ANTI-LIFERS: Riza Hontiveros-Baraquiel

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Ang isa sa mapangit at maduming laban ni Riza Hontiveros: RH Bill. Anu kaya ang ibig nyang sabihin "One Battle at a time".
"The pro-RH advocates are pro-life," --according to Mrs. Baraquiel. A blatant LIE! There are a lot of Pro-RH groups and orgs supporting and calling for "safe & legal" ABORTION.

The Groups Supporting the RH BILL Part 4: Women's Legal Education, Advocacy and Defense Foundation, Inc. - WOMENLEAD

WomenLEAD is a feminist NGO for legal resource institution for women committed to advancing women's human rights through feminist methodologist in the critique and analysis of law and the legal system. Through its core program (Feminist Counseling and Legal Services), WomenLEAD's core of lawyers and paralegals engage in litigation to challenge laws, and the legal culture which reinforces biases against women.WomenLEAD is the local partner of ASAP involved in public advocacy on the issue of Reproductive Health Bill for the benefit  of women and girls, including abortion rights. They oppose the criminalization of abortion but right now their main focus is the passage of the RH BILL. Their members are regularly visible in lectures and forums about Women Rights and Empowerment and has never missed any chance to indoctrinate the audience that abortion is among the fundamental reproductive rights of a woman. They conduct several researches about abortion with the intent of swaying our lawmakers to consider its legalization in the future

They wrote several position papers such as for the re-registration of the Emergency Contraceptive Pill, Postinor (levonorgestrel 750 mcg) which was banned by the DOH

The Groups Supporting the RH BILL Part 2: Center for Reproductive Rights CCR

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 “Funding for abortion services has increasingly been recognized as a necessary tool for ensuring access to a fundamental human right.”-CCR
"[Forsaken Lives] is the first report of its kind that links the abortion ban in the Philippines to a violation of women's rights."-- CRR Pres. Nancy Northup referring to their reports about abortion bans.

The Center for Reproductive Rights is a global women rights organization that uses constitutional and international law to secure women's reproductive freedom including rights for abortion. In their paper report entitled "Forsaken Lives", they blame the Philippines’ pro-life laws criminalizing abortion for endangering women. The group alleges that criminalizing abortions has  forced women to turn to illegal abortions that can result in complications and  even death. The report implies that the laws against abortion is a human right violation for women. It is noted that this very same deceptive tactic is used to get abortion legalized in the U.S. and still being used to legalize abortion in other countries including Philippines.
If this argument is acceptable, then we might as well legalize other criminal activities like illegal drugs to make it safe during "sessions" or the sex dens so that sex workers will be given workers' rights too!
The idea of legalizing abortion is like a poison hiding in the guise of women empowerment, gender equality, maternal health, women's health, and women rights that is why feminists legislators are easily fooled and deceived in passing immoral bills like the RH BILL.
Right now, this pending RH BILL has little or no provisions for abortions but its contents will surely pave the way for more acts of baby killing.

ABORTION # 1(Warning! Extremely Graphic)

Before i decided to write my first article about abortion, I prayed so hard. My fingers are shivering as i type these words. Tear drops were falling and my heart is ailing. Have you done abortion? Have you considered abortion? Have you seen your child after abortion? The following pictures came from Grand Jury Report released by Philadelphia District Attorney R. Seth Williams and posted on the Operation Rescue website.

Warning: Extremely graphic and disturbing. If you cannot withstand this please leave.

This March we celebrate Women's Month, may our women be compassionate enough not to allow these things be done unto them. Abortion is not Women's Right!

The Controversial RH Bill

The Reproductive Health Bill or RH bill is a divisive issue in our country today. Several feminists and pro-abortion women groups rallied in favor of it. The Catholic and other conservative churches has expressed opposition over it together with Pro-life supporters. Things are really going badly for the proponents of the Reproductive Health (now RP or Responsible Parenthood) Bill  in the Congress. First, President Noynoy did not include it among his list of priority bills. Then, for two days, the congress was not able to convene because the air-conditioning malfunction. Now they were able to have it read on the second reading and Rep. Edcel Lagman was able to make his sponsorship speech but Congresswoman Garing attempted to get Congressman Raul Daza off the floor on the ground that he did not wear the proper attire!It was really a sign of how frantic the proponents of the bill are getting.
For me, the reproductive health bill has indeed many good points. But included in the bill is poison—the provision to include contraceptives, and other modern artificial birth control devices (like the IUD, Ligation, Vasectomy, implants and injectables) to be among essentials to be distributed in government hospitals and health clinics. No question regarding promoting reproductive health of women(& men?), but the bill has many flaws that may lead to the legalization of abortion.
And I quote Rina-Jimenez David of Philippine Daily Inquirer, a supporter of RH bill in her Jan. 4 column, “Saving mothers and babies,” when she said: “...the provision of safe abortion services and the timely and correct response to abortion complications are a legitimate part of reproductive health.”

Let's Take a look at some of the groups who are pushing this RH Bill:
UNFPA-United Nations Fund for Population: "We, UNFPA, are mandated to consider abortion within the context of public health, but never as a right, as some NGOs do...Where it is legal, it should be done under good medical conditions. Some women’s groups approach the issue differently, viewing abortion in the context of a woman’s right to choose. So, though we have many common interests, we deal with them differently"
EnGendeRights was founded to advocate for women's free exercise of their sexuality and their right to reproductive self-determination free of discrimination, coercion and violence including women's access to the full range of contraceptives, emergency contraceptives, and to safe and legal abortion, and equality of lesbians and women bisexuals and transgenders and their freedom from discrimination.  It was founded in December 2003 by its Executive Director Ms. Clara Rita A. Padilla. We received our first funding in August 2004
Center for Reproductive Rights-Melissa Upreti, legal adviser to the New York-based Centre for Reproductive Rights, said the Philippines should amend the penal code to legalize abortion when pregnancy threatens the life of the mother.