Bowing to bishops
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Malacañang says the Responsible Parenthood bill it has certified as urgent has been accepted by the Catholic Church, as the Palace said the bill is not meant to curb population growth — which means no targets on population control will be made — and that the bill is fashioned to alleviate poverty, along with the claim that there will be no insistence or coercion from government on couples to use artificial contraceptive measures.
As Malacañang didn’t quite bare just what the bill says, or does not say, it is doubted that the Church officials just agreed to what is being claimed by the Palace, because there was never anything argued between the bishops and the Palace about poverty alleviation on the Responsible Parenthood bill, nor, for that matter, population growth curbs..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110126com2.html
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