MANILA, Philippines – The Reproductive Health Bill is moving forward.
In this week’s edition of Talk Thursday, Rappler talks to RH Bill proponent Albay Representative Edcel Lagman on the fight for the bill that the Catholic church is opposing.
The controversial Reproductive Health bill can now move forward after the House of Representatives voted on August 6 to terminate the period of interpellations and debate. This means the controversial bill now has a chance to pass in the current 15th Congress as it moves on the period of amendments, or the more difficult stage of the legislative process. Anti-RH lawmakers, however, are prepared for the real battle where they said they will inject “killer amendments” or provisions that will dilute the proposed measure.
Lagman is a human rights lawyer and the principal author of House Bill No. 4244 or An Act Providing for a Comprehensive Policy on Responsible Parenthood, Reproductive Health, and Population and Development, and For Other Purpose more commonly known as the RH Bill. He has been elected to a total of five terms as a Member of the House of Representatives, representing the 1st District of Albay. He first served from 1987 to 1998, and then from 2004 to the present. His daughter Krisel B. Lagman-Luistro represented the district from 1998 to 2004.
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