by RECTO I. VIDAL
The Task Force Family and Life (TFFL), a national advocacy group that counts lay members in parishes all over Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, has come up with a list of candidates who has remained consistently pro-life.
In a news conference held at Café Latte, Dr. Rene Josef Bullecer told local newsmen that the TFFL has identified Franklin Drilon (Liberal Party), Juan Ponce Enrile (Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino), Jo Imbong (Ang Kapatiran), Alex Lacson (LP), Gwen Pimentel (Nacionalista Party), Adrian Sison (AK), Vicente Sotto (Nationalista People’s Coalition) and Francisco Tatad (PMP) as pro-life candidates to vote for (senators).
While the TFFL also endorses administration candidate Gibo Teodoro for president, said advocacy group has also thrown its support to pro-life partylist groups such as ABA and Buhay.
In last Tuesday’s press conference, Bullecer warned the local media about the government’s mouthing the line of overpopulation.
"That is definitely a big misconception. Humans are resources that government only fails to develop because of graft and corruption and misgovernance. There is no such thing as over population," Bullecer stressed.
He pointed out that only Biazon who has so far expressed publicly that he fears, however, that we may go the way of Singapore: an aging population where government has to spend exorbitantly on social welfare but is now expressing mea culpa by asking its citizens to reproduce more children.
"It is not farfetched to think that a Noynoy Aquino presidency will open the floodgates to artificial contraception. Noynoy is surrounded by senatorial candidates who hold the most radial views on reproductive health. They are Neric Acosta, Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel, Ruffy Biazon and Teofisto Guingona III," Bullecer warned. /MP
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