Empowering vs. Destructive

Americans are by no means alone in this struggle. In the Philippines, the pressure to pass the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill is greater than ever. Just as we consider the mandates of Obamacare unconstitutional here in the U.S., the mandates of the RH Bill are a violation of the Filipino constitution. Debate has ended in both houses of their Congress, and legislators will soon vote on the bill’s passage. Reports coming out of the Philippines indicate that the president is using a tremendous amount of political influence on legislators to ensure that the RH Bill finally becomes law. Pro-lifers have battled back this anti-life legislation for well over a decade, but there is no guarantee of victory this time.

“When we teach you that contraception is corruption, we are not being insensitive to the challenge of modernity or deaf to surveys of social behavior. Rather, we are just being protective of you because we know it can destroy you sooner that you think,” Archbishop Socrates B. Villegas of Lingayen Dagupan recently preached to a group of young people in the Philippines.

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