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MANILA, Philippines – Forty-five professors of the De La Salle University (DLSU) have joined calls to pass the controversial Reproductive Health bill (RH bill).
“Enacting the RH Bill into law would strengthen the capacity of the State to assist women and their partners to make informed choices, thereby helping them to become healthy and responsible parents and attain a life of quality for themselves and their families,” the professors and some DLSU alumni said in a September 3 statement “The RH bill is pro-life.”
“This is achieved by providing women and their partners, particularly the poor, with information and other forms of reproductive health support, including safe and affordable methods that do not violate the Constitutional provision declaring as illegal abortion and, by implication, the sale and promotion of abortifacient birth control technologies,” the statement added.
In a separate statement, 70 DLSU professors also expressed their support for the pro-RH bill professors of the Ateneo de Manila University who were recently attacked by some members of the Church hierarchy. While not all of them support the bill they said they support academic freedom.
“We express our full and unequivocal support for our fellow academics at the Ateneo de Manila University, not because we endorse their position regarding the reproductive health bill, but because the declaration issued by the leaders of the Catholic Church is an affront to academic freedom,” reads their statement “In Defense of Academic Freedom.”
“We believe that the attempt of any social, political, and religious institution to control, suppress, and censor the freedom of academics (teachers and students) to teach, study, and pursue knowledge and research and other intellectual endeavors is not only suffocating to the advancement of knowledge but stifling the life of the academe,” the statement added.
Read the two statements below:
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