Amnesty International Philippines has weighed in on the debate over the Reproductive Health bill, calling on the Roman Catholic church to reconsider its opposition to the measure. At the recent launch of its 2011 Human Rights Report here, AIPh said it has agreed, after substantive discussions among its members, to officially support the campaign for the enactment of the RH bill. “We add the voice of AIPh in the call to pass the RH Bill as a significant step towards ‘choosing life,’ as a step towards the realization of sexual and reproductive rights and maternal health rights. We add the perspective of human rights in this campaign,” AIPh director Aurora Corazon A. Parong said.
Parong cited a report of the Centre for Reproductive Rights in August last year that “found that more than 560,000 women terminated their pregnancies each year and about 1,000 of them died annually after clandestine illegal abortions.”
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It's not about us versus them, or your God, or your church.
It's about the millions of people who don't know how their body and sexuality works. For lack of the facts, we're working with myths, fiction, heresay.
This is why we need The Reproductive Health Bill No. 5043. We need to be educated, we need to be informed.
Face the Facts. Pass RH BILL NO. 5043.
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