I. Comelec, CHR, and LADLAD
A group of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders (LGBT), led by Danton Remoto, an English professor in Ateneo de Manila University, asked the Commission on Elections to approve as a Party List their group named LADLAD, a Filipino word which means “public display of homosexuality”. The Comelec, led by the presiding [...]
Posts Tagged ‘abortion’
25 Nov
LADLAD party list and Comelec: Some scriptural reflections on the real meaning of discrimination
17 Oct
The confessors of the Missionaries of Charity in Manila are Jesuits?
Whenever I visit Fr. Badillo, S.J. in the Jesuit Residence here at the Ateneo de Manila University, I always see Missionaries of Charity sisters in the lobby waiting like me. They wear their white sari with three blue stripes. One of them I saw through a glass window in a wooden door. She was meeting [...]
24 Sep
Pro-Life Philippines will hold a youth congress on the demerits of the Reproductive Health Bill
MANILA, September 24, 2009—While the proponents of the Reproductive Health bill try to convince the House of Representatives to pass the much debated legislation, the advocacy group Pro-life Philippines will hold a similar session except that it will discuss the demerits of the proposed law in a congress attended not by lawmakers but by Catholic [...]
20 Aug
Sen. Aquilino Pimentel Jr. on the Reproductive Health Bill: Responsible Sex not Safe Sex; Contraception Leads to Abortion
MANILA, August 19, 200— Saying that it could loosen morals among minors, a Senator has rejected the use of the term ‘safe sex’ in the Reproductive Health bill being deliberated in the Senate.
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. said using such term could also send the wrong message that the Senate is promoting “promiscuity” among [...]
11 Jul
On Procured Abortion: Clarification of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
The full post is in Rorate Caeli. Here are some excerpts:
Since the first century, the Church has declared the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed. It remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is, willed as an end or as a means, is gravely opposed to the moral law: “Thou shalt [...]
20 Apr
Pregnancy and abortion in the Filipino psyche: tiyanaks, aswangs, and the Reproductive Health Bill
In Filipino culture, when a married woman craves for a specific food, she is termed as “naglilihi”. This by itself is only a sign of a greater reality: the woman is pregnant. In Filipino, the woman is described as “nagdadalang-tao” or to be in a state of carrying a human being. Because “paglilihi” happens shortly [...]
22 Mar
Philippine Knights of Columbus Organized Nationwide Rallies Against the Reproductive Health Bill
by Roy Lagarde
MANILA, March 21, 2009—As the battle over a ground-breaking reproductive health (RH) bill is heating up, thousands of people across the county protested its passage in simultaneous rallies held Saturday.
“No to abortion!” chanted some participants of “Walk for Life” in Tacloban City, some carrying placards. “We value life,” others answered.
“Reject RH bill!”
“Now!”
In Manila, [...]
20 Feb
Lia of Toronto: Transcript of the 12-Year-Old’s Pro-Life Speech on Abortion
What if I told you that, right now, someone was choosing if you were gonna live or die? What if I told you that this choice wasn’t based on what you could or couldn’t do, what you’d done in the past or what you would do in the future? And what if I told you…you [...]
22 Jan
National Sanctity of Life Day is 18th January 2009 by Pres. George W. Bush
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary January 15, 2009
The White House, President George W. Bush National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 2009, A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America:
National Sanctity of Life Day
All human life is a gift from our Creator that is sacred, unique, and worthy of protection. [...]
16 Jan
Book Review: “Conspiracy Against Life: Evangelium Vitae’s Conclusive Evidence”
Today we are amidst the battle between the forces of Life and and of Death. This battle is fought not against “flesh and blood ; but against principalities and power, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places” (Eph 6:12). To know whom we in [...]
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