Contrary to the claim of Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas that “contraception is corruption” (Inquirer, 8/5/12), the Reproductive Health bill is clearly allowed in the Bible; therefore, it is not corruption.
In dealing with the overpopulation issue, specifically for wise guidance and understanding, the Catholic Church can read Chapter 6, Verse 3 of Ecclesiastes: “If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but he does not enjoy life’s good things, and has no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better off than he.”
And Genesis 1:27-28 says: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it.’”
We hope the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines and others who are against the passage of the RH bill, especially the senators and congressmen, would realize that an RH law is vital to our developmental goals, as pointed out by the United Nations (Inquirer, 8/6/12).
—ABELARDO R. GALLARDO,
bel_gllrd@yahoo.com