MIRIAM SUPPORTS CABRAL ON REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago, an educated lay theologian, said that she supports the position taken by Social Welfare Secretary Esperanza Cabral favoring reproductive health. 
“I take the position that there is an individual right to use artificial contraception, such as condoms,” she said.
Santiago said that the Catholic insistence on natural contraception is outdated and archaic, and explained that Catholic teaching is evolutionary, for example in the cases of religious liberty and of usury.
“The Catholic religious should get real,” Santiago said, recalling that the natural-law mentality of the Church in the Middle Ages prohibited many advances in medical science.
In 1966, the Papal Commission majority report argued that the conjugal act must be viewed not as an isolated reality, but in the larger context of human love, family life, and education, among other things.
“This is the principle of totality. Sexuality is not meant only for procreation,” Santiago said.
She said that the final report of the Papal Birth Control Commission and the Vatican 2 insisted that the decision to have children must take into account the welfare of the spouses and their children, the material and spiritual conditions of the times, their state in life, the interests of the family group, of society, and of the Church.
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Labels: Catholic Church, Miriam, population policy, religion, reproductive health, Sec. Esperanza Cabral
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Dear Honorable Senator,
I am the founder of the group "A Better Philippines" at Facebook.com with about 4,000 members.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2313873178&ref=share
One of our advocacies since last year is how to solve the problem of "Filipino Time". One of the first steps in solving this problem is synchronizing all the clocks in the Philippines using the Philippine Standard Time. We have written PAGASA and they said that legislation is needed to enforce it.
Last August 13, Senator Santiago filed Senate Bill 2535 that will support PAGASA's Philippine Standard Time.
I am a chemistry teacher and I don't have background on how bills are passed. In this regard, may we request you to educate us on how we could help in making the bill into law. I have tried browsing the internet but I was not able to go to any site that can help.
Could we have a signature campaign of about 4,000 and submit it to the senate or congress? Could it make a dent.
Thank you and we hope you could be of help to us.
Respectfully yours,
Andrew Cesar M. Rimando
Good day, senator.
This is a report of the behavioral conduct of some politicians that whom you may know. We believe that you can do something about it, at least to help those who are weak and to give justice to the family.
Thank you, ma'am.
Subject: [miriamcollegecolsy 08-09] JUSTICE
To: miriamcollegecolsy0 8-09@yahoogroups .com
Date: Saturday, 27 December, 2008, 1:20 PM
Friday, December 26, 2008
The world is fucked up.
So, I just had the fuckin' worst day of my life.
At around 1:30 PM today, at Valley Golf and Country Club, Antipolo
City, Mayor Nasser Pangandaman, Jr., Mayor of Masiu City, Lanao del
Sur, his father, Secretary Nasser Pangandaman of the Department of
Agrarian Reform, and company, beat my defenseless 56-year-old dad and
my 14-year-old brother to a pulp because of some stupid
misunderstanding on the golf course.
This is a golf course. I have been a golfer all my life, and I have
never seen anything like this. NOTHING. This is hard to comprehend.
And it happened to my own father and my own brother too. Right in
front of my eyes.
My brother and I were playing golf at the South Course of Valley. We
were on the 3rd hole, and we see two golf carts going past us,
overtaking our flight, and setting up to tee off on the next hole. My
dad goes up to them and asks them why they would do that, why they
would overtake us without even asking for our permission. Golf
etiquette 101. One of the guys says that they're with the flight in
front of us. (So what? That doesn't give them the right to just pass
us WITHOUT asking.) So, we go to the 5th hole. The flight behind us
catches up with us, and asks us what caused the hold up. We said that
this flight just slipped in front of our flight. So we complained to
the marshall. We play the 5th hole and walk towards the next hole,
where there is a teehouse, and both the flights in front of us were
there, talking with the marshall. The mayor of Masiu City, Lanao del
Sur talks with my dad. Things get heated up. Voices were raised. But
never, in my wildest dreams, did I ever imagine that someone would
pull out a punch. But I guess the world IS fucked up, and the mayor is
too, so he attacks my father. His flightmates, maybe 2 or 3 of them,
rush to his aid and beat up my father. My 56-year-old father. My
younger brother and I could not just watch. We rushed to break the
fight. My younger brother pleads to the mayor to please stop it. To
not hurt my dad. To just end this bullshit. His words still ring
through my head..."Sorry na po, sorry na po...tama na...tama na po..."
With his hands in front of his chest in a praying position. PLEADING.
The mayor socks him in the face. My brother defended himself. My dad
is still on the ground getting clobbered. My brother is the same way.
I try to stop the fight, but all I can do is stop one person. There
were 4 or 5 of them attacking now.
Someone breaks up the fight. I thought it was all over. The mayor
shouts to his caddy: "Hindi nila kami kilala! Sabihin mo nga sa kanila
kung sino ako!" And believe me, I had no idea who this piece of
jackshit was. But now I know. He's the fuckin' asshole who, with 4
other men, beat up my 56-year-old father and my 14-year-old brother.
He's the piece of jackshit who sacks a pleading 14-year-old kid in the
face. He's the fuckin' asshole who, I am sure, is gonna rot in hell.
I lash out, but my dad held me back. I was screaming my lungs out,
shouting to this mayor, telling him about what he had done. I said:
"Nakakahiya kayo. Singkwenta'y sais anyos ang tatay ko. And kapatid ko
kakatorse anyos. Anong ilalaban nila sayo?"
The mayor looks at my brother, point to his face, and says, "Tatandaan
kita!" And he tells me that my brother has a bad attitude and that I
need to watch him. WHAT THE FUCK?! So, my brother's bad for defending
his father?!
We leave. We walk to the clubhouse to file a complaint. My brother
asks for a doctor. My dad could barely walk. Their group comes to the
clubhouse, sees my brother. Once again my brother pleads, says sorry,
and is crying. He was FUCKIN' CRYING, for crissakes. But no. The
relentless fuckhead mayor still punches him in the face, and then sees
my dad and goes after my dad again. Him and his friend pull my dad to
the ground, pulls at his feet, and steps on him like he's dirt. I run
to him and try to hold him back, holding him back by his shirt, while
this other guy and this girl (who I swear is ANOTHER fuckin' idiot)
tries to stop me. She tells me to just stop it. I scream in her face
"they're beating my father up and you want me to stop?!" I pull at his
shirt--I don't let go. All I can see was my dad being trampled on. I
didn't even see my brother getting beat up.
People pull them away. I get my dad, and I saw my brother. His right
ear was bleeding. I freaked out. I told the receptionists to bring my
brother to the clinic. I pull my dad away. People were separating us.
My mom and my older brother come. I tell her Bino's right ear is
bleeding. They both look like they could kill. My mom had a miniature
baseball bat with her, and my older brother had a real one, and they
lunge to attack. My dad holds my brother off, I hold off my mom. When
I finally got my mom under control, my older brother gets away and I
hold him off. Two of the mayor's bodyguards pull out guns. I embraced
my brother from the back, just holding him back, crying. The
receptionists came to us, crying, hugging me, my dad, and my mom,
whispering to us to just leave. "Maam, umalis na po kayo, may mga
baril sila...Maam. ..umalis na po kayo please..."
I am pretty sure the Secretary of DAR did not take part in the fight,
but he just watched all this happen. He watched two of his sons, as we
figured out, the other guy was his son, too, beat up my father and my
14-year-old brother. He didn't do anything to stop it. And what is
this selfish son of a bitch now? A cabinet member. A politician.
Sounds like something out of a movie, doesn't it? But this is what
happened. TODAY. The day after Christmas. To my family. And all I ask
for is JUSTICE. The people at Valley Golf did not seem to want to help
us. None of the security guards even tried to stop the fight. Right in
the clubhouse. I came back after the fight was over and talked to the
receptionists. They say they did not see anything. The general manager
of Valley Golf would not give us the names of the men who made my
brother's ear bleed. It took him an hour. Even more than that. He
seemed to not want to help us. Because, we were against the SECRETARY
OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN REFORM and the MAYOR OF MASIU CITY,
LANAO DEL SUR. They were all scared.
The world is fucked up. Two politicians beat up a defenseless
56-year-old father and his 14-year-old son. At a golf course. I swear
to God, I thought golfers were decent people. You would think
politicians were decent people. I guess not. I guess they gang up on
56-year-old men and beat up pleading 14-year-old kids.
Please pray for my dad, my brother and for my whole family. Please
pray that we get JUSTICE. Oh God, please, give these sadistic people
what they deserve. "
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