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Press Release

PRESS RELEASE
15 November 2008

 

Reproductive health advocates cautiously welcome as a positive development the offer of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) to dialogue with the authors of the pending RH bill provided that the proposed meeting “will not delay or prejudice the resumption and completion of the legislative process on the enactment of the measure.”

This was the consensus in a meeting of legislators and NGO representatives convened on 15 November 2008 by Rep. Edcel C. Lagman, the principal author of House Bill No. 5043 or the proposed “Reproductive Health, Responsible Parenthood and Population Development Act of 2008”.

Press Release

PRESS RELEASE
16 October 2008

SWS: 71% OF PINOYS SUPPORT
THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH BILL

The results of the Social Weather Stations’ (SWS) non-commissioned survey on the Reproductive Health bill reveal the overwhelming support of Filipinos for the passage of House Bill 5043 principally authored by Albay Representative Edcel Lagman.

Seventy-one percent of Filipinos endorse the enactment of a bill protecting and promoting the right to reproductive health, including information and access to all methods of family planning, and 76% favor the teaching of family planning to the youth.

Press Release
PRESS RELEASE
15 October 2008

SWS SURVEY CONFIRMS FILIPINOS’
APPROVAL OF FAMILY PLANNING

The latest SWS survey on family planning confirms what opinion polls for the past two decades have been telling policymakers – Filipinos approve of family planning and want a law requiring the distribution of contraceptives by the government.

“The message is loud and clear. Filipinos want to plan their families, approve of contraceptive use and they want government to help them be responsible parents.” This was underscored by Rep. Edcel Lagman, principal author of House Bill No. 5043 on “Reproductive Health, Responsible Parenthood and Population Development”.

Press Release
PRESS RELEASE
07 October 2008

BISHOPS HEEDLESS ON CATHOLICS’ FREE CHOICE

“Bishop Patricio Alo refuses to see that Catholics themselves want to mitigate their fertility and plan their families,” Rep. Edcel Lagman said in reaction to Alo’s statement that pro-reproductive health solons should resign because they are not representing the Filipino people’s sentiments on the issue of reproductive health and family planning.

Lagman is the principal author of House Bill No. 5043 on reproductive health, responsible parenthood and population development, which now has 108 coauthors.

Press Release
PRESS RELEASE
05 October 2008

The growing multi-sectoral support for the reproductive health bill isolates the Catholic hierarchy and ultraconservative lay organizations as the principal oppositors of the measure.

“There is emerging victory of progressive advocacy over orthodox dogma,” according to Rep. Edcel Lagman, principal author of House Bill No, 5043 or the “Reproductive Health, Responsible Parenthood and Population Development Act of 2008”.