RH bicam: Satisfying, pleasurable
By Cathy C. Yamsuan and Leila B. Salaverria
What was supposed to be a meeting marked by fireworks and verbal jousts turned out to be “reproductive,” “satisfying” and “pleasurable.”

What was supposed to be a meeting marked by fireworks and verbal jousts turned out to be “reproductive,” “satisfying” and “pleasurable.”

Showing magnanimity in victory, President Aquino on Tuesday extended an olive branch to critics of the reproductive health (RH) bill, including Catholic bishops, and called for unity in the implementation of the proposed law.

A Catholic bishop on Tuesday practically accused President Aquino of “bribing” members of the House of Representatives to vote in favor of the reproductive health (RH) bill.

The bicameral conference committee tasked with reconciling the Senate and House versions of the reproductive health (RH) bill suffered a setback Tuesday.

By their colors shall ye know their stand on the reproductive health (RH) bill.

Senators Miriam Defensor-Santiago and Pia Cayetano embraced each other as they stood in the middle of the session hall, while Senate President Pro Tempore Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada announced Monday night the 13-8 vote approving the reproductive health (RH) bill.

The show must go on, is the entertainer’s credo, and it did just that in the US Porn Capital even after Los Angeles County voted to require performers to use condoms when filming sex scenes.

The proposed substitute to the reproductive health bill at the House of Representatives has turned off some of its most avid supporters.

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.

Proponents of the reproductive health (RH) bill in the Senate should brace themselves for a lengthy debate on every amendment that some opposing senators may want to introduce into the controversial measure.

Sexually active couples in the Cordillera have not been using contraception as often as they should, discouraged by the extra expense, the desire to have multiple children, and their religious affiliations, health officials said here this week.

A day before lawmakers vote to either continue or terminate the debates on the controversial Reproductive Health Bill, a retired Catholic archbishop insisted that “contraception is corruption.”

Forty-three Catholic dioceses, universities and other organizations have filed 12 suits across several US states challenging a federal requirement that their health plans cover birth control.