FILIPINO MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS PROTEST "TWO-CHILD" BILL: From AsiaNews

[An excellent Amartya Sen piece on population control is here. --Eve]

Some 10,000 people marched in Manila against the "Responsible Parenthood and Population Management Act," also known as the "two-child" bill.

The bill, which has already been approved by a committee of the Filipino Congress, provides economic incentives to couples who choose to have only two children and funds for a vast promotional campaign on the use of contraceptives. It also includes fines and jail for those who oppose population control measures. ...

Filipino Bishops have said the bill "is a violation of the privacy and autonomy of couples and families." By contrast, for the bill's backers, population control is the only means to lift people out of poverty and misery.

Archbishop Mariano Aniceto, chairman of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines' Episcopal Commission on Family and Life, insisted that "poverty was not a result of overpopulation but of wrong economic prioritization." ...

Manila Mayor Jose "Lito" Atienza Jr, a well-known pro-lifer, was among the protesters. "I cannot in conscience agree to a measure that would brainwash people into thinking that the solution to poverty is population control," he said. "It is just an alibi for failure of the government. Effective governance, anchored on positive values, is what is needed to genuinely address the problem."

Mayor Atienza added that the "two-child" bill was a "tool promoting abortion and a culture of death."

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