CONTROVERSIES SHROUD the real issues behind the Reproductive Health (RH) bill. Over and above the gains the bill gloats over are the ill-effects it will have on the nation as a whole.
The RH bill is not about responsible parenting, or about limiting the number of children in the family. Neither is it about population control nor freedom of choice (because it is “informed”). Not anymore!
The RH bill is more about social depravity, political “dictation,” religious abomination, “conjured up” corruption, hidden agenda, abortion, “safe” lewdness, free-sex, promiscuity, debauchery and the promotion of loose morals. A genocide of some kind, it is like inviting a natural catastrophe of great magnitude to hit a whole community so that every other problem of the local government would be wiped out and exterminated, and thus public officials are relieved, in the most convenient way, of the burden to serve and tread on the straight and narrow path.
There is nothing wrong about the RH bill except for some provisions that may have calamitous repercussions on the future. But what is so bad about the proposed bill is the fact that even before it has become a law, it has already caused a “deafening noise,” leaving our children and the young people picking up from our foolish talks and from our melodramatic and debased protestations.
What a way to mold the generations to come!
—RENI M. VALENZUELA,
renimvalenzuela@yahoo.com