Browsing All posts tagged under »coercive«

RH Bill’s Population Control Agenda

September 12, 2012 by

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From a personal level I believe in the freedom of choice and that choice belongs to the individual. We do not need a law for that. It is presumed in a free and democratic country. Even when the bill is passed it will not change. Educated women with means will continue to decide on such […]

Reproductive Health Bill Timeline, Part 3 of a Series

June 1, 2011 by

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Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. 1968 - The government starts to participate in population and family planning efforts by creating the Project Office for Maternal and Child Health in the Department of Health to coordinate family planning activities.32 Population biologist Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb is published, wherein he predicts a widespread catastrophe of resource […]

Lagman vs. Salonga: Is There a Demographic Target, Or Isn’t There?

May 21, 2011 by

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DOH already has a program with the MDG goals for reproductive health: Why do we need an RH law?

March 13, 2011 by

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I was browsing the internet for information on PHL government efforts to increase maternal health and decrease maternal mortality last week. One of the first links to pop-up in a Google search was the DOH URL: http://www.doh.gov.ph/programs/family_planning/profile. The link led to a webpage containing information about an existing program of the DOH that contains many, […]

Why I Am Against the RH Bill

February 24, 2011 by

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by Tsard Pazcoguin, Associate Professor, UST. Posting here with permission. Our present situation is PERFECTLY RESPECTFUL towards those who favor the use of contraception. Any person may buy contraceptives in the Philippines freely, without the fear of being sanctioned or penalized whatsoever. Thus, the existing laws of our land respect the freedom of conscience of […]

The Shameful History of Population Control

February 12, 2011 by

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Countless millions of people in developing countries have been robbed of their human rights and dignity by a movement still regarded as humanitarian. “The great tragedy of population control, the fatal misconception, was to think that one could know other people’s interests better than they knew it themselves,” says Matthew Connelly, summing up one of […]

Coercive Population Ploys in the Philippines

February 4, 2011 by

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Coercive Population Ploys in the Philippines. By Antonio de los Reyes * 2002 (v12, n2) March/April Over 20 years ago in November 1981, I was appointed Chief Executive Office of the Commission on Population — the Philippine Government’s prime mover of what it unabashedly but accurately called the national population control program. We then waged […]

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