What's wrong with HB 3773? A LOT!!! (New Online Petitions added!)

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Those IDIOTS at the UNPop Fund are at it again! They should abolish the UN Pop Fund!

UN Population Fund: focus on "reproductive rights,"
not needs of the poor

Washington, Oct. 14 (C-fam.org/CWNews.com) - Although the UN's General Assembly
voted down an effort to incorporate "reproductive rights" as an important element of
the Millennium Development Goals, a new annual report from the UN Population Fund
is dominated by references to "reproductive rights," the Catholic Family and Human
Rights Institute (C-FAM) reports.

C-FAM notes that the UN Population Fund relies heavily on a strategy of providing
women with contraceptives and promoting access to abortion. The Fund's annual
report proclaims that it has adopted a "right-based" approach to world's impoverished
countries. This approach, the report explains, "marks a shift away from an earlier
development focus on meeting basic needs, which relied on charity or good will."

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In the News: Bill seeks ban on abortifacients
http://www.prolife.org.ph/article/articleview/577/1/64/

(Oct 10, 2005) Pro life Philippines yesterday threw its support behind a pending bill in the House of
Representatives that will regulate the use of contraceptive pills and injectables, and ban the use of
intrauterine devices (IUD).

Nicolo Bernardo of Pro-life, called for wider support for the House Bill 4643, filed by the Buhay
Party-list Rep. Rene Velarde, which seeks to regulate the use, production and sales of pills, patches
and injectables in the bill's list of “abortive drugs.�

The measure also wants a total ban on the use of IUD which classified as an “abortive device�
whose primary mechanism is to interfere with the creation of life.

“It is known that these hormonal contraceptives do not only prevent the release of a woman's
egg (ovulation) and the meeting of sperm and egg but also the implantation of an already
fertilized egg (embryo) in a woman's womb. Hence, the bill will only allow prescription of these
and similar “potentially abortive� drugs for therapeutic purposes and not for birth control,� Bernardo
said.

Velarde's bill will require drug firms to label pertinent products as “abotifacient� or has “abortifacient
potential� to inform the consumers of what these products are capable of doing.

Bernardo said labels on pills, injectable, and IUDs will compel the manufacturers to admit their
products' mechanism of preventing implantation so the newly conceived baby (up to one week)
can't find a home in the uterus and appear like menstruation when flushed out.�

If Velarde's bill becomes a law, Bernardo said the Philippines will be the second country after
Argentina to proscribe pills and IUDs.

In 2003, Argentina’s federal judge Cristina Garzon de Lascano ruled that the pill and IUD were
“abortive� in nature, and should be banned since abortion is illegal in the country. The judge
outlawed the production and sale of these contraceptives and ordered the destruction of
existing supplies.

Note: Taken from October 8, 2005 edition of The MALAYA
Ruelle Albert D. Castro, The Malaya

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Pro Life Film-Making Competition
Life, camera, action!

The 1st Pro-life Filmmaking contest

• A filmmaking contest for student / amateur filmmakers who will submit original documentary or short feature films about pro-life topics, as specified in the contest rules. Winning entries will belong to Pro-life Philippines for education, training and counseling purposes.
  
• This contest was launched last October 2005.
• The deadline will be on January 15, 2006.
• The top ten films will be selected right after the deadline
• The finalists will be announced in Feb. 20, 2006
• Date and venue of the final judging and awards' night will be announced later.
• All entries will be shown during the Pro-life film festival in the last week of Feb. 2006 or the first week of March 2006.

RULES OF THE CONTEST

1. The contest is open to all Filipino amateur filmmakers and college students, except all board members, officers and employees of Pro-life Philippines, Inc. A non-resident Filipino should present proof of continued citizenship.

2. There are two categories in which a contestant may join: documentary and short feature. Each contestant may submit only one (1) entry since the two categories will not be judged separately. An entry may be done by an individual or a production group who shall collectively be treated as one (1) contestant.

3. The entry should be about any of the following themes: NO TO PRE-MARITAL ***, NO TO ABORTION, and/or NO TO CONTRACEPTION. The genre may be: DRAMA, COMEDY, or a COMBINATION of both.

4. Each entry must not contain foul languages and/or sexually suggestive scenes. It must be approximately 15-20 minutes in length.

5. The following shall not be eligible as entries: a. Films that have been awarded a prize in any other contests. b. Films that have been completed before October 2005.

6. The entry must be original to the contestant. It may be an adaptation of another literary work, but the contestant must present a proof of consent from the creator of the original work, and that the adaptation is free from any claim or lien from the copyright owner of the original work, i.e. payment of royalties or settlement of all legal or fiduciary obligations to the copyright owner prior to the submission of the entry to the contest. Similarly, if the contestant needs to use audio and/or video resources that are not his own, he should make sure to get the approval of the ones who own the copyright of the music and video that he will include in the entry.

7. The final entries should be in DVD and VCD formats and must be submitted in two (2) copies for each format. If the film is in Filipino, it must contain English subtitles. A computer-typed synopsis and film credits should accompany the entries.

8. The contestant must submit his/her entry in a sealed long brown envelope. Inside the envelope, the contestant should include a sheet of paper containing the title of the entry, the contestant's name/s, address, telephone number, a brief bio-data, and a certification from a school faculty or administrator who testifies that the entry is the contestant's original masterpiece.

9. Entries must be addressed to the Board of Judges, The 1st Pro-life Filmmaking Contest, which shall be the sole body to evaluate the artistic merits of the entries. Entries should be submitted to Pro-life Philippines, Good Shepherd Compound, 1043 Aurora Blvd., Quezon City not later than January 31, 2006. Entries sent by mail or courier should be postmarked/invoiced not later than January 19, 2006.

10. Failure of an entry to comply with the specifications stated above shall result in its immediate disqualification.

11. Pro-life Philippines shall have the sole right to designate the persons who will constitute the Boards of Judges whose decision shall be final.

12. Pro-life will announce the names of the top ten finalists on Feb. 20, 2006. The finalists will be notified by mail, by SMS, and through a telephone call. The date and venue of the awards night will be announced later.

13. Pro-life reserves the right to reproduce and sell all entries with or without the contestants' consent but with due credit to the authors.

14. The winners will receive the following prizes: First place?cash prize of P25,000, and a plaque of recognition; Second place?P20,000, and a plaque of recognition; Third place?P15,000, and a plaque of recognition. The other non-winner finalists will receive plaques of appreciation and Pro-life promotional items. All non-winners who will not qualify for the Grand Finals will be given certificates of participation.

15. Winners will be announced in a major broadsheet and in the Foundation's website: www.prolife.org.ph

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A CHALLENGE FOR FILIPINO FAMILIES
By Leo R. Maliksi

Calls to limit population growth in the Philippines are misguided, says a leading economist in an exclusive
MercatorNet interview. Big families are the ultimate resource.

http://www.mercatornet.com/index.php...sk=view&id=171

The poverty data cited in this article could be updated. Here are three tables which shows recent figures.

There are improvements. Poverty incidence in the Philippines is the proportion of families with per capita incomes below the poverty threshold. Poverty fell by about 3 percentage points to 24.7% in 2003 from the revised estimate of 27.5% in 2000. Poverty incidence in Metro Manila also declined by about a percentage point (see table 1).

Table 1.]Incidence of Poverty among Filipino families, in %

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Â* Â* Â* Â* Â* Â* Â* Â*2000(r)Â* Â* Â*2003Â* Percentage point decline
PhilippinesÂ* Â* Â*27.5Â* Â* Â*24.7Â* Â* Â*-2.7
Metro ManilaÂ* Â*Â* Â*5.7Â* Â* Â*5.0Â* Â* Â*-0.7
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r – revised estimate
Source: National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB).

Poverty threshold is defined as the minimum income required for a family of five members to meet the food requirements and other non-food needs. The nationwide poverty threshold would amount to P1,022 a month or P12,267 a year. Table 2 shows that the 2003 poverty threshold rose by 7% from the revised 2000 threshold. This rate of increase is the same as that of Metro Manila.

Table 2. Annual per capita Poverty threshold, in Pesos

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Â* Â* Â* Â* Â* Â* Â* Â*2000(r)Â* Â* Â*2003Â* Â* Â* Â*Increase (in %) 
PhilippinesÂ* Â* 11,451Â* Â* Â*12,267Â* Â* Â* Â* Â* 7.1
Metro ManilaÂ* Â*15,693Â* Â* Â*16,796Â* Â* Â* Â* Â* 7.0
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r – revised estimate
Source: National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB).

Poverty estimates are released every three years. The 2003 estimate show that, about 4M families, or less than a quarter of the Philippine’s total families are poor.Â* This is around 172,000 families less compared to the 2000 estimate. The latest estimate is still about 4M more families that need to be helped to ERADICATE (not just alleviate) poverty.Â* The national poverty line is used as an indicator for the proportion of the population earning below $1 Purchasing Power Parity (or PPP) per day.Â* Table 3 show improvements. By the $1 a day benchmark, the head count poverty incidence in 2000 of 15.5% dipped to 14.1% in 2003. If this trend continues,Â* the poverty index could be cut by more than one half (from 1990 levels by the year 2015). A slower downtrend could be observed when a more stringent $2 a day standard of living is applied.

Table 3. Philippine Poverty Index, Head count ratio, in %

Â* Â* Â* Â* $1 a dayÂ* Â* $2 a day
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1990Â* Â* Â* 19.7Â* Â* Â* Â* 54.9
2000Â* Â* Â* 15.5Â* Â* Â* Â* 47.5
2003Â* Â* Â* 14.1Â* Â* Â* Â* 44.4
2015 (a)Â* Â*6.9Â* Â* Â* Â* 38.2
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a. Based on the scenario of benchmark growth and less equitable distribution.
Source: Asian Development Bank, Key Indicators 2005

Some technical note on PPP:

The purchasing power parities (PPPs) is a conversion factors used for translating gross domestic product (GDP) and its components from own-currencies to dollars. The alternative measure—exchange rates—obscures the relationship between the quantity aggregates of different countries. The commonly used $1 a day standard was chosen because it is typical of the poverty lines in low-income countries. PPP exchange rates take into account the local prices of goods and services that are not traded internationally. (The World Bank, World Development Indicators 1999)

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give people jobs para naa sila lain buhaton...

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Parents: The Most Important Educators on Sexuality

The task of forming healthy sexual attitudes and understanding in children is one of the most important
role of parents. In providing an education on love and sexuality to their children, parents must begin by
refuting the propaganda that outside "experts" can do the job better than they can.

It is imperative for parents today to investigate what is being taught in the name of *** education.
Parents have a right to examine curricular materials and textbooks. They can and must talk to the
teachers and principals about what they hope to communicate. And to look carefully for a hidden
agenda such as pro-homosexual and lesbian behavior, the safe *** distortion, the belief that premarital
*** is a freedom of choice, and any suggestions that pits teenagers against their parents.

In a recently held conference on family life, parent-speakers stressed on the following points on why
the home is the best place to convey *** information to children.

Parents know their children better than anyone else, they know their maturity level as well as what
language they understand. Also, parents are more likely to inject the moral aspects of sexuality that
are so important to the development of a wholesome view of ***. This does not been that information
about *** should not be taught at church and at school. But *** education at church an d school
should be complementary to what the child receives at home, not given in place of it.

School *** education classes ignore individual differences among children and break down the natural
modesty of boys and girls. When children are taught academics, such as Math and Reading, they are
given materials suitable to their level of readiness for these subjects. Yet, when it comes to the
extremely sensitive area of sexuality, all children in the same grade level are given the same material,
even if some are not yet physically or psychologically ready for the material. This is insensitive and harmful.
Forcing boys and girls to listen to, view and openly discuss the sexual functioning of the opposite ***'s
anatomy while in their presence is embarrassing and contributes to the breakdown of the modesty that
is natural and appropriate in human beings.

What is taught and how it is taught -- in *** education classes are not immediately known in detail by
parents. This means that there is absolutely no way parents can control, or even find out what their
children are being taught about *** unless they sit in the classroom or when their teenage child asks
them to buy condom or IUD to be brought to class as part of their homework.

School *** education has never been shown to reduce the growing problem of teen pregnancy or
abortion. In fact, in the United States, data shows the opposite: as federal funding for *** education
programs increases, so do the rates of teen pregnancies and abortions. This proves that the contraceptive
mentality encourages the youth to become promiscuous.

Children do not need *** Education, they need Chastity Education. Kids need to learn how to say no and
why saying no is in their best interest -- physically, emotionally and spiritually. Sexuality involves more than
birth control pills. The school sends the wrong message to students when their *** education courses are
mere "how to do it and how not to get caught" lessons. If schools spend more time on chastity education,
the number of chaste teens would rise dramatically.

There is no such thing as" value-free" *** ed. When anything more than the biology is taught, someone's
values are going to be presented. Telling students to "make up your own mind" tells them there are no
standards to go by. Telling students it's "best to say 'no,' but if you're going to be sexually active, be
protected" send them the message that the teacher doesn't really expect them to control themselves.
Presenting birth control without saying it's wrong for them to use it tells the students the teacher doesn't
think it's wrong.

The best lesson in *** parents can provide their children is the love and respect they show for each other.
Parents convey attitudes and values about life and sexuality as they interact with their children each day.
They are always available to their children for support, questions and direction and have much wisdom to
share that comes from the faithful living out of their commitment as husband and wife and as parents.

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.....Oh, but I forgot... logical thinking is quite foreign to you.

let me tell you a very simple logic.....

let us just assume(and mind you, I'm talking impossible here, but just for the sake of logic), we could eliminate all other problems in the Philippines, and everybody is having enough food.

OK, but the Philippine land area is not growing, no matter how we improve food production, it will eventually reach it's peak.... so if we increase our population, that enough food will become desirable....and if the population continue to grow, desirable will become insufficient.....and if the population will continue to grow, insufficient will eventually become scarce.....which means, famine, killing each other for food.

That's a simple logical thinking.......if you cannot comprehend that, well, it's not difficult to figure out your way of thinking

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.....and if the population will continue to grow, insufficient will eventually become scarce.....which means, famine, killing each other for food.

That's the same garbage the "overpopulation" hysterics have been saying for over a hundred years. IT HASN'T HAPPENED!

You're out of touch with reality. In case you haven't noticed, we are NOWHERE near exhausting a single essential resource. Not a single one. Man uses less than 1 percent of land area to live on, and just a little more for essential needs. So we're NOT running out of land. And food production has OUTPACED population growth.

It's hard to believe that your kind of ignorance still exists! You're living back in the days of Malthus (have you even heard of him?). His theories were shown to be just so much hot air a long time ago. Overpopulation is a myth. Ignorance, however, is apparently alive and well in your neck of the woods.

Take some time to study the issue. I can't believe you're recycling this discredited garbage. But then seeing what other idiocy you've posted, I'm not surprised.Â*

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^^^
as expected, you've missed, or pretend to miss(that's ignorance right?Â* ) my point.......I'm just showing you a simple logic dude....


the thing with you dude, you keep on calling people with names(ignorance,idiots, no logical thinking, garbage...and stuff) if they disagree with your point, yet your posts showed what kind of person you are.... and very obvious...

I'm not going to give you an advice as I'm sure you're way older than me........ but I feel so sorry for you, and the people around you in the real world(if you behave the same as in the virtual world).

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as expected, you've missed, or pretend to miss(that's ignorance right?Â* ) my point.......I'm just showing you a simple logic dude....

Yes but the logic is wrong. That's the whole point!

You have to learn to accept that people call things as they are. If the logic is no good, the I'll call it as it is. Your logic is fault. Thje evidence shows the exact opposite. It's simple as that. Instead of trying to nitpick about language or the caps lock or other sill things, why can''t you address the point and come up with a real argument? So far you've just been trying to obfsucate the issues.