The MRT Purple is getting terrible. Not the trains; they are excellent. Rather, the stations are becoming stiffling for the soul. They promote promiscuity. In the Araneta Center Cubao station where I go in the morning, there is a stand for the TRUST condoms. When I got off the Katipunan station, all the hallway [...]
Posts Tagged ‘contraception’
16 Nov
Fourth Pro-Life World Congress: Declaration of Zaragoza on Contraception, Abortion, and Euthanasia
Declaration of Saragossa
Sunday, 08 November 2009
Declaration of Saragossa
Source: ProLife World Congress
We, the representatives of national and international organizations from different parts of the world, advocates of life, the family and the dignity of the human person assembled in Saragossa, Spain, between 6th and 8th November, 2009, in the IV Prolife World Congress, in [...]
23 Oct
To Philippine Congress: Seven reasons why the Reproductive Health Bill (HB 5043) must not become a law
We strongly oppose the passage of the Reproductive Health Bill (HB5043) for the following reasons:
AS EMPLOYERS, we do not want to be compelled to provide free reproductive health care services, supplies, devices and surgical procedures (including vasectomy and ligation) to our employees, and be subjected to both imprisonment and/or a fine, for every time that [...]
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 [...]
23 Mar
Risk Compensation or Behavioral Disinhibition: Why Condom Use Increases Chances of AIDS Infection in Africa–Dr. Edward Green of Harvard University
Senior Harvard Research Scientist for AIDS Prevention, Dr. Edward Green, who is the author of five books, including “Rethinking AIDS Prevention: Learning from Successes in Developing Countries” discussed his support for Pope Benedict XVI’s comments with CNA.
According to Dr. Green, science is finding that the media is actually on the wrong side of the issue. [...]
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, [...]
17 Jan
Health Minister Juan Flavier: How to Distribute Contraceptives in the Philippines Using CARE and NGO’s
At the U.N. ICDP in Cairo held in September 1994, Juan Flavier outlined his efforts to spread contraceptives in all Philippine villages (c.f. Juan Flavier, Viede-Privilege Talk, NGO Forum, Cairo, September, 1994):
I found out that I was very vulnerable because I was in government. All the senators and all the congressmen in one snap of [...]
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 [...]
22 Nov
Back to the Future in 1968: Rahner on Humanae Vitae and the Present Ateneo Dissent
In September 1968 issue of the America magazine, Cardinal Avery Dulles, S.J. summarized the views of his fellow Jesuit, Karl Rahner S.J., published in Stimmen der Zeit, on the then recently published encyclical of Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae. The summary is long, but two points struck me:
In the first place, Rahner points out that [...]
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