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On the Purple Side
Yesterday I attended the mass for the feast of St. Sebastian at the Cathedral. When the mass was about to end there was this prayer by the commentator which specifically criticized the RH Bill. Though not mentioned in the prayer, it was obvious that the prayer was all about it. RH Bill or the Reproductive Health Bill is aiming to guarantee universal access to methods and information on birth control and maternal care. The bills…
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Third Sex: Love and Lust
Love comes in all forms, shapes and sizes. It has no boundaries. Lust is a different thing. It is one of the seven deadly sins. And I believe that most people have this wrong connotation that homosexuals act based solely on lust. They associate Lust and Homosexuality as if these two are synonymous. What about love? I guess I’m writing this as an attempt to rationalize. I have read a recent article here tackling same-sex…
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Anti-Discrimination Bill: What’s The Point?
Senate Bill 2814, known as Anti-Ethnic, Racial or Religious Discrimination and Profiling Act of 2011, continues to attract prejudice from the Church authorities after it was amended to recognize the rights of the Filipino LGBT community. With CBCP and majority of the Catholic groups acting as a major road block, this bill, which they believe might eventually lead to legalization of same-sex marriage, seems to be existing at the wrong place and at the wrong…
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Battle Against HIV-AIDS: A National Concern
As we commemorated World AIDS Day last December 1, the disturbing truth that cases of the illness continue to rise over the past few months and years in the Philippines reminds us all that the fight against HIV-AIDS should not be all about criticisms on budget cuts and poor government support but also fostering personal responsibility and discipline amongst Filipinos. Since 1984, our country has recorded a total of 7, 884 HIV/AIDS cases and almost …
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Crowded by 94 Million
Earlier while I was watching either National Geographic or Discovery Channel (not sure where I saw it), It was mentioned that by 2015, Earth’s population will bloat up to 9 billion and this got me curious to check what is the Philippines’ population today. Upon checking Wikipedia, as of July 2011, Philippines has a whooping 94 million! That’s 94 million food-consuming Filipinos everyday! Now let’s do the math. Let’s say every Filipino eats PHP 20.00…
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RH Bill Advocates fight on despite legislative roadblocks
Around 400 students from leading universities and colleges in Metro Manila held last November 14 a demonstration dubbed “Busina Para sa RH” (“Blow Your Horn for RH”) in support of the reproductive health bill. The pro-RH activists converged in Katipunan Ave., along the gates of Ateneo de Manila University, at 6 PM – to coincide with the opening of the legislative sessions in both Houses of Congress for that day. After the short program, the…
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Ang Pinuputakteng RH Bill
Ang tagal na nito friend! Hanggang kelan ba ‘to pag dedebatihan (debate ang sinasabi ko dito ah)? Kung si Sen. Miriam lang presidente nakoooo! Sana nga! Pero dahil ngayon ay hindi, pag usapan na lang natin ang RH Bill. Ang huli kong nabasa e ito: ‘Masturbation is not murder’ sabi ni Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago kay Sen. Juan Ponce-Enrile. Kasi sabi ni Enrile, sperm cell and egg cell already have a life of their own. Alam…
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Sex, Land Bridges, and God
Quick, what does Sex, Land Bridges, and God have to do with each other? If you answered “Education,” you guessed RIGHT! Let me explain: The Philippine education system is in dire need of fixing. We still fight over what we teach our children, too: The RH bill fiasco opened up the topic of Sex Education. People went mad over this; Blah bla blah this, blah blah that, people say this, people say that. They’re wrong,…
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Double Effect Principle and Borderline Situations (posting occasioned by Sen. Santiago’s sponsorship speech for the RH Bill)
(This is a lecture I gave to some students in ethics. My posting this here in Facebook was occasioned by Sen. Miriam Santiago’s sponsorship speech for the RH Bill, particularly the paragraph quoted below: “One relevant shift in moral theology concerns the principle of proportionalism, which is a new way of looking at actions that cause a double effect, one good and one bad. According to the theory of proportionalism, a person does not sin in causing…
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My Thoughts on the Reproductive Health Bill
In government hospitals, we get to see the real state of health care in our country. I remember a particular duty when I scrubbed for a Caesarean Section, the patient, Juanita (not her real name), a 15 year old barrio lass, lay anxiously on the operating table. One can’t help but feel pity for someone so young to undergo one of the most life-changing events in the life of a woman with so little knowledge…