SPONSORSHIP SPEECH

THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACT, PART 1: PRIMARY OF CONSCIENCE IN CATHOLIC THEOLOGY

This is the title of the first part of sponsorship speech of senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago as principal author of the senate bill 2865, also known as the "An act providing for a national policy on reproductive health and population and development". It is the senate version of the House Bill 4244.

In this first part of her speech, simply, Sen. Miriam imposes the religion matters especially the "Catholic faith" in regards with the bill. The senator also used her knowledge about the "Liberation Theology" and other natural laws existing in this world.

The 2nd part of her speech, Sen. Miriam tackled about the CONSTITUTIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAWS.  It includes about the prohibition in the constitution, the rights to privacy, information, and parents over child education.

SOCIOECONOMIC was the topic on the 3rd part of Sen. Miriam's sponsorship speech. It include statistics on maternal health stating that 11 mothers die because of maternal complications everyday, the abortion scare that prove that contraceptives are not abortifacient, the youth education on RH, the Philippine demographics and its implications and other statistical surveys made by different organizations.

For her conclusion of her sponsorship speech, and I quote:

Conclusion : Marketplace of Ideas

          Allow me to conclude with one of the most famous quotes in the history of the law, written by the superlative Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.:[1]

            But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas – that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.  That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution.  It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.

source: NEWSBLOG  MIRIAM DEFENSOR SANTIAGO