Today, the Philippine Hospital Association's (PHA) blog site features the thoughts on the RH BILL of its Public Relations Officer (PRO), |Atty. Bu Castro, MD., currently a Director of PHA . He is both a doctor and a physician and is a pathologist by specialty. He was President of the Philippine Medical Association and and Chairman of the Department of Forensic and Legal Medicine, St. Luke's Medical Center and William H. Quasha Memorial College of Medicine, and of the College of Medicine of MCU-FDT Memorial Medical Foundation, and the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila. He is a founding partner of Castro Rebosa Rebosa Law Offices. He is likewise the Legal Counsel of the Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines (PHAP) and Board Member of the Philippine Hospital Association. Currently, he is the President of the Alliance of All Health Organizations of the Nation Philippines (AAHON-Phil).
His contributed blog follows:
"The PHA stand (joint with the PMA and the PHAP) on the RH bill needs some few further explanations. Fr all its noble intentions and purposes, the PHA supports the RH Bill but only to that extent that it is founded on the principle that “life begins at fertilization”. There is overabundance of scientific facts supporting this stance and it need not be further elaborated here. The PHA, however, stays away from the RH bill for all its tendency to result to abortion practices with the use of some kind of contraceptives. This is adding to the fact that most of the contraceptives have been shown to have serious side effects on the mother. Why should only the mother bear the brunt of the ill effects of RH bill such that the RH bill itself seems to be discriminatory against women.
On a secular level, if the RH bill is to achieve something, it is a nation that is so divided. This must not be the history of the passage of a legislative bill into law. For this reason alone, it would be better that the RH bill be shelved if only to avoid a nation in tremendous schism. If the RH bill is advocated to be pro-choice, then it has already achieved its purpose. Let us leave the family in their quiet home and decide for themselves about the size of their family or choose which device they will employ to trim the number of children but not without, however, the mandatory knowledge about the contraceptives, their benefits, risks and side effects, and the alternative methods. This is by the way already being done since then and up to now.
For the RH oppositors, moral deterioration is the substance of the RH bill. For the supporters, it is all about the right of the mother to choose and decide what is good for her family. For the PHA, it is both, but never for abortion and never to a nation so divided. – Dr Bu C. Castro, PHA PRO and Board of Director".
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