The Truth About The RH Bill: Is It Really About Empowering Women?

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Is It Really About Empowering Women?

Read and discern who has the real intelligence that would benefit the people. Below are the letters that might help Filipinos to decide which fence they should be in.

The Philippine Bishops wrote a pastoral letter to the Catholic faithfuls to guide their conscience regarding this life issue. In response to this, Representative Risa Hontiveros post an open letter to the Bishops on her Facebook account. The congresswoman was very dismissive with her approach, but some of the women that she presume to be representing is not as silent and stupid as she thought. They know where they are coming from and they know where they are going. The first open letter to Risa Hontiveros came from Aisa, a woman, a blogger, and a sophomore at The Midwest Culinary Institute. The other response was a comment note posted on the I Oppose the RH Bill Facebook page.

A Pastoral Letter of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines
A Woman's Letter to the Bishops
An Open Letter to Risa Hontiveros
And the Women Speak….

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FACTORS OF POVERTY

Ignorance. It is having a lack of information, or lack of knowledge.

Disease. When a community has a high disease rate, absenteeism is high, productivity is low, and less wealth is created.

Apathy. It is when people do not care, or when they feel so powerless that they do not try to change things, to right a wrong, to fix a mistake, or to improve conditions.

Dishonesty. It is ironic that we get very upset when a petty thief steals ten dollars' worth of something in the market, yet an official may steal a thousand dollars from the public purse, which does four thousand dollars worth of damage to the society as a whole, yet we do not punish the second thief.

Dependency. It is an attitude, a belief, that one is so poor, so helpless, that one can not help one's self, that a group cannot help itself, and that it must depend on assistance from outside.

Source:
Phil Bartle, PhD
http://www.scn.org/cmp/modules/emp-pov.htm

From Contraception to Abortion

"I’ve been all around the world, and the way they start trying to legalize abortion is to legalize contraception first. And of course it fails tremendously, and so women start looking for illegal abortions...Then the same people who are pushing contraception say now we have to legalize abortion. It’s a really neat little system that works every time." -Dr. Brian Clowes, Director of Research and Training for Human Life International

"As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate." -Malcolm Potts, former Medical Director of the IPPF

"For two decades of economic and social developments, people have organized intimate relationships and made choices that define their views of themselves and their places in society, in reliance on the availability of abortion in the event that contraception should fail." -U.S. Supreme Court, Planned Parenthood v. Casey