Cebu bets, Senate aspirants vow to back anti-RH law forces
From national to local candidates the Cebu clergy managed to secure their support to repeal the Reproductive Health (RH) law in Congress and the local level.
From national to local candidates the Cebu clergy managed to secure their support to repeal the Reproductive Health (RH) law in Congress and the local level.
Calling it a “momentous event” in the history of health care in the country, the Department of Health approved on Friday the implementing rules and regulations of the Reproductive Health Law.
Church leaders here defied a Commission on Elections (Comelec) deadline set on Monday for the removal of a tarpaulin listing senatorial candidates to reject and vote for in front of San Sebastian Cathedral.
The Archdiocese of Manila on Wednesday sought to distance itself from a potential backlash over the court conviction of artist Carlos Celdran by pointing out that the Church did not pursue charges against the popular tour guide for disrupting services at the Manila Cathedral in 2010.
Reproductive Health Bill advocate Carlos Celdran wants to keep silent and be with his family first after a local court found him “guilty” of “offending religious feeling” under Article 133 of the Revised Penal Code, according to a report on Radyo Inquirer 990AM Tuesday.
Who said “there’s no such thing as a free lunch?”
It was the kind of court decision that—for some—could only please Padre Damaso.
President Benigno Aquino III will not touch the divorce question with a 10-foot pole. Divorce is not just low on the Aquino administration radar, it is not on its radar screen at all, Palace officials have stressed repeatedly.
Malacañang on Thursday welcomed the suit filed in the Supreme Court against the new reproductive health (RH) law, but belittled the arguments raised by the petitioners.
On the first business day of the year, a couple filed in the Supreme Court a suit against the newly signed Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012, which mandates the State to provide the poor with reproductive health (RH) services, including access to contraceptives, and sex education to schoolchildren.
The 465-meter University of the Philippines-Department of Science and Technology (UP-DOST) Automated Guideway Transit (AGT) made its maiden trip on the Diliman campus on Dec. 14, nearly a year and a half after it was launched. Constructed by Miescor Builders Inc., the P31-million AGT stands on a 6.1-meter-high, 465-meter-long track and runs on rubber wheels to reduce the noise factor. The DOST said the AGT is an entirely Filipino venture and will be a “fully automated, driverless” electricity-run monorail.
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile urged parties against the newly signed Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health (RH) Act (RA 10354) to simply ask the Supreme Court to uphold the constitutional provision requiring the state to protect the life of the mother and her unborn child from the moment of conception.
The way by which President Benigno Aquino III signed the divisive Reproductive Health measure was meant to lessen conflict with the Catholic Church and to “start the reconciliation process,” the bill’s main proponent at the House of Representatives said on Saturday.
