{"id":6104,"date":"2020-02-01T03:46:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=6104"},"modified":"2020-02-01T03:46:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:46:18","slug":"killing-the-unborn-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=6104","title":{"rendered":"Killing the unborn child"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>By Evelyn Opilas<br><em>As seen on the November 2019 issue of The Philippine Sentinel<\/em><\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:15px\">September 26, 2019 is a sad day. However way the amended Abortion Law<br>Reform Bill seems to have been packaged, the Bill, soon to become law, still<br>sanctions what I, a reasonable Catholic, pro-life individual would consider as  the abuse, disrespect, injury to society\u2019s most helpless, the unborn child. They don\u2019t have a voice to defend themselves!<br><br>Women\u2019s health, control over one\u2019s uterus, choice \u2501 I understand all that. I<br>also understand that allowing access to one\u2019s body may have unwanted<br>consequences, and for this reason, requires a sense of responsibility as is<br>expected from human beings. This elevates the issue to a higher, more<br>profound, plane \u2501 the protection of human life.<br><br>What crime has an unborn child committed to deserve the death penalty?<br><br>What has an unborn child done, quoting poet Robert Burns, to be the target<br>of \u201cMan\u2019s inhumanity to man\u201d?<br><br>Whatever the justification to pass the Abortion Bill, one moral law of mankind is explicit: <strong>\u201cThou shalt not kill.\u201d<\/strong><br><br>The Bill had trespassed the moral threshold. How can people then trust<br>politicians who seem to have forgotten this basic moral value?<br><br>If the Bill had flaws, then it should not have been passed.<br><br>If the Bill attracted longer hours of debate than most, then probably more hours should have been dedicated to discussing its morality.<br><br>If, as you say, it is a better Bill because medical practitioners can seek advice on\/report any termination, how long before parliamentarians start to legalize killing, which the Abortion Bill has effectively endorsed?<br><br>The passage of the Abortion Law Reform Bill 2019 has rendered any question about it moot and academic.<br><br>For some like me, it is the principle that matters. \u03a9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Evelyn OpilasAs seen on the November 2019 issue of The Philippine Sentinel September 26, 2019 is a sad day. However way the amended Abortion LawReform Bill seems to have been packaged, the Bill, soon to become law, stillsanctions what I, a reasonable Catholic, pro-life individual would consider as the abuse, disrespect, injury to society\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6105,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6104\/revisions\/6105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}