Resolved: The Reproductive Health Bills should be passed into law in the Philippines.

Rebuttals: "Under the cited constitutional guarantee. ." That amendment states that the gov't supports the right of the parents to teach for themselves, they do not strictly enforce them on doing it. Parents are pretty much involved in this matter, as you said, sex education is mandatory, if the parents don't want their children to participate, it's their right to reject it. Also, you're missing the point, one of the points of the bill regarding Sex Education is about using safe contraception. Some primary purposes of this kind of education is that the school will accurately teach the students about being responsible on these kinds of things, not just give some sexual explicit topics and hand out condoms just like that. "And for further clarification condoms aren't really working. ." Condoms are like other things, they break. Among those effects, it promotes safe sex, it protects people from STDs and other diseases. Using them is considered to be the best birth control method. Condoms being broken are not the primary cause of its failure; in fact, many studies say that the breakage rate for condoms is 2% at most. The main problem is that people don’t know how to use them. If people use them correctly by being taught in sex education and family planning (rather than natural family planning), then we will know that condoms are about 98% preventive against unwanted pregnancies, and with consistent use, the pregnancy rate is 2-4 out of 100 women per year. More references/facts on [1]. "And sex ed is taught in the subject MAPEH or music, arts P. E. and health. " My opponent must not be in the Philippines today, since accurate and sufficient sexual education has not been taught since 1969 in the Philippines. It has been nonexistent and vacant prior to that same year. Although, there are some topics being taught, it is, however, that teachers are only instructed to only teach pregnancy and child care, which is very limited, insufficient and no help at all. [2][3] “. . But i am not in favor of these contraceptives. Why should we spend billions for these contraceptives that cause cancer, breast cancer. . "I’d like my opponent to give a source to this, since it is baseless and I will treat it as an assertion. But why does it cause cancer? I’ve never heard of contraceptives being a cause to cancer. But what kind of contraceptives are you talking about? There is a study in the UK, that oral contraceptives, taking birth control pills let women live longer. They assessed data since 1968, which contains mortality data on 46000 women who were followed for 39 years. 1,747 deaths occurred in patients who never used oral contraceptives, and 2,864 occurred among those who had. But, the researchers noted that they were able to include three times as many deaths in their assessment as previous studies. The women studied used birth control pills for an average of 44 months. The researchers stated that those who did use the pills had a significantly lower rate of death from any cause; lower rates of death from all cancers, lower rates of death from circulatory disease, ischemic heart disease, and other disease among women who had used birth control pills. [4] There are no risks on using oral contraceptives. "What about those who disagree. ." Sure, let's survey the 100 million Filipinos living today, let's survey the babies, grade-schoolers, minors, and see what will happen. These 1200 adults who participated are statistics that are accurate. Decisions change, but more and more people support this bill, as far as I know from other surveys [5][6][7], the majority supports the bill. Anyway, you are saying that even though that the majority agrees, we have to side with the people who disagree? Again, the government doesn't force people to use these contraceptives and give them sexual education and other health services, if they oppose it or dislike it, then let them stay away from it. It's that simple. “I dont know about my opponent but. .. ” Yes, there are some programs, but it’s very very limited. I ask my opponent to give a source for this. ". .premarital sex destroys the morality of the society,. ." This is a free country, a democratic country, a secular country. This debate is not about morality or your religious views. Premarital sex is neutral. People, particularly teens, are already doing it even though the bill is not yet passed. There was a recent survey where a Doctor Raymundo did a research on premarital sex on Filipino teens, particularly adolescents in high school. A large number of students engage in premarital sex, and she also found out that a number of teens had sex diseases and RH problems. She noted that smoking/drug use/alcohol are correlated to sex behaviors which risks the RH of teens, it also increases the rate of teenage pregnancy. She also recommended that the government provide free services on reproductive on this issue. [7]People will either be prone to engage in premarital sex or not since proper education will be taught to them. They will teach them to be responsible and do an ethical duty on family planning and sexual intercourse. "To clarify the argument this is a matter of if it is against God or not. .. " [See argument rebuttal on premarital sex above] I will say it again, Religion, God and morality has nothing to do with the whole debate. But for this particular premise, this bill helps the people. Would God want people to still engage in premarital sex without proper education and health care services provided? "Questions for my opponent. .. "You're questions are appreciated but they need a source, since you have no sources to back up your questions, I will ignore them until you give reasonable reference as to what you’re stating. Additional Arguments: My opponent didn't give any sources to his other assertions but nevertheless, I still refuted them. Religion has nothing to do with this debate, nor does the morality of it. It's about the ethical duty of the government to provide the best for the Filipino people. One of my opponent’s claims is that contraceptives produce cancer, but it does not, using condoms prevent genital warts or HPV infections that cause cervical cancers. Self breast exams and Pap smears can detect early signs of cancers which can be cured if treated early. Sex education and health care services will teach the nation all these facts. Contraceptives do not heighten cancer risks; combined pills actually reduce the risk of endometrial and ovarian cancers. [2][4] Family planning is the best method to use than the Catholic church’s plan on natural family planning. This bill saves money for more social spending. Contraceptives are beneficial, it ensures family planning to all who needs it would increase spending from almost P2 Billion to P4 Billion, but the medical costs for unintended/unwanted pregnancies would fall and decrease. If women will have unintended pregnancies and only used only modern natural family planning methods, then the total spending would increase from P9 Billion to P10 billion. Please refer to [8] for more info. Last, my opponent still needs to reasonably argue as to why this bill should not pass into law. Nothing further for now. Sources Used: [1] . http://www.condomman.com... [2] . http://www2.hu-berlin.de... [3] . http://en.wikipedia.org... [4] . http://abcnews.go.com... [5] . http://www.pinoyexchange.com... [6] . http://newsinfo.inquirer.net... [7] . http://www.facebook.com...[8] . http://en.wikipedia.org... [9] . http://www.likhaan.org...