What is the RH bill?

Dahli Aspillera

‘Interview at CBCP prayer rally, Luneta, Friday: “Masama daw ang RH. The priest says it is a law to allow the killing of babies.”’

THE Reproductive Health bill legislators were attentive to content and clarity. Still, newspaper columnist Bobit Avila allows his biases and blind allegiance to the CBCP to distort his understanding.

Avila: "(T)he Catholic group [in Cebu promoting the RH bill] is part of that grand deception, that taking contraceptive pills, condoms or IUDs which are all abortifacients is part of a woman’s human rights. No one has any right to kill the innocent and the unborn…."

My reply: With contraceptives, condoms or IUDs, there is no fertilized egg, no zygote, no fetus yet; only billions of ejaculated sperms. Is Avila referring to killing innocent and unborn sperms?

Were Avila to do his homework, he might check with respected medical institutions. Objective scientists can tell him what are abortifacients and what are contraceptives. Condoms and IUDs prevent the female egg and the male sperm from meeting and fertilizing. Kept apart, no fertilization happened; billions of live sperms just went down the bathroom drain to die. Avila lumps abortifacients, RH bill, abortion, contraceptives, to keep romano Filipinos confused and ill-informed.

Is Avila telling us that condom and IUD are mortal sin because billions of innocent and unborn live sperms are spewed out and die without getting fertilized? What about Avila’s billions of innocent live sperms flushed down his toilet to die?

The CBCP Rhythm Calendar which does not work, never worked, should be called Abortion Calendar. Nightly scenario: The horny or drunk or drugged man is standing by the bed, all high, and his woman is waving The Rhythm Calendar at him. She is pregnant the next day, of course, and soon off to an illegal back-street abortionist who stops her pregnancy with chopstick and wire hanger.

Avila: "(A)n unheard of group that calls themselves ‘Catholics for RH’…at the Cebu Port Area. Let me say to those so-called Catholics that they are better off joining other Christian faiths if they do not obey the tenets and doctrines laid down by the Catholic Church. Now where did these people come from? Hence I would like to make an appeal to the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) to make an official statement denouncing this group for their effort in trying to deceive our Catholic brethren into believing that they are sanctioned by the Catholic Church."

My reply: Those promoting the RH bill in Cebu are liberal catholics, but not romano, and not controlled by the CBCP. The romanos do not have an exclusivity to the word catholic. In the dictionary, the #1 meaning of the word catholic is liberal, universal. Since Avila asked, those Filipinos promoting the RH bill were former romanos. They got so disgusted with the asinine dictates of the Vatican that they are now of other Christian catholic universal churches.

Avila should always say "romano" when referring to his church. Those promoting the RH bill do not need or want the sanction of the romano church. These are moral, decent God-fearing catholic Filipinos from non-romano Christian churches.

Avila: "Perhaps we should ask… is God pleased with us? Let me say clearly that if we continue to displease God by going against his will, we too could suffer a cataclysmic natural disaster. By going against God’s will, I’m referring to that still controversial Reproductive Health (RH) Bill."

My reply: In his "we too," is Avila saying that that tragedy that destroyed north Japan and 13,000 Japanese was because Japan displeased the Avila god? This Avila god is now saying, ok, pass the RH, and I send the tsunami, earthquake to nuke the Philippines?

Then, columnist Jose C. Sison adds: "Being the last country standing against this [RH bill] threat, there is an urgent need to stop [RH]…." Sison is saying Congress is wasting its time deliberating on a "threat"? PH is not the last country. Second to the last. Malta has a CBCM worse than the CBCP.

Random radio interviews at the CBCP prayer rally at the Luneta Friday: "What do you know about the RH bill?"

*My school told everyone go Rizal Park so my classmates and I are here having a picnic.

*The RH bill will prohibit condom use because condom is mortal sin.

*The RH bill will force women to have abortions.

*I will commit sin if I do not demonstrate against the RH bill.

*If I do not come here, they say I cannot receive communion anymore.

*Ewan kung ano itong RH bill. Napasakay lang kami sa bus ng iglesia para magpasyal sa Luneta.

*Ang RH bill daw sabi ng Couples for Christ pag nag-anak ka ng higit sa dalawa, kukunin ng Welfare ang baby mo.