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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.
The CBCP* said tonight that it was disgusted with the Reproductive Health Bill vote rejecting the Garcia amendment and the amendment itself.
Addressing anti-RH bill solons, its spokesperson said, “Aren’t you aware of the latest pronouncement of the CBCP? The proposed amendment that reproductive health services be made available
“to all married persons” , from the original “to all persons” is incomplete, and betrays an infantile understanding of the latest expression of Catholic doctrine. We have just endorsed “Breaking Dawn 2” of the “Twilight” series. Please read our favourable review and endorsement of the movie published in our website and reported by the news media. Don’t you read the newspapers and look at the internet? That proposed amendment should have read: “to all married persons andvampires, ghouls, zombies, incubus, banshees, aswangs without prejudice to the inclusion of werewolves, elves, dwarves, and mummies”.
The CBCP* spokesperson added, “Henceforth, all who refer to said creatures as the undead shall be excommunicated. It is a form of prejudice which the CBCP shall not countenance. The undead from now on shall be referred to as “differently alive” , “living impaired” , “ or “living challenged” , in keeping with our sensitivity to their condition. Why should they continue to bear the yoke of 500 years oppression of vampires? Equal rights for the differently alive.”
The CBCP* said it will issue a new set of instructions this week.
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* CBCP: Catholics for Bampira Conference of the Philippines
