Philippine Director for Human Life International Speaks at COSCA

    Dr. Rene Josef Bullecer, a famed pro-life advocate and our country's director for Human Life International, was the resource person at a symposium on pro-life hosted by Colegio de Santa Catalina de Alejandria, last Thursday  September 4th.

     Speaking in front of students, faculty and staff of COSCA and the diocesan schools of the province, Dr. Bullecer explicitly state his stalwart stance against the very controversial House Bill on Reproductive Health, Responsible Parenthood and Population Development boiling right now at the House of Representatives. By providing demographical facts, he vehemently affirmed the stand of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on the matter reiterating that there is no correlation between poverty and population, citing the economic conditions of two densely populated yet very progressive countries, Japan and China. Dr. Bullecer, who is now the head of Pro-Life Philippines, emphasized that instead of implementing population control programs and wasting millions of the  taxpayers’ money on the  project, the government must focus on equal distribution of wealth and resources especially among the poor and practice good governance to eliminate graft and corruption to improve our country’s economy.

    Certain provisions in the bill he strongly objects particularly; the encouragement on the use of artificial methods of family planning and the integration of sex education in the curriculum from Grade V to Fourth Year. He considers the bill anti-life and unconstitutional citing provisions in the 1987 Philippine Constitution being violated by it.

    Dr. Rene Josef Bullecer, the current chair of AIDS-Free Philippines, was a recipient of the Most Outstanding Catholic Physician award and became Asia’s Health Representative to Vatican City in Rome, Italy.