on his
article “RH Bill a dead issue” that a large population is indeed an asset. He
illustrated
e birth control methods, is in high risk of “growing old than becoming rich”,
since its “aging population is now growing faster than its labor force”.
Villegas
And as for the RH Bill’s goal to ‘protect pregnant women against abortion
and death’,
Mercedes
B. Suleik, Business writer for the Manila Bulletin, disagrees. On her aptly
titled article “RH Billis unnecessary”
on May 11, 2011, she writes that we already have the Magna Carta of
Women ineffect, which includes all the benefits for women that the RH Bill
offers. In an earlier article on
March 24, 2011 titled “What the RH Bill is not”, Suleik strongly writes that
the RH Bill is “in
-called
such as breast cancer. She adds that “The State should govern, and not
meddle in the Filipino’sindividual decision” and concludes that the Bill is not
about freedom of choice or poverty
alleviatio
Raul Nidoy, Opinion writer for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, writes on June
9, 2011 on his
article “
Breath-taking
d of “Pro
Life”,
saying that even though the RH Bill doesnot directly legalize abortion, this is
where the path of contraception is headed.The Catholic Church is not alone
in disagreeing with the RH Bill. In fact, CBCP EpiscopalCommission on Family
and Life chairman and Pampanga Archbishop Paciano Aniceto statedthat
.”
President Benigno Aquino III has been an active supporter of the RH Bill,
and Aniceto adds that
“There is no Catholic party but there is a Catholic vote. The one who placed
him there as president is the majority…
and the majority are Catholics. Since he is the President of the whole
(As of 2011, 80% of Filipinos areCatholics.)In this moment of time when the
Philippines is sorely afflicted with issues of corruption, lack of education,
poverty and high rates of unemployment, the RH Bill is threatening to divide
theFilipinos, State and Church leaders alike. It is a topic that influences us
all, a topic that requireseveryone, even youngsters, to have a stand