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Noynoy does not appear to be that firm in his claim that he is standing firm on his position of family planning through couples’ choice, which includes artificial contraception. The signs point to the slow retreat of Noynoy in this matter, what with the House of Representatives Speaker Feliciano Belmonte now singing a different tune on the early passage of the Reproductive Health (RH) bill.
The excuse given by Belmonte is that there is little time to act on the RH bill by way of plenary debates since the sessions will have to come to a close, owing to Congress’ Christmas break, which is still a lot of days away.
Unless reports were wrong, the RH bill is supposed to already be on second reading, which would not take too much time to finish this off. Then too, the chairman of the panel that handles such bills had already been quoted as saying that Belmonte had not given him directions to push the RH bill.
It is certainly is also known that the House generally takes orders from Malacañang for it to act, or not act on bills, which translates to Noynoy and his aides not pushing this particular bill for its passage — and the only reason for the Malacañang tenant to retreat from this issue may well be pressure from the Catholic prelates, whose support he does not want to lose, at this stage of his dipping popularity..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101127com1.html
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