...."MORAL PRICIPLES ABOUT RH BILL"......

...Moral Principles about RH bill.....


      In observance of Pro-life month, the head
of the Archdiocese has issued some guiding 
moral principles to help the faithful discern why
the church is against Reproductive Health (RH)
Bill pending in congress.
     The Archbishop enumerated the said moral
principles in his pastoral letter on the controversial
bill portions of which was printed and published.
     The pastoral letter is entitled " Let the Church
Preach the Gospel, Let the Cross of Christ be 
Implied of It's Power".
      Respect should be given to the sacredness of
human life in all it's stages from natural conception
to natural death.  The church teaches that from the
moment the ovum is fertilized fertilization, human 
life starts, life is neither that of the father nor of
the mother.  Right from fertilization the adventure 
of human life begins.
     Pope John Paul 11 explained it with greater clarity 
when he said:  "The judgment of conscience has an 
imperative character; man must act in  accordance with it.
It is the proximate norm of personal morality.  The
authority of its voice and judgments from the truth
about moral good and evil   The truth is indicated
by the "divine law", the universal and objective 
norm of morality.
      The Reproductive Health (RH) Bill, is not the 
answer to the problem.  Maternal and child health
care is presently among the functions of the 
Department of Health (DOH). Hence improvement
of the services in this regard should be made, not
the passage of the RH bill....