Catholic and pro-RH?
Can you be Catholic and pro-RH, too? Even as the contentious RH Bill 4244 is undergoing amendment in Congress, the Church perseveres in its fight for human life. Increasingly virulent attacks against the Catholic Church continue to be launched in media, especially social media, branding her as “the biggest stumbling block” to the approval of the bill that sees population control as the solution to poverty. Unable to resist the gravity of President Noynoy’s agenda, RH proponents voted to end the debate a day ahead of schedule. They said it was a tiresome, repetitive exercise in futility, stubbornly refusing to see that questions had to be raised over and over again because their answers dismally failed to deliver the truth. Through the RH debates, a glaring truth surfaces: central to the head-on collision is the difference in the way the two camps regard the human being. RH Bill sees the person (especially the poor person) as a number in the arithmetic of popula