A Catholic's Take on the RH Bill

The Reproductive Health (RH) Bill, its pros and cons, has been bitterly debated extensively in the halls of Congress with the people's attention zeroing intensely on every proceedings therein. For this blogger who has been a Catholic since birth, through more than sixty-six (66) calendar years and definitely until the end of my life, it pains me so much that the larger problem of a ballooning population is glossed over by harping endlessly on the claimed objectionable provisions of the bill. 

The antis are insisting that the bill is pro-abortion in toto thus necessitating its eventual rejection, nothing else will matter. Yet, the antis have conveniently excluded from the equation the tolls exacted on the country's economy in the present and the near future by the run-away population abetted by the hopelessly corrupt and woeful Arroyo regime and with the virtual imprimatur of our Catholic Church.

It's given that in more than nine (9) years of the Arroyo regime, the government accorded lip service to the need of arresting the population explosion since ex-President Arroyo was deathly fearful of losing the support of the powerful Catholic Church. Sadly, I have to admit that the Catholic Church should share the blame along with the government in the existing population problem. Considering that more than 80% of the population belongs to the Catholic faith, the Catholic Church has failed to exert its moral authority to influence the low income families limit the number of their offspring.

Despite the present economic difficulties, there are countless low income families having 5 to 8 children reportedly surviving on one meal a day. Thus, these kids barely manage to complete the free public elementary education as their parents find it impossible to finance even simple expenses of their schooling. Should the Catholic Church persist in demonizing the RH Bill resulting to its rejection by Congress, the unabated population explosion may lead to the country's continuous economic decline that may spark the possible revolt of the suffering masses. 

A lawless Philippines is in the offing?  That's not a far-fetched nightmarish scenario!  God help us in such a horrible possibility!