The Obama administration said Monday it would comply with a judge’s order to allow women and girls of any age to purchase emergency contraception, ending its efforts to restrict the drug’s availability.
An international women’s conference organized by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation last week gave Sen. Pia Cayetano its Rising Star Award for her efforts in the passage of the Philippines’ reproductive health law.
Aurora Rep. Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara, one of the candidates pilloried by the Church for supporting the reproductive health (RH) law, has promised Archbishop Paciano Aniceto that he would not support the passage of a divorce bill.
Catholics should follow the controversial reproductive health law but closely guard its implementation to prevent abuses, a prominent Catholic lay leader said Tuesday.
The Supreme Court dismissed the bid of Akbayan Partylist Chairperson Risa Hontiveros to lift the status quo ante and allow the implementation of the Reproductive Health Law.
Akbayan Partylist chairperson Risa Hontiveros on Monday asked the Supreme Court to lift the status quo ante and allow the implementation of Republic Act 10354 or the Reproductive Health law.
The array of cheeky condoms on Goh Miah Kiat’s desk — multi-colored, textured and flavored — would make most business executives blush.
The Archdiocese of Palo hailed the decision of the Supreme Court to stop the implementation of the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) Law for 120 days.
It’s reality and it hurts. But even so, activist priest Robert Reyes said the scandal plaguing the Catholic Church is an issue that the clergy must not deal with “emotionally or sentimentally” but rather by studying and talking to the parties involved before any sanction is taken.
Activist priest Robert Reyes called for an end to the continuing ”word war” between the Church and government leaders, as this does not help the Church and its flock.
An official of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines on Tuesday said there were some priests with children but that this should not distract the Church from its “Team Buhay/Team Patay” campaign.
Bacolod Bishop Vicente Navarra on Friday filed a petition for a temporary restraining order (TRO) and injunction asking the Supreme Court to stop the Commission on Elections (Comelec) from enforcing an order for the city’s diocese to remove a controversial tarpaulin listing senatorial candidates who should be rejected and voted for.
Bacolod Bishop Vicente Navarra asked the Supreme Court on Friday to stop the Commission on Elections from ordering the prelate to remove a “Team Patay/Team Buhay” tarpaulin listing the candidates its support and those it repudiates from the front of the San Sebastian Cathedral.
