| ALERT: Please tell your families in the Philippines to petition their Congressional members to oppose those who are targeting local government leaders for abortifacient and sterilization targets with a proposed centralized reproductive healthcare bureaucracy objective in H.B. 17, H.B. 812 and H.B. 39 . http://www.congress.gov.ph/members/ |
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| Dear President Arroyo,
As friends of the Republic of the Philippines, we are concerned. Since many of us have family or friends in the Philippines, we hope that you will oppose H.B. 17 "The Responsible Parenthood and Population Management Act of 2005", H.B. 812, "An Act Providing for Reproductive Healthcare Structures and Appropriating Funds", and H.B. 39, "Creating a Baranguay Population Worker", and the agenda of UNFPA to mandate family size limits. For over 25 years, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has been an aggressive and shameful accessory to gross crimes against women and babies in the Peoples Republic of China. Despite being admonished to do otherwise on countless occasions, the UNFPA continues to be the chief apologist and enabler for past and ongoing crimes against humanity. Since the UNFPA is working with Philippine government leaders, we are also concerned with news reports of coercive practices in forced contraception1 . Further, the U.S. Government has found evidence of sterilization quota systems in the provinces.2 We hope that further investigations of the funding sources and training objectives of these healthcare organizations continue. As the UNFPA has promised $26 million in population control programs until 2009, we hope that you will instead insist that the UN provide programs for education, skills training, and regional growth centers in provinces to discourage urban migration to help you meet your Millenium Development Goals (MDG's). We are also concerned for the Filipino youth. We feel that the UNFPA funded information campaigns will give the minors a false sense of "adolescent sexual/reproductive rights" that does not respect the dignity of the human person or the rich family values of Filipinos. We are concerned that if this bill passes that according to the Constitution of 1987, the proposed bill would be unconstitutional on the grounds that the human life must be protected from the moment of conception. 3
Also, we feel that the bill discriminates against Catholic healthcare workers who cannot offer reproductive health care services out of conscientious objection. 4 Further, we hope that our family and friends who are Catholic or Muslim educators will be protected by their constitution and not imprisoned, (up to six months), because they will not be able to offer sex education or contraceptives to children as a matter of personal conscience.5 Finally, we hope that for the sake of Filipino marriages, the bill does not pass for it does not acknowledge the right of husbands or wives to refuse tubal ligation, sterilization, contraception or other such reproductive healthcare. Further, the bill authorizes in a guised manner "same sex marriages".6
Many Americans, including Filipino Americans, are concerned that Filipinos should have a government that protects their choice to determine the size of their own families and respects their rich cultural heritage. We are encouraged with the spirit of the Filipino people to fight for values that are important to family and faith traditions because you are known as a people of hope. The 1.9 population growth rate reported by the National Statistics Bureau is a solid basis for the future. Western European countries with smaller population growth rates now have increasing mortality rates that impact their Social Security programs. Citizens of working age will soon be unable to sustain the retirement of the aging population. We do not want that for our Filipino family members and friends.
We respectfully encourage you to join us in solidarity to the opposition of any further coercive practices of the UNFPA and we hope you will encourage others to oppose H.B. 17, "The Responsible Parenthood and Population Management Act", H.B. 812, "An Act Providing for Reproductive Healthcare Structures and Appropriating Funds", and H.B. 39, "Creating a Baranguay Population Worker".
Signed,
Name City Family residence
Eileen Macapanas Cosby Washington D.C. Antipolo City, Butig, Salcedo
1 Manila Standard Today, May 16, 2005 “Bishops building up case vs. family planning workers”
2 Lifesite News, July 16, 2007, "US funds Sterilizations of Philippine Women"
3 The Constitution of the Philippines, Article 2: Declaration of Principles and State Policies and Principles, Section 12.
4 H.B. 17, Section 15 & Section 16.
5 H.B. 17, Section 15 & Section 16.
6 H.B. 17, Section 15 a.
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