WHAT YOU CAN DO TO STOP THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ACT

There are several things you can do to insure that the Reproductive Health Act does not become law:

1.Pray daily for the defeat of the Reproductive Health Act.  This is the most necessary step – without it, the others will not succeed.

Besides praying daily, do one or more of the following – prayer alone will not be enough to defeat the bill:

2.Call the House of Representatives trunk line at 02-931-5001.  Ask to be connected to your representative’s office.  Ask the person who answers the phone in your Representative’s office to tell the Representative that you oppose the Reproductive Health Act.  You can ask to speak to your Representative directly if you would like to, but this is not necessary.

3.You can write to your Representative at:
The Honorable [Representative’s Name]
House of Representatives
Batasan Hills
Quezon City, NCR 1126

Be sure to include your return address, so your Representative will know that you live in his or her district.
Your letter can be very simple, just that you oppose the Reproductive Health Act.  On the other hand, it is better to include some of the reasons why you oppose it.

4.Sign the online petition against the Reproductive Health bill, at
http://www.petition online.com/ xxhb5043/ petition. html

5.Distribute this information sheet and the others available from ALFI to friends via e-mail.

6.Write a letter to The Editor of your newspaper.  The address should be on the paper’s letters page, or the editorial page.  If not, you can call the paper to ask what it is.  Include some of the information about what it will do to our society in your letter, so that readers will understand what will happen if this bill becomes law.  Make your letter fairly short and fairly simple – otherwise it is not likely to be printed.

7.Print out this information sheet, and the others available from ALFI, make copies, and give them to your friends.

8.Also give the other information sheets to your parish priest, and any other priests you know.

9.If you know your bishop, speak to him from your heart about this, as one of his flock.

10.Your parish should have a Family Life Ministry.  Tell your parish priest that you want to volunteer for the ministry to defeat the Reproductive Health bill.  Collect signatures after Masses for the anti-Reproductive Health bill petition of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines’ ECFL (Episcopal Commission For Family and Life).  Your diocese Family Life Ministry can provide copies of the petition.

11.Refer your friends and others to the Alliance For the Family website: www.alfi.org.ph

12.If you can, fast from something – food, or something else that you value – as another form of prayer, and offer it to our Lord for the defeat of the Reproductive Health bill.

13.Pray, pray, pray, every day until this bill is defeated.