1. A SIMPLE SHARING
MY PERSONAL OBJECTIONS ON
THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
BILL
By ATTY. JEREMIAH B. BELGICA
Professor- SAN BEDA COLLEGE
Pastor - THE LORD’S VINEYARD COVENANT COMMUNITIES

3. The State shall comply with all its international obligations under various human rights instruments relative to reproductive health and wome
SENATE BILL 2865.
The Reproductive Health Act of 2011
SEC 2.
”The State shall comply with all its international
obligations under various human rights
instruments relative to reproductive health and
women's empowerment including the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights (ICESCR), Beijing Declaration, UN
Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against
Women (DEVAW), Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
(CEDAW), International Conference on Population
and Development (ICPD) and the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs).”

4. System of Thought: A diverse inter-relation of issues
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GAY Sex
F.P rights W.R
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REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS (Sex without FORCED ABORTION AND
pregnancy; subsidized contraceptives STERILIZATION
Funded and Supported by UN through UNFPA and other countries(USAID)
GREAT HUMAN CONCERN (UNITED NATION INITIATIVES)

5. Objection No. 1
Recognizing Reproductive Health
and Reproductive Rights for all
would Sexually
Empower the youth, unmarried
person and homosexuals.

6. IN THE ICPD PROGRAM OF ACTION, 'REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH' IS DEFINED
AS:
“A STATE OF COMPLETE PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING
AND...NOT MERELY THE ABSENCE OF DISEASE OR INFIRMITY, IN ALL
MATTERS RELATING TO THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM AND ITS FUNCTIONS AND
PROCESSES. REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH THEREFORE IMPLIES THAT PEOPLE ARE
ABLE TO HAVE A SATISFYING AND SAFE SEX LIFE AND THAT THEY HAVE THE
CAPABILITY TO REPRODUCE AND THE FREEDOM TO DECIDE IF, WHEN AND HOW
OFTEN TO DO SO.
IMPLICIT IN THIS LAST CONDITION ARE THE RIGHT OF
MEN AND WOMEN TO BE INFORMED [ABOUT] AND TO HAVE ACCESS TO SAFE,
EFFECTIVE, AFFORDABLE AND ACCEPTABLE METHODS OF FAMILY PLANNING OF
THEIR CHOICE, AS WELL AS OTHER METHODS OF BIRTH CONTROL WHICH ARE
NOT AGAINST THE LAW, AND THE RIGHT OF ACCESS TO APPROPRIATE
HEALTH-CARE SERVICES THAT WILL ENABLE WOMEN TO GO SAFELY THROUGH
PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH AND PROVIDE COUPLES WITH THE BEST CHANCE
OF HAVING A HEALTHY INFANT.

7. Sec 4. of SENATE BILL 2865
 (o) Reproductive Health (RH) - refers to the state
of complete physical, mental and social
wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease
or infirmity, in all matters relating to the
reproductive system and to its functions and
processes. This implies that people are able to
have a safe and satisfying sex life, that they have
the capability to reproduce and the freedom to
decide if, when, and how often to do so. This
further implies that women and men attain equal
relationships in matters related to sexual
relations and reproduction;

8. UNDERSTANDING REPRODUCTIVE
HEALTH
“a state of complete physical, mental and
social well-being and...not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity, in all matters relating to the
reproductive system and its functions and
processes.”-ICPD
Sex is the first stage of the process of
reproduction.
Reproductive health delves deeply on the
individuals sexual attitude and conduct.

9. THE SECOND SENTENCE
PARTICULARIZES THE FIRST
PART OF THE DEFINITION
“Reproductive health therefore implies that people are able to
have a satisfying and safe sex life and that they have the
capability to reproduce and the freedom to decide if, when
and how often to do so.”- ICPD
FACT: Nobody can get pregnant exactly at the time
desired , but a person can make ways to
avoid pregnancy .

10. REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
IS THE ABILITY TO HAVE A
SATISFYING AND SAFE SEX LIFE .
AND EVADE OR AVOIDE
PREGNANCY /REPRODUCTION.
NOTE: Does not distinguish whether married or
unmarried, young or old, male or female or
hetero or homosexual

11. Objection No. 2
Government will be spending
millions, even billions, of tax
payers money for the purchase of
condoms and contraceptives

12. REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
Implicit in this last condition are the right of men and women to
be informed [about] and to have access to safe, effective, affordable and
acceptable methods of family planning of their choice, as well as other
methods of birth control which are not against the law, and the right of
access to appropriate health-care services that will enable women to go
safely through pregnancy and childbirth and provide couples with the best
chance of having a healthy infant.-ICPD
Essentially Reproductive Health Rights does not only
empowers the citizens to be “Reproductively healthy”
but also grants the right to government subsidized
contraceptives. (Some countries include abortion)

13. SENATE BILL 2865
(The Reproductive Health Act of 2011)
 Reproductive Rights - refers to the rights of
individuals and couples, to decide freely and
responsibly whether or not to have children;
the number, spacing and timing of their
children; to make other decisions concerning
reproduction, free of discrimination, coercion
and violence; to have the information and
means to do so; and to attain the highest
standard of sexual health and reproductive
health;

14. SENATE BILL 2865
Sec 4.
(e) Family Planning - refers to a program
which enables couples and individuals to
decide freely and responsibly the number
and spacing of their children and to have
the information and means to do so, and
to have access to a full range of safe,
affordable, effective, and modern methods
of preventing or timing pregnancy;

15. SEC. 9. Family Planning Supplies as
Essential Medicines
The National Drug Formulary shall include
hormonal contraceptives, intrauterine devices,
injectables and other safe, legal and effective
family planning products and supplies in
accordance with Section 17 (d). These products
and supplies shall also be included in the regular
purchase of essential medicines and supplies of all
national and local hospitals, provincial, city, and
municipal health offices, including rural health
units.

16. Objection No. 3
The bill misleads that the
population is a problem that
needs to be controlled

17. IS THE PHILIPPINES OVER-POPULATED?
ONE HUNDRED MILLION FILIPINOS
CAN COMFORTABLY FIT IN BICOL
REGION ALONE
BICOL REGION has a Land mass of
18,114 km² = 18,114,000,000 m²
Divide 18,114,000,000 m²
/ 100,000,000 =
181.14 m² per Filipino
724.56 square
meter of land Per
BICOL REGION Filipino family of
four

18. HUMAN POPULATION WAS GREATER BEFORE THE
GREAT FLOOD BECAUSE MEN LIVED UPTO 900 Years
World Population Since Creation
by Lambert Dolphin
Although it is difficult to obtain an actual value of world
population at the time of the flood, 5 to17 billion people would
appear to be reasonable populations, with an average of around
10 billion.

19. HUMAN POPULATION WAS GREATER BEFORE THE GRAT
FLOOD BECAUSE MEN LIVED UPTO 900 Years
“This variation could make the estimate of 1,656 years
between the creation and the flood off by a few years.
If we assume that the average life span was only
400 years (a very generous estimate), and that the
average family only had 6 children (again a generously
low estimate) starting at the age of 80, then we can
calculate the population of the world just before the
flood to be about 7 billion people! This is greater than
the current world population. The population before
the flood was so high because the people lived so
long.”
-LA VISTA CHURCH OF CHIRST ARTICLE
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive
with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall
be an hundred and twenty years. Gen 6:3

20. GOD CONTROLED HUMAN POPULATION and SET
UP CIVIL GOVERNMENT BECAUSE OF SIN
Be fruitful and
Multiply Be fruitful and
“Whoever sheds human
Multiply but (Man
blood,
given the
by humans shall their
responsibility to
blood be shed;
police
for in the image of God
themselves(Gen 9
Sin in man caused has God made mankind.
7 As for you, be fruitful and 6-7)
destruction and violence
increase in number;
multiply on the earth and
increase upon it.”
(Gen 9:6-7)
Population of sinful man
filled the world with
The Great
violence Flood
And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he
also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. Gen 6:3

21. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he
also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. Gen 6:3
Before
After Gen 6:3
Gen 6:3
Shem = 600 years
Adam = 930 years Arphaxad = 438 years
Seth = 912 years Salah = 433 years
Eber = 464 years
Enosh = 905 years Peleg = 239 years
Reu = 239 years
Cainan = 910 years
Serug = 230 years
Mahalalel = 895 years Nahor = 148 years
Terah = 205 years
Jared = 962 years
Abraham = 175 years
Enoch =365 years Ishmael = 137 years
Isaac = 180 years
Methuselah = 969 years
Jacob (Israel) = 147 years
Lamech = 777 years
Joseph = 110 years
Noah = 950 years Moses = 120 years
Joshua = 110 years
120 Year Life Span of Man

22. 1. NSSM 200 : National Security Study Memorandum 200:
IMPLICATIONS OF WORLDWIDE
POPULATION GROWTH FOR THE U.S.
SECURITY AND OVERSEAS INTERESTS By
Henry Kissinger – April 14, 1974
2. NSDM 314 : National Security Decision Memorandum 314:
IMPLICATIONS OF WORLDWIDE POPULATION
GROWTH FOR U.S. SECUTIRY AND OVERSEAS
INTERESTS By Sec. Brent Scowcroft Nov. 26, 1975
3. WORLD POPULATION PLAN OF ACTION
- Targeted against 13 nation with “uncontrolled
population growth!”
USING FOREIGN ASSISTANCE TO COERCE POOR
COUNTRIES TO INSTALL DE-POPULATION, BIRTH
LIMITATION PARAMETERS IN ALL DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMS

23. The Most Reliable Measure of
Population Change
TOTAL FERTILITY RATE
»Average number of children a
woman will have over her period of
reproductive life 14-49 yrs. old

24. 1960 6.7 Children
1980 4.7 Children
1990
4.7 (?) Children
(3.3)
2000 2.7 (ADB)
Note: REPLACEMENT FERTILITY is 2.1
œ Number of Births and just enough to replace deaths

25. HOW MANY BIRTHS DO WE
NEED TO REPLACE OUR
DEATHS?
Total WRA = 20,187,179
At end of
(2005) X
2.1 / WRA
Replacement
Fertility of =
42,393,076
Total Required Projected
Replacement Births =
Half of whom must be girls!

26. SO ---
20,187,179 WRA
X
.15 MWRA
Total MWRA:
3,028,077
X 2 births
6,056,154 BIRTHS
will yield only =
is only 30% of REQUIRED
REPLACEMENT BIRTHS
… LEADING TO OUR RACIAL EXTINCTION!

27. Objection No. 4
Reproductive Health and
Reproductive Rights are the
foundations of the dogma of
legalized abortion.

28. The Center is a legal innovator seeking
to fundamentally transform the
landscape of reproductive health and
rights worldwide.
Our Issues reflect what a woman
needs to direct her own life and
make healthy decisions: Legal,
safe, and affordable
Contraception and Abortion.

29. Imposing Misery: The Impact of Manila's
Contraception Ban on Women and Families
“Likhaan, ReproCen, and the Center for Reproductive
Rights are working to ensure that Manila residents have
easy and affordable access to a full range of family
planning options, in accordance with the Philippines’
obligations under constitutional, national, and international
law. In addition, these three organizations have called on
the new mayor, Alfredo S. Lim, who took office this July, to
revoke the ban.”

30. THANK YOU.