The chief of staff of Sen Vicente “Tito” Sotto III finally admitted that parts of his speech against the Reproductive Health bill on August 15 were copied from a blog by a foreign author who calls herself the “Healthy Home Economist.” Lawyer Hector A. Villacorta, Sotto’s chief of staff, wrote Sarah Pope a response in the comments section of her blog in which he said: “I understand you felt slighted that your blog was not attributed to you which became part of the speech of the senator.” Villacorta admitted the plagiarism hours after Sotto denied it. Pope herself went online to say the senator indeed copied parts of her blog supposedly citing the ill effects of contraceptives, which Sotto abhors.
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