RH BILL ANTI-WOMEN, ANTI-HUMAN SAYS ATTY. MARWIL LLASOS

The Blessed Virgin Mary carrying the Baby Jesus in her womb and St. Elizabeth [Sta. Isabel] carrying the baby St. John the Baptist in her womb. Women of Life - Pro-Life.

 

MANILA, June 18, 2011—Though often touted by
its proponents as a necessary measure that responds to the needs of
women, the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill is nothing like the pro-women
piece of legislation its supporters make it to be, asserted a lawyer
during a four-hour forum at the Sta. Isabel College, Manila.

“Marami diyan ang nagsasabi na pro-women sila. ‘We are for women,
they say, but I tell you, nothing can be more anti-women than the RH
bill. Bakit? Sino ang pinapalagok ng pills? Babae. Sino ang
nagkaka-kanser? Babae. Sino ang ginagamitan ng condoms? Babae,” said
Atty. Marwill Llasos, one of three representatives of Filipinos for
Life.

And yet who basks in the pleasure everytime, he asked the audience. “Mga lalaki.”

No self-respecting woman should support the bill “because it violates
your personhood. Ang babae sa ating pananampalataya ay minamahal,
inaaruga at inaalagaan,” he said to the audience, composed mostly of
female high school and college students as well as faculty members, who
at this point responded with thunderous applause to Llasos’ statements.

The lawyer, also a staff apologist of the Defensores Fidei
Foundation, expressed misgivings about the controversial bill for its
apparent basic assumption that persons are incapable of self-control and
of understanding truths about human sexuality.

“[In the RH bill] you are reducing a human being into nothing but an
object, he said, adding that its proponents fail to understand the
difference between man and animals.

“A human being is rational. He is endowed by God with will. We have a
will to say no to ourselves—pwede mong pagilin ang iyong sarili. Kung
ang tao ay nakakaramdam ng sexual urges sapagka’t tao ka, maaari mong
pigilin at maaari kang magtimpi,” he explained.

“Hindi po tayo parang mga aso sa kalye. If they are in heat they have
to do the sexual act because they have no will to control their
actions. But we are human.”

The RH Bill, or House Bill 4244, has been generating a growing
opposition in recent months due to provisions on taxpayer-funded
procurement and distribution of the “full range” of artificial
contraceptives and reproductive health services, a mandatory six-year
sex education program in all schools from Grade 5 to 4th year high
school, and the required provision by employers of artificial
contraceptives and reproductive health services to their employees.

Also included in the panel of speakers at the June 17 forum were
Atty. Jo Imbong, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP)
Legal OfficeE xecutive Secretary, Prof. Aliza Racelis of the University
of the Philippines, and Anna Cosio, RN. (Diana Uichanco)

SOURCE:

http://www.cbcpnews.com/?q=node/15889