Poll favoring RH bill fails to impress Noy 12/01/2010

Poll favoring RH bill fails to impress Noy

12/01/2010
A convincing majority of respondents, or 69 percent, agreed with the intent of the Reproductive Health (RH) bill pending in Congress with 79 percent favoring the rights of Filipino women and couples to choose their own family planning method and 55 percent agreeing to government funding the distribution of modern family planning methods, the latest Pulse Asia survey showed.

The survey, nevertheless, showed that the debate on the bill may center on a provision to include the subject “Reproductive Health and Sexuality Education” in the school curriculums which in the survey 44 percent of respondents disagreed with.

Surprisingly, President Aquino, a known advocate of the bill showed diffidence on the survey result.

“I’m not going to base any of my decisions or my stand on what the survey says. Let me reiterate, I have not changed my position. It’s still called responsible parenthood and what it seeks to do is to remind parents or would-be parents that they have a responsibility they need to fulfill,” according to Aquino.... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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