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Benedict Condemns Millions to Die of HIV/AIDS

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

This post is NOT about the existence of God, but the existence of Evil.
God, if you are there, please save Africa and the rest of the world from annihilation at the hands of Your hard-hearted Pope!


Filed Under Politics.

Hindi lang Sex, Hindi lang Condom

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Malinaw ang nilalaman ng Reproductive Health bill na ngayo’y nakasalang sa Kongreso. Hindi lamang ito patungkol sa sex at condom. Higit sa lahat ito’y tunkgol sa mga tao at ang pagbibigay ng kakayanan sa mga ina’t ama at ang kanilan mga anak sa buhay ng nararapat.
Tayong lahat ay nalalayong itaguyod ang buhay. Ang dapat nating [...]


Filed Under Featured, Society.

Paternity uncertainty and the financial “crisis”

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

As if the problem of catching up with the need to employ at least 1.5 million Filipinos being added to the labour force every year was already an insurmountable challenge in itself (given the inherent inability of Pinoys to create employment-generating capital indigenously), there is the other whammy now hitting our fortunes with the disappearance [...]


Filed Under Business & Economy, Society.

On the Right to Choose

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

I ran across this while looking for something else and I remembered that Health bill the church wants squashed. It is a video blog by American blogger Lindsay Campbell several months back. She talked about Abortion and the Right to Choose. Yes, she’s a feminist but listen to her argument. She makes a whole lot [...]


Filed Under Politics.

P.S. to HB 5043 – reproductive health bill?

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

The following was originally a comment to the article, “The Redundancy of The RH Bill“, penned by Primer C. Pagunuran.
It challenges reflection that a lawyer, instead of a doctor, is the chief architect and single strong advocate of House Bill 5043 which actually consolidated into one, House Bills 17, 812, 2753 and 3920 in this [...]


Filed Under Letters To Filipino Voices, Politics, Society.

The good, the ordinary and the ugly

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

There are historical patterns that if we care to seriously reflect on would inform us of certain repeated forces known to have driven great events, among which is this: That history is often made by people and institutions in power and by how their power is employed by them to produce goods and services for [...]


Filed Under Politics.

The Redundancy of RH Bill 5043

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

The Reproductive Health and Population Development Act of 2008, or RH Bill 5043, as it stands, has been at the center of much of the heated debate which has been revolving around such issues as poverty, abortion, contraceptives, and the role of the church in our nation’s progress as it deals with population. The [...]


Filed Under Politics, Society.

Other statements in support of the Reproductive Health Bill

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

While readers may have read the more famous Ateneo “Galilean”  statement, these are other statements of support from the UP School of Economics and the National Academy of Science and Technology. The NAST statement is an official statement of an agency of the government. Under law the NAST is the highest government body that advises the [...]


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The Galileo 14

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Prof. MIke Tan gives a much needed reassessment on “pro life” and “pro choice” issues in his op ed  “Common Good” today. He links our own reproductive health debate with the US Presidential elections debate on the issue, especially how American Catholics view what it means to be pro life or pro choice. Americans seem to [...]


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Things get interesting in Loyola Heights!

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Yesterday or was it the day before?; Ateneo de Manila professors got important news space for the 15 October position paper they issued on the Reproductive Health Bill.  The professors support the bill and the blurbs have it as “Ateneo profs defy bishops, back family planning bill”. Ateneo’s President, Fr Bienvenido Nebres later issued this [...]


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