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SAY HELLO to RH LAW This blog talks about the “Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012” (Republic Act No. 10354), or the Reproductive Health Law. The law would like to control the population by giving proper, timely, correct, and sufficient 1. information 2.services, and 3. materials and tools to the Filipino people. As a student in the medical field it is not new to us that we discuss and learned that a Life starts by the a sperm of a man reaches the egg of the woman and fertilizes it. Arguments from the ANTI-RH law claims that preventing the sperm to meet the egg is commiting abortion and to Catholic Church it is a grave Sin. It has been years already that this law has beed approved but the there is a never ending debated in the implementation in this law. Different arguments and stands from different sectors with different perception in life. Former senator Francisco Tatad said that those who prevent the meeting of the sperm and the egg is committing genocide – a criminal act. Everybody laughed at him including me. He can’t blame us, because before, genocide to me was “Mass Killing”. So I thought that he meant killing millions of sperms is genocide. Because this is what I’ve been seeing in the movies. But according to Article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,Genocide is any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. Now I understand why the former senator tagged the RH Law as committing genocide. But in all articles that I have found regarding “Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group”, I saw the words “involuntary”, “forced”, and “compulsory”. So to me, the RH Law does not intend to commit genocide because it provides for proper, timely, correct, and sufficient information to a person for him/her to make free and informed decision to use birth control measures. Millions of people in this country - almost 100 million as of last count - are struggling to make it through the next day, even the next meal. Until you have come face to face with those stark realities, in an authentic way, that you have actually experienced and lived through, all your platitudes just come off as armchair pronouncements, one that is devoid of real world experience. Let me end this blog with, ““DURA LEX, SED LEX” The law may be hard to observe or difficult to obey, but it remains the law and must be therefore followed just the same. Therefore this law equally applies to all with the same basic human stand. All we truly need is to help each other (which may seemed hard given the indifferences of trhe laws of the Church and Government) to make this wolrd a better place to live in and to be able to survive. (Sources:; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_Parenthood_and_Reproductive_Health_Act_of_2012; http://opinion.inquirer.net/44831/unfinished-debate-over-the-rh-law; http://www.gov.ph/2012/12/21/republic-act-no-10354/)