Seven senatorial candidates said they were saddened by the decision of the Diocese of Bacolod to tag them “Team Patay,” the collective name the diocese has given to candidates it is campaigning against for supporting passage of the reproductive health law.
A historic birth control law that took effect Thursday after years of opposition from the Catholic Church came too late for Rosalie Cabenan, a housewife who has given birth 22 times.
Malacañang’s attempts to “reconcile” with the Catholic Church are futile unless the reproductive health (RH) law is repealed, a Catholic prelate said Thursday.
Signaling a thawing of relations between Church and State, President Benigno Aquino III turned up Saturday at the San Fernando de Dilao Parish Church in Paco, Manila, to hear Thanksgiving Mass for the elevation of Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle to the College of Cardinals.
The purportedly “watered-down” version of the reproductive health bill now being pushed by the principal author, Representative Edcel Lagman, has failed to win over a group of congressmen opposed to the legislative measure.
The proposed substitute to the reproductive health bill at the House of Representatives has turned off some of its most avid supporters.
Congressmen opposed to the reproductive health bill promised on Friday to study a proposed “watered-down” version introduced by the House leadership before they went on a two-week break Thursday.
President Benigno Aquino III is not pushing for the passage of the reproductive health bill as much as he pressed for the removal of former Chief Justice Renato Corona and for the synchronization of the elections in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao with next year’s mid-term national elections, a top proponent of the bill said Saturday.
The Senate has removed controversial provisions that purportedly promote abortion and the use of birth control devices in a bid to break a deadlock in its version of the reproductive health (RH) bill.
The Aquino administration should see the rising number of students in the Philippines as a solution and not a problem that can be solved by population management, the president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines said.
Vice mayor Rodrigo Duterte pitched for the use of pills and other contraceptives as he helped solemnize the vows of at least 51 couples married in a “Kasalang Bayan” (community wedding) at the NHA village in Maa District here on Friday.
It’s not exactly an inquisition but 159 members of the Ateneo de Manila University faculty may face investigation for heresy, and sacked—not excommunicated—if found guilty.
Who’s delaying the deliberations on the reproductive health bill?
