Debunking the ‘Guiding Principles’ of the Fascist RH Bill and the Sick Mind of Edcel Lagman

The supporters and advocates of a controversial legislative proposal don’t have a clue. The so dangerous and so divisive

The supporters of a fascist bill don't have a clue... It's fascism, stupid!

Reproductive Health bill authored by a statist in Congress is all about Fascism and Statism! There’s only one explanation why the strongest supporters and advocates of this anti-reason, anti-science and anti-freedom bill come from the academia, the media institutions, and the country’s intellectual hub- it’s because of intellectual bankruptcy! Most people who passionately and desperately push for the passage of this bill are educated and professionals. Well, it’s no surprise why most socialists/leftists are college graduates or students from public colleges and universities.

The RH bill is legendary for its Orwellian double-talk. It talks about the “right of the people” to reproductive health care, “free delivery” people’s RH needs, “informed choice”, “human rights”, etc. as if these terminologies have no exact, objective meaning at all. This bill is also about the perversion of the proper concept of rights.

Now let me address the “Guiding Principles” of this fascist bill. Section 3 of the RH bill enumerates these “basic guiding principles.”

a. In the promotion of reproductive health, there should be no bias for either modern or natural methods of family planning;

ANSWER: Don’t we all have the freedom to practice family planning? Is anyone or any group denying us this right to family planning? Lagman and his blind supporters might point to the Catholic Church. But does the Church have any political power to arrest and then detain people who practice family planning? In the place where I live, nearly all households have about two to three children. Most people I know only want to have two to three children.  What then is the ideal family size for a single household? One might say: How about the poor and uneducated people. The only way to help them is through proper, voluntary “education.” There are private institutions that offer free family planning education. This is the only way!

b. Reproductive health goes beyond a demographic target because it is principally about health and rights;

ANSWER: The RH bill is not about health and rights, because it’s anti-rights and anti-health. Please read my posts here.

c. Gender equality and women empowerment are central elements of reproductive health and population development;

ANSWER: Oh, yeah! That leftist/liberal gender rhetoric! How would the government empower women and achieve gender equality? Can the Congress legislate gender equality and women empowerment? Don’t we have gender equality in this country? If men abused women or their wives, all we have to do is enforce the rule of law. Jail those who practice domestic violence!

d. Since manpower is the principal asset of every country, effective reproductive health care services must be given primacy to ensure the birth and care of healthy children and to promote responsible parenting;

ANSWER: This is full of contradictions and undefined assumptions. It’s true that manpower is one asset of any nation, but such an element of economic progress would be futile if the state/government enslaved or unjustly controlled the wealth-creators (the businessmen and health care providers). Excessive control and regulation is the fundamental characteristic of the RH bill. People only need to read the bill and understand its intents and provisions to know how it would lead to fascism. If the RH bill supporters read and clearly understood the provisions of the bill, they would know that the main provider of RH care services is not the state but these two groups of wealth-creators: businessmen and health care providers, plus the taxpayers. Like I said, this fascist bill would trigger massive medical brain drain and exodus of business people and professionals.

e. The limited resources of the country cannot be suffered to, be spread so thinly to service a burgeoning multitude that makes the allocations grossly inadequate and effectively meaningless;

ANSWER: This means Lagman and his socialist ilk believe in the fallacy of shrinking resources. There’s no doubt that our natural resource would shrink if the government continued to curtail innovation through regulatory edicts and legislative controls. But the government cannot legislate innovation, as it is the corollary of a country’s respect for freedom and individual rights, as well as just implementation of objective rule of law. A rule of law must be just and objective- not regulative, interventionist, or unreasonable- for it to support individual freedom, rights and liberty. Observe that most countries with less freedom and that disrespect property rights (including intellectual property rights) are poor. Also, observe that most educated people and professionals from poor countries migrate to countries with more freedom and more respect for individual rights (rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness).

In this blog I wrote the following: “I don’t believe in shrinking resources. There are shrinking resources because man’s freedom is shrinking. What do I mean by this? If world governments allowed economic freedom to flourish and if the stupid environmentalists and their nihilist cohorts (e.g., the secular humanists, freethinkers, and religious people) stayed at bay and kept their stupidity a private matter, there would have been a new technological and scientific renaissance on earth. Technological and scientific development is only possible in a free society. By free society I mean an informed society. A society that does not regard man as a sacrificial animal or the means to the ends of others. And we would only be able to achieve a free society if men truly understood the real essence and concept of reason.”

f. Freedom of informed choice, which is central to the exercise of any right, must be fully guaranteed by the State like the right itself;

ANSWER: We are all entitled to “informed choice.” But freedoms and rights should not clash with each other. Yes, we must have “freedom of informed choice”, which we as a people in this country already have, but we don’t have the right to ask our government to enslave some groups of people (employers and health care providers) in order to provide us our RH care needs. A right fundamentally means “a right of action” or “right of action”, not a right to something. You have a right to do whatever you want to do, but you don’t have any right to use force or compulsion. An RH bill provision mandating employers (Section 17) to “provide for the free delivery” of “reasonable quantity of reproductive health care services, supplies and devices to all workers, more particularly women workers” is a violation of the rights of employers. The purpose of a CBA (collective bargaining agreement) is to settle the disputes and clash of interests between an employer and his workers. But this bill makes it MANDATORY for ALL companies and establishments, including those without CBA and unions, to provide free RH care services to their workers.

g. While the number and spacing of children are left to the sound judgment of parents and couples based on their personal conviction and religious beliefs, such concerned parents and couples, including unmarried individuals, should be afforded free and full access to relevant, adequate and correct information on reproductive health and human sexuality and should be guided by qualified State workers and professional private practitioners;

ANSWER: Here, the bill speaks of “free and full access to relevant, adequate and correct information on reproductive health and human sexuality…” What kind of “access” is this fascist bill asking for? Then it states that this “correct information” should be “guided by “qualified State workers and professional private practitioners.” And who will pay for the salary of these “qualified State workers”? The taxpayers, of course. So according to this fascist proposal, government health employees would be given additional job. That is, to provide sex education and correct RH information to couple and unmarried individuals. But how will “professional private practitioners” get compensated? Section 18 of the bill takes care of this problem. Section 18 speaks of enslaving the “private reproductive health care providers, including but not limited to gynecologists and obstetricians”, as they are “encouraged to join their colleagues in non-government organizations in rendering such services FREE OF CHARGE or at REDUCED PROFESSIONAL RATES to indigent and low income patients” (emphasis added). The insulting word here is “encouraged”.  What if the private health care providers refused to join their colleagues in non-government organizations? Would they be penalized?

h. Reproductive health, including the promotion of breastfeeding, must be the joint concern of the National Government and Local Government Units(LGUs);

ANSWER: So even the state must be concerned with the “promotion of breast-feeding”! What a fantastic idea! This particular fascist proposal- actually all of Edcel Lagman’s (author of the bill) proposals- reeks of the stench of the Program of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party of fascist Adolf Hitler. Section 21 of the Nazi program states: “The State must raise the level of national health by means of mother-and-child care, the banning of juvenile labor, achievements of physical fitness through legislation for compulsory gymnastics and sports, and maximum support for all organizations providing physical training for young people.”

i. Protection and promotion of gender equality, women empowerment and human rights, including reproductive health rights, are imperative;

ANSWER: Again, I repeat what I stated above. How will the government empower women and achieve gender equality? Can the Congress legislate gender equality and women empowerment? Don’t we have gender equality in this country? If men abused women or their wives, all we have to do is enforce the rule of law. Jail those who practice domestic violence! How about the “human rights” of the people who would be forced under this bill? What about their “informed choice?”

j. Development is a multi-faceted process that calls for the coordination and integration of policies, plans, programs and projects that seek to uplift the quality of life of the people, more particularly the poor, the needy and the marginalized;

ANSWER: Development can only be achieved through more respect for freedom and of individual rights in this country. There can be no development with the proposed implementation of a fascist bill that seeks to control, enslave, and sacrifice the wealth-creators (businessmen and health care providers). Now you may disagree with the term “wealth-creator” here but let me tell you that without businesses and providers of job, this country would definitely be reduced to a stinking hellhole overnight! You must be familiar with the economic condition in Haiti. According to the Heritage Foundation’s 2010 Index of Economic Freedom, Haiti, which is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and one of the world’s least developed nations, scored 50.8 in terms of economic freedom, making its economy the 141st freest in this year’s index. Economic regulation is rampant in Haiti that starting a business takes an average of 195 days, compared to the world average of 35 days. Securing a business license also takes about five times longer than the world average of 218 days. Corruption is also rampant in Haiti as it ranks 177th out of 169 countries in the 2007 Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index. Foreign investors are afraid to do business in Haiti because of its reputation as the world’s most corrupt countries.

On the other hand, the Philippines, according to 2010 Index of Economic Freedom, has an economic freedom score of 56.3, making its economy the 109th freest in the 2010 Index. Our country ranks 20th out of 41 countries in the Asia–Pacific region, and its overall score is slightly below the world and regional averages. This is why I said that development is not possible and not even forthcoming without freedom and without respecting individual rights. This is the reason why I said that this bill, if ever enacted, would trigger massive medical brain drain and exodus of business people and professionals.

k. Active participation by and thorough consultation with concerned non-government organizations (NGOs), people’s organizations (POs) and communities are imperative to ensure that basic policies, plans, programs and projects address the priority needs of stakeholders;

ANSWER: I have a good suggestion: What if all pro-RH bill supporters and proponents would just form an organization or an NGO concerned with free delivery of correct RH information and RH care services to the people? Is this not a great altruist idea? I also have another suggestion: Since most of you really believed in the mythical “overpopulation” problem, why not seek mass ligation (for women) and vasectomy (for men). The medical expenses shall be shouldered by anti-RH bill people!

l. Respect for, protection and fulfillment of reproductive health rights seek to promote not only the rights and welfare of adult individuals and couples but those of adolescents’ and children’s as well; and

ANSWER: How about respect for the people who would be immolated, enslaved and sacrificed under this fascist bill? Also, this so-called “reproductive health” is NOT a right! You all have the right to undergo ligation or vasectomy, but you don’t have any right at all to tell medical practitioners: “I want it for free or else you’d go to jail!” The “right” you’re all prattling on about simply means the state or the government has to coerce or force certain groups of people to provide the poor or women with their RH care needs for free or at reduced rate. Fascism is what the bill is all about. Better read the bill and understand its provisions and intents!

m. While nothing in this Act changes the law on abortion, as abortion remains a crime and is punishable, the government shall ensure that women seeking care for post-abortion complications shall be treated and counseled in a humane, non-judgmental and compassionate manner.

ANSWER: I believe in the woman’s right to seek abortion. Again, we do not share the religionist view against this fascist bill. This battle is not between a group of religious fanatics and pro-RH bill hippies and socialists. This fight is about freedom versus fascism or dictatorship!

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Reproductive Health and Population Development Act of 2008

The State upholds and promotes responsible parenthood, informed choice, birth spacing and respect for life in conformity with internationally recognized human rights standards. The State shall uphold the right of the people, particularly women and their organizations, to effective and reasonable participation in the formulation and implementation of the declared policy.