RH is unreasonably
expensive!
By Fr. ROY
CIMAGALA, roycimagala@gmail.com
October
6, 2011
NOW it can be told.
And it needed Senator Lito Lapid who is supposed to be not known for
his speaking prowess to get this data. The budget for the
implementation of RH for the year 2012 alone is – hold your breath –
P13.7B!
According to experts,
that figure is even higher than the individual budgets of the
departments of energy, finance, foreign affairs, justice, labor,
science, tourism and trade. It’s even bigger than those proposed for
the Office of the President and Congress, and the entire Autonomous
Region in Muslim Mindanao.
OMG! What a waste of
tax money that would be! What distorted sense of priority! And to
think that the RH Bill does not even pass the preliminary smell test
of morality, and the fact that many of its provisions are redundant
since they are already covered in many other laws of the land!
We cannot help but
suspect there’s something serious that is hidden under the beautiful
features with which the RH is marketed to the public. We have to look
more closely at this initiative now forcefully pushed by women
senators with radical feminist agendas.
We already know that
US Secretary Hillary Clinton admitted that RH by definition includes
abortion. So even if our version does not include abortion yet, we can
suspect that it would just be a matter of time before this evil gets
legalized under RH. In fact, there are now many people in the country
openly voicing their support for abortion.
We also know from some
declassified document that the
US
has been eyeing the Philippines for quite sometime now for birth
control. It’s part of the geo-political game that the US is playing.
That’s why our Senate
President Juan Ponce Enrile is suspicious about the RH Bill as being
not so much for reproductive health as a tool to effect birth and
population control.
And under the current
American leadership, there is also a strong lobby for RH not only in
the US but also all over the world. In the US alone, part of the
Obamacare program forces everyone to get medical insurance that
includes paying for sterilization, contraception and even abortion –
all against Catholic moral teaching.
This has led American
bishops to call this Obamacare provision as an “unprecedented attack
on religious liberty.” It is forcing Catholics to support something
that is against their religion. It is not anymore tolerating people to
do what they like, even if it is against religion. It is forcing them
to support what is against their religion.
The current American
scene seems to be drifting toward creating a welfare state, with the
government taking a bigger role in people’s lives, clearly going
against the social principles of common good, solidarity and
subsidiarity. It is not only spoiling people. It is forcing people to
get spoiled.
And to think that the
American political leaders pride themselves of being the first
promoters of democracy and religious freedom and teach other countries
to follow them! They have to be clear about these in their own country
first.
The Philippines would
be in a funny situation if it would just blindly follow the American
model of RH. That is why, we need to closely monitor the proceedings
of the proposed legalization of the RH Bill. This issue has gone
beyond the field of group advocacy. It has become a concern for all of
us.
I would suggest that
the true picture of the RH Bill be shown, discussed and, if need be,
debated upon in schools, parishes, offices and even in families. We
have to be warned about a subtle but persistent campaign to change the
concept of morality itself and to recast the social principles that
should govern our national life.
We are now entering a
stage of world history where the issues that we need to resolve are
not anymore strictly social, economic or political in nature. They now
have a fundamentally moral character and they call for a fundamentally
moral resolution.
We need to stop and
reverse this slippery slope to a deeper secularized world culture that
tackles human affairs from a restrictive frame of economics and
politics alone, and ignoring the most basic aspect of religion and our
inner beliefs.
I must say that we
have been had for a long time by this questionable kind of culture
that tends to separate reason from faith, science from religion, our
human affairs from God. The state is made to conflict with the Church.
While there is
distinction, there is also inherent connection between them!