Pro-Lifers Take Advocacy to Congress

Members of Pro-Life Groups in the Philippines are taking its advocacy to the House of Congress by participating in the upcoming National elections as a partylist movement.

Atty. John Lomanta of the Pro-Life Partylist said the Pro-Life advocates have made successes in the recently passed Reproductive Health Law.

Some of the articles that were changed in the RH Law is that there will be no bias treatment for natural and artificial family planning and the most important was the requirement of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Certification on contraceptives and should have non-abortifacient elements.

“These small but significant changes in the provisions of the RH Law are successes that we should strengthen with support of the Family and Life Apostolate and other church groups that are pro-life,” Lomanta said.

“We pride ourselves as the only Catholic/Christian nation in Asia but our lawmakers are now pushing for a Divorce Bill in our next congress.”

To date, there are only two countries that have no divorce, the Vatican and the Philippines.

Davao Pro-Life representative Isahel Alfonso, a registered nurse, explained that the number of countries are increasing that have accepted same sex marriage such as the United States of America, France and Great Britain.

In the Philippines, some sectors would like to follow their steps, “The Gabriela Partylist is endorsing same sex marriage,” Alfonso continued that the LGBT community has this agenda sugar coated in the anti-discrimination law, specifically on how one perceive one’s sexuality.

“Gender should be genetically determined,” he added, and that this is a major constitutional challenge since in the family code, in marriage, it is stated that a marriage union is composed of a male and a female.

For the upcoming National elections, Atty. Lomanta said, that the Presidentiables’ stand on this matter (same sex marriage) is based on the human rights and equality while Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago is for euthanasia (mercy killing) for the sick and elderly.

These actions are characteristics of a culture of death and are therefore anti-life.