Posted on 07/10/2014 8:59:16 AM PDT by marshmallow
The Catholic Church in the Philippines is encouraging members who are medical workers to refuse to implement a newly-approved birth control law, an official said on Thursday.
MANILA: The Catholic Church in the Philippines is encouraging members who are medical workers to refuse to implement a newly-approved birth control law, an official said on Thursday.
It is the latest move by the powerful church hierarchy in the largely Catholic Philippines against a law that took effect this year, compelling the state for the first time to provide free condoms and contraceptive pills.
"Pastoral guidance" issued by bishops this week explains how government health workers can legally refuse to dish out contraceptives on ethical or religious grounds, Marvin Mejia, executive secretary of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, told AFP.
"Obviously, Catholics should not, on moral grounds, seek employment in the very government agencies that promote artificial contraception," reads the guidance, obtained by AFP.
"But if circumstances compelled them to be employed in such agencies... said Catholics should be aware that they cannot be forced to promote, distribute or dispense artificial contraceptives against their religious or moral conviction."
The Church is an influential force in the Philippines, which counts around 80 per cent of its 100 million-strong population as Catholics. Abortion and divorce remain banned in the nation.
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Well, it’s the Catholic Church, what does one expect?
Not sure if it would be the same here in the USA.
The Catholic Church encompasses the entire globe. Doctrine and dogma does not change even though the language might.
One baptism, one faith, one Church.
So, you are sure that Catholic Institutions in the USA DO NOT provide Birth Control at all?
That wasn’t my point.
My point was that doctrine and dogma in the Catholic Church does not change even though the language might change.
And what the Catholic church teaches WASN’T MY POINT EITHER.
I want to know if Hospitals associated with the Catholic Church in the USA OBEY the Church’s teachings about contraception.
From the article — hope you read it and realize this:
**Catholic Church in the Philippines is encouraging members who are medical workers to refuse to implement a newly-approved birth control law, an official said on Thursday. **
May the Lord have mercy on all the babies to be and prevent feticide though contraception.
Will we read the same headline here:
“Catholic Church IN THE USA is encouraging members who are medical workers to refuse to implement a newly-approved birth control law.”
The age of consent is something like 12 or 13 if the parent is the pimp.
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