House scraps P20-million budget to buy condoms, contraceptives
By Gerry Baldo 12/16/2010Advocates of the controversial Reproductive Health (RH) bill in the House of Representatives yesterday suffered a big setback even as the P200-million budget for the purchase of condoms and contraceptives was removed from the budget.
Parañaque Rep. Roilo Golez said that the pro-RH groups suffered a devastating defeat following the decision of the bicameral conference committee to scrap the budget for contraceptives.
“The pro-RH group was defeated in the first encounter on contraceptives and condoms. The House ratified yesterday the bicam report on the budget where theP200-million budget for condoms and contraceptives was removed on the initiative of the pro-Life group in Congress and the ‘noisy’ pro-RH group could not do anything about it,” Golez said yesterday.
Golez said that the removal of the budget for contraceptives shows that the bill does not have the support of a majority of the members of the panel which is composed of members of both Houses of Congress..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20101216nat1.html
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