Well this is a cheap shot. The kind of argument made by men in skirts and funny hats sequestered in Intramuros. The kind of argument made by oldies, who, because of their chosen profession, have (officially) sworn off having marital relations and children.
Again, let me reiterate, the RH bill and sex videos? WTF?!?!?!?
The Reproductive Health bill has been languishing in the halls of legislature since the 11th Congress, long before the proliferation of sex videos in the Philippines. It is the product of the country’s efforts to advance the Programme of Action of the Cairo International Conference on Population and Development in 1994. It is the culmination of almost two decades worth of work by in advancing the well-being of mothers among many other issues. ICPD principles include: integration of population into sustainable development policies and programs, poverty eradication, access to reproductive healthcare and family planning, role of the family, right to education, situation of children, rights of migrants and refugees, population and development needs of indigenous people and the affirmation that humans are at the center of sustainable development.
So, no. I don’t see sex video scandals programmed in there.
Excuse me if I take offense to this particular argument:
And with the RH bill, matters relative to – sex, pregnancy, population, morality – are but effectively relaxed. Once the bill becomes law, we are introduced to a regime that allows the flood of information and full access to a widening variety of natural or modern family planning methods. And logically, the filming of sex videos in infinite number will form part of the territory.
Now what does provision of reproductive health services have anything to do with filming sex videos? And what is this ‘emerging moral order’ Primer Pagunuran speaks of? If you want to ban the proliferation of sex videos, maybe we should ban the internet too? Hell, why stop there! Ban magazines with lewd photos! Ban all the billboards on EDSA! All these stimulants are just too much to resist! It makes us sex-starved maniacs just itching to fornicate AND video such acts AND distribute them online! OH! And condoms, pills and IUDs just make the filming of these videos so much easier because then nobody will get pregnant! Or, god forbid, contract AIDS!
Contrary to claim, RH bill shakes the moral foundation of the family under the guise of having empowered individuals to choose the course or decisions they wish to carry out.
How can providing families the means to space child-birth shake the moral foundation of the family? Does not having 11 children to feed shake familial foundations just as well? That is, not having enough to feed all of them? Not having enough to care for each child? Not having enough to provide them proper education?
RH bill may in fact encourage individuals the vicious use of contraceptives under the guise that these are essential medicines.
In case this writer didn’t know, more than a third of married Filipinas of reproductive age already use one form of family planning method or the other (National Demographic Health Survey 2003). The other three-fourths would too, if they had a choice to purchase them instead of allocating their meager resources in favor of food and shelter. And the reason why FP commodities have been included in the national formulary is so there will be budget allocation for them year in year out.
The two-child policy enshrined in the RH bill is simply normative and therefore the State is yet to come up with a ‘zero population control’ strategy’ if it aims to really control population as the precondition to effectively resolve the problem of mass poverty.
Please read the house and senate bills linked below. There is NO two-child policy. And the bill does not primarily aim to ‘control’ population growth. We are not China. This is still a democratic country, and the spirit of the bill trusts that rational thinking families will behave rationally with regard to family planning. So, no draconian measures there. It simply aims to provide family planning services, free, for those have need of them.
From where I stand, the RH bill is only intended to break the old moral order.
Don’t you mean patriarchal order? That is, that men, such as yourself, should exercise sovereign dominion over a woman’s body? To dictate what a woman can and cannot do with her uterus? Because, what, you know better?
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All my arguments in favor of RH can be found here. My last RH-related post on Filipino Voices, ‘Hindi lang Sex, Hindi lang Condom’ can be read here.
HB 5043 can be found here. The Senate version can be found here.
Read more about Reproductive Health here.
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“Don’t you mean patriarchal order? That is, that men, such as yourself, should exercise sovereign dominion over a woman’s body? To dictate what a woman can and cannot do with her uterus? Because, what, you know better?”
Ikaw na rin mismo nagsabi. They ARE related.
Primer’s just practicing his English writin’ skillz, don’t worry about him.
To use Primer’s own words.. Can Primer be badly misled to embrace a hypocritical worldview? But so be it – since the ‘rule of the minority’ will just be a mute witness as history unfolds … if you clear the drift.
Writ-large :grin: all of Primer’s blog submissions of more than 2 sentences sure reads like somebody practicing his English, to-wit. :neutral:
He he he he.
Old morality movements scare me. New morality movements scare me. I subscribe to the morality of enlightened individualism, where free choice is bound only by decency and compassion. No single religion’s God, no church, no government owns my soul. They are of man and men. God is More than them. I strive to break free from the confinement of man’s smallness, represented by senseless and unkind rules wherein one man seeks to master another . . .
man or woman.
No tm, Benign0 duuuuude. . . .
Sorry for the echo . . .
Joe
The bottom line for the church and the moral order they idealize is based on a morlaity that takes the fun and the pleasure out of sex. To them, sex is permissible only when it is for procreation not gor its own sake. Those moral guardians want to create a world without fun sex, for everyone else.
Mag-Episcopalian na lang kaya ako. Move to Sagada, where they’re the majority religion. It’s Catholicism with half the guilt ™.
how about rastafarian? :lol:
I would’ve opted for atheist, but condescencion is just as bad as guilt and self-righteousness. LOL
Jon, there is always Scientology. They have a way with words, I understand.
Joe
Joe,
LOL. Being *teh only* banned entity from Wikipedia, I’m sure they do have ways with words!
How about Aglipayan. Patriot ka pa.
Dont remind those Idiot Senators. They are busy investigating each
others Garbage. They dont have time now for any Bill of any kind.
They have to put their Rivals down. It is a Crab in the Basket
Mentality and Situation for them. Enrile, the Chief Idiot is the
Initiator.
tasio,
the charges against villar are serious. He should answer them.
besides so what if the charges are politically motivated. if a candidate has something to hide he shouldn;t stand for office. skeletons in the closet are fair game in politics
He is tried “in absentia”. Yes, they will surely Burn him on the
Stakes. At the Witch Hunter’s pleasures.
Primer Panuguran is an idiot.
After Benign0, he’s another contributor to avoid in this website.
No, he is a fault finder. And, he is really an idiot.
Carlito,
Isn’t it more idiotic on your part failing to spell the name correctly?
As a rule, show us how you have arrived at the conclusion. In research, we call it giving first the historical background.
Honestly, don’t you sound more like one?
Hey, why not go and earn a living as a Grammar Teacher. We Post here
what we Post. It is none of your business how we Post.
Avoid benign? It is not for you to say. While I quite disagree with things he says, I do know that not few love the way he writes and so with his thoughts.
Why don’t you start to construct your maiden blog and let us see if it is not going to be a nice piece of idiocy?
If people who try to promote Presidential Aspirants try to judge
others in order to shot down their opinions. What do you think
of that person. A Hired Idiot who thinks that eveybody is a Sucker
like him. Putting a Post Article disguised as a Political Propanganda. In order to entice others to support your Candidate
is like Opinion Prostitution. Hey, Idiot. How much are they paying
you?
tasio,
Reminds me of Pilosopong Tasyo – would that be you?
You sound like it is within my powers to shoot down anybody’s opinions, hell no. Fact is, I have always been vulnerable to attack by those who would rather shoot the messenger, come to think of it.
What about being a hired idiot, a sucker, political propaganda, opinion prostitution, payee?
The first task would be to substantiate any kind of allegation and let the evidence speaks for itself.
In the case of idiocy, sometimes, in an open field such as FV, it is not that easy to detect who the idiot is but in the course of time, one would really know. Let me check on my list, tasio.
hay, primer,
I disagree with about 80% of your positions, but I respect (admire, actually) your determination to recite them and hold your defenses. If you weren’t here we’d have much less to think about.
Joe
Please accept my thanks joe but in that 80% configuration, I can only effectively operate on a 20% tact.
How about (just thinking loud) going over the blogs already posted with the thought (just mine) that you might redo the math?
Just kidding Joe. Good day.
By your admission caffeine, this bill has languished since the 11th Congress or more correctly sent to the archives. In other words, it has been laid on the table or ‘killed’ using legislative parlance.
So effectively, it has spanned 3 to 4 Congresses already. It then becomes logical to believe that perhaps, the then prevailing moral order resisted it. Since there are signs that it may pass in this 14th Congress, by the same token, maybe, there is an emerging moral order receptive of it now. Now you win those points.
Contrary to your own claim, something in the bill already laid the predicate for a two-child policy to be legislated later. Or, go over Section 6 of the bill, if I remember right.
I have very little urge to have to respond to your blog because it is in me in the unflattering limelight as you did another time ago, to which, you did not hear any response from me.
Since it is fast becoming vogue here, to blog – back to back – then by all means, suit ourselves.
Please don’t sound that only you can read a lousy bill.
Manong Primer,
Hindi po biro an RH para sa akin. Malapit po ito sa aking puso. Sampung buwan po ang binuno ko sa adbokasiya sa pagsulong nito. Hindi po ito kaso ng pataasan ng ihi para sa akin.
So, pasintabi po kung nainis ako sa mali-maling impormasyon na isinulat nyo sa post nyo.
in the first place, let me ask you a question, if ever these holy figures (jesus, bhudda, krishna etc..) did really exist, did even one of them tell people to make a religion in their names?? the religion Jewish, Christianity is a fraud, it is based upon astrological events (too long to explain, watch “ZEITGEIST” documentary on “WWW.SPRWORD.COM” and you balance it out yourself if you believe in it.) personified by thousands of years of imaginative thinking and was & is used by political agendas led by the Illuminati since ancient times.. The Illuminati, this group who calls themselves the enlightened ones, had gained positions of power through control of the banking system, Billions of people on planet earth are living in ignorance. Before your very eyes, politicians are advancing a global plan. Since the time of Napoleon, secret societies have been influencing politicians to take over and conquer Europe. Now, in the 21st century, their work of ages is coming to fruition. The New World Order is about the centralization of power. It’s about silencing any public criticism of the system. It’s about commercializing and selling everything as a product. It’s about letting China torture students and still allowing them to host the Olympics. It’s about closing down government owned schools and hospitals, turning them into apartments, and then letting private companies make profits from teaching your children or selling you drugs, just a bunch of masons of the highest degree who are devil worshipers and crazed for death, world domination and control. I’m not saying theres no God I’m a very spiritual man and I believe God is everywhere in nature just if all of us could see and hear him as I do,, but that would be hard in noisy and polluted cities, but that’s just me. I just don’t want to worship and kneel to a Jesus God or whatever, who has all the power in the world to do anything and creates a heaven where all the good people who follow him go to when they die but creates a hell! for those who disobey him where they will burn, suffer, be mutilated and rot for all eternity!!? but he loves you?? what a joke!! So there’s this God Christianities God who’s all powerful but somehow he can’t handle money,, and by Gods name he needs a lot of it!! hahaha.., forgive me people for laughing but if all that money of the church really did go to the poor the word “poor” will be no more. It’s not about money anymore people, control is what they want and they have done a pretty good job doing so in the past century, think about it, truth shall set you free as it has done for me.., ….it’s not important to name a God or even gods even knowing they exist around us in nature is enough, to have faith in a higher existence does not mean we have to make religions to commemorate them, expecting to be rewarded in the end is absurd for to live life is enough joy for for me, people just have to be content, throw away their vanities and open their hearts and minds most of all and their world system w/c is slowly poisoning us w/ immoral, destructive and demoralizing effects injected to us by means of media, movies, companies, entertainment, oprah, american idol, fashion, banking, world trade stocks, war, money system, music industries, vitamins, gmo foods, viruses, vaccines etc,..( all these they manipulate us into taking for ourselves by blind submission, thinking it’s all good for us but slowly stupidifying all of the world and most of all our children, you name it and they own it they truly do have control on all of the masses ) will crumble before the eyes of the world.., im new to this blog internet thing and i want to share my insights to our nation, I think it’s a good way to spread these secretly kept information from the people, I know i’m out of the topic here but there is no article to leave a comment on this.., hoping to read about the aspects of others.. hope that the topic writers make an article about this., all of these articles about politicians and movie stars seem very little to me,, hope is still with us until the earth is still green and alive we can still correct the wrong of mankind to our mother. change truly does starts from w/in and all the rest will follow we are not alone in this belief and change is starting, people are waking up, getting angry and their agendas are slowly unfolding,, plz watch the documentary online “ZEITGEIST” and balance out what’s true or not, it’s on http://WWW.SPRWORD.com.., hoping for others to reply..,