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    Live blog Reproductive Health Bill, Senate, Period of Amendment (just based on ANC live broadcast) and House of Representatives 3rd reading

4:35pm just replace WHO  with international experts. Sotto already mentioned that phrase…

4:36pm oh for crying out loud, look for a generic phrase acceptable to both

4:41pm replace “WHO” with a generic phrase. kulit. use international experts, it includes international bodies.

4:46pm WHO deleted.

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5:03 pm. it’s back to the “and satisfying” debate.

5:10pm proposal out of order because this has been settled before.  

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5:21pm amendment to delete a paragraph defining sexual health lost 13 to 7

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5:56pm amendment on creation of oversight committee accepted.

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5:58pm Senate almost done except for one pahabol.

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House of Representatives 3rd Reading on-going

6:02pm 3rd reading. Vote on-going. alphabetical. Now on the B’s. Now on the C’s. no tally on the monitor. someone’s sleeping on the job.

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6:03pm Senate approves RH Bill on second reading 13 to 8.

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6:07pm Senate votes on 3rd reading . Speechifying going on, for every vote.

6:13pm. Now on second speech (explanatory vote) . At four minutes each approximately, excluding session suspensions and points of order, this would add up to 84 minutes. hopefully at 4 minutes each.

6:15pm second speech, over 4 minutes. looks like session will take longer.

6:16pm second speech took 5 minutes.

6:17pm third speech.

6:23pm five minutes na, speechifying, not saying anything new, live tv coverage so politicians taking advantage of prime time free airtime… Six minutes na!

6:25 “Anyway, Mr. Problem, ehe, este, er Mr. President….”

6:27pm eight minutes. kapal.

6:28pm 4th speech. thank you’s from the proponent. 4 minutes. hay salamat.

6:33pm 5th speech.

6:37pm  four minutes

6:39pm. Six minutes na. Guys, some of us want to spend Christmas Eve with our families.

6:39pm 6th speech. Senator Drilon delivered the best speech by saying he will submit a written explanation of vote. done.

6:40pm 7th speech. Anti. Running vote: Six to 1 in favor of RH Bill. 3 minutes.

6:43pm 8th speech

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Breaking news: 6:44pm House of Representatives approves the RH Bill on 3rd and final reading 133 to 79 with 7 abstentions

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6:47pm 9th four-minute-speech. tnx.

6:48pm 10th speech.

6:50pm two minutes. thanks.

6:52pm. No vote speech. 

6:53: 11th speech less than one minute. thanks.

6:56pm 12th speech 3 minutes. tnx

6:57pm 13th speech one minute. (his mother voted No on 2nd reading in the House as i recall)

6:58pm 14th speech Senator Pangilinan delivered the best speech,  also,  by saying he will submit a written explanation of vote. Salamat.

7:03pm 15th speech five minutes na. 7:04pm six minutes na.

7:05pm 16th speech 

7:09 four minutes na

7:11pm six minutes. Pasko na.

7:12pm. 17th speech.

7:17pm. that was five minutes.

7:17 18th speech. 7:24pm seven minutes.

7:25pm 19th spech. Senator Trillanes also delivered the best speech by saying he will submit a written explanation of vote. Salamat.

7:25pm 20th speech.  7:30pm five minutes na

7:32pm seven minutes

7:33pm 21st speech. 7:38pm. five minutes na.

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Senate approves the RH bill on 3rd reading 13 to 8.

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JUST MAKE SURE THAT:

1)BEFORE THE CONTRACTS ARE AWARDED,  A PUBLIC BIDDING IS CONDUCTED  SO THAT NO MULTINATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY  IS UNDULY FAVORED, AND NO POLITICIANS ARE GETTING SLUSH FUNDS FROM THE CONTRACTS.

2)THE SIDE EFFECTS ARE CLEARLY INDICATED. SOME WOMEN EXPERIENCE SIDE EFFECTS NOT STATED IN THE LABEL.

3) HORMONAL INJECTIONS AND HORMONAL PILLS HAVE LONG-TERM EFFECTS THAT ARE NOT YET KNOWN; a top practising  ob-gynecologist specializing in hormones  who also teaches in the top med school in the country said the empirical evidence on that is it causes cancer in dogs; no evidence pa raw on humans; but anyway, what is important is to  MAKE SURE THE PATIENT IS WELL-INFORMED. 

     happy holidays!